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A recent graduate from Makers Academy, looking for a role where I can consolidate and extend my programming knowledge, while also gaining exposure to product management and business strategy.
Previously working in finance and retail has left me with the ability to a view a company from a fiscal perspective and allows me to empathise from a customer, shareholders and client's viewpoint.
Tech Skills: Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Git, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Sass, React, node.js, express, Jasmine, Capybara, RSpec
For a complete list, see my GitHub.
| Project | Description | Technologies |
|---|---|---|
| Jaidbook | A facebook clone made in rails | Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Capybara, Travis, Heroku |
| Thermostat | A thermostat application made to test javascript | Javascript, Jasmine |
| Meet and Eat | A fun application made to have lunch with friends | Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Rspec, Capybara, Ruby Gems: (factory_bot, devise, simplecov, etc), Javascript, HTML, CSS, Sass, Travis, Heroku |
Apart from the vast amount of technical skills I have acquired at makers, I have also improved my ability to learn new technologies and concepts. I have learned how to adapt to an unknown environment more than once and tested my skills by overcoming seemingly impossible obstacles regularly.
I have always had a passion for everything technology and mathematics. It is my early love of games and computers which jumpstarted this but also left me a thirst for knowledge of how they worked. Once I got stuck in with some hands on experience, I absolutely fell in love with coding because of how logical and neatly everything works together. It is the reason applied for the once in a lifetime opportunity at Makers Academy and started my journey of finally making my passion my career.
Everyone who's been through the journey can tell you that working and studying can be a difficult to juggle, especially when you mix in your social life. However, I felt myself more than up to task during my time at university and this was again iterated when completing group projects, where I feel as if I always thrive while working under pressure. It has allowed me hone my ability to focus on a single task and do it well before moving on which has proved beneficial in both my professional and personal life time and time again.
During my time at Notonthehighstreet.com and makers I had to overcome several challenges which drastically improved my communication skills, especially during group projects where tensions can rise due to pressure. I was lucky to have had this opportunity given to me so early as it helped me to adapt my current style of speech and manner to be able to deal with both clients within and outside of the business.
In my role at Notonthehighstreet.com I was tasked with reducing the bad debt (money owed to the company) to as low as possible. In the first 3 months I had halved this figure which raked in £40,000 to the business and just before I left the company I reduced this by half again, leaving them with a total debt from partners to only £25,000. I considered this an achievement as it used my analytical skills in helping me think of new ways and methods to approach the partners to retrieve this money.
- Methodologies: Agile, XP, Test Driven Development
A 16-week intensive development boot camp, focusing on:
- OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD
- Agile/XP
- Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
- RSpec, Jasmine
- Bsc Accounting with management (Hons)
- 2:1
- Additional modules in Auditing, Law and Statistics
- Head of Staffing for Emmanuel College May Ball 2013
- Awarded £1,000 in 1st year for achieving a score in the 95th percentile
- A Levels: Business: A, Mathematics: C, Information and technology: C
- 12 GCSE's Including A in Math and 2 B's in Science and English
Notonthehighstreet.com (Feb '17 - Oct '18)
Finance assistant dealing with both payables and receivables
TK Maxx (Jun '13 - Jan '17)
Sales associate
- Gym : I like to go to the gym to stay fit and healthy.
- Gaming : I love playing all sorts of games, whether it be video or sports
- Climbing : I enjoy going climbing every Monday with the students from Makers.