Decisive, operations-focused frontend lead with management experience who leads from the front and drives results. Skilled at creating and delivering innovative marketing-led web applications based on a thorough understanding of clients' business needs and technical requirements. Capable of leading a team of diverse developers, designers and testers to deliver robust software solutions in an Agile environment. These skills are underpinned by a wealth of technical development experience of close to 20 years across private and public sectors.
Has a high level of literacy and believes in transparency and open communication at all levels to drive business results and achieve goals. Works well under pressure and always seeks to learn and improve in order to achieve goals personally, professionally and in business.
I build web-based software using a range of modern full-stack frontend technologies including: JAMstack, React, React-Query, Svelte, SvelteKit, Next, Storyblok, Contentful, Material UI, Redwood JS, Tailwind CSS, Node, Express, AWS, Netlify, Vercel, GraphQL, Jamstack, JavaScript, TypeScript, Vite, Apollo, Supabase (and occasionally, C#/.Net), Storybook.js, Ember.js.
Working on the Foundry app (product) within a large UI/UX team, I help deliver meaningful changes to the user experience and interface. Working with product owners, UX designers and QA teams to ship product updates in quarterly releases.
The role works with the Ember.js framework, built with TypeScript.
A member of the strategic leadership team within the internal startup-like CS&D department. I oversee a diverse group of dev teams, each responsible for one of a suite of internal-facing web apps based in React.
The role is a mix of strategic and architectural decisions, and hands-on coding, acting as a floating resource that can embed within a team where extra development aid and guidance is needed.
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One of a small team of UI development leads, working across many departments of the business with key stakeholders of all levels to rebuild the internal UI component library from the ground up. Functioned like an internal start-up team to experiment, iterate, and introduce code changes regularly, presenting new work to large audiences.
Varied role dealing with UX/UI designers, micro frontend teams, and other internal development squads. Key position in documentation, education and implementation of the new web-component UI library into various projects built on multiple technologies, such as Node, React, Vanilla HTML/JS, and Vue, based in vanilla TypeScript, with educational and documentation sites built using Storybook.js.
I mentor students across the globe to help them achieve their goal of learning front end development. I offer a range of educational advice and material covering major front-end technologies and students work with me to set assignments, review projects and provide feedback, as well as offering job-seeking advice and support.
Building and deploying bespoke React software solutions for clients, migrating clients' call centre systems to Amazon Connect cloud-based telecommunications platform. Working within a small team to architect AWS services, such as Lambda, Dynamo DB, Amplify framework, CloudFront, AppSync and more. Solutions built on Node.js using TypeScript.
Part of the role involved embedding into client and third-party teams as part of a software consultancy offering.
Working within a small, close-knit team of developers in a 100% remote environment. As the lead frontend developer, I have an architectural responsibility to plan out and develop new UI layers for our core products. We work in an agile environment across a Microsoft technology stack. At the frontend we develop in React, using modern, ES6 JavaScript/TypeScript, to build application management portals and responsive query builders used by millions of people each week.
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Working alongside a close-knit development team in an AGILE delivery process to build out a number of web applications. We use React and Angular to build internal customer account management platforms, as well as external hosting panels and management consoles.
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Responsible for the frontend delivery of marketing projects. As part of the Digital Platforms team, I plan sprint work, manage the frontend team and have spent a great deal of time modernising development habits and processes, as well as overhauling the frontend code base from legacy platforms to more modern web apps.
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Taking responsibility for the technical planning, implementation and marketing delivery side of the business, my responsibilities included: