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San Jose, California, Us

Cardiff, Gb

Cardiff, Gb

London, Wales; Cymru, Gb

Engaged as front-end expert to transform technology stack to disrupt the financial industry and maintain competitive advantage within the invoice refactoring and funding marketWorking with design & experience to distill the design language and advance the core technology stack to efficiently deliver high-quality, accessible, user-centred applications that solve business problems; are extensible, rapid execution; drive down operational costs through self-service, internal process automation and provide feedback through analytics and prototypingEmployee Id: 183

Head-hunted to seed a new Bristol office with a multi-discipline team. Selected for technical excellence to deliver gloodoo™: a next generation retail collaboration platform. Journeyed with functional reactive Angular (from early RC to v4) building reusable components & services. Integrated with RESTful C# OpenApi micro-services to deliver a multi-tenant web portal with both embedded and standalone web applications.Worked alongside PO to breakdown, organise and maintain priority-driven backlog. Looked ahead and engaged dependent stakeholders early so that the team could consume well-formed stories for planning consideration. Presented results back to PO and wider organisation at every sprint review. Championed agile best-practice and lead the development team from reflection to the adoption of more effective processes; including continuous deployment, TDD feature definition gherkin, automated build linting & pre-processors and unit tests for all facets of web development.Employee Id: 1285

Redmond, Washington, Us

Accepted challenge to deliver market-leading, personalised, relevant and responsive web music streaming experience. Delivered cutting-edge user experiences to drive engagement metrics and regularly presented learnings and achievements to the wider business.Pro-actively took ownership of large-scale deliverables by organising backlogs into iterative missions and drove progress with a focus on both personal and business goals. Recognised by POs for my attention to detail and technical excellence. Commended by SLM for fulfilling a pivotal role in coaching and supporting colleagues - whilst achieving shared objectives.Delivered modular, high performance React and Flux-driven web apps and RESTful Clojure APls. Championed TDD, elevated code coverage and automated both unit and acceptance tests – to ensure that the business could continuously integrate code, release often, iterate and take evolving requirements fluidly. Recommended by the CTO as a “true pragmatic developer”.Employee Id: 908735

Barry, Vale Of Glamorgan, Gb

Acting Highways Steward to control access for special events

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Established Development & Production team that delivered Ovi Music and Nokia MixRadio: responsive, mobile-first music streaming and download web experiences. Worked directly with stakeholders to evolve requirements into focussed, multi-discipline missions. Grew team to evolve initial jQuery payload into custom SPA template library and delivered a high-availability Zend PHP API proxy to enable cross-platform, personalisation and SEO compliant features.Nokia acquisition in February 2007. We had 6 months to prepare and launch the Nokia Music Store for desktop web and Symbian devices such as the Nokia 5800 & N95 branded with Nokia Comes With Music service, in partnership with Universal Music Group International, Sony BMG, Warner Music Group, EMI, and hundreds of independent labels and music aggregators, to allow 12, 18, or 24 months of unlimited free-of-charge music downloads with the purchase of a Nokia Comes With Music edition phone. Files could be downloaded on mobile devices or personal computers, and kept permanently.http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2008/10/nokias-comes-with-music-gets-handsets-release-date/Employee Id: K9248802

Joined business as first dedicated web developer to expand delivery capability and broaden addressable device market. Responsible for project resourcing and delivering pixel-perfect, white-label interfaces to an extensive range of mobile, desktop and big screen (WMC) clients. Loudeye provided white-label music stores for various Internet Service Providers (including Tiscali, AOL, Wanadoo) and brands (including Coca Cola, Ministry of Sound, BT, MTV, HMV, Virgin, Planet Internet (KPN), Wanadoo, CD WOW!) — the majority of which were pre-iTunes and iPod launch. The biggest partner was Microsoft — as well as providing MSN Music in 18 countries, we integrated with Windows Media Player and Windows Media Centre.By 2006 we were powering 85 digital music stores across Europe and Australia.

London, England, Gb

Technical lead of a team of three, responsible for the timely delivery of branding, design and delivering technical components of an enterprise level CMS. Responsible for organising all external assets, file system & meta-data inheritance structures (in-line with effective search & SEO) and cross-device syndication.

Self-employed as principal e-commerce architect — designing & implementing complete business solutions to emerging & start-up businesses. Solely responsible for the complete project life-cycle and successful launch of more than 7 businesses with product catalogues, ordering & payment solutions as well as interface, UX & design

London, London, Gb

I was promoted to E-Trading Portal Developer and worked with a team of 5 developers maintaining effective content distribution and responsible for:- copy-writer of news / release content;- maintaining Provider source documentation databases;- implementing on-line PDF literature search;- site development (dHTML, JavaScript, XML, ASP) on financial e-trading portal;- producing documentation for on-line support and help;- maintaining and developing the company intranet and support forum;

London, London, Gb

Zurich, Zurich, Ch

Intern role, whilst studying BSc Computer Science.Responsibilities included:- Support and Administration for customer accounts;- Successful test and implementation of new commission calculation software;- Responsible for managing all incoming communication and reporting;- Providing IT and administrative support;

Bsc Hons Computer Science & Multimedia, Computer Software Engineering

Computer Science, Physics & Maths A-Levels

English (Duel), Maths, Science (Duel), Design & Communication..