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London, Gb

London, Gb

- Building a decoupled Drupal 9 / NodeJS multisite platform. Helping the service expand to 15 sites (with many more to come). - Scoping and planning of new functionality, technical design, conducting workshops, training sessions, producing documentation, improving automated testing and release processes, as well as custom module development. With several contributions made back to Drupal.- Hosting, scalability and building new dev-ops functionality using Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform and AWS

London, Gb

- Integrating modern build tooling and CI principles into the existing Drupal based portfolio of public facing websites.- Lead developer on a GDPR compliance project, involving auditing of third parties, a new cookie consent tool, integrating with external services, training, and coordinating with various departments and external vendors.- Technologies used: Drupal 7/8, Acquia Cloud + Pipelines, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Nginx.

Islington, London, Gb

Working at the Cohaesus London office, for a client selling consumer goods based in UAE. Coordinating with teams in Edinburgh and Jaipur. Building a bespoke greenfield Drupal 8 multisite multilingual platform, integrating with a range of external services. Including AWS Cognito, Dynamics CRM, Akeneo PIM, Acquia Lift, Bynder.

London, Gb

- Scoping and technical design of a new web based registration service that will cover all UK care providers. Ensuring GDS guidelines were met and that agile and open source principles were adopted throughout the organisation.- Worked across a range of Drupal 8 projects aimed at gathering data from health providers and the public.- Built out integration between Drupal and the GOV.UK Design System, released as a contrib theme (https://www.drupal.org/project/govuk_design_system)

Crawley, England, Gb

Short term contract, working as part of a discovery phase for a tech transformation project. Defining the architecture for a new microservices based web platform that will span across the companies 50+ travel brands. Using Drupal 8, Elasticsearch, React, and Node.js

São Paulo, Sp, Br

- Lead development on a new Drupal 8 based global platform for the charity WaterAid. The project spanned the organisation's 12 sites and 3 languages, and included a new donation management system. I was responsible for defining scope, communicating with the client and various third parties, setting up of build tools and automated development workflows.- Lead developer on a Drupal 8 project for a global pharmaceutical company, this involved integrating the Fractal pattern library into Drupal.

London, London, Gb

Working alongside the backend development team, working across a wide range of Drupal 7 sites. I helped with a Solr to Elasticsearch migration.

Gloucester, Gloucestershire , Gb

Lead developer on a ecommerce digital goods (stock photography) project.

London, England, Gb

Provided web development, project management, and technical architecture services to a number of clients. Using impact mapping and other agile practises to help clients determine areas of focus and how to obtain business value.

London, Gb

Worked on a Drupal 7 based content moderation tool that ingested content from Yubl's iOS and Android social networking apps.

Sheffield, England, Gb

Played a key role on a project migrating multiple sites onto a new Drupal 7 based platform.

Soho, London, Gb

Catch Digital are a full-service agency, specialising in Drupal development, with clients including Rimmel London, BBC, and ZSL. As Head of Development I managed a team of 8, some of the responsibilities in this role include:• Defining architecture and producing specifications for a variety of key projects. • Responsible for the overall output of the development team (quality control, coding standards, code reviews) • Mentoring development staff, line manager for all team members. • Main technical point of contact for clients • Interviewing permanent and freelance developers • Implementation and improvement of development processes, deployment, hosting, version control etc. • Staff reviews and appraisals

Soho, London, Gb

Lead developer for Rimmel London (http://www.rimmellondon.com). A global platform that spans across 22 different markets in 12 different languages.• With a team of 3 developers, I was responsible for the project being delivered to a high technical standard that met the client’s requirements. • The site was the winner of the “Best Mobile Experience” BlueDrop award in 2013.• Use of the Entity Translation module to enable multilingual support, work on the project lead to patches being accepted back into the module on drupal.org

New York, Ny, Us

• Lead developer for MTV OD, a video-on-demand platform. Featuring an e-commerce paywall that accepted payments through SMS and credit cards, integration with Akamai secure streaming and MTV's internal video encoding platform.• Worked on various other projects across different brands (MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon) and markets (UK, AU, NZ).

London, England, Gb

Rebuilt the organisation’s main website on Drupal 6. Key requirements were:• An ecommerce package – using Ubercart• A membership directory with a front-end user interface that allows searches by postcode and local UK area.• Also worked on several other Drupal sites, some including multilingual functionality. As this is a large UK charity, meeting accessibility guidelines was crucial for all work performed.

As a self employed web developer, I worked with a number of contacts in the music event industry to build and host various websites. Clients included the Rhythm Factory, and PlayGroup Live.

Pyrmont, Nsw, Au

Played a key role in a large database migration. Assisting in data validation and migration testing.

• Swapitshop was an online marketplace for children, where they could safely swap toys.• The company was a startup with a small team.• I produced online promotional campaign listings and microsites. • I worked alongside the development team to improve and expand the custom builtCMS. Dealing with bugs, carrying out user testing, as well as designing and implementing workflow improvements.