St. Helier, Jersey
I’m a seasoned full-stack developer with two decades of diverse experience in the industry. Over the past six years, my focus has been crafting bespoke SASS web platforms. Conceptualisation and design to deployment whilst providing DevOps guidance and ensuring customer success through continuous feature enhancements. My dedication to staying abreast of the latest technology trends is matched only by my meticulous attention to detail. When not immersed in coding, I'm likely out trail running, enjoying the outdoors. I can bring a wealth of experience and energy, ready to dive into full-time or contract work opportunities, armed with a strong skill set honed through years and a genuine love for innovation in UI. Please find below a list of active skills from recent employment experiences. Product Owner Vision, Roadmap, Analysis, Personas, Customer Journey Map, User Stories UX/UI Figma, Adobe XD, Adobe Creative Suite, Sketch Framer, Balsamiq Back-end C#12, ASP.NET Core 8, Entity Framework Core 8, SQL Server Front-end Blazor, JavaScript, Node.js, Next.js, React.js, Vue.js, Redux, GraphQL, Webpack, PNPM, Yarn, SASS, PostCSS, Tailwind, Bootstrap V5, Mocha, Jasmine, JEST, Selenium, Cypress Integrations Postmark, MailChimp, SendGrid, Facebook (Ad Manager, Business Suite, and more), Instagram, Hotjar, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google Ads, Google Cloud Platform, Google Search Console, Google Search Insights, Sentry, WhatsApp Business, OneSignal, Google Business, SumUp, GoCardless, Xero, Mandrill, Heap Analytics, Termly, Recurpost, Facebook Business Manager, and Zapier. DevOps GitHub, Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure Test Plans, GitHub Actions Project Management Notion, Clickup, Jira, Trello
Built and launched Circlr — a SaaS platform that connects to accounting systems (Xero, QuickBooks, Sage) to give businesses a real-time, live-synced register of their assets, insurance, and lifecycle status. Took the product from concept to commercial launch as sole technical lead across design, full-stack development, and DevOps on Azure. Featured as an ACCA Global Climate Tech innovator. Serving businesses from sole traders to mid-market enterprises.
Founder and creator of Wheels automotive marketplace. Designed and developed the platform and achieved a complete market share of clients island-wide within 2 years becoming the leading automotive vehicle sales platform in Jersey, Channel Islands for commercial dealerships and private sellers. As the product owner undertook full market research mapping out user stories and product objectives and presented the strategy to all 40 local dealerships island-wide. Produced UI/UX journeys and pixel-perfect responsive layouts using Adobe XD with live prototyping. As sole full-stack developer built the platform on Microsoft Azure infrastructure using ASP.NET MVC Core, Blazor and React. The product consists of two ASP.NET MVC websites. The main website and a dealer website for dealerships to manage their vehicle stock from custom data integrations (XML, JSON, Website Scrapes, FTP or Manual). The dealer website provided additional promotional features and a full analytics dashboard. Provided client support and delivered fortnightly dealer communications highlighting the latest platform feature releases and documentation with guided walk-throughs. Managed all client relationships, company finances and budgets. Developed bespoke advertisement revenue streams including advert zones and automotive finance loan applications built with Microsoft Blazor for partnered finance companies.
The product owner and developer of bespoke property marketplace achieving complete market share of all estate agents island-wide. The primary objective was to research, design and develop a re-envisioned property portal for Jersey, Channel Islands and integrate all local estates property portfolios. After two years in production and continuous agile development, Places.je won complete market share and is the favoured solution with 44 local estates agents subscribed and actively using the platform. Two websites were created, one for property searching and another for agent property administration. New features were developed and released weekly based on client reviews and feedback.
Product owner and developer of bespoke food festival platform for Jersey, Channel Islands. Design and develop a local online food festival platform allowing restaurants to upload their food festival set menus and highlight local ingredients from Genuine Jersey producers. Menus are searchable by venue and producer across the island.
Working in a small development team working on feature sprints from technical specification through to feature release. Lead UI developer focused on product dashboard development. Transform complex UI designs and utilise leading UI libraries and frameworks including Backbone, Ember and then React to deliver reliable web interfaces.
Built a native mobile app for a property market platform for searching properties and publishing listings. Work on custom JavaScript mobile SDK to generate a Native app. Design full app layouts in Photoshop and develop mobile views and UI components.