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Education
BSc Computing (1st)
Leeds Beckett University
2010-2014
A Levels
Halewood Academy
2008-2010
Skills
Management
- People Management
- Recruitment
- Organisational Structure
- Mentorship & 1:1s
- Multiple Squads
- Project Management
- Scrum, Agile & Kanban
- Sprint & Quarterly Planning
- Cross-functional Delivery
- Jira & ADO
- Delivery Management
- Release Co-ordination
- Stakeholder Reporting
Developer
- HTML, CSS & JS
- PHP & OO PHP
- MySQL, PL/T-SQL + ORMs
- Node.js
- Angular, Vue, React
- Laravel & Symfony
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Docker, Kubernetes / Containerisation
- Unit Tests, Integration Tests
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- IoT - SmartCities (UMSUG & TALQ)
Experience
RLDatix
January 2021 - December 2023 (3 years)
Engineering Manager
January 2023 - December 2023 (1 year, 11 months)
- Manager of multiple squads with direct reports of Lead Developers
- Responsible for overall product delivery across multiple regions
- Working closely with stakeholders of other functions, such as product management, quality assurance and customer success members
- Implementation of processes along with short and long term planning (sprint & quarterly)
Lead Developer
August 2021 - February 2022 (7 months)
- Line management of 3-5 developers within my own squad
- Responsible for quality and delivery of the squads work
- Solutioning new features for R&D delivery
Senior Developer
January 2021 - August 2021 (8 months)
- Working within a squad focusing on feature development & regression resolution
- Collaboration with QA and Product Owners to ensure the best solution is delivered
Parallax
October 2015 - January 2021 (5 years, 4 months)
Head of Backend Development
October 2016 - January 2021 (4 years, 4 months)
- Line manager for all backend developers whilst still being hands-on with active development of client projects
- Aided to grow the team from 2 developers to 10+ and handling recruitment, appraisals and project planning for the team
- Primarily working on IoT projects to create a large platform for city wide control (SmartCities)
Senior Developer
October 2015 - October 2016 (1 year, 1 month)
- Primarily backend development working closely with frontend developers and designers to build websites for clients
- Development of features for both new and existing bespoke client systems / products
LITTLE Agency / Web Developer
May 2014 - October 2015 (1 year, 6 months)
As the first employee of the company I created the foundations and tooling to expand the businesses offering of web development services and the expansion of the development team.
- Creation of process, tooling and framework used for bespoke website builds
- Building e-commerce and bespoke web solutions for clients
Rejuvenate Productions / Web Developer
March 2012 - August 2013 (1 year, 6 months)
Completion of a placement year with Rejuvenate and continued part time work during the remainder of my university studies.
- Front & Backend Development of bespoke websites for clients
- Creation of bespoke e-commerce websites