Profile
Disciplined Software Development Manager and Developer with a passion for delivering high quality and valuable software.
Skillset
Development
- Test Driven Development using JavaScript, Python, Java, Objective-C and Swift
- Data visualisation using D3.js
- Cross browser CSS & JavaScript, tested using SauceLabs, Jasmine, gulp-uncss and Jenkins CI server
- Behaviour Driven Development using Selenium testing with Cucumber & Behave
Devops
- Continuous Integration, testing and deployment with Jenkins and Travis CI
- Collecting and analysing metrics on code with SonarQube to increase quality and reliability
- Improving development workflows to drive a cross-team centric way of working
Other skills
- Android and iOS development
- Ran NHS Social Media (#nhssm) chat for 3 years which helped NHS staff use social media in a professional capacity
Languages & Tools
- HTML, XHTML & HTML5
- LESS, CSS & IE .htc
- Gulp for front-end tooling
- XML, XSLT & JSON
- SVG, Canvas & VML
- CoffeeScript & JavaScript
- Jasmine & PhantomJS for testing JS SauceLabs API for cross browser testing
- jQuery & jQuery plugin creation
- Jenkins CI for automated testing & deploy
- Python, Django & Odoo
- SonarQube for code quality management
- Objective-C, Swift & Interface Builder
- Java & Android SDK
- PHP & Wordpress - themes & plugins
- Ansible for provisioning
- Bash for Linux & Mac
Experience
Software Development Manager
NeovaHealth, 2015 - Present
- Lead team of eight development, QA & UX staff
- Utilised Agile ways of working to focus team on delivering a high quality valuable product
- Co-ordinated the adoption of Scrum and Continuous Delivery in the organisation
- Helped grow a culture of validated learning and knowledge sharing
- Conducted staff performance reviews, appraisals and one-to-ones
Frontend Developer
Neovahealth, 2013 - 2015
- Created mobile frontend for Open-eObs, a mobile application used by frontline NHS staff to submit patient observations using Odoo - a Python powered ERP system
- Built a module that used PhantomJS & D3 to print off patient reports from Odoo
- Created LESS & CoffeeScript frontend workflow using Gulp, PhantomJS and SauceLabs API
- Created a CoffeeScript library for D3 that allowed for patient’s observations to be viewed and interacted with via graphs and tables using context & focus technique
New Media Officer
St George’s Healthcare NHS Trust, 2010 - 13
- Worked with Google to map the indoors of St George’s Hospital - the largest Hospital in London
- Created unique mobile friendly websites for the trust’s mandatory publications, saving roughly £6,000 per publication
- Built a consultant directory for GP Liason team and an API which allowed for this information to be used across the Trust’s websites.
- Ran the trust’s social media accounts and the NHS Social Media twitter chat which helped get NHS staff discussing social media and it’s use as a professional tool
Education
BA Digital Art Specialist
Thames Valley University, 2006 - 2009
- Received a First Class Degree