CO-OP (Equal Experts Ltd) 2018-11-01

Contract developer

Working on a django application.

CallSquad Ltd 2016-06-01

Chief Technical Officer

HMRC (Equal Experts Ltd) 2016-03-01 - 2018-11-01

Contract developer

Working on a large angular project for HMRC.

Shaping Cloud Ltd 2015-07-01 — 2016-03-01

Head of Development

I was given a promotion to head of development within Shaping Cloud, this meant that I was responsible for all the client projects, and had to report directly to board on them.

Shaping Cloud Ltd 2014-09-01 — 2015-07-01

JavaScript developer

My day to day role can vary from writing Cordova applications, nodejs rest api, to configuring an ELK stacks to log information from the node services I am developing. As the company name suggests, I use a lot of cloud services to for the applications I work on, whether it be AWS, Azure, Compose.io, Twilio.

Highlights

  • http://www.callsquad.com
  • Givvit Mobile Application

Whoooop Ltd 2014-03-01 — 2014-09-01

Freelance front end developer

Highlights include contracting at a FTSE 250 company producing an AngularJs application for customers to configure their product.

Building Blocks Ltd. 2012-07-01 — 2014-02-28

Front end developer

My role was to act as the middle man between our developers and designers producing multicomponent HTML and JavaScript that was used with various CMS systems, such as Tridion, Teligent or Wordpress. I was required to produce responsive sites following a mobile first pattern. In order to improve maintainability and performance tools such as less and grunt were used to the site to automate a lot of tasks.

Highlights

  • http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com
  • http://www.celebritycruises.co.uk
  • http://www.yara.us
  • http://www.viacord.com
  • http://www.lrqa.co.uk
  • http://www.building-blocks.com

Active Solutions Ltd. 2009-09-01 — 2012-05-30

Front end developer

My role was developing the front end code for our clients website, who mainly reside in the travel industry, whilst sticking to HTML standards accurately converting our designers mock-ups into site, whilst ensuring the site is also search engine friendly. I also developed the interactivity into the site whether this be just simple form validation, to more complex items such as page animation, mapping interactivity or AJAX loading of content. I was also required to make backend changes to improve the front-end.

Highlights

  • http://www.greatrail.com
  • http://www.railholidays.com
  • http://www.cheznous.com
  • http://www.cottagesdirect.co.uk/

Wigan Council 2005-10-01 — 2009-09-01

Web publisher

My day to day role involves the monitoring of pages coming through the council CMS system, checking for code quality and relevance of content. I am required to design sites from simple mini sites for high level jobs, council partner sites and the council website itself. I am required to undertake development tasks from simple JavaScript based projects to more extensive Asp.net sections, and I am also required to test other work that I haven't worked on. We have to maintain a high quality of work while sticking to strict government guidelines on accessibility. I work part of a large development section within the council on a wide range of offline and online projects and am required to stick to tight deadlines.

Jeyes 2005-04-01 — 2005-10-01

Development assistant

My role was to help test and develop the new products produced by the factory. This involved simple testing procedures such as testing for weight loss and colour changes.

CatchThat Ltd 2004-11-01 — 2005-04-01

Web Developer

My job role was to maintain and develop the companies different websites, this involved the development of database driven systems to manage the users of the site, and manipulate data from other sources for display on the sites. Along with developing the sites I was also required to ensure the pages were optimized efficiently to search engines, with semantic, keyword heavy pages. We used both natural search engine rankings on less popular terms, however we also ran effective pay per click campaigns.

Wigan & Leigh College 2001-09-01 — 2003-06-01

Computing (Software development)
National Diploma Computing

Courses

  • Language & Communications
  • Computational Methods
  • Computer Systems
  • Introduction To Software Development
  • Business Information Systems
  • Communications Technology
  • Software Applications
  • Website Development
  • Systems Analysis & Design
  • Programming Concepts
  • Programming Practice
  • Website Management
  • Advanced Programming
  • Programming For Design
  • Multimedia Technology

Frontend

  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JavaScript
  • TYpeScript
  • jQuery
  • AngularJs
  • Backbone
  • less
  • node

Backend

  • Javascript
  • node
  • Redis
  • mongodb
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Twilio