An agile Full Stack Developer who used the opportunity of a career break to retrain. No stranger to a challenge and with a passion for problem solving, I have been successful in transitioning my skill set under the training and guidance of Makers Academy. My experience has given me the ability to excel in fast paced and demanding environments and with my enthusiasm for learning and development, I am always looking to challenge myself and learn something new. A diligent team player with the capacity to lead, I am excited to find my next team to build and grow with. I’m looking to return to full time work after 2 years of caring for my mother.
| Name | Description | Tech/tools | Source Code |
|---|---|---|---|
| sScrummy | Street food market finder mobile app using Google Maps and Places API to locate and add to their growing number of street food markets across London. As my final project at Makers we used this opportunity to build a mobile application with a new stack, confirming my capacity to learn new languages at speed. | MERN Framework with React Native | Source Code |
| Poke | A fully functional social media platform, where users can post their thoughts, like and comment on posts. The first two week team project introduced me to continuous integration and development frameworks and re-familiarised myself with agile team work processes. | Rails framework, CI/CD with Circle CI and Heroku | Source Code |
| Monarch | A web application where users can both list properties to rent and hire properties to stay. This project introduced me to relational databases as well as deepened my understanding of MVC as well as restful routes. | Sinatra framework with PostgreSQL | Source Code |
| Code Reviews | Code challenges completed under the watchful eye of independent professional reviewers. These reviews help me develop my TDD processes and challenge me to develop my skill set. | Ruby and Javascript | Feedback |
Self-Employed (May 2018 - Present)
Web-designer
- Design and building websites using web builders eg. Wordpress.org, SquareSpace and Wix.
Chicago Costume Company (June 2018 to December 2018)
Project Manager
- Management of seasonal expansion for Halloween to open 10 temporary satellite stores across the city of Chicago.
Peakon (April 2017 to May 2018 )
People and Operations Manger
- Led successful office move from 2,000 sq ft managed unit to 11,000 sq ft space in 8 weeks with a restricted budget.
- Implemented new hiring software (Workable), HR management software (HiBob) and Pension and Equity Scheme for all.
- Managed HR, People and Office Operations and assisted in recruitment of a fast growing company of 25 FTE at hire. This grew to 125 FTE and the hire of a full People Operations, Company Operations, Finance and Recruitment teams within a year.
- Organised 3 international company retreats in Lisbon, Berlin and Barcelona for over 100 employees.
- Implemented a company on-boarding programme with capacity to facilitate the growing team and constant company change.
Self-Employed (October 2016 to May 2017)
Startup Operations and Innovation Consultant
- Mentored a growing tech startups. Supported expansion planning, HR, developing operational procedures and investor management.
MassChallenge (February 2015 to April 2017)
UK Operations Manager
- Founding member of the first global expansion for MassChallenge. An at scale global startup accelerator programme and competition that awards millions of dollars in grants to entrepreneurs annually.
- UK lead for product team, advocating future development planning. Managed and integrated all UK IT systems.
- Successfully coordinating two global application cycles with 3000+ applications from over 60 countries for the accelerator, specifically managing team resourcing and customer service.
- Build out and logistics management for the establishment of the first UK office as well as day to day organisation.
- Locum work within Events Team, leading on management of external events, MC’ing and hosting discussions.
- Built a pipeline for strategic partnerships to bridge collaboration between large organisations and the innovation ecosystem.
Never one to let an obstacle get the better of me, I work diligently to fix bugs and issues in the code base and often volunteer to support other members of the cohort attempt to fix their code too. Prior to Makers, I taught myself web builder technologies and basic HTML and CSS to ensure I could still work while caring.
A clear and direct communicator, I have a daily blog to reflect on my learning experience and aid my capacity to explain key concepts to those without a technical background. Managing multi-national projects while at Peakon required me to be a coherent and concise leader whilst ensuring nobody was left behind.
Makers developed my capacity to ensure learning is a lifelong skill. Since completing the course I have decided to begin learning Python, React and Cypress.
Known as the librarian of the cohort, I try hard to find, save and also share the best learning resources that help me understand the new concepts we were learning. Working for MassChallenge - a non-profit - I developed my resourcefulness skills to run a large programme with limited time, space, team and budget.
- Javascript (React Native, Node.js, Express, Expo, jQuery Jasmine, Jest)
- Ruby (Rails, Sinatra, RSpec, Capybara)
- Design (HTML, CSS, Bootstrap)
- Version control (Git, Github)
- Databases (SQL - PostgreSQL. NoSQL - MongoDB. Tools - TablePlus, Mongoose, Postman)
- Deployment (Travis, CircleCI, Heroku)
- BA Hons Politics
- Upper Second Class Honours
- Students' Union Vice President Student Activities 2011-12 (Sabbatical)
A-levels - Mathematics, Politics and Economics GCSE's - Mathematics, English Language, Science, English Literature, Geography, Textiles, ICT, French, Religious Studies.
- Soca music and travelling to international Caribbean Carnivals to celebrate the culture and reconnect with old friends.
- Reading and self development to challenge myself to approach life from different perspectives.
- Volunteering to support and give back to the communities I partake in.