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Taplow, England, Gb

Taplow, England, United Kingdom

Provide IT Services for start-up companies and small to medium-sized businesses (SMB), helping them realise their online potential, utilising the latest progressive technologies to provide full stack web and mobile friendly sites and applications.As a full stack developer freelancing, my own platform to work from was inevitable. This is my passion and what I love to do, offering the potential for clients to future proof their online solutions, utilising the latest standards and innovations, providing the purest user experience along the way.Still an ardent student of the game investing in my education and development, excited to be working with the latest cutting edge of technologies utilising the Jamstack ethos as a headline.

The Institute of Neurodiversity is a non-profit global neurodiversity member organisation. Their goal is to bring together one million neurodivergent people, and their allies, from 100 countries. After consultation, considering budget restraints and deadlines for release dates etc, my client chose Wild Apricot, an all-in-one tool for managing your memberships, email subscriptions, events registrations, donations, and your website. Managing a member database, easily setting up re-occurring payments, subscription levels, a mobile app and the CRM was the main appeal of Wild Apricot. That said, the out of the box themes were somewhat basic, thus involved extensive customisation to professionalise the look and feel for my clients' user experience requirements.Below are a few of the duties provided, not including the extensive client consultation process. We forged a trusted partnership through hours of discussion, technical advisory, research, and collaboration which enabled ION to launch within available budget and to targeted timelines.• Website Build incorporating ION branding & client specifications• Setup contact database and Administrator permissions• Subscription levels• Re-occurring Payments• Email routing and templates• Events• Blogs• Forums• Userway Accessibility Plugin• Social media access• Numerous Forms• Business Email setup• Domain Setup• Full Deployment• Mobile App Setup• Managed ServicesCustomisations:Fully customised navigation system, customised hero section for each template and professional Footer plus responsive to work across different platforms. Removing most of Wild Apricot's builder presentational elements, for a more professional look and feel that works on all devices.

Online sales of a range of extremely hot chilli pepper sauces and pickles made from a variety of pesticide free, home-grown chillies. Local provider of young chilli & tomato plants grown from seeds. Also available in local businessesCovid was a bad time for so many people, born from a family tradition and culture making our own pepper sauce that has been part of my family's routine from long before I was born, every party wedding, or holiday back in Ghana there was always freshly made hot pepper sauce, as part of any meal (even breakfast) in my family.Not content to sit at home during lockdown waiting for life to get back to normal my wife and I extended what we do for family and friends into a project and decided to grow our own chillies from seeds. We made new flavours and different heat levels of our products. And every chilli type has its own personality and story to tell, depicted by our graphic designed labels. The response was immense, which prompted us to start a small local family business expanding on what my late mum had done for us for so many years.Already with a few ecommerce prototypes, it wasn't long before I was building a new system to extend the business online using the following development stack.• React• JavaScript• Gatsby JS• GraphQL• Styled Components• Strapi Headless CMS• Shopify API.• Netlifyhttps://hspepper.co.uk

Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) approach to separate business and presentation logic utilising Xamarin, to design, build and maintain the Manpower Life mobile application available on Android and iOS platforms which allows for candidates to enter CMS2 timesheets, view and edit their details, view their payslips, find the nearest branch and to benefit from some extras provided by the company. This application contained most People-Zone functionalities, and was created exclusively for candidates, enabling convenient access on the go. Life enabled users to link their social media accounts such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Microsoft with their People-Zone account and continue using social media to access the Life App.• Visual Studio 2019, standard libraries• SQL Server for developing APIs• Visual studio 2015 for Web APIs• Xamarin Forms - MVVM pattern• Mobile UI created using C# and not XAML.• SQLite for local database in life app• NUnit- for unit testing• AutoFac - for dependency injection• AutoMapper- model - database mapping• Azure AD B2C- authentication• Azure DevOps• Octopus Deployment• Mobile People-Zone Postcode Lookup Feature: Building on previous projects within PC & Web, and CMS-2 Development Roles, responsible for creating and implementing the new postcode lookup feature, for the self-serve mobile application, utilising the PAF database as its backend and the MVVM implementation for candidate contact and address details.• Mobile Manpower Extras Feature: Building on previous projects within PC & Web, and CMS-2 Development Roles, responsible for the creation and MVVC C# implementation of the Mobile Manpower Extras feature within Life.

