Lead Backend developer for Appointment Booking Service (Contract)Responsible for managing and maintaining API development, supporting React Front End, whilst company transitions Laravel application to micro services.My involvement was to:- Add extensive code coverage to identify problem areas of codebase- Enable the completion of and publishing of `New Booking Process` multistep checkout epic.- Carry out upgrade of software to Laravel 8- Implement integration of Registry Microservice to OpenAPI standards Working within a team of 10 developers, day to day roles included:- planning and estimation- mentoring- peer reviews

As part of a team from a Digital Transformation Agency, we worked into clients existing platform and added means to delivery customer and course registration to meet Grant funded MVP.My involvement was to:- assess and stabilise client's existing web services- add OAuth integration with OKTA Authentication service- add various API integration's with clients OIC BackendAs part of this work, I assessed and added missing test coverage for existing Laravel codebase, and ensured code quality and test coverage was added by code contributors.

Moving onto Retirement Outcomes Squad to deliver API integration work for upcoming Investment Pathways regulatory deadline.Built as part of a large (30 something) cross discipline team, based in UK and Poland. My role wasto manage the PHP development tasks, and supported the integration of the new work within the companies existing codebase. My role involved planning and building the new API endpoints needed to connect ReactJs frontend with back office via Kubenetes cluster.Skills:- PHP7- Symfony- OpenAPI- TDD in PHPUnit/Codeception/Postman

Working within the API squad supporting the development of Android and IOS mobile applications.Skills:- PHP - Silex/ Symfony- Swagger / OpenAPI- TDD in PHPUnit / Codeception / Postman.Worked as part of mobile development team, as cross disciplinary squad (consisting of API, and Mobile (Android / iOS) developers), to delivery regulatory features to shares trading service.

Web Application Developer working on eKeeper Mortgage CRM system.Skills:* PHP* MySQL* HTML5* CSS* JQueryCalled in as contractor to help company reduce its massive task backlog. Project was a mix of various MVC frameworks and vanilla PHP.

Greenfield project to create Lifelong learning platform /ePortfolio system for professional medical body.Skills:* Schema design* OOP PHP* Laravel 5* Data modelling* Bootstrap 3* SASS* jQuery* Behat / Behavioural Test Driven Development* Vagrant / VMs* Git / GitflowPart of a 5 person development team within a UX Agency.Project was built from scratch within Laravel 5 Framework. I was initial developer, and part of planning process built out schema and assisted Lead Developer with task planning and test implementation.

Work on several web campaigns for NPower.Part of a 5 person squad with project working being built in Drupal framework. Projects were built via specification from Marketing team and had to be dropped in short timeframes, which meant quick build through to testing.

A variety of jobs for a variety of Proctors clients with work mostly in Drupal (7, 8 and 6!), as well as Magento (CE) and Wordpress.Part of a team of 10 developers handling the clients portfolio of Drupal projects.

Business owner and company director. Responsible for finding and delivering jobs, as well as the day running of a small business.Our limited company also works directly with clients on some roles, as well as supply Mike as contractor. Skills- Schema design- OOP PHP- MySQL- HTML- CSS- Javascript/jQuery- LAMP stack admin- Vagrant / VMs- Git / GitflowTechnologies- Laravel- Drupal (6/7/8)- CakePHP- Expression EngineRecent projects include:International House BristolRebuild of company website in Drupal 7 and integration with Magento Community Edition to handle online transactions, course and lesson booking. Custom module work to handle user login, Magento API integration, events handling and online ability tests, and migration of content from Expression Engine. http://www.ihbristol.com/Palm Equipment EuropeProduct catalog and blog for Palm Equipment Europe. Built in Drupal 7 using Bootstrap framework for responsive frontend. Work involved data migration from a bespoke CRM for annual product catalog updates (with further enhancements over several years) and ongoing maintenance.http://palmequipmenteurope.com/International Newsletters LtdMigration of legacy site into Drupal7 Multidomain + Ubercart to ability to sell content via subscription. Work involved module customisation for merchant gateway integration to handle recurring payments, integration with mailchimp API http://www.technical-textiles.net

Web Application Developer for 'Loving Tribute' print on demand service.Custom built in CakePHP using domPDF and PDFLib to handle the rendering of the print files. http://www.lovingtribute.co.uk/This project (along with International Newsletters Ltd website) were subsequently taken in-house and completed as a contract work when external commercial issues caused the closure of Content Hub.

Freelance Web developer for Bath based Communications Agency. Worked on a variety of jobs including sites client portal sites, e-commerce stores and an accommodation booking system for Unite Students.Student Booking system for Unite Students built on MRB&Friends Propriety JS framework and Zend Frameworkhttp://www.unite-students.com/Initial built for clients own company site. Integrated client supplied designs into Expression Engine CMS templates.http://www.mrbandfriends.co.uk/Templating and responsive styling within Wordpresshttps://www.ssetelecoms.com/Front end templating within Expression Enginehttp://www.chinesewithmike.com/

Back again to Future this time to work on the new build of website for consumer technology magazine T3. Working as part of a 6 man team in CakePHP.Also worked with marketing to build a click thru tracking mechanism for several of Future Publishing's sites to allow internal statistics logging for ad sales.

Tech lead for the rebuild of TotalFilm website (www.totalfilm.com). Responsible for initial application creation for CyclingNews website (www.cyclingnews.com) and managed content management build for the development and beta versions of this site.- Schema design- OOP PHP5- PostgreSQL- MySQL- HTML- CSS- Javascript/jQuery

Responsible for collation and publication of music chart and related articles pages for MSN.co.uk

Worked on goverment funded distance learning projects to assist teachers in curriculum training via online courses. I produced course material from supplied notes and then standardised the design output of a group of developers.

Predominantly front end development which included designing of concepts and then building sites in HTML and CSS.