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I bring a wealth of experience in front end (and indeed full stack) development, and perform best in very early stage organisations that are either working on an MVP, or iterating to the next level from one.If you'd like a conversation about how I may be able to help your fledgling project, please get in touch.

Led a small team of UI Engineers in development and support of a variety of new and legacy applications.Analysed codebases for common components and introduced Storybook for sharing components across applications via themes, with theme specific properties documented and exposed in Storybook via TypeScript. Specced and drove implementation of a Zod driven Form component suite.Proposed weekly design / dev syncs to ensure close collaboration and early input from FE… Show more Led a small team of UI Engineers in development and support of a variety of new and legacy applications.Analysed codebases for common components and introduced Storybook for sharing components across applications via themes, with theme specific properties documented and exposed in Storybook via TypeScript. Specced and drove implementation of a Zod driven Form component suite.Proposed weekly design / dev syncs to ensure close collaboration and early input from FE Engineers on design evolution.Ensured that components maintained IE11 compatibility to be usable within EHR platforms. Show less

Led a team of front end engineers in building a complex AI/ML no-code solution that enables subject matter experts to create and train computer vision models via a comprehensive video annotation platform.Responsible for full front end architecture (React, RTK, gRPC-Web, Emotion, RTL, Jest), design system creation, detailed code reviews, recruitment, extensive mentoring, speccing new features with other team leads and planning and implementing a large migration of legacy code to the… Show more Led a team of front end engineers in building a complex AI/ML no-code solution that enables subject matter experts to create and train computer vision models via a comprehensive video annotation platform.Responsible for full front end architecture (React, RTK, gRPC-Web, Emotion, RTL, Jest), design system creation, detailed code reviews, recruitment, extensive mentoring, speccing new features with other team leads and planning and implementing a large migration of legacy code to the new codebase. Show less

Worked alongside a team of 5 senior UI engineers building out new features and incrementally migrating Backbone components / dated React components to hook / context / graphql heavy React.

Worked as a senior JavaScript specialist within a small UI team building a monitoring and analytics platform with complex data visualization requirements, heavily involved in architecture, implementation, code reviews and mentoring less experienced colleagues. Daily use of React, Redux, ES6, SVG, D3, Recharts, Webpack, Jest, Yarn, SASS with BEM and HTML5.

Led UI development working alongside a team of (primarily) Go / DevOps / Distributed system engineers and a smaller number of Design / Design + Dev specialists, responsible for architecture and development of a Single Page App communicating via SSE and REST. Daily use of React.js, Flux Architecture, ES6, ImmutableJS, Webpack, Jest, Karma, NPM, HTML5 and strict BEM SASS.

Worked as a FE specialist in a Node and PHP stack, responsible for Front End architecture and development of a Single Page App communicating with various REST services. Daily use of React.js, Flux Architecture, ES6 (via Babel), Backbone, RequireJS, Node, Grunt, Karma, NPM, Bower, SASS and HTML5.

Lots of Backbone, Underscore, Mustache, OOJS, CSS3 and HTML5. Also a bit of PHP when necessary. Mostly working on the content consumption side of WordPress.com, one of the most viewed sites on the web.

Led the UI team within a group tasked with migrating the most popular classified listing website in the UK from Perl to Java. The Front End was redeveloped in OOJS, HTML5 and CSS (using SASS). JsTestDriver with the Jasmine adapter was used for unit and integration testing as part of the Maven build process. The Apache Tiles component framework was leveraged for a flexible composite approach using Tiles, .jsp and taglibs.

Worked within the Bigscreen team responsible for developing BBC iPlayer for set top boxes and televisions. Heavily focused on BDD driven QA automation using OO JavaScript.

Front End Dev role for ioko, working on FilmFlex VOD platform, latter stages of Virgin Media project and full Film4OD video on demand platform for UK national broadcaster Channel 4 - I was responsible for all JavaScript, jQuery, HTML and CSS whilst collaborating with .NET developers in an Agile environment.

End-to-end development of a variety of sites for this London Creative Agency. Projects included numerous CMS driven HTML / Flash hybrid builds for Square Enix properties and Chrysalis Music - daily Front and Backend Development with PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, XML

End to End remote development working on a freelance basis with a number of design agencies, generally responsible for taking static files through to fully functioning db driven websites using PHP/MySQL/HTMS/CSS and MySQL/XML/ActionScript

Worked in conjunction with the design team to create numerous CMS controlled Flash and PHP/MySQL/XHTML websites. My work here tended to be as the sole developer, taking skeleton .fla and .psd through to final deployment.Aside from ongoing improvement to my development skills, I also gained further client facing experience and the ability to function effectively within an agency environment.Work completed during this period included full site development for Kickers, Ben Sherman,… Show more Worked in conjunction with the design team to create numerous CMS controlled Flash and PHP/MySQL/XHTML websites. My work here tended to be as the sole developer, taking skeleton .fla and .psd through to final deployment.Aside from ongoing improvement to my development skills, I also gained further client facing experience and the ability to function effectively within an agency environment.Work completed during this period included full site development for Kickers, Ben Sherman, British Olympic Association, Dazed & Confused, Clarks and Lee Cooper. I also developed modules for the Speedo website during their time sponsoring the 2004 Olympics, including a popular CMS controlled PHP/MySQL/Flash based Fantasy Swimming application.Daily use of PHP/MySQL/XHTML/CSS/JavaScript/XML/ActionScriptGained commercial level experience in Flash / ActionScript Show less

Various maintenance jobs and full builds for a successful SEO focused web agency with hundreds of active clients.

Developed three PHP/MySQL/HTML/CSS websites for a Cheltenham based client with interests in subsea exploration and extreme travel.

Learnt foundations of JavaScript, HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL, ActionScript. Various websites developed including ecommerce stores and large scale forum based websites.