Domain Driven Design approach to software development, utilising MVC, C#, SQL programming, Test Driven Development, Dependency Injection Frameworks and Agile Methodologies, part of a team responsible for redesigning, rewriting, and maintaining Manpower’s internal contract management system (CMS-2) containing all job, client, agency, candidate, timesheet, and payslip data in alignment with the billing process. Additionally, the team implemented a web based self-serve application (People-Zone) for registered Manpower candidates, including submission of timesheets, updating personal preferences, search functionality and upload of documents related to the recruitment process. Both critical systems required to meet increased demands in line with the future strategy of the business.• Microsoft ASP.NET MVC.NET, Razor View, C#, TSQL• Web APIs - Postman• HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and jQuery• NHibernate ORM• Automated unit and integration testing, MOQ.• Visual Studio Database Projects & Tests• Team Foundation Server• Octopus Deployment• CMS-2 Candidate Search Functionality: Responsible for implementing additional candidate search functionality using C#, MV NHibernate and named queries, to bring our technology in-line with the top recruitment agencies with a wider range of search filters for candidates. • People-Zone Postcode Lookup API: Building on previous project within PC & Web Development Role, implemented the self-serve postcode lookup functionality within People-Zone, which enabled candidates to quickly enter or update their personal address. The Postcode Lookup API accessed the Royal Mail PAF database and returned multiple addresses based on the postcode entered, prompting the candidate to select their own address, then populating the front end with full postal address details• Manpower Extras: Building on previous project within Web Design Role, responsible for recreation of the UKI Manpower Extras (employee discounts) web application written in MVC.

Utilising .NET, C#, MVC, Entity Framework and SQL programming, responsible for the design, writing, testing and implementation of web based and Windows applications and services, to help drive change and support efficiency of business functions.• Maintain Contract Management System, which handles, jobs, clients, agencies, candidates, and timesheets for required changes and correction of errors.• Maintain web based internal operational portal, which facilitates some of the functionalities of CMS system for required changes and correction of errors.• Maintain web-based client portal used by clients for online issue logging, order creation and online timesheets for required changes and correction of errors.• Full project life-cycle support resource for companywide stakeholders.• Create new programs as needed, keeping abreast of new programming techniques.• Work independently or part of the wider team dependent on scale of project.• Ensure all relevant documentation produced or amended as required.• Visual Source Safe• Mail Processing Application: Utilizing ASP.NET, C# and SQL initially created a web service implemented by companywide applications and systems that sent several thousand emails per day for business processes, saving the email content into a database via an XML schema. Subsequently created a Windows service that polled the database and sent non expired emails via SMTP. Any email not sent within 24 hours was automatically expired and a dedicated team informed of the failure to send. • Royal Mail PAF Upload: A Windows application, in ASP.NET, C#, and SQL, which processed a Royal Mail postcode address file (PAF), creating a database that held over 29 million addresses and 1.8 million UK postcodes.• N-Print Configurator: A role-based access control web application written in ASP.NET MVC C# ENTITY FRAMEWORK, created to ensure company employees were assigned into the correct distribution lists, based on their associated active directory group.

Design, build and maintain presentation and content for Manpower UK, Manpower Ireland, XBC and Elan customer facing websites, intranets, and extranets within contract client sites, ensuring effective delivery and continuity of all UK&I websites externally and to the business units.• ASP, HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, FTP, Adobe, Dreamweaver, Visual Studio, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop.• Managed the development and live server environments for all Manpower websites. versioning, testing, and deployments.• Implementation of standards, compliance, accessibility, and effective change control management procedures.• Design and implementation of HTML email campaigns to meet marketing objectives.• Track usage, trends and conversions via web analytic software and provide analytics reporting.• Senior Leadership Team Intranet Project: Designed, built, and maintained, including role-based access control login limited to UK&I company directors, due to the sensitive nature of the data. Offering a one stop shop for cross departmental leadership updates.• Manpower Extras Project: Designed, built, and maintained a new web application in conjunction with the marking department offering discounts and vouchers across several High Street brands to UK&I employees.• UK&I Website Migration: Initially implemented global styling via CSS for the new company branding for the full UK&I online presence, then subsequently migrated all websites to the new content management system (Direct Talent CMS) including handover of all related collateral and documentation to the new USA based team.

