Front End Developer with Freelance, Agency and In-House Experience. Strengths in interpreting technical requirements and content into creative ideas, whilst considering; User Experience in Responsive Design, from Local Businesses (alongside marketing materials) to Multi-National eCommerce platforms. Highly motivated to learn new technologies.
Career Achievements
- Considered User Experience (UX) - Improved the user journey via Accessible Navigation and Content. Liaising across various Departments and working in partnership with other Agencies and Freelancers. Anticipating the next stages during a year challenged with COVID-19, adapting MySQL queries to update information with ‘live’ event information.
- ‘Individual’ / Bespoke Designs - Used Micro Interactions to achieve objectives with Progressive Enhancement.
- Improved Brand Identity - After initially planning a Responsive MySQL website, created consequent marketing materials.
Career History
Bitten Spider
Web Developer / Marketing Consultant
Jul 2010 - Present
Freelance
Key Performance Indicators
- Festival Project - Technical Deliverables:
Doubled (2020 vs 2019):- Users
- Page Views
- Increased (2017-2020):
- Seasons,
- Time on Page,
- Page Speed
- Positive Visitor Feedback through Agile Methodology.
- Reduced (2020 vs 2019):
- Sitewide Bounce Rate (to 5%)
- unnecessary enquiries (to 50%).
- Festival Project - Marketing / Financial Deliverables:
Doubled (2020 vs 2019):- Previous Record Competition Entries.
- Increased (2017-2020):
- Memberships (+20%)
- Donations
Clients:
Clarks
An Ambassador for Accessibility
Assistant Front End Developer
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
UK Assistant Webmaster
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Dentons Directories
Web Developer
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
WHSmith
Web Designer
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
(Extended) Contract
Clarks
European eCommerce Assistant WebMaster
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Temporary
Skills
Developer
- Module Builder: webpack
- Task Runner: Grunt.js
- Content Management Systems (CMS): WordPress / Hybris / Custom
Familiarity with: Magento 1.0 - Version Control: GitHub / Sourcetree
- Accessibility Standard: AA
- Naming Convention: Block Element Modifier (BEM)
- Back End: AJAX + MySQLi with PHP 7.4
- The Basics: HTML5, CSS3, Sass + JavaScript (jQuery)
Studying
- Through Pluralsight - react.js / vue.js
Design
- User Experience (UX)
- Responsive Design
- Maintainable / Reusable Components
- Adobe Suite
- Branded Marketing Materials
- Multi-Variant Testing (MVT) with Monetate
Marketing
- Branding
- Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM)
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
Education
UWE
MSc Marketing Communications
2010 - 2013
Bath Spa University
Bachelor of Arts with Honours Design & Technology and Business & Management
2004 - 2007
Interests
- Medieval castles,
- Lego,
- Batman (Christian Bale),
- typefaces,
- infographics.