Experience
Blue Jay MCR - Owner / Full Stack Developer
April 2015 - PRESENT
- 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