Nov 2020 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Jun 2019 – Nov 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos

• Driving the Frontend architecture and alignment across teams. Scaling our Design system for whitelabelling and retaining the quality of our libraries and web applications.

Dec 2017 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 6 mos

• In the process of building out an award-winning, multi-channel, investment management platform and deliver features using a continuous delivery approach. Deliver lots of new features to customers, and build solid, well-tested, reliable code implementations that are easily monitorable and measurable. Work together across many Engineering, Ops and Product teams who own feature development end-to-end.
• Implementation and integration of a third party referral system into the existing application, Delivering Tracking across the on-boarding process with the use of Google Tag Manager. Architect the in-house Design system to provide quality and consistency across our applications.
• Providing ways of delivering autonomy and ideas to help drive the business forward. Recruiting other engineers, and making sure the other junior members of the team achieve their long and short term goals. Exposed to the use of Angular JS, Ruby on Rails, Jenkins and Marathon, as well as React.

Jul 2016 – Nov 2017 · 1 yr 4 mos · Piccadilly Circus

• Working in the Marketing Design department to deliver interactive microsite promotions and offers with the use of React, Canvas, SASS, HTML5, CSS3 across our suite of ventures, including Virgin Games, JackpotJoy, Heart Bingo, StarSpins, Monopoly Casino, Caesers and Botemania based in Spain.
• Developing visually challenging promotions with the use of CSS and JavaScript.
• Re-skinning deprecating flash promotions into HTML5.
• Using BASH and Node scripts to automate manual processes.
• Co-operating with designers to achieve a high standard of delivery.
• Liaising with stakeholders to identify and apply business critical rules.
• Providing demos of deliverables to mid and high level management.
• Ability to work independently.
• Identify and solve problems effectively and efficiently.
• Responsible for production of high quality, maintainable code.
• Continuous improvement of the tools and processes used by the team.
• Building re-usable components with React and Sass.
• Following good coding standards.
• Communicating and collaborating with peers to achieve good quality work.
• Delivery of a variety of new features and game variants across our platform .
• Develop OOP solutions using HAXE and JavaScript.
• Ability to work independently and identify and solve problems effectively and efficiently.
• Responsible for production of high quality, maintainable code
• Work in a team using the Scrum agile methodology ensuring that the team meet sprint commitments
• Continuous improvement of the tools and processes used by the team

Feb 2016 – Jul 2016 · 5 mos · Cranbrook

• http://www.opencanvas.co.uk
• OpenCanvas Limited is a new startup that specialises in development of PHP and JavaScript applications as well as OpenFL Mobile Apps for iOS & Android.
• Technical Affiliations:
• Javascript & TypeScript - Angular 1 & 2, Ember & Backbone
• PHP 7 - Laravel/Zend/Yii/Slim
• Node JS / Express
• HTML5 Canvas
• CSS 3 / SASS
• MySQL
• Grunt, Gulp
• Yeoman
• Bower and NPM
• QUnit, PHPUnit, Jasmine
• Behat & Codeception
• Jenkins/Drone
• Vagrant
• JQuery UI, Materialise, Foundation and Twitter Bootstrap
• Haxe/OpenFL/HaxeFlixel

Oct 2014 – Feb 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos · Covent Gardens

• Elevate is an international money technology company that offers a range of financial products to millions of consumers.
• Working in Central London - Covent Gardens. My role as a Web Developer includes working in the UK Customer Experience team with the highest development workload:
• Integrating HTML5, Javascript and CSS3 into PHP MVC applications.
• Production and involvement of unit tests and code management mechanisms.
• Working on large scale projects either independently or as part of a team.
• Working in an AGILE environment, using daily SCRUMS and featured stories.
• Interpreting written requirements and providing technical specifications for Project Managers.
• Support and maintain existing systems and look for ways to optimise existing code base.
• Facilitate design/code reviews.
• Working with a dedicated and hardworking team to deliver a brand new product in the space of 6 weeks. Working extra nights and weekends to meet the deadline of January 2nd 2015.
• Technical Affiliations:
• HTML5, CSS3, AJAX, SOAP - XML
• PHP, Zend
• MySQL
• Javascript and JQuery
• JQuery UI and Twitter Bootstrap
• Selenium
• Grunt
• SASS
• SVN

