Curriculum Vitae

About Me

I'm a Frontend web developer with a keen interest in UI, UX and the intersection between design and implementation processes.

My approach to work is informed by my previous career in operations and project management, and I view engineering effort in the context of its value to users and business. In my next role I want to consolidate and deepen my technical expertise, but hopefully also draw on my work experience to contribute to the broader business.

Work Experience

Yulife Ltd

Frontend Developer, November 2018 - July 2020

React presentational components, maintenance and bugfixes across react web-app, react native and website projects. Ahead of yulife's first major product launch I overhauled the company's marketing website and continually delivered redesigns and improvements over the following 12 months I also led the project to replatform the website to react to bring it into line with our other codebases.

Achievements

• Extensively refactored the company website
• Worked closely with colleagues in data, marketing and content creation to understand and deliver business objectives
• Championed accessibility and performance in company policy, practice and implementation
• Established communities of practice around accessibility and design strategies

Technologies / Skills

• HTML/CSS/JS
• react
• next.js
• styled components
• typescript
• node.js
• handlebars
• mongo.db
• BEM
• tailwind
• gulp
• atomic design

QA Engineer, August 2017 - November 2018

I joined Yulife as an early startup and was able to contribute in terms of formal engineering processes and workplace culture while progressing towards a development role.

Achievements

• Establishing formal QA processes within a Scrum sprint cycle
• Defining and documenting acceptance criteria

Technologies / Skills

• Exploratory testing
• Cucumber
• Selenium
• Cypress
• Git
• Shaping user stories and translating into test scripts
• Manual testing, bug reporting and ticket management
• Collating and defining application functionality
• Managing supplier relationships and contract testers
• Jira / Confluence

Self-employed, January - September 2017

Having decided to change careers I took a sabbatical from work and studied full-time using a variety of online resources.

During this period I co-founded a coding group (codepod) hosting regular meet-ups to share knowledge, collaborate on projects and encourage other aspiring developers.

London Metropolitan University, IT Project Manager 2016 – 2017

The need to compete in the changing higher education sector places significant emphasis on the use of technology across all of London Met's traditional functions as a University. In my time at London Met I worked on Lecture Recording and digital distribution, Library Management Systems, transition from internal servers to cloud storage, and a review of document management systems.

123Send, Project Manager, 2014 - 2015

After 5 years in a variety of technical and managerial roles, I established the company's first project manager role. Projects included updating encryption software across a 20,000 strong terminal fleet; introducing new products and services; and coordinating in-house IT infrastructure to align with a parent group. The methodology also required definition and documentation, and the wider company introduced to new methods.

Achievements

• Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner
• Documentation
• Business analysis
• Cross-functional communication
• Stakeholder management
• Leadership
• Operating across multiple projects
• Operations Manager

2012 - 2014

As Ops Manager I brought technical, customer service and stock management teams together into a coherent operational department. I revised all process documentation to establish consistent, rational standards for workflows and improved the department’s efficiency via a programme of training. In this role my underlying goal was to shift staff values and perceptions and foster a sense of common purpose and individual responsibility.

Various roles, 2009 - 2012

• Helpdesk Engineer
• Customer Service Team Leader
• Stock and Logistics Manager

Education

• Glasgow University MA General Humanities Philosophical Studies) with Distinction
• PRINCE2 Foundation & Practitioner (expired)
• PCI Implementation & Maintenance

References available on request.