About
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Details
Personal Statement
I started coding in the late 1990s with QBasic, having been given some tuition from by older brother. I remember creating my own version of the game 'Thrust', among others and from that point I was hooked.
I studied Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at Birmingham University and then went on to a five year career as an engineer with the BBC in Belfast, and then Birmingham.
I have been programming full time since 2007, working on some fantastic projects along the way for a wide variety of clients including On The Beach, PureGym, Astra Zeneca, the NHS and the BBC.
I see myself as a full-stack developer with core skills in backend development, database design, and product management, and team leadership. All of the roles I have undertaken in recent years have had me leading teams up to six people, and taking point on technical strategy and planning covering everything from client liason to product design, to architecture and dev-ops responsibilities.
I am deeply passionate about creating great products, great teams, and happy customers!
Key Experience
- Technical team leadership
- Implementing Scrum processes
- Project management and strategy
- Solution and architecture design
- Liaison with clients, suppliers, and third-parties
- Managing budgets and recruitment
- Cyber Essentials compliance, penetration testing and remediation
- Data warehousing
- Extensive use of AWS ecosystem
- Containerisation including Docker and ECS
- Creating documentation, architecture diagrams, and training materials
- Behaviour and test driven development
- CI/CD implementations with Github
- Work with tech stacks including Laravel 11+, VueJs, Nuxt, React, Typescript
Employment History
Note: QUIQSOLUTIONS Ltd was acquired by Citation in September 2023 so all responsibilities within the QUIQSOLUTIONS section remained within my remit
BBC Manchester June 2008 – November 2011
BBC Media City June 2012 – October 2012