Senior UI developer & team lead 2018 - 2020, 4mation Technologies
Responsibilities:
Build accessible, responsive, high-performance templates for 4mation's stable of startup, scaleup, and corporate clients, using HTML, CSS, vanilla Javascript, React, Vue, and Angular
Develop in-house tooling for creating and documenting reusable component systems using Node, KSS, and Storybook (both React & Vue flavours)
Mentor junior UI developers, emphasising the importance of accessibility, responsiveness, and performance
Evangelise for best-practice front-end development, delivering company-wide training and providing individual coaching
Manage cross-functional 9-member team, accountable for all aspects of team output, reporting directly to head of delivery
Highlights:
Won 2018 Employee of the Year and a trip to SXSW Conference & Festival in Texas
Lead 10play.com.au UI team, personally contributing the responsive navigation, search tooling, and grid system
Successfully launched and maintained 4mation company website
Senior UI developer & managing director 2001 - 2017, Pi-squared
Responsibilities:
Provide one-stop-shop for websites, games, and single page applications working with a number of UK agencies
Mentor junior UI developers, focusing on web standards, reusable templates, and cross-browser support
All aspects of company administration from financial planning to HR to grocery shopping, dealing with one fire and two floods
Highlights:
Built award-winning websites for Ogilvy UK, delivered work for blue-chip clients including Ernst & Young, Glencore, Lynx, and many more
Introduced Agile methodologies to development teams, reducing turn-around times and wasted effort in project delivery
Maintained a number of client relationships for 15+ years
Grew agency from a 2-person operation in a spare room to ongoing 12-person software delivery team in company-owned premises
Before that... it was the late 1990s
Teletubbies. The Matrix. Flip phones.
Meanwhile I was an HTML email designer/developer at WorldWideTender, a designer/Flash developer at Electric Ocean, and a designer/developer at Fusion Interactive.