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Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Providing technical leadership of two teams working on initiative to migrate customer communications to Braze while also supporting improvements to safeguards for the buying and selling of firearms in New Zealand.- Organised and delivered an organisation-wide hackathon, Kevolution, on the theme of A.I. at Trade Me involving more than 100 participants. Worked with stakeholders in the organisation and third parties including Google and Gitlab to organise the event, and promoted it… Show more - Providing technical leadership of two teams working on initiative to migrate customer communications to Braze while also supporting improvements to safeguards for the buying and selling of firearms in New Zealand.- Organised and delivered an organisation-wide hackathon, Kevolution, on the theme of A.I. at Trade Me involving more than 100 participants. Worked with stakeholders in the organisation and third parties including Google and Gitlab to organise the event, and promoted it across the business through public speaking and workshops. - Nominated by colleagues for No I In Trade Me Award 2023 Show less

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Seconded as Engineering Manager from April to July to provide continuity and support to the Shipping Transparency team, a key strategic initiative for Trade Me.- Managed a team of seven people, including technical leaders, distributed across three squads in the organisation. Coached several team members to prepare them for promotion, utilising personal development plans and regular 121 feedback and mentorship.- Established OKRs to inform the team’s focusses and goals, and… Show more - Seconded as Engineering Manager from April to July to provide continuity and support to the Shipping Transparency team, a key strategic initiative for Trade Me.- Managed a team of seven people, including technical leaders, distributed across three squads in the organisation. Coached several team members to prepare them for promotion, utilising personal development plans and regular 121 feedback and mentorship.- Established OKRs to inform the team’s focusses and goals, and measure progress towards them.- Proactively managed underperformance, establishing a performance improvement plan and regular checkins to assess improvement over time.- Provided technical leadership of Trade Me’s migration to the Braze platform. Show less

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

- Provided technical leadership and mentorship on several key projects in Consumer Marketplace Team including Trade Me Editorial Domain, My Trade Me FrEnd migration and Search Platform Cloud Migration.- Re-established regular Nerd Launch brownbag talks to encourage knowledge sharing among engineers.- Worked with other Lead Software Engineers and Development Managers to establish a technical interview test bank and contributed to the hiring of several engineers across the… Show more - Provided technical leadership and mentorship on several key projects in Consumer Marketplace Team including Trade Me Editorial Domain, My Trade Me FrEnd migration and Search Platform Cloud Migration.- Re-established regular Nerd Launch brownbag talks to encourage knowledge sharing among engineers.- Worked with other Lead Software Engineers and Development Managers to establish a technical interview test bank and contributed to the hiring of several engineers across the business. Show less

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Isleworth, Greater London, United Kingdom

