Biglight is an A/B Testing company which focuses on ultimately helping large e-commerce companies increase conversions. I built multi-variant A/B tests for brands like Timberland, Vans, Lloyds Pharmacy, Halfords, Ann Summers, Eurostar, Furniture Village, Boden and many more.- Working with NodeJS for local setup- Heavy use of Vanilla Javascript while building tests on Desktop & Mobile- Using Gulp for builds and Babel for transpiling ES6 back to ES5- Using mustache.js for… Show more Biglight is an A/B Testing company which focuses on ultimately helping large e-commerce companies increase conversions. I built multi-variant A/B tests for brands like Timberland, Vans, Lloyds Pharmacy, Halfords, Ann Summers, Eurostar, Furniture Village, Boden and many more.- Working with NodeJS for local setup- Heavy use of Vanilla Javascript while building tests on Desktop & Mobile- Using Gulp for builds and Babel for transpiling ES6 back to ES5- Using mustache.js for templating- Working with Laravel & Magento for internal projects- Building many A/B tests with platforms like Optimizely, Qubit & Monetate.- Working with APIs Show less

Landscape which is a design agency based in London. This was a short-term contract for KPMG which was an animated and interactive quiz for their employees to take to determine what benefits best suited them.- Building frontend with standard HTML, CSS (Bootstrap) + Javascript.

Perspective Risk are a security company mainly focussing on penetration testing. They brought me in to rebuild a phishing & spam reporting platform they use to measure company employees susceptibility to phishing campaigns.- Writing Object Oriented PHP- Using Laravel as an MVC Development Framework- Using MySQL database- Using CURL + XPath to scrape, download a webpage and all of it’s dependencies (css, font, image and javascript files)- Building advanced security… Show more Perspective Risk are a security company mainly focussing on penetration testing. They brought me in to rebuild a phishing & spam reporting platform they use to measure company employees susceptibility to phishing campaigns.- Writing Object Oriented PHP- Using Laravel as an MVC Development Framework- Using MySQL database- Using CURL + XPath to scrape, download a webpage and all of it’s dependencies (css, font, image and javascript files)- Building advanced security relating to sessions, password storage and cookies- Building frontend with standard HTML, CSS (Bootstrap) + Javascript.- Using CLI (Terminal) to manage servers, git & mysql- Working with 0Auth for Exchange & Google sign ins- Building complete SQL schema design Show less

Torpedo are a digital agency based in Oxford. They provide mainly web services to many clients. Primarily I’ve been working on projects for Webhelp & Autodesk. My role is a split between backend and frontend. - Writing Object Oriented PHP- Using MySQL databases- Using AngularJS to communicate with endpoints- Writing styles with SASS- Using CLI (Terminal) to manage bower, grunt, gulp, git, mysql & vagrant- Working with Bootstrap + Media Queries for Responsive… Show more Torpedo are a digital agency based in Oxford. They provide mainly web services to many clients. Primarily I’ve been working on projects for Webhelp & Autodesk. My role is a split between backend and frontend. - Writing Object Oriented PHP- Using MySQL databases- Using AngularJS to communicate with endpoints- Writing styles with SASS- Using CLI (Terminal) to manage bower, grunt, gulp, git, mysql & vagrant- Working with Bootstrap + Media Queries for Responsive Design- Integrating different applications with third party APIs (LinkedIn API, Hubspot API & Salesforce API)- Manage local environments with MAMP & Vagrant Show less

Shilling are an employee communications agency (Employee Pension & Benefit communications). They work with some of the largest companies in the UK & internationally such as IBM, BT, National Grid, Maersk, Johnson Matthey & AAT to name a few. Much of the work I contributed to was working on the frontend of Pension Annual Reports, General Bug Support & some larger client builds (secure pension platforms). - Working primarily with NodeJS, AngularJS which interacted with PHP APIs- Using… Show more Shilling are an employee communications agency (Employee Pension & Benefit communications). They work with some of the largest companies in the UK & internationally such as IBM, BT, National Grid, Maersk, Johnson Matthey & AAT to name a few. Much of the work I contributed to was working on the frontend of Pension Annual Reports, General Bug Support & some larger client builds (secure pension platforms). - Working primarily with NodeJS, AngularJS which interacted with PHP APIs- Using local MySQL DBs for testing- Using AngularJS, LESS & HTML to build interactive UIs- Frontend animation and logic with jQuery when required- Using CLI (Terminal) to interact constantly with tools like bower, grunt, git (BitBucket) & mysql- Working from PSD files to cut up and build out the UI- Using a lot of Bootstrap CSS framework primarily for layout of the UI (12 column grid system)- Worked with a custom legacy PHP framework similar to Zend & Codeigniter- Building responsive layout with Bootstrap + Media Queries- Agile working environment with daily scrums Show less

