Front End Developer with Freelance, Agency and In-House Experience. Strengths in interpreting technical and content requirements into creative ideas, whilst considering; User Experience (UX), Branding and Responsive Design. Knowledge of Multi-National eCommerce platforms and marketing Local Businesses. 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.
Skills
Developer
- Accessibility Standard: AA (4 years)
- Naming Convention: Block Element Modifier (BEM)
- Maintainable / Reusable Components (5+ years)
- Module Builder: webpack (2 years)
- Task Runner: Grunt.js (5+ years)
- Version Control: GitHub / Sourcetree (3 years)
- WordPress (+ Custom Themes) (5 years)
- Custom phpMyAdmin CMS (10+ years)
- HTML5, CSS3 (+ Sass) (10+ years)
- PHP8 (10+ years)
- JavaScript: ES6 / Vanilla (+ jQuery) (10+ years)
- MySQLi / MySQL + AJAX (10+ years)
Studying
- Through Pluralsight - react.js / vue.js (< 1 year)
Design
- User Experience (UX) (3 years)
- User Interface (UI) (10+ years)
- Adobe Suite (10+ years)
- Branded Marketing Materials (10+ years)
Marketing
- Branding (10+ years)
- Customer Relationship Marketing (CRM) (10+ years)
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) (10+ years)
Career History
Bitten Spider
Front End Developer / Marketing Consultant
Jul 2010 - Present
Freelance
Clarks
An Ambassador for Accessibility
Assistant Front End Developer
Oct 2018 - Aug 2020
UK Assistant Webmaster
Jun 2016 - Oct 2018
Dentons Directories
Front End Developer
Mar 2016 - Jun 2016
WHSmith
Web Designer
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
(Extended) Contract
Clarks
European eCommerce Assistant WebMaster
Feb 2015 - Jun 2015
Temporary
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.