The Arcadia group is a multinational retailing company who own many high street retailers such as Topman, Topshop, Dorothy Perkins and Miss Selfridge amongst others. I was contracted there to work within an agile team on a greenfield project to deliver a responsive, multi-functional web application for internal use by the distribution centre. My role consisted of full stack responsibilities but focused around the client-side logic and the implementation of the backend API layer.● Guided front end development into a stable implementation, using a simple jquery/handlebars approach● Introduced BDD, creating smaller, more deliverable stories and allowing the testers to work in parallel to the development team● Introduced simple RESTful standards and conventions to help ease client side data bottlenecks.

Over the years I worked with different agile squads using different agile methodologies. Ourfocus from the beginning was BDD, TDD and clean code. I partook in developing aresponsive AngularJS front­end and the supporting RESTful and SOAP API’s. Alongside thewebsite, I developed supporting tools across a shared back­end and a public REST API forclients and customers to send parcels headlessly.● Developed software in multiple agile squads using both scrum and kanbanmethodologies● Worked with key stakeholders to define required functionality through agile storieswith a BDD approach● Worked closely with software testers to develop a full BDD automated regressionpack, reducing production deployment time dramatically● Developed and supported a public facing RESTful API for clients to interface withbackend core systems via an OAuth 2.0 approach● Integrated with large multi­market API's including Amazon, eBay and Shopify, usingboth SOAP and REST approaches● Designed and maintained multiple back­end API’s to integrate the site with coreHermes systems● Managed the configuration and deployment pipelines of web applications to multipleenvironments● Collaborated with offshore development teams across the world, code reviewing,handling code merges and helping to analyse business requirements

Hunted Cow Studios are a small independent Java games company based in Scotland. Myrole there as a Java Games Tools Developer was quickly expanded soon after joining thecompany, as they needed many of the essential systems developing within their mainproduct.● Worked within a team to design and code a fully structured AI system from groundup.● Developed a range of tools to support key systems, plus many smaller Java libraries.● Designed and coded dozens of smaller essential server side systems, keeping tostrict deadlines while ensuring to produce well written documentation.

World Registrations Systems Ltd are a global exhibition organizing company specialising inorganising a multitude of events worldwide. I developed an application to replace theiroutdated MS­Access driven on­site registration tool. The tool was for use on site to registercustomers, staff and onsite workers. The software was written in Java and based on an MVCframework with Swing frontend and JDBC/XML backend.