Here is a summary of some of my responsibilities and achievements while I was working at Sky.1) Contributed to enhancing and maintaining the marketing frontend for NOW TV, Sky’s UK streaming service.2) Coached the team on agile practices and introduced three amigos sessions and simplified estimation to address issues raised during retros.3) Using Kubernetes, defined and rolled out high availability active-active deployment for new US proposition, Peacock TV.4)… Show more Here is a summary of some of my responsibilities and achievements while I was working at Sky.1) Contributed to enhancing and maintaining the marketing frontend for NOW TV, Sky’s UK streaming service.2) Coached the team on agile practices and introduced three amigos sessions and simplified estimation to address issues raised during retros.3) Using Kubernetes, defined and rolled out high availability active-active deployment for new US proposition, Peacock TV.4) Delivered Consent Management Platform for several NOW TV European propositions. Built integration layer with supplier API and coordinated integration and rollout of the project with several client-side teams.5) Organised a departmental Hack Day with fellow Growth Initiative volunteers. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Experience Summary- Team Leadership- Scrum Master- React and Redux Development- AWS Devops Support- RecruitmentDuring my time at Trainline I led a team of seven Frontend Developers working on the company's mobile web product. The devs worked in independent, cross-functional missions to deliver improvements and extensions to the existing product. I moved quickly on arriving to establish relationships with my team and to understand how they currently worked. I… Show more Experience Summary- Team Leadership- Scrum Master- React and Redux Development- AWS Devops Support- RecruitmentDuring my time at Trainline I led a team of seven Frontend Developers working on the company's mobile web product. The devs worked in independent, cross-functional missions to deliver improvements and extensions to the existing product. I moved quickly on arriving to establish relationships with my team and to understand how they currently worked. I provided daily support to answer questions or give guidance on technical and process best practice and to support them with their work where I could. I also held fortnightly one to ones to dedicate time to each team member to discuss how they were doing and any concerns they had.In April I guided my permanent team members through setting their objectives for the upcoming financial year. I discussed their current experience and where they hoped to develop over the coming months and also consulted with the Development Manager to agree what the overall objectives for the team should be. I also performed performance reviews for them in September. I assessed their progress towards completing their objectives and identified both areas of strength and places to improve in the coming objective period.The Mobile Web product was a React Redux single-page application integrated with several web api backends. Other key technologies and tools we were using included Storybook, Typescript, NPM, CSS in JSS, Jest and Git. The application was deployed on a custom AWS stack managed using Team City. Working with other leads and members of QA I introduced new testing and deployment processes to improve the existing testing cycle.During my time with the company I was also a member of the EU Conversion mission. I made use of my experience with Scrum by helping guide the team with scrum ceremonies, and working closely with the Product Owner to manage the backlog. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Experience summary- Web development (see Web developer experience below)- Team and project management- Product management- RecruitmentIn my role as Senior Front End Developer in BBC Global News Ltd’s Commercial Digital Team I was responsible for the development and maintenance of the BBC Features websites as well as other commercial products. I was managing a team of two other Front End Developers and reporting to the Digital team’s Programme Manager and GNL’s Digital… Show more Experience summary- Web development (see Web developer experience below)- Team and project management- Product management- RecruitmentIn my role as Senior Front End Developer in BBC Global News Ltd’s Commercial Digital Team I was responsible for the development and maintenance of the BBC Features websites as well as other commercial products. I was managing a team of two other Front End Developers and reporting to the Digital team’s Programme Manager and GNL’s Digital Director. Notable projects I worked on included commercialising rich article templates for BBC campaigns such as The Disruptors.We also worked on new commercial templates and designed an enhanced, Progressive Web App version of the features websites which went live in 2019.In March 2018 I attended an Innovation Summit at BBC Worldwide's offices in New York. Together with several of my colleagues, bringing together editorial, product and technical knowledge, we surveyed the landscape of digital technology today and discussed ways cutting edge tech could be used to create innovative user experiences. Our R&D focussed on four subject categories which are attractive to our potential sponsorship clients, Travel, Finance, Automotive and Business to Business. At the end of the summit, over forty ideas had been generated. I and three of my colleagues formed a splinter group which rationalised these ideas. From the initial set, we created a set of 16 ideas and determined the technologies which would be used to deliver them. By identifying common themes, we were able to create a portfolio of five white-labelled product specifications, fully costed, which could produce all of these editorial projects. Initial presentations were positive. Show less

Bbc Television Center, Wood Lane, London

Experience summary- Web (see Web developer experience below), iOS and Android development- Team and project management- Product management- RecruitmentAs senior front end developer in the BBC Features team my main responsibility was the ongoing maintenance and extension of the features websites we had rebuilt during my first year in the team. Notable day-to-day projects included migrating our analytics solution from Omniture to Comscore and building tools for our… Show more Experience summary- Web (see Web developer experience below), iOS and Android development- Team and project management- Product management- RecruitmentAs senior front end developer in the BBC Features team my main responsibility was the ongoing maintenance and extension of the features websites we had rebuilt during my first year in the team. Notable day-to-day projects included migrating our analytics solution from Omniture to Comscore and building tools for our commercial teams to create advertorial content for third party clients. I also started taking on team management responsibilities including project planning and recruitment. My most significant project in this role was my work on Sir David Attenborough’s Story of Life. SoL is a multi platform application for users to explore videos from across Sir David Attenborough’s career to celebrate his 90th birthday:http://www.bbc.com/earth/storyoflifehttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/attenborough-story-of-life/id1124476992?mt=8https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=co.uk.bbc.storyoflifeMy work on this project brought together everything I had learned about project management, web and app development to date. I was involved in the entire project lifecycle from design and specification through to delivery. I contributed to the technical specification of the project, identifying the components which would be required for each platform.During development I was working closely with several BBC teams and third parties to build modules which de-risked key features of the apps including video playback and publishing content to the apps in a lightweight, cacheable manner. I also wrote scripts for processing subtitles and making them available to both the apps and web products. Story of Life went live in November 2016 and had been downloaded by half a million users by March 2017. The app was nominated for a BAFTA award in Digital Creativity. Show less

