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Working with British Airways to help them build and deliver their design system* Transformed an ineffective design system into an award-winning, scalable platform, significantly enhancing its adoption across British Airways* Architected and strategised the technical direction of the design system, leading to a marked increase in product team efficiency and project delivery speed.* Optimised the design system codebase, achieving a 25% reduction in size, which enhanced maintainability and performance* Set UI standards for 100+ developers, designers, and researchers, fostering a collaborative environment that accelerates project delivery* Championed the digital accessibility transformation strategy, securing 1st place in CAA Digital Accessibility for UK airlines in 2023* Supported a strategic redesign of the homepage using the design system, resulting in a significant drop in accessibility issues, a 2.36% increase in bookings, and a 10% increase in successful searches* Owned the technical integration of design and development, managing code repositories, CI/CD pipelines, and NPM packages, which streamlined deployment processes and enhanced website performance* Conducted extensive research, design, and development of web components, significantly improving system robustness and user experience* Engaged actively in community-building by by establishing robust feedback and contribution channels, presenting at internal events and facilitating workshops on design systems and accessibility* Collaborated in developing a scalable QA process, contributing to a more robust and reliable product delivery* Implemented an agile leadership approach, maintaining the Kanban board and ensuring smooth project flow and continuous delivery

Consulting at British Gas / Centrica; providing design system expertise to improve their design system• Improving ways of working and helping establish processes both inside and outside of the design system team• Taking the lead on presenting to the company on recent progress• Set up a system to automatically audit design system usage across the website• Supporting product teams in how to use the design system and gather feedback and requirements back into the team• Helping create a new rapid prototyping environment and speeding up delivery by designing on the browser• Building and designing new webcomponents using polymerjs• Being an accessibility advocate• Encouraging community involvement in the design system and contributions from outside of the core design system team• Exploring ways to expand the design system beyond the web and venture into the app and emails

Uxbridge

A truly cross functional role linking development, web design, UX, content and optimisation. Transforming the way giffgaff approaches design through the creation of giffgaff's design system. https://www.giffgaff.designDevelop and Design:• Experiment and prototype - look for better ways of doing things• Conduct A/B tests• Create, improve and document components based upon best practices (UX, design, code and content) and the results of A/B tests• Maintain and improve tools so that the design system is easy to work with• Work closely with the brand team and product teams to ensure that interfaces are on brand• Define HTML, CSS, and UI standards• In browser design• Pair programming and pair designing• Monitor and improve the performance of the website• Testing: unit, cross browser, visual regressionLeadership:• Ownership of the design system• Manage a cross functional team of designers and developers• Promote best practices and help the product teams to create quality user interfaces• Support third parties in the use of the design system• Look for and create opportunities to make the product teams feel engaged with the design system• Communicate changes and new approaches to developers, designers and stakeholders• Coach and educate other developers in HTML and CSS best practices• Facilitating and leading education sessions• Promoting a design oriented culture

Maidenhead

Hands on development role, working on new responsive websites for Maersk Line and subsidiary brands• Define coding standards, based on industry best practice and feedback from other UI developers.• Taking ownership of the UI, researching and deciding the technologies used.• Guide developers of various disciplines (UI, Java, and .Net) on front‐end development.• Providing UI consultancy and estimating effort to colleagues, senior stake holders and the wider business.• Regularly liaise with senior brand stake holders and external agencies to gather feedback and present recent work. • Learnt Node.js (with express.js and handlebars) on the job. • Provide UI consultancy and estimating effort to colleagues and stakeholders.• Championed the creation of a library of reusable UI components that give consistency to the UI across multiple brands whilst making them flexible to retain the brand’s own identity.. • Regularly liaising with senior brand stakeholders and external agencies to gather feedback andpresent recent work.• Facilitated the team in Scrum as Scrum Master. Tasks include setting up the sprint rhythm,organising daily stand ups and scrum meetings (planning, backlog grooming, review and retrospective). Received high praise from team members and managers on how well the scrum was run.

High Wycombe

• Held the position of technical lead developer for the Back Office (CMS) of BT's Fresca Commerce Platform.• Lead the UI/UX design and implementation of new features on the platform as well as incremental improvements to existing functionality and maintenance of existing code.• Clarified and discussed functionality and improvements with key stakeholders (senior internal colleagues and customers including well known high street retailers). • Created wireframes prioritizing usability and the user experience.• Documented changes for both technical and non technical users of the platform. • Performed code reviews, implemented coding standards and giving guidance on best practices.• Joined as a junior developer and progressed to senior within two years.

Lymington

A flexible and varied role within the test department of the company. Duties include physical and electronic testing, data acquisition and data analysis using Python.Highlights include: operating a high speed wind tunnel, performing final inspection and testing of units sent to NASA.Although this was an interesting and enjoyable role, I moved on from Gill to concentrate primarily on software development, in particular web development, turning my hobby into a career.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc)(Hons), Robotics

Activities and Societies: Live Music Society President 2008/2009

Btec National Diploma, Electronics And Computer Engineering