Dave Cross – Employment Enquiries

From January 2020 I am working on my own projects and therefore won’t be looking for any more contracts for the foreseeable future. The information below is left there purely for historical reasons.

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The skills I am particularly interested in using are:

• Perl (including Moose/Moo, DBIx::Class. PSGI and various web frameworks)
• Relational databases (especially MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle and Sybase)
• Unix/Linux
• Apache
• Training
• Javascript (a bit of jQuery – would love to do more)
• HTML/CSS (but I’m really not a web designer)
• XML/XPath

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 it 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.

I’m only interested in roles that are based in London. That’s roles that I can travel to from Clapham 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Any other CV that you might have is out of date and I’d rather you got rid of it.

It’s worth noting that I get most of my work by word of mouth, so it’s common for my CV to be a couple of jobs out of date.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 hello@davecross.co.uk.