Experience
frog / Idean UK
Lead technologist | January 2021 - Present (Idean UK, now frog)
Senior Frontend Developer | November 2018 - December 2020 (Idean UK)
At frog I balance my client work with strategic work that helps define what technology at frog UK looks like, and keeps our tech department progressing forward. I regularly work with our leadership team, and other areas of the business to define the scope of inbound work, and outbound responses to RFPs.
Achievements
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Led early-stage talks, as well as the build, launch, and ongoing maintenance of internal initiatives: Cards for Humanity, and The Universal Score
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Heavily contributed to the research and implementation of alternative/emerging technologies we discuss in our tech catchups, including sustainable technology
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Actively working wth a few other folks in two working groups, one promoting the incorporation inclusive design in as many projects as possible, and another sustainability in our operation as a business
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Launched Donut on Slack to help people connect during the pandemic
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Introduced and implemented the concept of humans.txt for our own-brand, and hopefully commercial, projects. Example on Cards for Humanity
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Worked with AIE to help build interfaces and work on the phone app for an experimental retail space, Cornershop
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Set up and currently manage many of our internal tools including GitHub (teams, actions, and packages), Firebase, and Netlify
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Led the migration of content from daptivelab.com to idean.com, and aided in the migration from idean.com to frog.co
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Helping organise and run public events at our offices, as well as our fortnightly internal tech catchups
Tribal Worldwide
Senior Frontend Developer | August 2017 - September 2018
Frontend Developer | July 2016 - August 2017
My role at Tribal encompassed a wide array of skills and responsibilities. I regularly worked both independently and as part of a team, depending on the scale and requirements of the project.
Achievements
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Expanded our capabilities in experimental fields, such as Mixed Reality, and Physical Computing
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Built numerous functional prototypes in quick turnarounds
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Led major refactors on volkswagen.co.uk to utilise modern design patterns and technologies
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Led a team of developers in building a Vue/Metalsmith/Directus static-site generator with CI integration
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Pushed best practies and agile methodologies to encourage better colaboration between teams and departments
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Pushed process change to allow for a better personal development model within Tribal
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Helped organise social events including parties, after-hours activities, and during-hours activities
British Airways
Software Engineer | April 2015 - June 2016
The project involved working in an agile environment to re-imagine the entire booking experience of BA.com as an Angular application.
Achievements
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Built and maintained a handful of reusable components for use across the company
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Ensured quality by writing effective unit and integration tests
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Pushed methods of effective communication and working practices to allow for better colaboration across a remote team
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Introduced hackathons to the team, and organised a trip to one where we built an internet-connected coffee machine
SunEos
Technical Lead | October 2014 - December 2014
Brief stint in startup. Responsibilities there encompassed anything technical. This included mobile app development with Phonegap & NFC, building dashboards, along with designing and developing the website.
N9 Design
Junior Designer & Developer | October 2012 - June 2014
Built nine bespoke content-managed websites including n9design.com. Put onto an increasingly broad range of jobs, including artworking, e-flyers & bespoke web development. Worked full time from October 2012 to August 2013, and then part time
until June 2014 - parallel to final year of study.
TermiSoc: Plymouth University Computing Society
Chairman | March 2011 - July 2013
Organized and ran numerous events scaling from small weekend projects to 50+ person LAN parties. Alongside these non-regular events we also ran fortnightly talks and tutorials - myself hosting some tutorials on web development. I also produced all the branding material for the society during my time.
