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A live events technician turned Junior Developer via Makers Academy. I've gone from teaching myself Objective-C in my parents' basement to pushing myself to acquire the skills to forge a career I enjoy.
I like to know how everything works, and use that knowledge to formulate ideas for improvement. Despite often resulting in getting myself in too deep, it always allows room for learning something new or finding a different perspective.
- Keen for clean, readable code
- Reliable code using Test-Driven Development
- Building expandable software with Object-Oriented Programming
- Communicative pair partner
- Deconstructing problems to get to the root of them
- Finding challenging new ideas to implement into whatever I'm doing to always keep me thinking
- Learnt Ruby and Javascript and accompanying test frameworks over the course of 12 weeks.
- Quick learner of other OO languages thanks to the practices taught at Makers Academy.
- I hate panicking, so I try very hard not to. My career in live events gave me a degree of unflappability that allows me to remain calm in problematic situations and to address them methodically.
- I like to know what I'm getting myself in for when attempting new things, whether it be 'spiking' a test version or simply reading tutorials and example code - I like to be well informed.
- A 12-week intensive course focusing on OOP, TDD, pair programming and good coding practices
- Studied primarily Ruby and Javascript
- Branched into Rails, Angular.js and Node.js
- Testing frameworks included RSpec, Jasmine and Mocha
- 3 group projects using agile methodologies such as daily stand up and retrospective sessions, pair programming and git flow
- BSc in Sound Design Technology, 2:1
- Built a basic game in Java
- One module using MAX/MSP for audio programming
| Title | Description | Technologies | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| VocApp Prototype (July - Sept '16) |
A crowd-sourced, translation-style app geared towards helping foreign students understand academic terminology in English. | Ruby on Rails ActiveRecord RSpec |
GitHub repo Heroku deployment |
| cinemascrAPI Sept '16 - ongoing |
An API returning local cinema information by scraping Google Movies. Focus on building a test-driven, versioned and robust API. | Ruby on Rails RSpec Nokogiri/Mechanize |
GitHub repo |
Feltech, on site at the Royal Society of Arts (September 2015 to January 2016)
Senior Events Technician
Half of a team of 2 responsible for the AV for the RSA's internal and external events and live streams. Lots of client liaison and last minute requests to prioritise.
ElectroSonic, on site at Barclays Head Office (March 2013 to September 2015)
Audiovisual Events Technician
Part of the team responsible for running the AV side of Barclays' in-house presentations, broadcasts and events. An intense, often fast-paced role requiring me to adapt to changing situations quickly.
- Recently got into table tennis and climbing
- Can and will play the blues for an irritating length of time
- Have had my hand in Sir David Attenborough's pocket
- No longer live in parents' basement