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Junior software engineer with a passion for making through coding. Graduate of Makers Academy, with degrees in Geography and Anthropology. Before coding, I created maps underpinning the high-level planning and analysis of London’s demography and health infrastructure, and I devised and led games and exercises for basic music education workshops aimed at young refugees.

My ambition now is to build a career in software development, where I can contribute and learn from the challenge of making things alongside an innovative team of problem solvers.

I love solving problems and have thoroughly enjoyed honing this skill at Makers Academy. Whether working in a team or on my own, my first instincts are to confirm my assumptions and gain visibility on what is happening in my code, then to test my hypotheses. Repeating and tightening this cycle until I have a solution is a strategy that has been integral to my success as a developer.

Working in Agile ways at Makers Academy was paramount to project delivery, where successful coordination of my team depended on my ability to communicate complex concepts, give and receive feedback, and lookout to the wellbeing of the team dynamic.

Good communication with my team was also critical to my role in the NHS Healthy Urban Development Unit, where I was one of three people with tasked with maintaining the integrity of the London-wide master estates database. My communication skills were equally critical to delivering effective music education at Soundmix, working with both my fellow workshop tutors and the students themselves.

I have consistently achieved high academic results in delivering research at undergraduate and masters’ level both individually and in teams under deadline pressures, requiring the construction of arguments based on conjoined analyses of literature and field data.

I have employed these skills in my career to deliver combined statistical and qualitative analyses at both the NHS Healthy Urban Development Unit, and the political division of the Commonwealth Secretariat.

I took the opportunity to study abroad in Singapore to explore different cultures and working environments, which was one of the most gratifying experiences of my life. Whilst abroad I also took the initiative to teach myself to write a program in Visual Basic to mine data from a website over a given period which was used for a group research assignment. Later, I began my coding journey in earnest by teaching myself C# and Unity 3D with the ambition to create my own strategy games.

Highly selective and intensive coding boot camp based in East London.

• Test Driven Development - a core focus of the course along with pair programming.
• Agile methodologies and XP values - running our own standups and retros in autonomous groups. Developing projects via successive MVPs.
• Learning to learn - by encountering new technologies, concepts and problems almost every week, I have a proven ability to adapt and quickly grasp complex challenges.
• Object-Orientated Design and SOLID principles - understanding what makes code "clean" - readable, scalable, DRY, SRP
• Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, Javascript, Node.js, React.js, jQuery
• Rspec, Jasmine, Mocha

MSc Anthropology, Environment and Development with Distinction.

BA Geography (First-class Honours) and awarded Associate of King’s College.

A Levels: Physics (A), Geography (A) & Business Studies (A)

AS Levels: Computing (A) & Maths (mechanics) (B)

GIS Technician based within an NHS unit tasked with ensuring the integration of healthcare with effective infrastructure planning for new developments and population growth in London.

• Undertaking spatial analyses of London's demography and the projected impact of future growth on NHS health infrastructure using ArcGIS.

• Designing maps and other forms of statistical data visualisation to concisely illustrate this analysis for presentation to various NHS organisations.

• Authoring reports using maps and statistical analysis to support and inform the development of estate strategies.

• Developing and maintaining a London-wide NHS asset database including an online mapping tool. This involved collating, scrutinising and analysing large volumes of estates data from various NHS sources.

• Communicating my analysis to my team.

Tutor for a charity providing basic music education to young refugees and asylum seekers. Soundmix offered me this paid role after my voluntary work with them.

• Devising and leading group exercises designed to promote participants' rhythmic and musical abilities.

• Tutoring young participants individually and in groups, in keyboard, guitar and percussion.

• Developing workshop content and structure in tandem with assessments of participants’ progress.

• Contributing to planning and evaluation sessions with new approaches, exercises and monitoring mechanisms.

• Working in a team to manage individual behaviour and overall workshop dynamic to create an engaging and friendly atmosphere.

• Setting up and maintaining musical equipment.

• Monitoring Commonwealth countries for key events in political, economic and social discourse. Analysing this data in relation to the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group’s framework for intervention and communicating my analysis to the division.

• Drafting talking-points for Commonwealth officials (including the Commonwealth Secretary General) to use in bilateral meetings with representatives of other countries, drawing upon said monitoring research.

• Solely representing my division at regular meetings with the Communications division to give and receive feedback on respective working agendas. Liaising with departments and outside staff to help organise official visits.

• Using advanced Excel features to produce planning tools coordinating all tasks covering the organisation and aftermath of a biennial Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), based on the 2015 Malta CHOGM.

• Undertaking special research projects ranging from evaluating which countries to engage and how, to reviewing current research/practices in certain development concepts. Presenting these in a concise formatted document, with statistical data visualisation.

• Proof reading official documents and releases, minuting meetings, compiling and updating various documents and contact lists.