On the hunt
Looking for a new job. I'm currently working at York College under the title of "Web, Messaging and Collaboration Support Assistant". A mouthful, I of all people know and incidentally the longest title within the College.
The role involves assisting in the administration of the College email and database system with a Lotus Notes/Domino environment; covering such things as email account creation, creation of database systems, and the inevetable, resetting user passwords after the summer holidays.
Recently though, I've deviated somewhat (probably fairer to say quite alot), from my employed job role. I am one of three people employed at the College who know how to code systems using the PHP scripting language and where required attach these systems to a MySQL backend. I find myself developing more and more systems that I have as requests with PHP than in the Lotus environment.
As a result, I'm looking for a role where my talents will actually be exploited/skills put to good use. I had an interview with a company in York last week, at which I was a little unnerved as the role is working in .NET. I have done some simple stand-alone .NET coding (ask user to complete two form fields, then question WMI before dumping the results to an XML file and uploading them to a server for further processing), but never for the web. It's something to look forward to getting my hands into if I get to second interview and further, otherwise, I think I'll be sticking to LAMP.
If anyone needs a LAMP developer to join their team or to code a site or anything really, as long as you're not looking for a designer, let me know. I'll more than likely be interested.
