About

I am an experienced lead frontend engineer, proven to develop large-scale web-apps and lead successful development teams.

My core skills

  • Problem-solving – I love a challenge and finding the optimum solution for a problem
  • A product-focused outlook – Assisting in scoping, prototyping, developing and iterating new features
  • Team leadership – I enjoy leading a productive and efficient team of developers, inspiring them to produce the best work possible, organising daily team tasks, overseeing development work, and mentoring team members
  • Collaborative – Being the ‘team glue’ that connects cross-functional teams together and keeps projects moving
  • I’m organised – I produce logical, well structured and easily maintained codebases
  • I have a degree and background in digital design – I have a sharp eye for detail and build designs into pixel-perfect websites and apps
  • I’m friendly, approachable, communicative and questioning. I don’t work in a silo.
  • I take great pride in what I do


Broad experience

  • 20 years’ experience in website and web-app builds
  • Produced 6 medium to large commercial Vue.js & Nuxt.js websites/web-apps
  • Produced 50+ WordPress websites since 2008 – there’s not a lot I don’t know about WordPress!
  • Experience in working for some of the best agencies in London including Digitas LBi, Possible, TMW and Tangent, along with multiple small studios and startups

Technologies Used

  • Vanilla JavaScript, Vue.js, Vuex, Vuex-ORM, Nuxt.js
  • Unit and E2E testing using Jest, Cypress and Playwright
  • Integrations with API-based CMSs such as GraphCMS and Contentful
  • CSS, SASS, BEM
  • PHP (inc. OO)
  • MySQL
  • Git
  • WordPress (Custom themes, custom plugins, custom post types & taxonomies, ACF, WPML, WooCommerce)
  • NPM, Yarn, Webpack, Vagrant, Docker
  • Search engine optimisation
  • Google Lighthouse optimisation

Background

  • 2022–present Winnow Solutions: Lead front-end developer
  • 2019–2022 Onvi: Lead front-end developer
  • 2012–2019 Freelance (contract) front-end developer
  • 2009–2012 Joe Smalley, Old St, London: Website designer & developer, B2B web agency specialising in WordPress websites for small businesses
  • 2008–2009 Electric Studio, Oxford: Website designer & developer
  • 2004–2008 Motion Studio, Oxford: Print & branding designer
  • 2001–2004 University of Glamorgan: BA Graphic Communication 2:1
  • 1997 Coded first website at age 14

Notable Clients

  • Infiniti
  • The Financial Times
  • Haymarket Publishing
  • Panasonic
  • Samsung
  • Unilever
  • Lulu Guinness

 

Agencies:

  • TMW
  • Possible Worldwide
  • Tangent
  • HeyHuman
  • Digitas LBi
  • Breakthrough Media
  • Zinc Network