James Wright Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Gravesend, England, United Kingdom

Leading front end development with Kuflink’s award-winning online Peer to Peer (P2P) investment platformMigrating legacy and cumbersome admin applications to newever, scalable platforms (Vue.js) to achieve time savings, allowing internal admin to gain new insights into our investor baseCirca 10x improvement in bundle size of investment platformPromoting and implementing front end unit tests using Mocha and CyprusTotal rebuild of the investment platformWorking and mentoring offshore development teams and promoting best practice some as component driven design and unit testing, and putting processes such as pull requests and peer reviews in placeCreating P2P appropriateness test to check to ensure that investors understand the implications of their investment.

London, United Kingdom

Senior front end engineer: Jan 18 - June 19Working with a small tactical team to deliver complex client requirements in a fast paced, iterative manner whilst at the same time balancing technological and process improvements to the core platform.Analysing, prioritising, and implementing client requirements. Collaboration and development of internal UI platform library in VueJS and AngularJSProject team lead: Aug 17 - Jan 18Responsible for leading and line managing a multi-disciplinary development team of 8 members in an agile environment. This involved overseeing the day to day technical operations of the team, maintaining and enhancing our service components, restructuring overall architecture of an ageing system and collaborating with project managers and business representatives to develop focused plans and solutions, towards timely delivery of goals.Migration of ageing Java/JSP/Spring based solutions with RESTful web services with a VueJS front endImproving client request queue management. Splitting front end codebases with ES2015 module patterns for modularity and code reuse. Monorepo architecture for NPM library managementSenior front end engineer: Apr 16 - Aug 17Working in a multi disciplinary project team with scrum based methodology, leading others (including line management) and developing innovative, maintainable and cost effective solutions using cutting edge technologies such as ES6 + babel and AngularJS. Implementation of centrally distributed, themeable CSS architectural solution. 100% staff retention during line management responsibilities.Reduced CSS CICD build time from 20 mins to 3 mins. Optimised CSS size by 20% by better code splitting.User experience engineer: Mar 13 - Apr 16A combined UX and UI role working alongside business and technical teams to design and implement administrator and client facing solutions using human centred design process.

London, United Kingdom

Working with external Thoughtworks contractors, created a mobile specific webapp for the European markets and striving to transform the m.lastminute.com platform into the best travel web-app in the industry.Technology used included Object Orientated javascript, backbone,js, underscore.js, jasmine/karma, CSS3 with SASS, HTML5, SVN within a continuous integration environment.

London, United Kingdom

Re-skinning lastminute.com booking technology for some of the World’s biggest travel and leisure companies, including British Airports Authority (BAA), Emirates, Opodo, Travelocity, Tesco and BMIBaby. Starting as junior developer in 2006 and culminating in Senior Developer / Project UI lead, by 2010, I was responsible for managing a team of remote UI developers located in Bangalore, responsible for training all Distribution UI developers across the EMEA region, implementing best practices and design patterns, and working with technical, product, and business teams across the company to deliver new solutions to both the whitelabel and affiliate market.Technologies used: JQuery, Javascript, CSS2, Zope, HTML4

London, United Kingdom

Information Officer – responsible for maintaining parts of the GSRU website and intranet sites for GSR members and the general public. Member of the GSRU communications committee team.

London, United Kingdom

Working with various Government customers and a range of information systems across HR Directorates, utilising e-Procurement technologies and personnel filestores to maximise information exchange and dissemination of data across the Department.

London, United Kingdom

Student Web Developer/Designer, responsible for all updates and modifications to the DASA website and DASA MoD Intranet. Involved primarily the use of Adobe InDesign, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop and GoLive. Liaising with other DASA branches to ensure information was published in a timely and accurate manner was a key element in my role.