Ben Preston Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Work as a consultant developer at Daemon

London, England, United Kingdom

I work in the Applied Innovation Exchange at Caogemini, primarily building technical products and experiences. These have included:Data Driven Rewilding Tool - Tech Lead on a web based rewilding tool, that encourages seed planting through elements of both data and gamification. The stack included multiple React Apps built in an NX workspace, Cloud Functions, Firebase, Google Cloud, Big Query Databases and Map visualisation tools. Read more about the project on my blog here: https://bit.ly/eHive-rewildFuture of Retail Concept Store - Developer on a project called CornerShop which explores the future of retail. Responsible for React (native and web), Node, Storybook and Android elements. Can see more about the project here https://bit.ly/cs-ny or a specific Google Glass Android project here: https://bit.ly/Glass-aieNumerous Innovation Projects - such as this React Web App demonstration of GPT-4 tech and the WhisperAPI video https://bit.ly/ai-gpt4

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

JavaScript Developer worked on the Channel 4 app predominantly to launch for new devices for Amazon FireStick.Three month contract as added support to ensure the app was delivered on time, which it was

Madrid, Community Of Madrid, Spain

Video Streaming company based in MadridClients included NBA, BT Sport and the NFLFront-end built in React using Redux state.I was responsible for creating new Node.Js APIs to reduce server usage and cost.Reduced costs by 25% in month one with further improvements scheduled.Responsible for Microsoft Azure access

Barcelona Area, Spain

Built engaging and responsive client sites through a combination of: JavaScript, Node, Mongo, React, Jasmine, Jest and CSS.Some mobile sites you can see include www.vozpopuli.com and thecanary.coThe majority of my work involved taking into account client needs to adapt our product ability and design.I worked in a scrum environment using a kanban board from Jira. I had agile ceremonies such as daily standups, weekly sprints and fortnightly retros

Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom

CIWF is an international not for profit working across eight different countries. In my role I worked with their Campaign Managers and International Social Media staff to produce campaign plans, cross channel content including videos, pictures and text.I initiated and then led working forums to produce improved both content and new ways of working around the launch of two of Compassion's biggest ever campaigns #endTheCageAge and Fish.

Barcelona Area, Spain

I studied at Ubiqum's intensive Full Stack Bootcamp in Barcelona. Here I learnt HTML, CSS, Bootstrap libraries and JavaScript. I continued this JavaScript learning MERN (React) Framework to build dynamic applications that can be found on my GitHub account. These include: - A webpage that takes data from the 113 Congress of the USA and turns this into a dynamic list of most active and most loyal senators and congress people- A dynamic web app that records scores of football matches and presents fixtures and player data using a JSON file in a dynamic way- A two player Battleship game built with JavaYou can see these projects on my GitHub account

I worked Freelance remotely for a year and a half my work involved managing a complicated Intranet using HTML, CSS, JavaScript and MySQL based technologies.

138-140 Cambridge Heath Road, London, E1 5Qj

At Bikeworks I was responsible for building and implementing a new:- Website using WordPress, HTML and CSS- An internal intranet by using an SQL transformer (Zoho Creator) and API connector tools like ZapierIn addition I was responsibile for significant new Business Wins including:- Doubling training contracts through over a million pounds worth of contracts - winning a pan London contract with the UK transport provider TfL.In addition I focused heavily on service transformation and leadership:- I created and oversaw the delivery of a three year strategic plan- I managed a team of up to six people with matrix responsibility for over 30 other people.- I also produced significant new content such as videos, a social media strategy and impact reports such as the embedded video.

6 Market Road, London, N7 9Pw

Whilst at Scope my role was to plan and implement over 20 different personal care support contracts across the UK.To achieve this I built a complex financial model with excel for how to manage and provide support across overlapping geographic areas and produce an effective project plan. I then led on the delivery of this over a ten month period.

London, United Kingdom

I was responsible for writing and winning bids worth over six million pounds related to housing, employment and personal support.This involved analyzing needs in different communities and building strategic costed delivery models to achieve maximum impact. In addition it involved partnership working, bid writing, financial forecasting as well as leading on both presentations to councils and in one instance production of a video on our delivery approach and ethos.

London, United Kingdom

I was responsible for supporting on multi million pound bidding projects such as the UK Welfare to Work contract "Flexible New Deal".In addition I led and won numerous bids on my own including bids to support unemployed people in Yorkshire as part of the European Social Fund.To achieve this I built on the knowledge gained through my maths degree by creating financial and data plans for how contracts could work.Whilst at Reed in Partnership (RinP) I was promoted and moved to the new Skills Team where I was responsible for a joint led bid which gave RinP their first ever pan UK contract sourcing and providing internships and work experience programs to young people.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

I was responsible for supporting the creation of new resources and delivery of maths lessons in a busy inner city secondary school

Full Stack Java Development, Java, Javascript, Html, Css

Full Stack Java Development Course covering HTML, CSS, JavaScript including React (MERN) and Java

Master Of Science (Msc), Voluntary Sector Management

Third sector (not for profit) equivalent to an Mba which covered modules in finance, marketing, strategy, management, fundraising.

Maths, Mathematical Economics

Activities and Societies: Rowing Team, Student Staff Maths Committee