Greg Sherwood

Current

Product Development Manager at Squiz Labs
Developer at PEAR

Past

Lead Developer at Squiz.net
Technical Developer at Squiz.net
Clerk (Installment Billing) at CGU Insurance

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Education

University of Technology, Sydney
St Aloysius' College

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Greg Sherwood’s Summary

I am a software developer at heart but I love the challenge of managing a development team and the responsibility of product management. Web applications are my passion and PHP my language of choice. I love the visibility of the web and the opportunity to work in a cutting-edge industry. It provides both exciting new technologies and the challenge of keeping up-to-date with a fast moving industry.

My current role does not allow me to dive into complex development tasks like I used to, but I hang onto my development roots by prototyping new CMS technologies and writing development tools such as PHP_CodeSniffer, a key part of the standard PHP QA toolset.

Greg Sherwood’s Specialties:

PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL performance analysis, MySQL, Oracle, WebDAV, open source development, web content management, team management, technical documentation

Greg Sherwood’s Experience

Product Development Manager

Squiz Labs

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

I manage the day-to-day development, testing and support of the MySource brand of Content Management Systems (CMS). My personal duties include system architecture design, quotation and design of all major CMS changes, investigation of advanced CMS features and integrations, development / maintenance of the unit testing framework and the management of the public support forums and bug tracker.

I lead a team of software developers and engineers specialising in PHP-based web application and advanced JavaScript development. My team has experience with a number of CMS-related technologies and products as well as both open source and commercial database products.
Developer

PEAR

(Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 6 months)

Lead developer of PHP_CodeSniffer, a PHP5 script that tokenises and "sniffs" PHP and JavaScript code to detect violations of a defined coding standard.
Lead Developer

Squiz.net

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

July 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 10 months)

Worked on the design and development of the MySource Matrix CMS, written in PHP4 and using MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle. Also worked with JavaScript while building a custom WYSIWYG editor based on HTMLArea.
Technical Developer

Squiz.net

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

December 2001 — July 2003 (1 year 8 months)

Worked as a developer on the MySource Classic CMS, written in PHP4 and using MySQL.
Clerk (Installment Billing)

CGU Insurance

(Insurance industry)

June 2000 — November 2001 (1 year 6 months)

Worked in Installment Billing writing refund checks for customers. Also processed CC payments and did general accounting work.

Greg Sherwood’s Education

University of Technology, Sydney

B Sc , Computer Science, Information Technology , March 2000 — November 2004

Graduated with first class honors

Activities and Societies:

Progsoc, Compsoc
St Aloysius' College

1993 — 1999