Scott Hadfield

Jan 2012 - Present

An online marketplace for South African designers, built on Drupal 7. It's the largest marketplace of it's kind in South Africa. I handle long term planning & strategy, development, and oversee all technical decisions.

• Built the codebase
• Development: maintain the codebase, and continually expand site functionality
• Ensure smooth running of site & server infrastructure
• Medium & long term company planning

Mar 2013 - Present

An off-shoot of Hello Pretty aimed at the male shoppers. This site runs off of the Hello Pretty code base, and it's database too. Hello Man was designed and built, start to finish, in three weeks.

• Strategy
• Development and technical infrastructure setup
• Project management

Jun 2009 - Jan 2012

Wedful is a web service for hosting wedding websites, built on Drupal. As it is a small startup, my daily tasks could include anything from programming to server maintenance to marketing.

• Make stuff "just work"
• Design and plan all system architecture
• Too many other co-founder tasks to list ;)

Nov 2007 - May 2009

Improve development process, oversee, guide, and initiate daily activities of the tech / dev team. Primary liaison between tech, marketing, product, & business development teams to prioritise and schedule products & services on budget and on time.

• Ensure smooth running of site & servers
• Medium & long term company planning
• Project management
• Go-between between the product managers, developers (in five timezones), and founders with regard to strategy.

Jun 2007 - Aug 2007

My Google Summer of Code project involved developing a set of tools for the Drupal project to help find bottlenecks, load test, and load balance Drupal sites.

• Drupal Scalability
• Load Balancing
• High Availability

Jan 2007 - Present

Consulting. Project planning, development & security audits for clients in North America. Wide range of technologies used (PHP, Python, Ruby, Django, Drupal, SOAP & Linux).

• GiveStep: Microdonations. Symfony2 dev, project management. http://givestep.com
• Cargoh: Marketplace. Drupal dev & technical advisor. http://cargoh.com
• Chiefs and Champions: TV Show. Drupal dev. http://chiefsandchampions.com
• Grateful Dead: Band. Drupal / Iventa ecommerce integration. http://dead.net
• Project & client management

Jun 2004 - Jun 2006

• GLSR (Gentoo Linux Script Repository): A lead developer on a web based script repository written in python. Among it's primary features include script posting, revisions, rating, and user comments.
• LIS (Gentoo Linux Installation Script): A lead developer on a Gentoo installation script, written in bash. Has since been replaced with the now official Gentoo installer.

May 2002 - Mar 2007

I performed a large variety of jobs with SFU Computing Science, including things such as help desk support, web development, Linux support, and project management.

My major accomplishments include the development of two medium sized web applications and coordinating the design and setup of four new labs totalling roughly 200 workstations and 8 servers.

• Defining & implementing a formal network, systems and web application security policy.
• Investigating and reviewing new tools and applications to help improve our groups efficiency, such as content management systems and web development frameworks.
• Web and database application development (Python, Perl, MySQL, SQL Server, Apache).
• Coordinated the renovations, design, and setup of five new lab spaces consisting of a total of almost 200 workstations and 8 servers.
• Maintenance and administration of over 80 Linux and Solaris workstations and servers.
• Maintenance of our group's internal subversion repository, documentation system and wiki farm.
• Develop python based web applications including a progress report system for the school's graduate students and a web based news publishing application.
• Design and maintenance for the school's internal and external web sites.
• Windows and Linux technical support for staff, faculty, and students.