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Front End Developer
London
£400/day
Years of experience: 8+
Latest contract: Front End Developer at Top Events Company
PROFILE
-A motivated, reliable and flexible hand coding front-end web developer with a professional “can do” attitude, and the ability to
adapt to different environments.
-Great team player, very versatile at working with small and large teams.
-A multi skilled web developer with the ability to combine the creative with the practical, to hand code solutions, who works
tirelessly to reach goals.
-A confident, dedicated individual with excellent communication and organisational skills, often put into practice when meeting
short and long deadlines.
-Enjoy programming, developing and problem solving using cutting edge technologies at work and home on private projects
for fun such as Angular.
KEY SKILLS
The experience I obtained from previous roles and University has enabled me to acquire and improve a number of my skills,
these include:
 Skilled web developer hand coding CSS, SASS, HTML5, JS, JQuery, JSON, WordPress, Angular, CMS, Grunt, Gulp,
Git, Jira, Bootstrap.
 Creative web interaction using OO JavaScript, JQuery, CSS whilst following Agile methodology.
 Knowledge of production, design and animation software including Adobe edit suite.
 Business and project management, budget management and project planning.
 Stakeholder engagement and information requirements acquisition.
 People person, form great working relationships with diverse groups of individuals.
 Ability to train, transfer knowledge and help junior team members to reach their goals.
 Used Agile for several years to meet well, structured targets for short and long sprints.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Contract: March 2015 – Present
 Develop and enhance site functionality.
 Advise on new site functionality and development.
 Liaise with project management team of new site functionality.
 Develop microsites and unique functionality to work with Umbraco cms.
 Enhanced cross browser functionality across the sites.
 Worked on several multimedia features, both web and video based.
 Mentored colleagues and producers.
 Collaborated with third party organisations to problem solve and resolve website issues.
 Developed campaign sites, to raise income.
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Accenture: Senior Analyst / Web Developer June 2014 – March 2015
 Develop and update the websites for a Discovery Networks across over 100 sites.
 Worked with JSON, JavaScript, html, css, on WordPress sites to update, improve and develop sites.
 Used SASS to create reusable modules for some of the new sites created at Discovery.
 Used Angular to present well, structured data on newer sites using JSON to query data.
 Used Sublime text, Visual studio, Workbench, SVN, Sourcetree, Grunt, Gulp, Git and Confluence to create code, merge
branches and query databases.
 Maintain over 100 sites both legacy and newer sites using both frontend and backend technologies to continuously improve
service for external clients.
 Used github and git to branch, merge, and resolve conflicts to share code amongst international teams.
 Used Jira and daily stand-ups to track development of work, including predictions and time logging.
 Conducted specification requirements with stakeholder, at Discovery, developed new techniques and solutions required and
trained the end user in the new process developed to improve their workflow.
 Worked in both large and small teams, collaboratively and independently to complete which ever tasked requested.
 Worked on long sprints and projects, which were shorter based tasks to meet 24hour deadlines, whilst working effectively
and concisely to complete tasks effectively.
 Examples of sites worked on; Discovery UK, Latham kids, RealtimeTv.it, Discovery NL, Animal Planet, tlc.tv, Dmax.it, UK
TLC old and new.
St John Ambulance: Front end Web Developer November 2011 – June 2014
 Hand coded to develop and update the organisation’s public and member sites. Emphasis is put on sites being easy to
integrate within the CMS (content management system) for updating content.
 Update and maintain the public and customer facing sites, which both inform and sell products to the users, ensuring that
all are cross browser and backwards compatible.
 Ensure styling is correct for mobile usage using Media queries and JavaScript to overcome cross browser and device issues.
 Using three, week sprints, Agile projects are planned, tracked and implemented to meet the customer needs. Team
foundation server is used to monitor version control of code throughout projects.
 All sites need to be cross browser compatible with the ability to work backwards to Internet Explorer 8 as well as the other
popular browsers; cross browser compatibility is a must.
 Implement hand coded JavaScript/JQuery to help the sites be more interactive, such as Carousel sliders, Accordions to
manage content display and site layout.
 Using correct semantic markup and CSS to develop the sites and create fluid sites for different media devices, including
mobile devices. We have mainly employed the use of media queries to react to the screen sizes of the devices being used by
the target audience.
