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England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, United Kingdom

Managing the technical side of boosting sales and increasing customer retention for SMEs; CRM support, email marketing, SEO, website designs, design for print, etc.

Responsible for managing a small team of developers across different technologies (PHP, .NET, Vue, React) and spearheading technology innovation to migrate core products from monolithic to microservices architecture, with a focus on SOLID principles.Primary contributions outside of managerial duties included:- development of an onward travel solution for the RAC- migration to a new Trainline API- implementation of budgeting controls for B2C customers- corporate policies and controls- booking authorisation processes- emissions calculations for reporting

Shipley, England, United Kingdom

Lincoln, United Kingdom

I maintained and implemented new features for React SPAs for the insurance offerings from Barbon, as well as tenant tenant referencing side of the business.Furthermore, I designed and developed a replacement of the letting agent portal, with the introduction of a full suite of new products (Innovate, Inspire, Infinity), built entirely in DotNet Core (C#) on a microservice architecture running on the AWS platform. The portal was designed from the ground up following best practices, and has a heavy focus on mobile-first. List of my Key Contributions:» Innovate currently has around 40,000 active agreements in the last year» The Infinity product currently handles £10M each month of rental payments, easing burden of both landlords and letting agents alike.» Enhanced pre-existing insurance journeys with a UX-centric approach resulting in 10% increased conversion rates.» Mentored junior members in best practices and standards in web development

Lincoln, England, United Kingdom

My initial contract with Barbon was as a web developer, where I was responsible for working with other external resources to implement a redesign of the HomeLet brand's brochureware website, built on a LAMP platform, utilising the SilverStripe CMS/framework.Additional contributions included:» Development of a Symfony-based API for a new insurance product, which combined with the front-end (see below) resulted in a 30% increase in new insurance sales.» Rebuild of an insurance product front-end in React, with a UX-focused implementation resulting in markedly improved loading times for potential customers.

Lincoln, United Kingdom

In my role as a web developer, I established web presences for smaller companies working without a website. I also developed a job listings board for locums in the health industry.Furthermore, I executed i18n implementation for multilingual options on bespoke Wordpress install. I completed SEO contracts for different businesses that were struggling after prior contracts, which had been using black-hat techniques, had resulted in poor ranking or blacklisting on Google. I also produced data migration, sanitisation, and manipulation scripts for importing large volumes of data to an online business directory. Some of my Key Contributions:» Delivered tools to sanitise huge data sets and processed to format them into relational models to import into databases.» Worked with existing companies to redesign/reinvigorate their brand identities.» Configured and tailored websites for SMEs for brochureware and e-commerce platforms, including tools such as Wordpress and Magento.

Lincoln, United Kingdom

In this role as a senior web designer, I performed multiple duties that included web application development, project management, client management, server administration, and training of junior members in utilising a broad range of technologies that the business employed to deliver for its clients.List of my Key Contributions:» Trained lower level designers in best practices for web design, standards, and accessibility.» Designed and developed websites for company’s clients and held accountable for supervising graphical design & web development work done in-house.