Curriculum Vitae

Profile

User focused developer with a passion for building well designed, well tested products and crafting amazing experiences.

Five years Python experience (Odoo, Django, Flask, Python 2 & 3, Nose, PyTest)
7 years Javascript experience (jQuery, React & Redux, PouchDB, Backbone.js, CoffeeScript, Karma, Jasmine, Jest, Gulp, Enzyme, Webpack)
Native app development for iOS & Android (Objective-C, Swift, Java, Cordova) Styleguide generate with LESS & KSS Continous Delivery with Github, Travis & Heroku

Product Discovery using validated learning techniques and UX principles to better understand the domain and user groups
User Story mapping to build Portfolio and Product Backlogs
Working with stake-holders to cut User Story Map into release slices
Backlog grooming and sprint planning to ensure work items meet definition of ready with Product Owner and QA
Leading a development team using either Scrum or Kanban to deliver product increments and value to the user
User engagement to get feedback on released functionality and update backlog

Writing Gherkin features to describe the behaviour of the product
Automated browser testing of Gherkin with Python, Selenium and Sauce Labs
Using SonarQube to inspect quality of the code base and drive quality improvements
Using Allure to add test meta data to unit, integration and end-to-end test runs
Load testing with Locust.io
Artifact based Continuous Delivery with Docker, GOCD and Amazon Web Services

Worked with global betting brand to bring their current online offering to the USA
Worked with NHS mental health trusts to design and develop a version of Open-eObs that met their specific needs
Built automated test suite and integrated it into team’s continuous delivery pipeline
Converted Vagrant based solution to use Docker and Amazon Web Services
Worked with client and business to ensure that team was delivering value
Created mockups and worked with users to validate ideas and current functionality

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

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

Worked with Patient Safety Lead at St George's Hospital to create a patient safety messaging system
Created native iOS and Android apps to show patient safety messages, utilising push notifications to alert users to new content
Created Django based web app to allow client to edit and publish patient safety messages as well as see statistics on each post
Worked with client's IT department to get app distributed via their newly purchased mobile devices management solution

Worked with Somerset County Council and the New Economics Foundation to bring Five Ways of Wellbeing to iOS and Android users
Created HTML5 that utilised native smartphone functionality via PhoneGap
Implemented anonymised data collection functionality using Objective-C and Java on smartphones and C# on client's webserver
Helped client to set up their App Store and Google Play accounts and certificates

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