Curriculum Vitae
Professional Summary
I am a full stack developer with experience running projects as a solo developer and also in teams. I am interested in all aspects of web / software development - from design, architecture, back end and front end development. I pride myself on my communication skills , and understand the importance of taking a holistic, all encompassing approach to my work. I have an eye for detail and strive for beautiful clean design on whatever I do.
Work
Storm Technologies Ltd. Watford, UK / Remote
Senior Javascript Developer (freelance 4 days/week)
Storm Technologies is a 200+ employee IT Procurement firm turning over £100m+
- Building a ground-up design system in Figma to inform the rest of the team on how to build a suite of components
- Coding up hundreds of components structured to solve complex business requirements
- Working on mini projects such as:
- TV screen sales leaderboards with realtime updates
- Complex internal forms with rich interdependent field relationships
- Tasking, gathering business requirements, decision making on technology stacks and software architecture
- Scaffolded a monorepo project using Vue & Nuxt JS covering Sales, Warehouse, + 3 other modules
You I Limited. Hitchin, UK
Company Director and Lead Developer
Running my own freelance business which has served over 50 clients.
- Project lead / planning / pitching
- Building 50+ CMS websites & around 10 full stack apps for clients that I aquire and manage directly over the last 10 years. I run the company with my wife currently but have been a solo founder previously for many years
- Building multiple Laravel projects including members areas, burrito builders, forums, bespoke ecommerce API’s many of which are still in production today
- Managing servers, deployments, backups, queued image & video transformations, git flows, integrations with external services, sending text + email notifications etc. All the extra stuff that comes along with being the sole developer on a multitude of varied projects
- Coached, developed and mentored a Junior Developer to work alongside me on numerous projects
Junior web developer
Starting out my own freelance career
- Working directly with local businesses & design agencies to build Wordpress + Perch CMS websites
Various international music acts
Live sound - monitor engineer
Travelling the world mixing live shows
- Phoenix (french Rock band) - 200+ shows over 2 years for the album tour of Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
- Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - 200+ shows over 2 years
- Good Shoes & many others...
Unit Studios, Letchworth UK
Owner. Studio engineer & producer
Running a local recording studio
- Working directly with local bands and musicians, as well as composing and producing music for TV and film
Education
- Self taught web developer over 10 years following various courses online including Laracasts, Codecourse, FreeCodeCamp + more.
- 2000 - 2003 - BA (Hons) Degree in Music Production - Thames Valley University, London