 Worked on vast amount of projects with Backend Developers throughout time at SJA to improve the sites and user
experience throughout the organisation.
 Combine the use of CSS, CSS3 and HTML4, HTML5 to deliver compliant semantic mark up, keeping in mind of the
market trend and scope for responsive development.
 Currently experimenting with SASS and Foundation CSS to explore emerging technologies.
 Trouble shooting and problem solving issues with any of the sites and frontend functionality.
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 The current intranet recently launched is Sharepoint 2010, which has added to my versatility in Sharepoint, and this has
provided more exposure to Sharepoint Designer.
West London Academy: Creative Developer April 2010 – October 2011
 Developed and maintained four customer facing websites and the Academy’s Intranet, some of which were used to sell
courses or create bookings.
 Updated and managed all the sites on a daily basis with requests from the staff across the Academy. Matters ranged from
changing permission settings, file uploads and manipulating databases. Built Sharepoint sites for all Academy departments
and integrated department sites with individual student accounts to process online homework management.
 Developed a new Intranet and also a new main website which was launched in 2012. With new added technology, style,
functionality and newly produced videos the main site has come on leaps and bounds to engage the users.
 Made full use of Adobe suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, After Effects and Flash) to produce graphics and
designs needed for sites, site interaction and menu templates for all video content and DVD authoring.
Web Designer: Champion Recruitment April 2008 – December 2009
Through Champion I worked for two companies (Wiley Blackwell: Publishing company and Nominet: Internet Governance
company for entire .co.uk web hosting) on separate projects before moving to London.
 Worked with company directors on the creation of a new Intranet for Nominet. This involved creating a fresh look and
better usability with the use of new content and copy development.
 Maintained and problem solved for several hundred micro sites.
 Ensured QA for large collection of sites in migration of company branding project.
 The role at Nominet involved requirements specification, design and code implementation.
 Created web friendly content that was simple and effective.
 Created textual, graphic and video content as well as designed and implemented code.
 Communicating both written and verbal was required within all levels throughout the business to define requirements from
the end user, developers and the company directors.
 Resolved intranet and current project issues regarding content submitted by internal staff
 At Wiley Blackwell I managed projects from the E-Help publishing site as well as monitoring budget for site changeover and
banner production for aesthetic site consistency in the marketing department.
Freelance Digital Producer 2003 - present
 Formed and managed teams to produce features that were used on National TV.
 Produced features for private clients and streaming video for commercial companies.
 Worked as an independent Digital Media Producer to fund my University.
 Sourced work and won bids to produce Digital Media for companies and private projects.
 After sourcing, clients I would put together a team to produce whatever package was needed.
 This enabled me to manage effective teams, timescales and budgets to meet project demands.
Web Editor: Royal Mail July 1999 – Sept 2002
 Updated content daily and acted as first line support and problem resolving for site.
 Used CMS to update and maintain sections of forecast website.
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Responsible for layout, navigation and usability of the site.
Had to communicate with directors, members of staff and external clients.
Managed staff forecasting and targets through the site.
Managed the team to ensure the sites were kept standards compliant.
Ensure quality and consistency of all content uploaded to the site.
EDUCATION AND ADDITIONAL COURSES
Building web applications with Angular js
Designing Websites for Mobile
Cascading Style sheets (CSS)
JQuery
Web Usability
Information Architecture
Sharepoint Designer
Adobe Flash
SharePoint
Business Development and Management: Business Link
After Effects: Adobe Training centre
Masters MSc Digital Media Production
Oxford Brookes University 2006 - 2007
Subjects studied:
 Web Design and Project Management
 Professional Multi Media Production
 Video and Sound Production
 Adobe suite, Avid, Final Cut studio, 2D and 3D Animation
Honours BSc (Hons) Information systems
Oxford Brookes University 2002 - 2006
Subjects studied:
 Multimedia, Web Application Design
 Human Computer Interface and Design
 Computer Systems
 Management Information Systems
 Database Design SQL
 Information Systems Analysis and Design
 Software and Design, Delphi and Pascal Coding
GNVQ Art and Design
BTEC National Diploma Media
10 GCSE’s
Oxford College of Further Education 1996- 1999
St. Augustine’s Upper School 1995- 1996
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