Mark Newnham
Self Employed
Englewood, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Newnham is an Information Technology Consultant with 13 years of focused experience provisioning and operating Azure-based Linux and MySQL flexible servers across commercial and Azure Government environments. He combines hands-on backend development—demonstrated by contributions to the widely-used ADOdb PHP database abstraction library, improving MSSQL, MySQL, Firebird and PDO drivers—with strategic product and operations leadership for local government ERP, CIS and utility billing systems. His background includes building and running cloud SAAS for municipal clients, integrating diverse external systems (payments, utilities, banking, SMS) and guiding offshore teams and critical recovery efforts. Prior roles span large-scale asset management and data center projects for multinational firms, reflecting deep practical knowledge of databases, integration patterns and regulatory compliance. Based in Englewood, Colorado, he brings a steady mix of modern cloud competence and long-established systems engineering, with a particular specialty in public sector finance, HR and permitting systems.
13 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Of College Of Radiography Radiology, Diploma Of College Of Radiography Radiology at Southampton School Of RadiographyElectrical and Electronics Engineering, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Southampton
French
Github Skills (8)
php10
database-driver10
sql10
mysql10
mssql10
pdo9
firebird9
database-administration9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ADOdb/ADOdb
Apr 2013 - Dec 2022
ADOdb is a PHP database class library that provides powerful abstractions for performing queries and managing databases. ADOdb also hides the differences between DB engines so you can easily switch them without changing your code.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 25 reviews, 382 commits in 9 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mark primarily contributed to the ADOdb library, focusing on improving and fixing database-specific driver implementations. They implemented numerous fixes and enhancements for the MSSQL and MySQL drivers, including improvements for prepared statements and general bug fixes. The contributions also involved adding support for Firebird and enhancements to the PDO driver, indicating experience working across multiple database platforms to maintain and improve a database abstraction layer.
sqlserverclass-libraryormswitchhides
mnewnham/scotty
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
snmpnetwork-managementdnstclnetworking
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