After 14 years filming and editing news stories for the BBC all over the UK and abroad, I started to feel the need to challenge myself. I discovered coding and found an immediate affinity for it, enjoying the problem-solving and puzzle-like logic. I took the bold moove of leaving a dream job to throw myself into the world of development, learning all I could from every source available.
I am ridiculously proud to say I am now a Junior Full Stack Web Developer, recently graduated from the world-renowned Makers Academy 16-week developer course. I am well-versed in Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Node.js, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Express, React, and several testing libraries. I am also a certified Scrum Master, and I'm ready for whatever you want to throw at me.
- Ruby, Rspec, Sinatra, Capybara
- JavaScript, Jest, Node.js, Express, React
- HTML, CSS, Handlebars
- SQL, Postgres, MongoDB, Mongoose, Active Record
- Command Line, Git, GitHub
| Name | Description | Tech/tools |
|---|---|---|
| Tom's Escape | An interactive 2D escape-room game presented as an SPA webapp. | React, Mongo DB, Express JS, Node.js, Jest |
| Acebook | Facebook clone | Javascript, Express JS, Mongo DB, Node.js |
| Makers B&B | Air B&B clone | Ruby, Sinatra, Active Record |
BBC (2007-2022)
Senior Camera Journalist
- Working with 42 foreign-language services to deliver world-class and award-winning news to people around the globe.
- Collaborating with different teams every day to research, plan, and film news stories in the UK and abroad.
- Editing time-critical news stories and features to a high standard in a pressurised environment.
- Reporting live on location from all over the world, coving globally significant events and breaking news.
- Working closely every day with members of the public, politicians, celebrities and heads of state.
Consider skills relevent to software development. Then consider your best skills. Pick 2-4 skills and write a short descriptive paragraph for each one. You should demonstrate how capable you are at this skill with examples. (Using a STAR example Paragraph) Consider the questions below.
-STAR -What was the situation/task? (ST)
-How was the skill used?
-What did you do? (action)
-What was the result?
- Experience
- Achievements
- Evidence (STAR)
Descriptive paragraph of how capable you are at this skill and, if relevant, how it has developed (again use STAR for this)
- I achieved A during my work at B (job, or otherwise)
- I contributed to the growth of X while doing Y (job, or otherwise)
- I built this, made this, broke this, fixed this, etc.
- A link to some on-line evidence (blogs, videos, articles, etc.)
- 16-week intensive software development course
- Heavy focus on TDD
- Daily pair programming with an emphasis on self and peer-led learning
- Working within Agile and Scrum methodologies
- Volunteered as a mentor to new students
- BA, Film and Broadcast Production Studies
- 2:1 obtained
- Made several projects over the 3 years including an award-winning short film I wrote and directed which I'm incredibly proud of.
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Certified Scrum Master
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Professional Scrum Master level 1 (PSM1) certificate awarded on completion of a week-long course and a VERY intense exam.
- I write novels that no one wants to publish - 3 so far, and I have a ton more in me.
- I speak fluent Spanish and very, very poor Japanese.