Rhys Edwards Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

1. Leadership in Mobile App Development:Led the development and launch of a React Native mobile app, overseeing project design, development, and deployment.2. Website Overhaul and Feature Expansion:Directed a comprehensive overhaul and feature enhancement of customer-facing and internal administrative websites, utilising Nuxt and Koa REST architecture.3. Technical Documentation and Process Improvement:Authored detailed technical and project management documentation using Confluence. Established a knowledge base to enhance project transparency and streamline team onboarding processes.4. Quality Assurance through Advanced Testing:Introduced and implemented functional testing of the front- and back-end services with Jest, Mocha/Chai, and Vitest frameworks to enhance code quality and reliability.5. Microservice Management for System Automation:Managed a sophisticated microservice, employing an asynchronous message queue service for the automation of web systems. This initiative included integration of data from external providers and generating statistics for the proprietary subscription service.6. Agile Team Leadership:Led the team in bi-weekly agile sprint meetings as a proactive team lead, focusing on estimating feature tickets in JIRA and aligning sprint workflows with business goals and timelines.7. Code Review and Standards Enforcement:Conducted rigorous daily code reviews to ensure compliance with functional requirements, quality standards, and scalability.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Fostered relationships with new and existing clients from local authorities and solicitors within the West Midlands territory.Member of a West Midlands sales team that exceeded all quarterly sales targets during my time at the company.Collated the results of DNA testing into Ministry of Justice approved documentation, to be used by clients in family law court settings.

West Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

First point of contact within the store for warranty issues; mediating on behalf of customers with third party retailers.Responsible for administrating incoming stock from the company’s distribution centre.Health and safety representative for the workforce, conducting monthly inspections of the store.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Responsible for analysing data discrepancies within the student enrolment data, caused by a faulty software migration.Daily and weekly meetings with senior officials from the college and external auditors from KPMG to relay the current progress of the task-force and to implement any necessary changes to the team’s priorities.To remediate the incorrect data once the data discrepancies had been identified and reviewed by external auditors.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Developed communication skills working on a charity helpline for disadvantaged teenagers and young adults.Advocated on behalf of clients utilising the service on a wide range of issues including mental and physical health, citizenship, and physical and cyber bullying.Maintained administrative records of the specialist charities that support young adults in Wales.

Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

Conducted electroencephalography experiments to ascertain the impact of colour on object recognition.Ran pilot behavioural studies to determine whether the testing paradigm needed further changes or enhancements, particularly with regards to the user experience of interacting with the testing software.Attended weekly seminars provided by the university and the British Psychological Society on current research topics in the field of Psychology.

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science, Distinction

Designed and implemented a web browser extension for detecting misinformation through crowdsourced judgements. The extension was developed.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Psychology, 1St Class Honours With Certificate Of Professional Experience

Activities and Societies: PsySoc, Futsal Included on the Dean’s list for ‘exemplary academic performance’ for three consecutive academic.