Experience

Business Intelligence Developer

Higham & Higham Ltd

After hearing that there was a business requirement that the IT department, and the current market, were unable to fulfil, in my own time, I used my initiative and set about creating a solution to that problem, in Python, a language that I had previously had little experience with, creating this role.

Duties & Achievements:

• Gathering requirements from stakeholders.
• Working with the Commercial & Data teams to provide commercial intelligence data for a fraction of the price of previous providers.
• Continuing to create data intelligence systems (pricing, new product discovery, stock discovery, etc) for the wider group.
• Developed a database which now holds > 1 billion rows for the Data team.
• Set up Azure CI/CD pipelines with YAML onto Ubuntu VM servers.

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Lead Front-End Web Developer

Higham & Higham Ltd

Managing the Front-End development team’s workload while improving the company’s three main .NET-based e-commerce sites, maintaining a 100% up-time record.

Duties & Achievements:

• Created a modular, white label JS framework for the bespoke in-house web platform, called 'hercJS', which provides the ability to plug & play alternative callbacks (while maintaining a set of 'base' versions to provide vanilla functionality). Built intended for a future multi-tenanted set up for internal brands.
• Restructured JS and assets on the CartridgePeople.com website, improving the Core Web Vitals performance across the website with great impact, from 23 to 80 for the home page. More external scripts have been added since, e.g. PayPal Messages, which unfortunately decreased the score.
• Developed & maintain WordPress & Concrete5-based sites.
• Averting numerous disruptions to customers from bugs in back-end code, that would otherwise reach live sites, via thorough manual black box testing, though not officially part of my role.
• Defining and documenting processes for addition of new data and product types for the websites.
• Implemented a basket abandonment email solution & emails
• Complete audit and rebuild of internal brand websites, involving many stakeholders.
• Implemented technical SEO requirements.
• Implemented a stock discovery system for the Commercial department in PHP, and translated it into PowerShell at the request of the IT Director.
• Running conversion rate improving A/B tests.
• Managing IIS and Ubuntu servers.

Key Skills Utilised:

• VB.NET
• Razor
• JavaScript/jQuery
• CSS/SASS
• Quality Assurance
• PHP
• Concrete5
• WordPress

Freelance Web Developer

Self-Employed

In part of my spare time, I do a little freelance work, as well as side-projects, where I have been exposed to a little Vue, Angular and React, and more recently Svelte (of which SvelteKit holds great promise for solving some of the SSR problems React has for SEO).

 For reference, here are some examples of the websites that I have played a part in designing, building, and/or maintaining in recent history at work and in my spare time:

Duties & Achievements:

• Finding solutions for other developers on projects which they were unable to complete.
• Working on personal projects.
• Managing hosting.

Key Skills Utilised:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• WordPress
• SquareSpace

Clients:

• Greenfinch Naturals
• GDK Veneering
• The Teaching Team
• Tower Supply

Side Projects:

• https://www.pubquiznearme.co.uk