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During the last 12 months my day-to-day tasks were moving towards managing the department and not writing as much code. I had outgrown the Lead Developer role. Blue Bay Travel were now able to invest in the team again, after the Coronavirus pandemic, and I was able to hire a new Lead Developer to take some responsibilities from me. Instead of trying to do.

Blue Bay Travel wanted me to lead the whole department again. However, this time the job spec was updated. This was a split role with some Project Manager responsibilities. My aim was to improve communication with other departments and improve the visibility of the tasks we work on. I introduced sprints within a Scrum framework to organise the team, using.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

As part of a new recruitment plan to further expand the team, we split the Development department into two. I focused on the front-end architecture of all our projects and trained our developers. The team was split because the company struggled to find experienced full-stack developers in the local area. We decided to recruit developers with targeted.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

As the company and the department started expanding, I took the responsibility for interviewing and training new team members. I also lead all new projects on our custom CRM and our customer websites. Within this role there was a bigger focus on maintaining standards, reviewing the team's code, and taking control of the issue ticketing system.

Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom

I joined Blue Bay Travel, straight out of university, as the second developer in the Development team. Through helping to create all the internal applications and customer websites I developed my PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL skills.I helped to create a custom CRM to support the Sales and Customer Service departments. We created a pricing system that handled.