Projects credited in
- Be Internet Citizens (2017-2018)With the web sprawling with fake news and trolls, the need for more positive action online has become an issue of greater importance. A partnership between Google, YouTube Creators for Change, ISD, Livity and Toaster, the Be Internet Citizens programme is designed to teach 13 to 15-year-olds about media literacy, critical thinking and digital citizenship, encouraging young people to be positive voices online while increasing their resilience to hate and extremism. Since 2017 the workshops are b
- Hire with GoogleBrief A web build to introduce Hire, Google's first venture into the human resource industry and to clearly communicate the customer benefits of the complex and multi-faceted product. Solution Collaborating with the Hire team in San Francisco, we designed and developed the site as a comprehensive breakdown of the product across the entire recruitment process. We forged a robust UX that structured the numerous product features making the content easily digestible and with the support of playful
Work history
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Technical LeadToaster Ltd.
London, United KingdomFull Time
Heading up the technical development of all London based projects.
Skills used and developed:
- Creating and managing technical project artifacts, including specifications, statements of work, task backlogs, agile boards, technical design documents and user documentation
- Writing public facing technical articles
- Enforcing code standards and best practices
- Managing, mentoring and delegating to the project development team
- Running developer meetings, including briefings and project scrums alongside our producers
- Representing the development team in client meetings and other project communications
- Planning and scoping of project requirements and timings, working alongside with the producer and other stakeholders
- Adapting to changes in project deliverables, including scope creep and feature requests, and their impact on the project plan and timings
Digital Development DirectorThink Jam
- London, United KingdomFull Time
Leading Development support on all assigned client campaigns; supporting the workflow within the various departments to ensure that campaigns are delivered on the agreed deadline and budget; innovate, inspire and ensure that the highest standards of excellence are continuously maintained across all work delivered.
Skills used include all of those listed under the Senior Developer position below. The role also entails:
- Creating and leading a unified Development team and ensuring that each member has the ability to support multiple departments in all areas of Digital Development
- Measuring skillsets and actively participating in training of all Development staff to grow and improve skills
- Choosing, briefing and employing 3rd party Development teams and external resources as and when needed on campaigns
- Offering technical advice, costs and timings for all areas of Development on client campaigns
- Wireframing, Prototyping and producing Technical Briefs for larger campaigns
- Conceiving, planning and creating processes for development and QA
- Overseeing and being responsible for QA
- Conceiving, planning and leading development related R&D projects
- Meeting regularly with different departments to assess their needs and gather suggestions for future projects
- Creating and championing a suite of re-sellable Think Jam products and/or re-usable code templates
- Organising, building, monitoring and maintaining all web based servers for client campaigns and internal services
- Organising, building, monitoring and maintaining all internal legacy tools
- Monitoring software and server costs and continuously look for beneficial alternatives
- Organising, building, monitoring and maintaining all Think Jam primary domains and related subdomains
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Skills
- Digital
- Team Leadership
- Web Development
- Web Programming
- Web Design
- Scoping
- Wireframing
- Client Liaising
- Project Management
- Problem Solving
Education
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Electronic Engineering with Music Technology SystemsUniversity of Derby
- Derby, United Kingdom