Hi, I'm Andrew Barnett. This is my professional and personal Web site.
I'm 40-something, married, a proud-and-devoted father of two. I live in Sunbury, about 40km North of Melbourne, Australia. If you have landed at Melbourne airport, and the wind was blowing from the North, you have probably flown right over me. Feel free to wave next time.
I am available for hire. I have work but, after 18 years of doing the same thing, I need a change. I need work that is meaningful. I need the flexibility to work irregular hours, substantially from home. Oh yeah, I need money too.
I want to be part of a small team, whether it be a small organisation, or a team operating autonomously within a larger organisation. I am open to contract and freelance assignments, or membership of a collective. I would consider full-time employment, provided it offers the flexibility I need.
I'm expert in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL, back-end application development and SQL tuning. I've worked over half of my career in data warehousing and similar systems.
I can install and configure stuff, solve problems, talk equally well with technical and non-technical people, write well, learn and teach and mentor.
I enjoy working with CSS and HTML; I know enough to have made this site and a few others. I grok the principles of semantic markup, of separating content, presentation and behaviour.
I love the Web – it's the coming together of so many things that I care about: design, coding, data, writing, communication, conversation … The Web is where I create and converse and read and watch and learn.
I believe in open standards and formats; I believe people should have full ownership of their own data; I think simple RESTful APIs and the like are a brilliant idea; I prefer the bottom-up approach that derives from the UNIX world view to that of the alternative; I'm way more interested in people-scale than enterprise.
I am passionate about: my family, food and cooking, wine, building and architecture, photography, design, Apple Macs, sustainable living, elegance and truth.
If you know of someone that could use my services, please let me know.
– andrew