Career Profile
A highly motivated, hard working and enthusiastic lead front end developer with seventeen years’ commercial experience working in software and web development.
Principal skills offered include excellent front end development skills using the latest front end technologies. Proven abilities in communication, teamwork, problem solving, time management and sharing knowledge and skills having worked on a large number of diverse projects.
Now specialised in the field of user interface development working closely with user experience and design teams to produce high quality and technically proficient accessible web applications and sites.
Skills & Proficiency View Portfolio
Core Skills
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POSH (Plain Old Semantic HTML) & CSS
Javascript & jQuery
ReactJS
CSS Compilers (SASS)
AngularJS
Angular2+
Gulp, Grunt
Git
WC3 Accessibility
General Skills
Frequently used general development skills showing number of years experience.
Sketch & Photoshop2yrs Webpack3yr Agile Methodologies7yrs Node3yrs Jekyll2yr Responsive Web Development7yrs JSON8yrs OWASP10yrs Cross Browser Compatibility10yrs Progressive enhancement10yrs SQL15yrs Storybook2yrs React Testing Library2yrs docker2yr vue1yr svg6yr Rest API integration5yrs d3 / HighCharts3yrsExperiences
Front end engineer working in a small dedicated team to produce a world class applications.
- Primarily developing on a suite of Payment applications in ReactJS.
- Development of a UI to visualise blockchain components and to allow blockchain data to be more easily navigated and read.
- Design system led approach to consistent UI development.
- Thorough Unit testing across all projects.
- Working in cross disciplined teams on focused agile projects of 3 week sprints.
- Constantly keeping abreast of cutting edge versions and available technologies.
- Working remotely 100% building a deep understanding of the importance of communication and time management.
Lead front end developer in the Digital Media UX and design team at BAESystems Applied Intelligence.
- Involved in a variety of internal and commercial agile projects including global finance, transportation and local government client. Examples include: Bespoke chat application, process flow management applications, UI code for customer facing government CMS based websites and mobile applications.
- Exposure and implementation of the most cutting edge User Interface technologies, languages, libraries and work flow solutions.
- Development of internal front end development standards and mentoring of junior front end developers.
- Research and development into responsive design verses desktop centric web design and development resulting in the production of an internal white paper for a telecom client.
- Involvement in 'Hackathons' both internally and for external clients to demonstrate innovation and provide tangible proof of concept applications showing technical uses for cutting edge techology (E.g. Virtual Reality).
Full stack development (SQL, HTML/CSS, C#, JavaScript) of the corporate website, working closely with the global marketing team to provide functionality and support.
- Lead web developer on SymantecCloud.com in a remote distributed team - other team members were located in the Polish office.
- Managing, developing and supporting the site UI, database, CMS and associated API services. Developed bespoke content management system (C#). (Decommissioned May 2013. Domain now redirects to Symantec.com)
- Development (C#, HTML, CSS) of client facing management console for Symantec.Cloud services (CMES).
- Working constantly and successfully, multitasking, prioritising and meeting critical deadlines with global clients and in a global team of developers.
- Involvedment in FedEx days - intense 24hour periods of innovation and development.
Primary role as a C# developer gradually evolved into a front end developer role focusing on web development of comparison bills web site using SiteFinity CMS. Other products worked on included mortgage application software for Nationwide, Barclays bank and HSBC.
- R&D using C# 3.5 WPF developing a new core product administration tool and rules expression editor.
- Development of C# 3.5 WCF services and service test harness applications with comprehensive N-unit tests.
- Strong emphasis on test driven development, the use of development design patterns and documented peer code reviews.
- Agile approach including analysis, design documentation and testing of web services.
Web Applications / Web Service development for Business facing systems - Developing two and three tier internal systems websites and web services using VB6, VB.Net, C#.Net, HTML, XML, JavaScript, IIS, SQL Server.
Web development of customer facing ERP portals using VB6, ASP, HTML, XML, JavaScript.
Web application development using HTML, ASP.net (vb). Application support of legacy TV broadcasting systems using ProIV (4th GL based on Basic).
Achievements
- Business Leader Award (Dec 2016)
- Innovating for success (internal company recognition) for work on the UI of an offline handheld document reader application.
- Kevin McLoud Award for Design (Dec 2015)
- An internal company recognition for work on CESG.gov.org.
- Outstanding Customer Experience (March 2012)
- Internal award in recognition of work with marketing team on the in Symantec.Cloud site.
- Top Talent Award (July 2012)
- Awarded a place on the Symantec ‘Top Talent’ scheme for high achievers.