Bbc Media Center, Wood Lane, London

Experience Summary:- HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript- Responsive web design- NodeJS, Express- PhantomJS, Karma- Mustache templates- Less, Sass- Grunt- AWS EC2, S3, Cloudfront, IAM and others Devops Tools- Docker- FFMpeg, HTML5 video- Comscore and Google Analytics- VWO A/B Testing Tool- Google Doubleclick Advertising- Scrum team following agile processes.I joined the BBC as a member of the BBC Features team. BBC Features are a group of… Show more Experience Summary:- HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript- Responsive web design- NodeJS, Express- PhantomJS, Karma- Mustache templates- Less, Sass- Grunt- AWS EC2, S3, Cloudfront, IAM and others Devops Tools- Docker- FFMpeg, HTML5 video- Comscore and Google Analytics- VWO A/B Testing Tool- Google Doubleclick Advertising- Scrum team following agile processes.I joined the BBC as a member of the BBC Features team. BBC Features are a group of websites covering a broad range of topics including science, culture, travel and business which are funded by advertising outside the UK. These include:http://www.bbc.com/futurehttp://www.bbc.com/culturehttp://www.bbc.com/capitalhttp://www.bbc.com/travelhttp://www.bbc.com/earth/worldDuring my first project in the features team I contributed to the development and release of BBC Earth. I was able to make use of previous knowledge gained working with web video to create webpages which integrated HTML5 video into the layout of the page on devices which could support it. An example of this layout is available here on desktop devices:http://www.bbc.com/earth/columns/a-colourful-lifeWhen I joined, the features websites were built on an ageing framework based on Zend PHP. We undertook a large project to migrate the websites to a new framework built in house called Glaze. Glaze is based on NodeJS and Express. It implements an MVVM design pattern which integrates with a backend api providing editorial content and processes it for display in server and client side rendered modules in the UI. During this project I gained significant experience building scalable web applications as well as following a project plan which migrated the websites in a controlled manner. I was also able to gain devops experience by helping out with releases. In addition to my main projects, my day to day role included testing and preparing advertorials built by third party clients and providing support to our editorial teams. Show less

Gerrards Cross

Experience summary: - iOS - Android- Front-end web development (HTML 5, Twitter Bootstrap, AngularJS, CSS3) - MySQL- Back-end development (PHP, J2EE including asynchronous message flow design and construction)- Web services (SOAP and REST-based)- System support and network administration. I joined SyQic following an internship at their main office in Kuala Lumpur. The internship was part of a recruitment drive aimed at building a development team at the newly… Show more Experience summary: - iOS - Android- Front-end web development (HTML 5, Twitter Bootstrap, AngularJS, CSS3) - MySQL- Back-end development (PHP, J2EE including asynchronous message flow design and construction)- Web services (SOAP and REST-based)- System support and network administration. I joined SyQic following an internship at their main office in Kuala Lumpur. The internship was part of a recruitment drive aimed at building a development team at the newly opened UK branch of the company based in Gerrards Cross.I worked as part of a small multi-national team situated in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore and the UK. I learned a great deal about the IPTV industry and several of the technologies used for delivering live and VoD content to consumers. I also had the opportunity to make a key contribution to the design and construction of a brand new, large scale IPTV product called Yoonic 2.0. Yoonic was made up of several systems integrated using web services. As is the nature of working in a small team, I contributed to several components across the entire architecture as required to bring the project to fruition. As well as making full use of the knowledge I gained during my degree, this gave me an opportunity to exercise initiative by extending my knowledge of several technologies I was unfamiliar with. The role also required that I manage my time effectively in order to deliver projects on schedule while providing day-to-day tech and system support to personnel in the UK office. Show less

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Month-long internship placement at the company's office in Kuala Lumpur. Conducted user experience research and development in conjunction with their user experience team. Also contributed to a business plan for bringing their existing IPTV product to the iOS platform.

Aberystwyth

Advised other students on their programming assignments and provided debugging support. Marked entrance scholarship exam papers for computer science degree candidates of 2012. Also represented the University as an ambassador at open days, liaising with parents and prospective students.

Caernarfon, North Wales

Summer job in Cyngor Gwynedd's IT department. As well as continuing with previous job roles, applied knowledge gained during degree course to specify, design and prototype a multilingual iPhone app for displaying municipal information provided by SOAP-based web services.

Caernarfon, North Wales

Primary role was maintenance and ongoing development of an Oracle Siebel CRM deployment. Worked as part of a small, agile team in an industrial setting. Completed several programming projects as part of the organisation's release schedule. Liaised on-site with project stakeholders when performing requirements analysis and presenting completed projects. Other tasks included report generation using Crystal Reports and providing day to day support to users of the CRM.

Master'S Degree, Computer Software Engineering, First Class Hons

Activities and Societies: Wado Ryu Karate, Software developer and project manager in after-class game programming project, Elected Course.

Education record

A levels in Computing, Chemistry and Maths AS level in History

Education record

11 GCSEs at grade A-C (including Science, Maths, English and I.T.)