Drupal
- Drupal contributions
I founded the Brighton Area Drupal Association
http://bad-ass.org.ukI run the local Drupal User Group for Brighton
http://groups.drupal.org/brighton- Roles in working with Drupal
- Consultant
- I contributed Drupal patches
- I help in the Drupal support forums
- I provide Drupal-related services
- I give support on IRC
- I attended DrupalCon Copenhagen 2010
- I attended DrupalCon Chicago 2011
- I attended DrupalCon London 2011
Personal information
- Full name
- Steve Purkiss
- Languages spoken
- English
- My website
- http://purkiss.com
- Interests
- freedom, free/libre open source software, social software, social networking, business networking, web2.0, leverage, the long tail, networking, participatory culture, somafm.com, xtc radio, dance music, dancing, cycling, swimming, travel, immersive vr, secondlife, virtual reality
- Gender
- male
- Country
- United Kingdom
- IRC nick
- stevepurkiss
- LinkedIn profile
- http://linkedin.com/in/stevepurkiss
- Twitter url
- http://twitter.com/stevepurkiss
- Bio
Celebrating 30 years since I wrote my first line of code ;) Spent the last 20 of those working in the industry starting at a local IT reseller but quickly moving into programming, initially on IBM AS/400s in RPG. Swiftly moved on to Java J2EE before finally settling on PHP. Have always had a keen interest on the marketing of IT as have had to watch sales people sell stuff they know little about then tell coders they have a couple of weeks to code it in.
Have been lucky enough to work with household names, and am more adept at working on larger scale sites than brochureware. Am an avid networker and am keen to travel as much as I possibly can.
Have 10 years of CMS experience, the last five of those exclusively using Drupal.
Work
- Job title
- Director
- Industries worked in
- Software
- Companies worked for
- European Broadcasting Union, Manchester University (Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change), Cartoon Network, Disney, HolyMoly, Books for Keeps (Children's Book Reviews online), Mazda, ATI, Volkswagen, British Telecom, Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Royal Commonwealth Society, B&Q (Kingfisher Group PLC)
- Current company or organization
- purkiss ltd.
History
- Documentation
- At least 1 edit
- Member for
- 6 years 10 weeks
stevepurkiss is an organization member of the Drupal Association, which fosters and supports the Drupal software project, the community and its growth.