Peter Lewis

Web Developer & Swiss Army Knife for Providing Solutions

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

About

Consultant and developer for online digital solutions with excellent knowledge and experience of the full project/development lifecycles. From scoping & needs analysis, through wireframing, design & usability, to full bespoke development, optimisation & delivery. Specialities: ● Ecommerce ● Multi-language ● SEO optimisations ● Project Management/Scrum ● Responsive website development ● Interface design and usability ● UX journey planning ● DevOps & solution architecture ● PHP development ● HTML5, SASS/SCSS ● JQuery ● Craft, ExpressionEngine & Wordpress CMS's and add-on development ● Continuous Integration

Experience

  • Owner & Platform Developer at Bad Bot Studio
    Sep 2018 - Present · 7 yrs 10 mos

    Currently working on Tabletop Conflict. A digital platform for tabletop wargamers to organise and link their individual games, track their progress and take part in larger scale organised campaigns, tournaments and events. Bringing gamers and gaming communities together to visualise, measure and share their conquests and defeats, with friends, clubs, hobby shops, organisations and gaming brands.

  • Fresh Dev (15 yrs 3 mos)
    • Director
      Apr 2011 - Present · 15 yrs 3 mos

      Freelance and Contract Web & App Development, specialising in Frontend, PHP and Craft CMS.

    • Consultant & Developer
      Jun 2011 - Apr 2016 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Various consultancy, management and development roles involving: ● Brand development ● Project scope analysis and management ● Online business & product requirement analysis and strategies ● UI planning, wireframing and Photoshop/Illustrator design ● UX testing, analysis and implementation ● HTML5 and SCSS/SASS semantic and responsive markup development, optimised for SEO, including schema and image delivery optimisation ● Extensive ExpressionEngine CMS experience including bespoke and commercial add-on development using PHP, CodeIgniter and EE ● SEO consultancy and development focus ● User journey analysis and implementation ● Google Analytics research, reporting and forecasting ● Ecommerce and multi-language specialisation, focusing best practices, ● Speed and performance optimisations including Memcache and Varnish experience ● Git and Git Flow development process experience ● Wordpress CMS management and development ● Database creation, management, SQL optimisation & coding ● Full technical communications to all levels throughout the client's business ● Implementation of development and deployment processes ● Management of internal and external development teams ● Google DoubleClick for Publishers management and implementation

  • PHP Developer at Hearst Magazines UK
    Jan 2017 - May 2021 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    Supporting and enhancing the ASDA Good Living website both front and backend using ExpressionEngine, PHP (inc. Laravel) & ElasticSearch. This includes DevOps support, SEO optimisations and extending the API used by Asda.com.

  • Craft CMS Developer at Inclusive Retreats
    Apr 2017 - Mar 2018 · 1 yr

    Building a complete online presence for this startup travel company. From concept planning right through to delivering a complete online solution. This included: Researching the market, competitor analysis, team management, wireframing, design spec & review, managing design and markup development, building website in Craft CMS including future proofing business direction, implementing continuous deployment strategy and server setup. Scoped and planned API development and integration with third-party booking system including user journey planning.

  • Developer (contract) at Fetch
    Feb 2017 - Nov 2017 · 10 mos

    Optimising and launching the new Fetch website optimised for performance, responsive imagery, PageSpeed ranking, SEO, security and best practices. This included creating a deployment strategy, implementing Composer updates, NPM for Gulp tasks, Git version control and optimising their Lemp stack.