I'm a fresh full stack developer and experienced artist equipped with strong ideation and the processes to build anything.
I have just finished studying at Makers Academy, an intensive developer acceleration course.
Makers gave me the confidence to be a developer by initiating self-directed learning, that resulted in strong evidence of what can be achieved when the right processes are applied.
Now I'd like to maintain the pace and trajectory of learning the craft of code to as high a level of capability and quality as possible.
I'm looking for my first role in an environment that supports in-depth learning and expects their developers to be curious about the application of different programming paradigms, principles, patterns, and architecture.
I'm happy to take on the tools appropriate to the situation.
Diving into coding was motivated by a need to have a way to take thoughts forward and realise them in the world. I'm consistently astonished by the scope of problems code can be applied to. As it will enable me to build the things I want to see, I value it highly and am actively learning to use it.
I'm driven by interesting concepts. For my final project at Makers, I couldn't shake the urge to give people a unique experience. To this end, I designed a maze generating algorithm to provide a new level every time the game is played. This was written in C# (a language I hadn't really used before the project), in one day.
For any situation, I'm confident I can get to grips with the required technologies.
I'm never short of ideas, and I take great joy in making connections to solve problems.
I always find satisfaction in the elegant solution, the cleanest route to the resolution. On the recent maze project it would have taken a day to write the treasure-placing algorithm we needed. Instead, I found how we had similarities in our current logic, and implemented the solution in less than ten lines.
As an animator there were constant novel challenges to face. When asked to cut hundreds of paper tiles for a geometric pattern on a set and place them by hand, I sourced a laser-cutter and removed the negative space from several layers of colour to let the shapes through. This gave us perfect symmetry, and saved days of labour.
There is always a solution, and a way to improve it.
| Project | Description | Timeframe | Technologies |
|---|---|---|---|
| n3ttl3tSays | Personal Project, gesture based Android game | In development | Unity, C#, Android Monitor |
| Tanks2 | Tech test, build the UI for an existing game | 13 hours | Unity, C# |
| Mandala-coaster | Personal project, a virtual reality pattern generator | 7 days | Unity, C#, GearVR |
| Hide and Go Beetroot | Final team project at Makers, a virtual reality maze game | 9 days | Unity, C#, GearVR |
| SpaceBook | Team project imitating Facebook | 9 days | Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Capybara, CSS, Travis |
| MakersBnB | Team project imitating AirBnB | 5 days | Ruby, Rspec, Sinatra, PostgrsQL, Datamapper |
A 16-week intensive development bootcamp, with a focus on:
- Pair programming and emotional intelligence
- OOP best practices
- Test Driven Development
- Agile development process and XP values
- Ruby, Sinatra, Rails, JavaScript
- RSpec, Capybara, Jasmine
- Git workflow
- Self-directed learning
- Code reviews
- BAHons Illustration with Animation
- 1st
- Specialised in experimental visual communication and narrative
- Participated in drawing exhibitions and live drawing at street festivals
- The course was quite conceptual in its approach, so it was up to me to teach myself the creative softwares I needed (Blender, Adobe suite, Ableton).
Avalon English (November 2017 to December 2018) English teacher
I knew I wanted to attend some kind of coding bootcamp, and that would require funding. After some research, TEFL sounded like a solid option. With zero teaching experience I secured a position, flew across the world, and ended up the student's favourite teacher. With careful budgeting I knew I would have enough to apply to Makers Academy after a year, so I completed my contract and headed to London.
Illustrated journal of a year in South Korea
Freelance animator (2012 to 2017) Direction, storyboarding, animating
Pitching on music videos meant I had to quickly visualise and communicate the essence of the project, and then find the most effective way to execute. This including researching aesthetics, tools, and techniques. I'm adept at using creative softwares for 2d and 3d art.
Highlight - Having a film of mine screened at Manchester Gallery, scored by a live seventeen piece orchestra.
I've always got myriad unfinished projects on the go in as many discipines as necessary to satisfy whichever particular expressive urge I'm feeling. These include but aren't limited to:
- Writing journals, poetry, outlines for games
- Interactive art sketches for android and command line
- Drawing
- Calligraphy
- Digital sculpture
Beyond creative output I'm an avid consumer of art and media, and I swim, meditate, practice yoga, and take care of plants.