Dave Cross - Employment Enquiries

I'm currently in a contract and won't be looking for work until at least the end of May 2012. Therefore I'm not currently interested in hearing about requirements.

The skills I am particularly interested in using are:

• Perl (including Template Toolkit, DBIx::Class and Catalyst)
• Relational databases (especially MySQL, Oracle and Sybase)
• Unix/Linux
• Apache
• Training
• Javascript
• HTML/CSS
• XML/XPath/XSLT

Skills that I don't have that, for some reason, agents often think that I do have:

• Java
  
• C++
• PowerBuilder
• SAP

The SAP example is particularly interesting. On my CV is says "Perl scripts communicated with SAP using an XML interface". That's from a one-month contract in March 2002. I should probably remove it, but it's a useful filter. Any agent who uses that as a basis for contacting me about SAP roles is clearly incapable of reading a CV and can safely be ignored.

It's also worth pointing out that I'm not a front-end web developer. Yes, I can write HTML and CSS, but I'm not a designer.

I'm only interested in roles that are based in London. That's roles that I can travel to from Balham using public transport in less than an hour.

I'm only interested in contract roles. Please don't contact me about permanent jobs.

CV

Download my CV here.

Any other CV that you might have is out of date and I'd rather you got rid of it.

It's worth noting that I get most of my work by word of mouth, so it's common for my CV to be a couple of jobs out of date. Email me if you want more details.

Other Questions?

If you have any further questions, please mail me at agent@mag-sol.com.