Aug 2013 – Sep 2014 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bearsted, Maidstone

• Gforces drive the digital automotive dealership. Working with the likes of Mercedes-Benz, Mazda, Nissan, Lookers Group and just recently Vauxhall and Porsche. We design and develop our own software, web management and digital marketing tools.
• Employed in the development team working with the Zend and Yii framework in Managed Services to amend, remove and add content throughout all automotive web systems. To take on any incoming requests from clients who are looking to add more functionality, or are looking for solutions to any technical problems they may be facing.
• My work is based around three streams. The first stream is Managed Services, this consists of all the non component bespoke websites across the UK. The second stream OEM where we work closely with the quality assurance team to carry out work requests for Nissan Offers and Mazda Network Dealers. The final stream is Enterprise, with the two biggest being Lookers Group and Mercedes Benz Retail group.
• We look for ways of optimising. We also do work on many side projects that can help with our role. Providing innovation and initiative, also increasing my skills and ability as a developer. Gforces allows me to demonstrate my consistent work ethic, commitment and reliability. Allowing me to solve real world problems, improving my experience as a developer in a high pressured environment. I like the challenge and find it very rewarding to do.
• I've also built a Redirect Manager System, that's used to add redirects to the companies new V10 platform. Delivering Redirects for all clients from a centralised server via Nginx, as a faster alternative to Htaccess. Uploading redirects via a front-end interface stores them in Amazon's Elasticache for a certain time period (default of 3 months). It allows manual and CSV uploads via an integrated software platform called Console.
• Technical Affiliations:
• PHP 5.4 - Zend 1 / Yii 1.1
• MySQL 5.4 / 5.5
• Javascript and JQuery
• JQuery UI and Twitter Bootstrap
• Amazon S3
• Git / SVN

Apr 2013 – Jul 2013 · 3 mos · Remote work for Company in New York

• Working as a contractor for the largest industrial gas company in North and South America to create a web system that allows employees to choose awards for working with the company. I have demonstrated analytical skills to identify the data processing and modelling required. I have used my design skills to create a professional aesthetic looking web system that is easy and effective to use. I have created it by keeping to deadlines and regularly pushed all my work to a git repository so that the client is aware of my progress. I showed consistent commitment to the project through milestones and tickets using a web based project management system called codebase.
• The system is used by 20k+ users and 2.4K managers to manage orders in various places around America. These orders are managed by administrators and managers and placed in a report that is then sent to all the departments.

Sep 2010 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Cranbrook

• Working as a Freelancer for a handful of clients to deliver web applications, designs and animation.
• Github Repositories:
• jQuery AB Significance plugin - https://github.com/smks/ab-significance
• Blue Karma Actionscript 3 Point and Click game - https://github.com/smks/blue-karma-as3
• Technical Affiliations:
• PHP 7 - Laravel/Zend/Yii/Slim
• CoffeeScript, Javascript and JQuery
• Node JS / Express
• MySQL
• Grunt, Gulp
• SASS
• Yeoman
• Bower and NPM
• QUnit
• PHPUnit
• Behat
• Jenkins/Drone
• Vagrant
• JQuery UI and Twitter Bootstrap
• Haxe / OpenFL / HaxeFlixel

Sep 2010 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 10 mos · Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

• Completed my degree with a final grade of an Upper Second classification (69%)
• Modules included:
• Operating Systems, Databases, Web Programming, Interaction Design, Systems Analysis & Design, Computer Networking and an Individual Project implementation based around my studies.