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Diverse Digital is an educational technology charity. It aims to help equip young people with the technology skills they need for the future. On Saturdays we run four computer coding clubs for children ages 8-14 in Islington and Hackney where we teach a variety of programming languages including Python and Scratch.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

BuyerPrice was a platform developed to help first-time buyers get the best house price. Created for the US market, the system was made up of a Chrome Extension, a hybrid Android & iPhone app, a backend to enable negotiation and a pricing system which used linear regression to predict a reasonable negotiating price for houses based on a number of features relating to the property, the location and the housing market. Created with a React & Redux isomorphic front-end and a Node & Express backend, deployed on to AWS using Terraform, Puppet and AWS CodeDeploy for CI. I was responsible for architecting and developing the system for this rapidly moving start-up. In March 2017 the company pivoted to become http://upfund.co/ and is currently operating with a new business model in a hand-cranked style.

Mathscraft was founded with the goal of taking away the fear of mathematics in primary school children. Whilst working directly with schools in London we developed a number of multiplayer, collaborative maths games to be played in the classroom. Our first game focused on teaching times-tables and was developed using Unity3D with a PHP(Silex) REST API and a Javascript & Redis based WebSocket real-time game backend. The games can be played on classroom interactive whiteboards or on iPads. The teachers’ interface was created with Backbone and d3 to allow teachers to view the progress of their students and identify knowledge gaps. I developed a logistic-regression model to assess the abilities of the students, allowing the system to intelligently match students during multiplayer play and provide teachers with an accurate assessment of ability. Shortly after joining the team, we applied to a number of startup accelerators and were accepted by two. We proceeded with the Bethnal Green Ventures accelerator for Winter 2015. Following on from the program we were featured in BETT Futures 2016 and received funding from Innovate UK.

London

Boxlight Media is a London-based development agency it works with startups to make real their ideas and develops Facebook applications and microsites for a growing number of media agencies. I was responsible for operations of this busy, social media focused development company. * Worked to position the company as the go-to agency in London for Facebook applications.* Strengthened the company's existing client relationships.* Reached out and pitched to large agencies from ALF* Recruited a sales manager to work full time to create leads* Recruited developers to join the growing team* Project management of all development.

London

IMImobile is an Indian headquartered mobile value added service provider. During my time there I was based in the London office and frequently traveled to Hyderabad to meet and work with the product and development teams.* Responsible for DaVinci Music Platform And DaVinci Social Products* Defining of product strategy and roadmap* Product documentation and demoing* Pitching directly to MNOs* Requirements gathering, scoping and specifying for large scale deployments for customers such as Meteor Mobile, Virgin Mobile, Eircom* Representation of the company at MWC* Significant pre-sales experience* Invested time on R&D for the company’s portfolio of products and worked to present this to HMRC

Kite is a start-up internet development consultancy started by myself and three other partners - born out of our desire to do good work with good people in an environment that encourages free thinking and novel solutions. As a collection of strong developers, we strived to develop sites to an exceptional standard - ensuring that people would be as impressed with the source code as they were with the finished product.Responsible for fulfilling the technical requirements of clients - this involved extensive research and development and an in-depth knowledge of all of the technology and systems involved in each project.

Z Group is a marketing-led internet technology services company with brands such as ONSPEED and ONSPEED Mobile.I was responsible for developing the PHP shops, web services and back end systems. The role involved training and scheduling work to the other developers with our agile subversion & trac project management system; promoted to Senior Developer in 2006 and responsible for a team of four developers.

Management Backup is IT and systems development consultancy. I was employed as a Visual Basic and Microsoft Access (VBA) developer to write bespoke database solutions; clients included a temporary employment agency, a printing company and a food manufacturer.