Roy Murphy

Roy Murphy (born December 7, 1976) is a computer scientist, programmer, and viral marketeer who is best known as the founder and lead developer of the Theoretix Consortium and the Jampax Organization. As an independent software developer, Roy Murphy has become synonymous in the world of theoretical computer science, pushing open-source corporate software development to new limits, bringing free, easy to use applications to the masses.
As founder of the Theoretix Consortium, Jampax Organization and lead developer of the Core programming language, over the years Murphy has received much positive reaction in programming circles, by re-defining concepts in theoretical computer science.
Early life and education
Roy Murphy was born in Southampton, in the UK, to Irish/English parentage, the son of Alan Murphy and Alison Whitaker, the eldest of five children.
Being a natural autodidact, Murphy took to creating programs very early as a child, building his first fully operational program in 1985 at just 9 years of age. As a very shy and reserved child, he spent most of his free time hidden in his bedroom, where he built an interactive game of ‘Animal, Vegetable, Mineral’ and would add query strings to his home database every evening after school. At age 12 he joined the Air Cadets where he remained for a further 5 years, where he would attend as either band leader, drill instructor, or senior cadet warrant officer for all 6 available days per week at 3 different wing headquarters. Here, he would qualify as a solo glider pilot, RAF approved rifle marksman and leader of the band as Drum Major.
Graduating with eleven A’s and two B’s in his GSCE’s, Murphy worked as a roof designer for a plastics company whilst studying his A’ Levels in Maths, Physics, Latin & Geology.
With growing social confidence, and being in favour of a two day study week, he dropped Latin & Geology in the second year as he had secured a provisional placement as an officer in the Royal Air Force, halfway to his dream of becoming a fighter pilot.
Working life and achievements
Upon formal draughting and oath taking, in light of the national recession in 1991 and marking the end of the first Gulf War, the Royal Air Force stopped all officer entry recruitment’s. So, instead Murphy signed up for the Royal Army Air Corps where he trained as an Aircraft Engineer, working on Lynx & Gazelle helicopters, and in later years the AH-64 Apache Gunship.
After leaving the Army after 3 years and spending 18 months at Bournemouth Airport as an Airport Fire Fighter in his home town of Bournemouth, he went freelance as a Fire Crash Rescue Vehicle Designer, which took him to California for 6 months until his green card expired.
Returning to the UK , after various jobs in sales, marketing and later web design, took him eventually to Carmarthenshire in Wales, where he ended up working from home as a freelance php programmer.
In 2000 at the age of 24 he studied for his Masters Degree in Automotive Engineering, learning computerized computational methods, fuzzy logic, thermodynamics, CNC machining, metallurgical suitability and 3D graphic design, when in the 3rd year switched courses to Theoretical Computer Science as he enjoyed the mathematics and physics aspect much more.
Throughout all of his studies, Murphy self studied various computer languages to complete proficiency in order to get a better grounding of what he wanted to achieve, as well as working in a pizza parlor, as a refuse collector and as a telephone sales advisor for an insolvency company.
As an experienced programmer and web developer, Murphy maintains proficient knowledge in PHP, JavaScript, Ajax, Oracle, VB, & XML based coding environments with experience to include / programming, and all variations of hypertext mark-up languages and can efficiently hand code complex cascading style sheets.
He now hosts and maintains hundreds of complex dynamic websites and can service and update most types of large servers including IBM, Solaris, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS & all variations of Windows Server.
Also a proficient web designer using Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Fireworks & Flash software, Murphy can create print quality magazine layouts, flash animations and vector graphics.
He has a broad understanding of ActionScript 3.0 & XML based scripting, including experience in updating and maintaining MS-SQL/MySQL databases and Apache webservers.
In addition to his open source programming contributions, Murphy’s native programming/scripting languages of choice are , , PHP, Ajax, Oracle, Java, JavaScript, jQuery and ActionScript whilst also having studied Perl, Pascal & Ruby on Rails.
Currently by day, as head of the technology department for an international luxury hotel group, as both Systems Analyst and Group Software Engineer, Murphy develops cutting edge hotel PMS systems, including central reservations software, bespoke CMS and communications platforms, encompassing all other group software, from accounting solutions to sales & marketing reporting tools via Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
Murphy also maintains an Oracle E-Business Suite for both ERP, CRM and SCM and has submitted numerous cutting edge open-source application updates for the Unix-like Fedora Project distribution from versions 8-13, having broadly used dozens of GUI’s for over 400 Linux distributions. He’s proficient in all Adobe Systems products and is up to CS5 standard for Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Premier, InDesign, Illustrator & After Effects.
Now as a Google certified developer and SEO expert in Google AdWords and Google Analytics, Murphy also manages extremely large budgets for many corporate client accounts, generating many millions of $’s, €’s & £’s in revenue.
In Cyprus, Murphy has worked and co-developed software and reporting tools with leading Microsoft Gold Certified Partners and maintains a close working relationship with Microsoft’s (EMEA) Europe, Middle East & Africa division, developing Microsoft Dynamics CRM solutions for the Cyprus tourist industry.
In September 2010, Roy Murphy launched the Jampax Organisation. Jampax, an acronym for Javascript, Apache, MySQL, PHP & Asynchronous XML, is a free, open-source software development organization, an evolutionary amalgamation of LAMP & Ajax libraries where registered community members can ask or give advice of many facets of programming, software development, applications development, server management, and general IT discussions.
Program development
As the lead developer and founding member of the Theoretix Consortium, Roy is currently writing the parsers, syntax, classes, definitions, and standard library for a new programming language called CORE with an international team of top developers and researchers that’s set for public release beta testing around September 2011.
Roy has developed the Core language & Core framework to include free to use software packages, plugins, and API’s such as CoreJQ, CoreCMS, CoreCRS, CoreBooking, CoreTicketing, CoreReports, CoreManager, and CoreOS, the next generation open-source operating system.
Roy spends much of his spare time working on this project as it is a direct evolution on his degree thesis and is credited with its creation; it is the foundation of his Ph.D. research in Theoretical Computer Science.
Personal life
Roy currently lives in the picturesque village of Anarita in Cyprus, with his long term girlfriend Samantha Simmonds.
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