David Hourn

Background

About David Hourn

I am a freelance web developer based previously based out of Sydney but currently living in Milton Keynes. I run my own business called DTH Design (http://dthdesign.com.au). I wrote my first website when I was sixteen years of age using nothing more than notepad and plain HTML and have been hooked since. After a period of experimenting with various technologies in 2009 I started a dual diploma at Swinburne Technology (TAFE), Melbourne in Website Development and Software Development.Since graduating in 2011, I have worked for three digital agencies - Swift Digital (http://swiftdigital.com.au/), Ad-Inc (http://ad-inc.com.au/) and FishVision (http://fishvision.com) and have my own freelance business for small side projects.I specialise in PHP, in particular the Yii Framework and have built a powerful customised Content Management System on top of the framework. The CMS has full features from standard content editing, to real time analytics, user management, private pages and files and full system logging. It is a constant work and is being updated on a daily basis with new features and extensions.I run my own Virtual Private Server, and have some experience in Linux system administration using the Nginx web server. I can also adapt to various other technologies such as Wordpress, Drupal, Windows, Apache, Mac and others.I am also proficient in setting up and maintaining an automated Virtual Machine using VirtualBox, Vagrant and Ansible and seamless deployment to AWS or any other linux based server.