Alliance Unichem/Pharmology (Aug 2002 to Aug 2003)

Front End Developer

Pharmology (specialist tech team) site allowed European region pharmacists to buy drugs and supplies online.
Co-ordinate front end design of what was a disparate collection of websites which AU bought - the goal was to integrate all pharmacists under a single online area.
Work with team of java devs to re-launch Pharmology.com and Alliance-Unichem.com using the Struts framework.
Manage message board powered by Web Crossing software - config file was over 10 000 lines of code long, written in WCT Language.

AU site with Struts All new development was done with the Struts framework. HTML code was modulised and reused across various different platforms. Extensive use of templating.
AU Imagemap An external agency redesigned this as a flash app, but we couldn't use Flash on our platforms, so I had to build the functionality with traditional techniques.
Web Crossing Legacy software with Perl like syntax, 10 000 lines of code and no support documentation. Had to manage this application on a live server - no dev environment!
Main Segmenter The Pharmology portal was localised in 5 countries. The aim was to allow each country homepage to be managed locally via Rhythmyx content management software.