London, England, United Kingdom

Technical Support Analyst permanent, resolving IT Helpdesk calls from both within Head office, and from UK-wide and European offices, providing technical support to first and second level intervention within the published SLAs, while delivering excellent customer service to users of the IT Technical Support.• Provide full and accurate call details in the IT help-desk system for every call worked on.• Deliver excellent customer service to all those who contact the IT Helpdesk.• Escalate PC support calls to elsewhere in the IT organisation where these may not be resolved at the IT Helpdesk within the company SLAs.• Inform the IT Helpdesk Manager of serious, service affecting incidents or where third-party organisations are failing to meet their SLAs.• In house intranet-based applications, Concur Expense, AS400, Power Plan• Creation and management of MS Windows NT, 2000, Citrix, Dial Up AT&T and Business Port user accounts.• MS Exchange 5.5 Server email boxes, distribution lists, global address lists, shared calendars etc• Remote desktop support to Manpower and Elan staff across UK and European offices, utilising Dameware and Citrix services• Hardware support: Xerox and IBM Printers, Faxes, and copiers• Troubleshooting DCHP, TCP/IP, Network Connections, Share Permissions, Mapping drives etc• Utilise BT C View system to monitor network failure and ongoing performance across UK• Support to both Desktop PC and Laptop users

Technical Support Analyst contract, for New Star Asset Management. I provided 1st, 2nd, 3rd Line support for London (Head Office), Edinburgh, Ireland, Hong Kong, and Bermuda.• In-house applications, MS office 2000/XP Pro• Reuters and Bloomberg systems, Global Topic, DataStream, Hindsight, Swift, and Standard Poor's.• Installation and configuration of all desktop PC's and laptops using Ghost Server software.• Roll out to Windows XP Pro and Office XP Pro (setup test environment for Office 2003), Created default images for individual departments.• Installation and configuration of handheld devices: Palm, IPaq, XDA 1, and Blackberry.• Project: Installing VPN client onto the XDA Device to access corporate data and e-mails etc via exchange server 2000/3• Created and administer all new user accounts at all sites on the domain with Active Directory• Setup and maintain e-mail accounts on Outlook 2000/2 and MS Exchange server 2000/2003• Project: design and build a new starter form to be published over the internet using Outlook tools• Maintain telephone accounts on Definity system• Hardware support: Printers (Full printer maintenance for HP 4100 series) Faxes, and copiers• Network support: setting up network printers, mapping drives, cabling and patching of all new pc's, printers, and telephones, troubleshooting DNS, DCHP, TCP/IP, share permission• Support small Apple Mac environment within a large Windows environment: Set up email accounts on Entourage and Outlook, web access via Exchange Server, Mounting shared drives, Software installation and registration. Training and induction for new apple Mac users.• Backup and restore using Veritas and Backup Exec software.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Web Designer contract, liaising with clients for their exact specifications, designing, creating, updating and maintaining websites, mainly within Dreamweaver, Fireworks & Flash (MX). Allowing them to enjoy a more interactive and richer media experience, and enabling recognition of their e-business potential.• Concept Design & HTML Coding• Template & Library Items Creation• Layout & Graphics Design• Maintenance & Upgrades• Search Engine Optimisation• Java Script Coding & CSS• Flash Movie Design & Construction• Cross Browser Compatibility Testing• Analysis: HCI Heuristic Evaluation• IIS 5

London, England, United Kingdom

Web Designer contract, main duties included assisting in the development of ColdFusion and ASP web based applications, utilising SQL Server 2000 in Windows 2000 Pro/XP environments. Worked closely with the Lead Designer as an HTML Coder on the AOL/CompuServe project (June to September 2000).• Concept Design & HTML Coding• Java Script Coding & CSS• Cross Browser Compatibility Testing• Simple Interface Creation (CFML)• Form Validation (CFML)• Template & Layout Design (Fireworks)