About me
I love to ask questions and solve problems! I come to my current role as a front end developer from diverse educational and working environments.
Learning new things is very important to me, and my current pursuit offers a lot of material, allowing me (often demanding) to learn something new. I want to be able to express my ideas with more accuracy by learning and refining ways of doing things.
I love working in a unrestricted digital world, and enjoy the unique benefits it provides. Writing and re-using code, ideas and methods allows me to stand on the shoulders of myself and others each time I build something new.
I have developed a keen interest in information architecture, human computer interaction and app conceptualisation
Projects
- Henley Women's Regatta WebsiteI was lead front end developer on this demanding project. Being involved at almost all stages of development, from planning through building and launching allowed me to develop a wide range of skills. We created a new website for HWR, to celebrate their 30th regatta. I was initially required to work closely with clients to establish a clear plan for a new complex web project. Then I worked closely with backend developers to ensure appropriate functionality was built. I was also responsible to the designers to ensure that the new brand was accurately displayed across a wide range of devices. And finally I trained the sites new admins in how to use the managment tools. This web site was one of the more complex projects I have worked on, it was required to provide a high level of flexibility for administrators, while largely relieving them of creative considerations. It also needed to integrate and display data in a variety of ways around the site from a live feed of results from the event. And it also needed to have e-commerce, be fully responsive and support legacy browses. The part of this site I am most proud of is the “flexible builder” (it's alot like this project builder!). I had often found the mocks ups that designers and clients handed me resulted in templates that were too rigid. So when handed a design I had started to split it up into modules and make a tool set that could be ordered and reordered to build any page. This was the first project where that concept was baked in, so mock ups were made but these mearly represented possible combinations that a admin might use. I found this approach allow a degree of separation of development from content creation. I could build up modules confident that functionality would be available globally. The pattern library created by the designers helped me to build the site efficiently and accurately.
- Taste FestivalsA multi-lingual, multi-stakeholder, multi-location website I have been involved throughout the many stages of development with the Taste Festivals website. This was the second major iteration of this site and I was tasked with planning & redevelopming of the existing codebase into the new site. The site itself is fully responsive, multilingual, supports a flexible page builder, custom relational content and many other features. One of the key features is in the depth customisation available to each festival this was to ensure as each festival could effectivley display thier brand. The admin allows all brand colours, social media, sponsors, and other information unique to each event to be easily added to quickly skin the site to suit. This code base is regularly deployed to a increasing number of festivals around the world. This requires careful planning and consideration when working from a single codebase. I have found this a great challenge producing elegant solutions during planning and building of new features. Carefully managing version control & deployment of new features and bug fixes has been key to managing this complex project I have been required to work with the major stakeholders to plan and consider the feasibility of new features. Through this I have learnt to effectively estimate reasonable build times to help keep clients informed. The training I provided had to be clear to and concise due to the increasing complexity in tools, I was also responsible to a large number of admins from all over the world. In the lead up to training calls I supplied each team with acess to a staging version of the site and visual guides to the overall structure with short videos of specific workflows. I found this helped clients come to the call prepared and leave felling less overwhelmed when introduced to all the features.
Projects credited in
- Henley Women's RegattaThe Henley Women’s Regatta is the premier regatta for women in the UK. Held on the rowing world’s iconic stretch of the River Thames, it offers exciting, competitive match racing for over 1,500 competitors each year. In recognition of 2017 being HWR’s 30th Regatta, their brand look and website needed to be updated. I was the lead designer on this complex project. The website needed to withstand high traffic and display complex results trees and timetables, as well as have 3 stages depending on t
Work history
Creative Developer
Royal Leamington Spa, United KingdomFull Time
My role at imaginate has been predominately during the planning and building of web projects, which are the areas I most enjoy. My work has allowed me to become proficient with wide range of front end coding languages and creative software. During my time I have become confident with front end web technologies, giving me a great sense of achievement.
I have been closely involved with clients, designers and other developers to build, maintain and iterate numerous websites, including multilingual, e-commerce and content managed websites. I have also found that becoming comfortable using common development tools such as version control and deployment procedures has allowed me to work effectively with others and tackle large problems easily.
I have enjoyed the opportunities I have had to represent Imaginate and network with a wider community. Being involved when building and presenting pitches to clients has been rewarding, and helped me become comfortable with clients and supported my ability to maintain a effective working relationship over the long term.
Clients include: Robinsons & Wimbledon, The Colour Run, HSBC, ESPN, England Korfball, O2, IMG, Taste Festivals, Henley Women’s Regatta, Yaguara Cachaça, Bespoke Brewing Co. Winter Wonderland, Champions Tennis,
Work Experience
- Royal Leamington Spa, United KingdomInternship
During this 6 month period I was introduced to a wide range of design principles & applications across digital and print projects. I found working within a team, helping each other to overcome issues during conception and while implementing appealed to me greatly. The time i spent at Ghost Design helped inform my decision to enter front end development
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Skills
- Frontend Development
- Information Architecture
- APP Conceptualisation
Education
Computing with Business Management
- United Kingdom
A multi-discipline computing degree has proven to be a great motivator, with web design being a keen focus. Reading and practising skills as I acquire them has inspired me to drive my own learning.
RYA Yachtmaster
- Hamble-le-Rice, United Kingdom
Learning to sail proved just the challenge I wanted. I opted to enrol at Hamble School of yachting in the Solent , which allowed me to gain skills in pleasure craft sailing. I undertook a yachtmaster course and attained coastal skipper and yachtmaster theory, this soon became a means to travel and work.
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