Equal Experts (HMRC)

Tech Lead Platform / DevOps Engineer (Contractor)

I joined the platform run team within hmrc as a devops engineer to help with the building and supporting of production services and infrastructure within data platform services (dps). I transitioned into a tech lead within the core engineering services team where we were responsible for services such as gitlab and artifactory and to help platform engineers to be productive and deliver projects.

Havas Lynx

AWS Consultant (Contractor)

Signed NDA

Zeavo / MoneyPlus

Full Stack / Cloud Engineer (Contractor)

Zeavo created an industry leading, cloud first SaaS debt management CRM called DebtKit for the FinTech market to help businesses manage their customers, employees and creditors. My task while working at zeavo was to help deliver new features to their main client, MoneyPlus Group, using modern frameworks, technologies and best practices.

University of Manchester

Full Stack Engineer (Contractor)

My role consisted of working individually on a project to create an application for the library research team so they can easily manage publications that require their constant attention. I liaised with the product owners and research team to help understand their requirements to help automate tedious tasks and to migrate from their spreadsheet workflow.

Waters Corporation

Software Engineer (Contractor)

Working at Waters gave me a different perspective of software development as the way the software is packaged and architected is completely different to what I had been used to. My task at Waters was working within the PAE department, helping make their lives easier by automating the testing procedure against each mass spectrometer that was developed.

Brookson

Support Developer

After I completed my University degree, I joined Brookson where I helped maintain a legacy project which was a portal for self-employed professionals. The project, Connect 2.5, was written in .NET using the MVC pattern with the JavaScript framework Knockout.js on the front end. I also worked Connect 3.0 which was re-writing the project using AngularJS 1.x. The team worked in a SCRUM/AGILE framework by either developing a feature individually or working closely with another team member and using tools such as Taiga as a SCRUM board.

Glow Media

Internship

While I was studying at LJMU, I undertook a small internship at Glow Media where I spent a day a week for a few months working on developing mobile applications for clients. We used Xamarin to develop the applications for both iOS and Android. I spent all my time on the iOS side of the team where the other developers concentrated on the Android side.

DataMatters Ltd.

Industrial Placement

For my University course I was required to complete a year out in an industrial environment. This has prepared me for the transition from education to work and taught me that I have the potential to push myself further. My main role was to help the GUI team in transitioning the already existing text-based system over to a newly designed web interface

JD Sports

Supervisor / Sales Assistant

Working in retail gave me the opportunity to work with members of the public and to work as a team player liaising with managerial staff whilst developing a healthy work ethic. My cheery disposition, excellent communication and interpersonal skills have been an asset. I have been trusted to train up new managers / supervisors even though I was only a sales assistant. They have also recognized my leadership potential and I have been asked on numerous occasions to apply for higher posts and progress within the company. However, the need to progress my educational responsibilities has prevented this.