Billy Wardrop

Senior Drupal Developer

University Website Programme
Learning, Teaching and Web Services
Information Services Group

Tel: 0131 651 5287
Email: billy.wardrop@ed.ac.uk
Web: Billy's blog posts for the University Website Programme
Web: Drupal.org Profile
Linkedin Profile

University Website Programme

Street: Argyle House, Floor H West
3 Lady Lawson Street
City: Edinburgh
Post code: EH3 9DR

Monday-Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm

Biography

Background

Billy is responsoible for managing the Web Development Team in Website and Communications. Billy is responsible for providing leadership, technical expertise, development and support for current operations, including the EdWeb CMS, Drupal and related services.

Before joining the website programme, Billy started his Technical Career at the Northern Lighthouse Board as a support assistant. As the department grew very quickly, Billy became the Technial Systems Manager.

Billy then went on to start his own website business called Fresheverything in 2003. After 10 years, Billy sold his business and took on a Developers role in the Sugar Refinery in 2013. Split between both management and a Senior Development role, this allowed Billy to build on his programming skills before joining the University Website Programme team in July 2014.

Qualifications

BSc Information Systems
Expert in Drupal 7 Developers course

Drupal 7 Developer course information

Responsibilities & affiliations

Coding

Designing, Theming, Site Building and module development for web sites, applications and APIs using Drupal
Enhancing current systems using PHP, Python, Bootstrap, HTML, CSS and jQuery
Developing new solutions and bug fixing in the central website
Support and development at EdWeb Code Sprint days

EdWeb Code Sprints

Support

2nd line support for the central website including bug fixing and best practice
Advice on developing websites in our Drupal distribution

EdWeb distribution

Management

Day-to-day management of the Website Programme Technical Team

Skills

Drupal Development / Support
PHP (OOP and Frameworks)
API Development
System Design and Development
Agile Project Development
CMS Design / Development
Javascript / JQuery
HTML / CSS / LESS / SASS

Projects

Project activity

External JS implementation in EdWeb - Technical Lead
Social Media and User Feedbackin EdWeb - Lead Developer
Health and Safety Contact Web Application (Drupal) - Designer and Developer
PURE API Development - Developer

Past Projects

PURE EdWeb API for Staff Profiles (Drupal) - Developer
Custom EdWeb Proxy Development work for Health and Safety and IAD - Developer
Polopoly to EdWeb Migration - Technical support for the migration of 300 websites