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Preston, England, Gb

Preston, England, Gb

Chorley, Lancashire, Gb

Chorley, Lancashire, Gb

Working in tracking for Scorpion who track tens of thousands of assets.-Lead developer on internal Laravel and Lumen projects.-Dockerized projects to ensure ease of local development.-Migration of frontend components into VueJS.-BAU bug fixes and features otherwise.

Lead developer on one of the largest number plate retailers in the UK-Migrated PHP4 code to PHP5.6 with proper structuring-Reverse engineered and migrated Oracle stored procedures-Created a small library for detecting unused files resulting in the ability to delete 7000~ files-Add proxy and scrape protection-Implemented staging environments-Added GitFlow branching strategy for features and hotfixes-Implemented 3rd party API providers-Added finance providers Barclays finance (SOAP) then later DekoPay (REST) with no downtime and reverse compatibility.-Trained a junior developer with tailor-made tasks and pair programming to quickly get him up to speed.-Went on a management training course to gain a better understanding of working with people you manage, people you work alongside and people you report up to.

Preston, Lancashire, Gb

Recycling lives is one of the biggest scrap metal companies in the UK-Taken over and lead the largest codebase with minimal handover and documentation.-Learnt the new system quickly while talking directly with end-users to ensure confidence in system support.-Created an API wrapper for a 3rd party API to be implemented with multiple in house systems-Refactored legacy code and ran major release updates to existing Symfony projects-Aided in implementation of new features on Laravel based system for car auctioning-Websocket based bidding, watchlists, and inline bidding-Integrated eBay's API for selling TV parts as a faster alternative to manual listings.-Using PhantomJS to create PDF exports of documents to be sent out meaning someone didn't have to do these manually. -Custom report generation using PHPExcel with data sources from MySQL and MSSQL-Created multiple mobile and tablet interfaces to get migrate away from manual processes with pen and paper into a digital format to reduce losses and speed up operations-Automating and streamlining existing processes. This has resulted in 300+ hours of work time across the business per week.

Preston, Lancashire, Gb

A Level, Computing, Law, Psychology

Gcse, Mathmatics A, History A, Physics A, Citizenship A, English Language B, Biology B, Chemistry B