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A Front-end developer with over a year of experience developing a user centric, online learning platform.
Programming combines my two passions; problem solving & creativity. My previous career in the fast paced industry of property management taught me the importance of planning ahead & adapting to new problems. Prior to this, I studied illustration at university & was a gallery represented Artist.
The best quality about tech is its community and that it there is always something new to learn. Every day brings new challenges but there is so much support and resources to learn from. The most important quality I am looking for in a company is one that will continue to drive the learning journey I began with Makers Academy.
React.js, MobX, JavaScript / TypeScript, SCSS
A Font End App that fetches from the Movie Database's API to display a list of popular movies including user ratings and release dates. Plus the ability to toggle between light and dark themes.
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React.js, JavaScript / TypeScript, SCSS
A Font End App with multiple color themes. The main goal of this project was to learn more complex scss and use it to create light and dark themes in a maintainable, dry, scalable & dynamic way.
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Swift, Xcode, XCTest
A team project to create an iOS Detective mobile App in less than two weeks, all with no prior experience coding in Xcode & Swift. The project intergrates Geo-location to unlock new challenges and unfold the mystery.
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Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Bcrypt, JQuery
A team project, working to a client's brief to create a social media platform. The Project focused on using a framework to structure databases & work as a cohesive team via pair programing, stand-ups and a trello board.
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JavaScript (ES5), Jasmine, JQuery, chart.js
A web app that calculates a players bowling score. I enjoyed coding the surprisingly complex rules of Bowling, finding patterns within the conditions & refactoring them. The app uses jQuery & chart.js to return more data than is originally entered.
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** React.js, JavaScript, CSS**
A single-page web portfolio that showcases my hobbie as an artist. The focus of this project was to build an engaging front-end that offers an immersive user experience. And also to practice using React.js and responsive CSS design on a personal project. The project also pays homage to where I first discoverd my passion for coding; customising my orriginal Squarespace portfolio.
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February 2020 – Present (1 year, 3 months)
React, JavaScript, TypeScript, Mobx, SCSS
Avado is an online learning platform with a large student & teacher user base that helps people to achieve professional qualifications. The Dev team’s high level goal was to gradually re-platform away from an out-dated third party platform; replacing existing functionality and adding new features to automate labour intensive tasks.
🔹 Achievements:
• Scoping epics from Jira tickets and Xd docs as part of an agile team and writing planning documentation.
• Taking a lead role in regards to the front end, communicating any requirements to the back-end team.
• Using RESTful API’s, handling business logic client side, programming complex JS stores to process raw data into a useful interface.
• Using React to code in a component driven manner with consideration for user accessibility and mobile friendly styling.
• Working individually or pair programming.
• Showcasing project iteration updates to the CTO, product owners and stakeholders in weekly meetings.
• Reviewing and testing other team’s pull requests, reporting bugs or required code improvements.
• Teaching best front end practises to other team members through knowledge sharing presentations, pair programing and written documentation.
• Coding a reusable global component library for fast, consistent, performant, maintainable development.
• Troubleshooting bug tickets.
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An Intensive software developer course that focuses on independent learning & pair programming. Makers Website
❇️ Git, OOP, TDD / BDD, MVC, SOLID, Agile
❇️ JavaScript, Jasmine, jQuery, React
❇️ HTTP, HTML, CSS, SQL
❇️ Ruby, Rails, Rspec, Capybara
❇️ Swift, Xcode, XCTest
BA (Hons) - Illustration (2:1)
I enjoy breaking complexity down into simple steps by planning ahead & evaluating solutions. Following this process as a developer ensures that I understand the task set and pay close attention to the details. As a property manager, good communication with residents & contractors was fundamental to resolving all manner of problems.
I completed Makers Academy's intensive developer course, learning to build an app in a new language within two weeks for my final project. In my last career, I was promoted from entry level to managing my own portfolio after 16 months by demonstrating a willingness to learn.
I am passionate about great design of all kinds, including developing well-structured code. I enjoy thinking of new approaches to reach a goal. Studying as an artist, taught me to continually self-evaluate work and seek peer feedback in order to improve.
Rugby, Table-tennis, Art galleries, Nature, Fantasy / Sci-fi novels, board-games.