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Have lived and worked all over the world for the last 20 years and am recently returned from travelling in Colombia and the USA. I'm looking to join a team in London where I can learn and grow as a software developer, as well as be actively involved in the product. Curious about all forms of technology, from raspberry pi to iOS. Interested in media, politics, journalism and education.
| Project | Timeframe | Description | Technologies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Injection Dependent | 11 days | Final group project. To help those recently diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, by i) keeping a record of previous injections, and ii) suggesting the next injection site to help make cycling through them habitual. The first time most of us had worked on a mobile application. | React Native, Expo, Jest, Enzyme |
| Acebook | 11 days | Second group project, Facebook clone built using Agile methodologies. Initially all done in Rails, halfway through we were told to separate the front and back-end. This was very useful in teaching the basics of developing a RESTful API, and also built on what I'd been doing in React before. | Ruby, Rails, RSpec, Devise, JavaScript, React, Jest, Enzyme |
| Makers BnB | 5 days | This was the first ever group project that any of us had done. The task was to create a platform which emulates the functionality of Airbnb. It taught us a lot about best practices when it comes to working in a group. | Ruby, Sinatra, RSpec, PostgreSQL, Active Record |
| Bank Tech Test | 2 days | TDD Ruby mock tech test where the intention was to produce high quality, flexible, easy-to-understand, and maintainable code. | Ruby, RSpec |
One project I am keen to begin is an app listing gluten-free (or gluten-free friendly) places in the user's vicinity, using geolocation.
The past few months have emphasised how powerful effective teamwork can be, and how crucial communication is for achieving this. The group projects listed above have given me a taste of working in software teams, helping me to become more comfortable with Agile methodologies and sparking a desire to continue building things in the future, whatever the tech stack.
Having lived, studied and worked in four different countries over the last 20 years, in a wide variety of careers, I feel like I have much to offer as an employee and a team member in terms of experience, people skills and learning new technologies, in addition to having a greater understanding of the world context.
Makers Academy (August 2018 - November 2018)
A 16 week intensive coding course, which includes the following:
- Object Oriented Programming - using SOLID principles to write clean code.
- Test Driven Development.
- Pair programming, and group work in teams of 4-5 using Agile methodologies & Extreme programming practices.
- Heavy focus on self-led learning & self reflection, as to improve processes.
- Full-stack web development: JavaScript, Ruby, Java, Rails, React, node.js, RSpec, Jasmine, JUnit, Gradle, Enzyme, Capybara, Selenium, jQuery, PostgreSQL, MVC etc.
In addition to the work done here, I have also experimented with Angular, Ionic and React native.
- HTML, CSS, JQuery, UX, HCI, Photoshop
- Majored in Communications and English Literature, minored in History, with additional units in Political Science, Anthropology and Philosophy
- graduated with a 2:1
- Worked as a technical producer at a radio station (990 6RPH Information Radio) for the read-print handicapped throughout my degree, recording and editing programmes, as well as being an on-air announcer
- Studied French language and culture
- Studied German language and culture
Freelance Web Developer (Jan 2017 to Feb 2018)
Web Developer/Designer
- made static mobile-first websites for several clients using html, jquery, css and bootstrap
PairForm, Nantes (Mar 2017 to Aug 2017) Web Designer
- helped build an Ionic app for the startup
- translated the web/app content from French to English
- internationalisation on the backend API (using JSON docs so users could switch from Eng-Fr etc)
IDLangues, Nantes (Dec 2016 to June 2017)
ESL teacher
- taught mainly Business English to adults, in classes of up to 8 students as well as 1-to-1
ICB Europe (Jan 2013 to Jan 2014)
Business English Trainer at Natixis Investment Bank, Paris
- worked on all floors of the bank, helping prepare presentations and negotiations in English, as well as teaching business English
Hampstead Parochial School (Sept 2010 to July 2012)
SEN teaching assistant, working with autistic pupils
- ran the tennis, French and cross-country running after-school clubs
- was the School 'Eco Warrior' which entailed forming a school Eco Club, compiling a dossier of what needed to be improved around the school to save energy and money, actively getting the pupils to take responsibility
- gave a presentation to an audience at the Camden Council in Mornington Crescent, securing over £100,000 of funding for the school to modernise the building's insulation and heating
Daventry William Parker Secondary School (Sept 2009 to July 2010)
Secondary School Teacher (History, Geography and RE)
- initially started as a teaching assistant, then supply teacher and was soon given my own classroom, made the interim head of RE and offered a GTP (on-job teaching qualification) at the end of the school year
Pitstop Bookshop, Perth (Jan 2007 to Feb 2009)
Sales and Website Content
Red Bee Media, Perth (Jun 2006 to Jan 2007)
Captioner
Australian Karting Magazine (Aug 2005 to Jun 2006)
Staff Journalist
- wrote and edited the majority of the articles for the monthly print magazine
- wrote the 'letter from the editor' as well as interview the racers
- ran the website using Adobe Coldfusion, as well as moderating the forum
Freelance editor/blurb writer/copy writer (2003 to 2016)
- wrote blurbs for books
- edited novels, academic papers, ebooks, web material
- English (Native)
- French (Fluent)
- German (Intermediate)
- Spanish (Intermediate)
Learning languages, living in different countries, reading literature, playing with technology, politics and current affairs (The Economist, Private Eye)
React
Typescript
Django
Laravel
Facebook
Microsoft
Google
Alibaba
D3
Tencent