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Manchester, Gb

Manchester, United Kingdom

TypeScript - Node.js - Micro Services - RESTful API - Jest - Serverless - DynamoDb - SNS - S3 - SQS - AWS Parameter Store - AWS AppConfig - Symfony - New Relic - PHP 7 - MySql - Webpack - CircleCi - Jenkins - Codeception

Wigan, United Kingdom

PHP - MySql - Laravel (4 and 5) - Bootstrap (3 and 4) - JavaScript - Vagrant - jQuery - GIT - Redis - Webpack - Ansible The Education Office develop standard and bespoke mobile-first software applications, primarily in the sectors of Education and Professional Sport. They provide a SAAS hosted with AWS, written within the Laravel framework and using the Redis caching system. Key duties within this role are: - Frontend and backend development of new features. - Working with external APIs and integrating them into the Education Office system (pushing and pulling data). - Developing and maintaining internal REST APIs for external mobile apps. - Major upgrading of the system from Laravel 4.2 to Laravel 5.x. - Redis scripts. - Extending existing ansible scripts and creating new tasks to aid with deployments. - Bug fixing.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

PHP - MySql – Vagrant - Apache - JavaScript - jQuery - Symfony 1.4 – Propel – Gearman - GIT Key duties include:- Lead a team of Software Developers and assigned Business Analyst to deliver multiple software development projects for customers.- Contribute to the development of the software.- Plan and measure progress, report directly to the DevOps Manager, internal stakeholders and directly to the customer as appropriate.- Take responsibility for the delivery and completion of the work.- Attend project meetings with other stakeholders or customers when needed.- Work with the DevOps Manager, QA Manager, Internal Trainer and other stakeholders to plan and implement the handover of work for QA testing, customer UAT and internal knowledge transfer.

London, United Kingdom

Key duties include: - Recruiting members on the Facebook, Twitter, QA and infrastructure teams (full time or contract) - Setting objectives to match inline with both personal and company goals. - Liaise with product ensuring spec and stories were to the necessary standard. - Overseeing SCRUM - Liaise with the development team leads to agree with the best technical solutions for the project in hand. - Liaise with the project manager to align priorities and inform the stakeholders of any impediments - Work with product and QA to plan testing and releases. - Enforcing coding standards. - AWS stack - DynamoDB, Lambda, Kinesis, API Gateway, SQS, S3, EC2, RDS

London, United Kingdom

Co-founder of “Upcast”, a privately funded tech start up producing a system that could create and bid manage thousands of different client advertisements via the Facebook and Twitter Ads API. - Design, develop, document, test, and debug new and existing software systems - Write technical specifications based on conceptual design and stated business requirements - Support, maintain, and document software functionality - Own parts of the system and continuously work to improve them in an agile environment - Use processes to collaboratively perform feature-based development, code reviews and releases - One of the Top 10 preferred marketing developer SAAS tools on the market. - Introducing agile methodologies and building QA procedures - PHP - MySql - Nginx - JavaScript - jQuery - Symfony 1.4 - Doctrine 1 - AWS stack - EC2, RDS - GIT - Facebook API - Google Analytics API - Twitter API - AWS API

Liverpool, United Kingdom

- Analyse the legacy systems, suggest improvements and manage the implementation of these improvements. - Oversee the implementation of Magento for all new projects and train staff on how to use it. - Design and build a two way Magento/Store till system stock management system - Liaise with the design and SEO team in order to ensure each department could reach their goals. - General website maintenance - Improvements and support to the legacy systems - Project manage non E-commerce sites. - Magento - PHP - JavaScript - jQuery - Apache - Symfony 1.4 - Wordpress - SVN - MailChimp API - Magento API

London, United Kingdom

TradeDoubler acquired The Search Works in 2007. My main focus in this role was to oversee the integration of the Bidbuddy software into the TradeDoubler platform.

Preston, United Kingdom

Worked with the Google, Yahoo and MSN APIs and helped design, create and maintain "BidBuddy" which was the first paid search management tool in the world. I started as the first employee and saw the company grow to over 100 people. - Assisting Google in their development of their Adwords API. - Lead developer of "BidBuddy" (later becoming Searchware), one of the most successful PPC bid management tools on the market operating in 28 countries including the United Kingdom the United States and Japan with a fully translated interface dealing with all currencies and time zones. - Designed and built the very successful “ROI Plus” tracking system which was the market leader for some time. This real time tracking system became one of the key USP’s for Searchware and proved very difficult for competitors to copy. The system did numerous inserts in real time and required a very efficient database schema in order to cope with the huge volumes of traffic. It became a trusted solution for many blue chip companies. - Designed and built the invoicing system. - PHP - MySql - JavaScript - SVN - Google Adwords API - Yahoo Ads API - MSN Ads API - Google Analytics API

Preston, United Kingdom

Predominantly started as an SEO role with strong HTML hand writing skills needed. The role progressed into some short term ASP work which was then rewritten into PHP. - Hand coded HTML