Connected Ventures (Fresh8 Subsidiary) is an extremely creative & intelligent ad-tech company. They use machine learning algorithms to dynamically serve the most relevant betting ads (SkyBet, Bet365, etc) to users reading relevant articles on Sporting Life, GOAL, MARCA etc. My job was to build out more features within the CMS.- Working on a MEAN stack- Using NodeJS & AngularJS to build front-end logic- Using MongoDB for the CMS data- Use of CLI (Terminal) to interact with… Show more Connected Ventures (Fresh8 Subsidiary) is an extremely creative & intelligent ad-tech company. They use machine learning algorithms to dynamically serve the most relevant betting ads (SkyBet, Bet365, etc) to users reading relevant articles on Sporting Life, GOAL, MARCA etc. My job was to build out more features within the CMS.- Working on a MEAN stack- Using NodeJS & AngularJS to build front-end logic- Using MongoDB for the CMS data- Use of CLI (Terminal) to interact with web servers, databases & git- Managing dependencies with Gulp- Using Jade templating engine for building out the DOM- Using Stylus for building styles (It’s CSS preprocessor which is similar to LESS/SASS)- Went with a BEM syntax approach to naming with the Stylus- Using Sketch to build front-end visuals as a reference Show less

Wiser is an interesting recruitment based company working on both the consultancy and advertising arms of recruitment. I was brought in to help build the technology for their internal CRM, API and to help out with other websites within the Wiser Brand. My time was primarily spent Backend within this role.- Using Laravel as an MVC Development Framework- Maintaining legacy systems with Codeigniter- Built a very flexible and scalable database schema- Built an API to manage to… Show more Wiser is an interesting recruitment based company working on both the consultancy and advertising arms of recruitment. I was brought in to help build the technology for their internal CRM, API and to help out with other websites within the Wiser Brand. My time was primarily spent Backend within this role.- Using Laravel as an MVC Development Framework- Maintaining legacy systems with Codeigniter- Built a very flexible and scalable database schema- Built an API to manage to all interaction for many web applications within Wiser in order to savedevelopment time on the backend- Using Mandrill API for Transactional Email- Use of CLI (Terminal) to interact with web servers and databases- Object Oriented PHP approach throughout- Writing SQL queries- Managing dependencies with Composer- Use of Google Maps API- Working with MongoDB Show less

Unbits is a social e-commerce platform which helps hardware startups/products have access to a wide audience of buyers or early adopters to foster sales & product iteration. Based in London but have some staff in San Francisco along with most customers/products coming from San Francisco - Launch end of September 2014.- Using Laravel as an MVC Development Framework- Use of CLI (Terminal) to interact with web servers and databases- Handled all of the Front-end AJAX functionality… Show more Unbits is a social e-commerce platform which helps hardware startups/products have access to a wide audience of buyers or early adopters to foster sales & product iteration. Based in London but have some staff in San Francisco along with most customers/products coming from San Francisco - Launch end of September 2014.- Using Laravel as an MVC Development Framework- Use of CLI (Terminal) to interact with web servers and databases- Handled all of the Front-end AJAX functionality with very smart access, validation and generic function usage capabilities.- Built most of the relations between models for easy usage throughout controllers and views- Object Oriented PHP approach throughout - Writing SQL queries- Agile work environment- Managing dependencies with Composer- Using Trello for managing projects- Mobile responsive layout Show less

Everyone is a digital media agency based in Glasgow which helps clients with their website, design and creative needs.- Using Custom in-house PHP MVC framework- Used Object Oriented PHP, JavaScript (jQuery & AJAX), HTML, CSS & MySQL to create interactive websites for clients throughout the UK- Used current SEO techniques to help the site perform better in search engines- Making sites mobile friendly for all devices with HTML, CSS & jQuery (Responsive Design)- Using… Show more Everyone is a digital media agency based in Glasgow which helps clients with their website, design and creative needs.- Using Custom in-house PHP MVC framework- Used Object Oriented PHP, JavaScript (jQuery & AJAX), HTML, CSS & MySQL to create interactive websites for clients throughout the UK- Used current SEO techniques to help the site perform better in search engines- Making sites mobile friendly for all devices with HTML, CSS & jQuery (Responsive Design)- Using Photoshop to cut up PSD’s from the Designers where necessary - Building email templates for clients Show less

Apprenticeships in Scotland is based in fife and what we did was essentially run a job board. Employers came to us to find young people for their apprenticeship opportunities and thousands of young people came to the site to find apprenticeships opportunities- Valuable experience working in a small team and working to each others strengths- Updating www.apprenticeshipsinscotland.com with new job opportunities, news, social media and creating ways for people to get information about… Show more Apprenticeships in Scotland is based in fife and what we did was essentially run a job board. Employers came to us to find young people for their apprenticeship opportunities and thousands of young people came to the site to find apprenticeships opportunities- Valuable experience working in a small team and working to each others strengths- Updating www.apprenticeshipsinscotland.com with new job opportunities, news, social media and creating ways for people to get information about what opportunities are available to them- Raised awareness through national radio, launching at Scottish Parliament to members of parliament & careers advisers, attending youth careers events, meeting with potential clients and youth organisations- Growing the email list by 400% and the site traffic by 50% after 1 year- Used HTML and CSS to alter design tweaks- Picked up knowledge on MySQL - Grew the Ad revenue by 300% with appropriate placement, used analytics data to establish what pages users used more often and what pages we needed to improve on Show less