Experience

Blue Jay MCR - Owner / Full Stack Developer

April 2015 - PRESENT

I have been running Blue Jay MCR for over 9 years, I have had many long term contracts with large agencies as well as some in house positions. Listed below are some of the clients i've had the pleasure of working with:
  • Intechnica / Pets at Home
  • McCann Erickson
  • The Jockey Club
  • BBC Children in Need
  • Havas Health
  • TBWA
  • Royal Flush
  • Ear to the Ground

Havas Lynx - Head of Frontend Development

April 2010 - April 2015

I was hired as a senior developer into a team of 2 frontend developers, over the next 5 years I build the team to 25 frontend developers split across 4 teams (including 1 team based in London) supporting an equally large software development team.

  • Line manage the teams of developers
  • Recruitment when needed
  • Code reviews
  • Introduction of new technologies (Angular, React, Gulp, SCSS)
  • Client meetings with big Pharma companies to discuss requirements
  • Pitching to new clients

McCann Erickson - Interactive Applications Developer

April 2006 - April 2010

Working out of the Prestbury offce in a team of 3 developers taking concepts supplied by the creative team from Photoshop documents though to deployment. Using the latest technologies to produce anything from a lightweight microsite to heavyweight online applications.

  • Classic ASP, .NET, MyS9L, Javascript, jQuery
  • Client meetings
  • In March 2009 McCann Erickson opened a satellite in the city centre of Manchester called Metro. I was moved to this offce to drive innovation and work on projects more suited to a city centre offce.

Caudwell Group - Web Developer

April 2003 - April 2006

Working as part of a highly motivated and talented development team, producing e-commerce solutions for blue chip clients, as well as intranets and Windows applications.

  • eCommerce sites for Tesco Mobile, Boots Mobile and Phones4U

Skills

HTML + SASS/SCSS/CSS
5 / 5
Javascript
4 / 5
Node.JS
4 / 5
React
4 / 5
Git
3 / 5
Next.JS
3 / 5
Typescript
3 / 5
MongoDB
3 / 5
Bash
2 / 5