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Bristol, Gb

Yate, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the development and maintenance of high-performance, scalable web applications using Gatsby and headless WordPress. My key responsibilities include:Front-End Development: Building and optimizing dynamic user interfaces with Gatsby, ensuring responsive and accessible designs across all devices.Integration with Headless CMS: Leveraging headless WordPress to manage content, and integrating it seamlessly with Gatsby for a robust JAMstack architecture.Performance Optimization: Ensuring applications are optimized for speed and scalability, implementing best practices for front-end performance.Collaboration: Working closely with UX/UI designers to translate design mockups into interactive D365 forms and web pages.Mentorship: Providing guidance and code reviews to junior developers, fostering a collaborative and growth-oriented environment.Innovation: Staying updated with the latest industry trends and technologies, and implementing modern solutions to enhance our web projects.Problem Solving: Troubleshooting and resolving front-end issues, and continuously improving the user experience.API Integration: Utilizing GraphQL to connect front-end applications with back-end services.Through my role, I ensure that our web applications deliver exceptional user experiences and meet the highest standards of quality and performance.

• Built bespoke, VBA-powered tools for Operational Comm’s team such as automated scheduling dashboards, dynamic reference libraries, financial forecasting tools and dynamic briefing documents, many of which have now been adopted as the standard tools for their purpose.• Hosted workshops for colleagues who want to learn improve their understanding of Microsoft Office applications.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

• Managed c.£4m annual budget since 2017. Developed supplier payment processes for colleagues and helped to build a centre of excellence for management for financial control suppler payments within Mandatory Communications. • Trained colleagues across several teams to adopt improved methods and controls for management of payments to suppliers.• Replaced existing budget control tools with purpose-built dashboards that import CSV-formatted data from the SAP R/3 database in order to track our budget in real-time.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Developed MI reporting tools leveraging Visual Basic to streamline the scheduling and tracking of the Group’s c.900 Mandatory and Regulatory communications per year without a single breach.• Ensured continuous delivery of mandatory and regulatory campaigns in collaboration with planning teams across the Group’s various business areas. • Oversaw the escalation of incidents to Group Risk and ensures that documentation requirements in reporting any ensuing rectifications are satisfied.• Works with data teams and the Bank’s print and production partnerships to ensure that all checks and balances are in place during the development of Mandatory communications through digital production platforms.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Data & Campaign Manager for scientific dissemination services provider. Current responsibilities include:• Sales & Campaign Data strategy management of data used in sales campaigns, including auditing, cleansing and extraction of archived data to ensure consistent approach to sales campaigning supporting the business in achieving monthly, quarterly and annual sales targets for International Innovation, RML’s flagship publication.• Determine implementation strategy of sales campaigns – both discrete campaigns for themed issues of magazine and for the quarter overall.• Monitoring daily sales activities, tracking telephone system statistics using CRM software, encourage use of CRM software throughout sales department, maintenance and monitoring of business pipeline as sales campaigns are carried out. Development of best practice guidelines for sales team.• Product management and development of marketing strategies for related services such as events. Developing media partnerships with research funding bodies. • Development of new business opportunities with research funding institutions looking to implement new means of disseminating research.• Source data to support upcoming sales campaigns and assign data to salespersons to develop lead time for the generation of clients for upcoming magazine issues

Port Harcourt, Nigeria

• Operations Manager and Business Development Executive for a water and sewage treatment solutions provider based in Port Harcourt.• Mobilisation/demobilisation and site management, maintenance of warehouse and chemical inventory supply (such as floculant, probiotics and pH controls).• Verification of suppliers, training providers and certification of sub-contractors.• Ensuring all colleagues meet competency requirements and hiring training specialist where skill gaps are identified.• Outsourced specialist engineers and lab services when required.• Oversaw the development of tenders for new contracts, marketed our portfolio to new clients.

Bristol, United Kingdom

• Responsible for acquiring data on product compliance from eXPD8’s field merchandisers to ensure that that client’s promotional campaigns were compliant with sales and marketing objectives.• Produced Excel spreadsheets designed to update automatically with new data sent from field merchandisers, in order to process data concerning product ordering, stocktaking and product returns.• Produced weekly PowerPoint reports for major retailers and suppliers concerning product compliance and performance of franchised outlets.• Oversaw the operation of various database systems and helped ensure that the daily transfer of data from field managers to the central office ran smoothly.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Worked as part of the Action 3 Project to promote Diversity, a program that trains individuals from marginalised groups for work in the labour and business markets. Organised and advertised diversity workshops for prospective employers, including the Government Office for the South West and the Bristol City Police, by writing press releases and distributing them to the employers listed on CEED's database.CEED is a voluntary sector organisation providing business support services.

Value-added customer liaison for new clients, focusing on system personalisation and troubleshooting of the eZ-Book point-of-sale system.The role required experience using Microsoft Office and the ability to quickly learn to use more specialised software packages.ADDLeisure is the parent company of Fitbug, an interactive personal fitness tracker device, and ez-Book, a bespoke booking system for clients in the health and leisure industry.

Organised and implemented the recovery of Gift Aid, the tax deductions from donations made to the charity, in addition to providing support for the fundraising department.Recovery of Gift Aid required the manual organisation of donations made over the last 5 years, and individual review of these donations to ascertain their eligibility for Gift Aid status.Fundraising required good communication skills and a confident telephone manner.The Mental Health Foundation is the leading UK charity campaigning for the improvement of services for those affected with mental illness.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Biotechnology

Bsc (Hons), Biotechnology

Interdisciplinary degree focused on core biological sciences including biology modules that focused on the growth and differentiation.

Msc Biochemical, Engineering

Designed a facility capable of producing 1 tonne per annum of -interferon (a protein that initiates immune responses) for a group.