Key Responsibilities

• Took over as technical lead on iwoca's Gatsby / Contentful powered website. Worked on improving the codebase whilst enhancing its capabilities and performance. Reduced the Sites load time by 85% as well as refining processes, resource gathering and defining the product roadmap.

• Project leader on a design systems project that involved producing a living design system for iwoca. This was a side project with an open and ambiguous goal on which i was responsible for gathering requirements and working closely with the design team and other front end engineers . Built an accessible React component library for other front-end developers to use.

• Worked on a greenfield React / Redux / Saga project for the new iwoca account pages to improve the user experience for new customers, and to allow a fully self-service drawdown of loans.

• Writing quality unit, integration and end to end tests.

• Worked closely with the product team to come up with ideas for features for the new website from an early stage.

Key Responsibilities

• Rebuilding Trendwatching's core SAAS product from scratch using React / Redux.

• Managed a team of 3 developers and 5 designers, implementing standards for the engineering team and overseeing the creation of a new company style guide.

• Maintaining, refactoring and documenting legacy code.

• Implemented analytics and gathering data to improve the product

• Oversaw and provided advice on new builds on Trendwatching’s other sites

Key Responsibilities

• Front-end lead on various large scale website development projects. Involved in the planning and designing stages, taking concepts from the creative team and turning them into modern, semantic functional HTML5 templates to integrate with the company's bespoke CMS

• Building, maintaining and reviewing HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery code.

• Moving all the companies site template files from SVN over to git and helping other front-end developers with the transition.

• Working through Jira tasks and implementing code fixes and updates for 45 different websites.

Relevant work

• Built and maintained Rugby World Cup 2015 hospitality website, this included client facing website as well as integrated web app for the Rugby World Cup sales team.
  http://hospitality.rugbyworldcup.com

• Working with .net developers to build a front-end responsive web app for Westfield Stratford’s car parking rewards program.
  http://expressparking.uk.westfield.com