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Leeds, Gb

Middlesex, England, Gb

Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Gb

Currently manage a team of 15 (engineers, QAs, product managers and a project manager) to create and maintain the email marketing SaaS product, Wired Plus, part of the IDHL Group

Maidenhead, England, Gb

Worked as a software engineer on projects including React, AWS, Serverless, NodeJS, NestJS

Bentonville, Arkansas, Us

Work within the UK engineering team to develop asda.com – the gateway two huge eCommerce sites: groceries.asda.com and george.com. Using React, CSS3 and HTML5 to produce an industry-leading website that gains thousands of hits every hour of the day.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Gb

Work in a cross-functional, agile team to create iOS and Android mobile applications for business use using AngularJS, the Ionic Framework and Cordova. As part of my role I also perform the role of agile coach within the team, facilitating the best work processes and ensuring that we all adhere to the agile principles.

General maintenance and optimisation of the site, working with PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS3 and HTML5. I look after the implementation of advertising, Google Analytics and other services used by TLE.I am also responsible for the looking after the hosting of the site, release management and making sure the site has maximum uptime. Although the team is small, I ensure that Agile practises are used throughout the development and put an emphasis on requirement capturing, backlog grooming, prioritising and delivering small, regular releases.

Middlesex, England, Gb

The scheme begins with an intensive six-week training course that covers project management, business analysis, software development and testing. This is followed by four six-month placements around the technology departments in Sky, Customer Information Systems, Sky Network Services, Central Services and Broadcast Services. First Placement – QA Tester in Sky Shop (August 2013 – November 2014)Worked within an agile team to test the latest functionality, including writing automated tests with Selenium Web Driver and Cucumber. - Lead tester of the first responsive version of the site to be built in-house- Ran showcases of the site to stakeholders, ensuring they requirements have been met- Key part of agile activities within the team including running a retrospectiveSecond Placement – Front-end Web Developer in Sky Shop (November – March 2014)Work within an agile team to deliver high-standard front-end development using HTML, CSS and JavaScript as well as pre-compilers CoffeeScript (JavaScript) and Stylus (CSS) and libraries such as JQuery.Third Placement - Technical Analyst in Sky Shop (March - August 2014)Fourth Placement - Front-end Developer in Monitoring Solutions (August 2014 - March 2015)Other work at Sky- A member of the team that launched The Sky Academy, helping to demonstrate to high-profile external stakeholders how Sky is working and investing to better the lives of young people

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Popular And World Music

Btec National Diploma, Popular Music