I helped out in store fixing everyday PC and laptop problems. Removing viruses, fault finding on hardware issues. I often did home visits to set up networks, and new pc's. I gave advice to customers visiting the store, doing my best to understand their computing requirements and doing what I can to match their needs, and if not possible telling them where they can suit their needs. I was also developing their website for them, and giving webdesign lessons to customers who wanted to know more.

IT Technitian

organiser

Mechanical Engineering Maintenance and Installation

11 x GCSE's

Senior Engineering Manager

Working alongside the CEO, shareholders and development team, my role at Digital Profile spans across leading the development of the platform to managing the workload. Ensuring all work carried out aligns to the company vision, and that we can show progress reports to our shareholders.

Before I came to this role I had heard about the company, and what they were trying to achieve. So when the opportunity arose for me to go and head up the development team, I jumped at the chance.

Using a modern stack for Development, and working alongside some of the most talented developers and designs I've met, I feel that I have found a company I am going to be able to help push to where they need to be.

Head Of Development

In my role as CTO at Codez Academy I was responsible for managing and building the Codez education platform, a new platform designed for schools/teachers to use to teach children how to code. I regularly create and deliver training courses/materials, for adult learners, on a variety of different languages. I am deeply involved in creating the companies business plans, financial plans, and partner management to ensure we have the funds, goals, and timescales needed.

Chief Technology Officer

Proxlinux was an open source project to create a simple and cut down linux distribution. My role in this project was to work on the UI concepts and to create the interfaces.

Developer and UI Designer

In my time in the Armed Forces I had many tasks and responsibilities, from guard sentry duty, to rifle training, to driving and maintaining the British Army's main Battle Tank.

I started my army career within an Engineering regiment, studying the basics of mechanical engineering and then moving onto more complex electrical engineering.

While serving in the army I toured Afghanistan as a front line soldier. My role while deployed was to travel down commonly used routes with my troop and clear any IED's that may have been planted. Also to show a friendly and helpful military force to the locals.

Soldier

Technical Writer

I was employed at Locality Solutions, a tech for good company. Who provide a SAAS application to a variety of public and private sector clients, aimed at providing a multi-agency collaborative environment for case management.

My day to day roles involved managing the development team; making sure targets were being met, and bugs are being squashed.  My workload was split 80:20 between Development and management.

I instrumented a cloud environment that meets compliance level up to Official Sensitive (IL4 for the old school compliance officers), ensuring that all aspects of security are not only managed and assessed, but also audited fully.

I personally interviewed and tested each member of the development team, ensuring not only technical skills are kept where we needed them, but also the aptitude and ambition is in line with what was require as a company.

This role taught me a lot about how to manage a team, and how to manage a product based environment working to the AGILE methodo

At Advanced Website Design this was my main introduction to the agency world. Working on a multitude of platforms from Joomla to Wordpress, Magento to more bespoke projects. Work was fast paced and plentiful, from standard advertising websites to more indepth SMS API components to work alongside existing CMS systems.

Web Designer/Developer

At Morello Digital I worked as a web developer and helpdesk support. Working on cutting edge technology using secure coding practices specialising in Drupal development.

I also handled website and server support in this position, making sure your websites are safe secure and running as best they can.

Web Developer

Core Committee Member

Linux System Administrator where my duties included monitoring networks, finding and fixing faults, 1st Line Support, Researching new tools and software, helping the development team.

Linux System Administrator

Technical Lead

I started working as a freelance developer to cover a niche market of white label backend development. I often worked in collaboration with other developers and designers taking project lead to make sure everything was completed on time and on budget.

My work ranged from simple static websites, to more in-depth and immersive web applications, to security testing solutions and RESTful API construction.

Freelance Developer

Lead Software Engineer

Within this role I was working on both programming and server for a new online social experience. Working in bespoke PHP and JavaScript making sure I ; my variables and . my strings.

I also handled things on the server side from Load Balancing to CDN, making sure the content requested is delivered as fast as possible and in the most secure and flexible way possible.

The Pirate Network was an open source project, that utilised Mesh Networking, Raspberry Pi's and virtual Servers, to create a constant connection between nodes to deliver a custom built social network. On this project I was lead developer for both front and back end, also overseeing any code changes and network configurations required.

Lead Developer

I was one of the technical staff writers for an online Linux magazine who have writers all over the world. I wrote about anything from Linux reviews, tutorials, code examples, to more "off-topic" articles.

Staff Technical Writer

I worked for Ingelby Global Limited as a Digital Developer, my main roles were to work in a full stack role from front end to backend development. I got to work on many projects from big names to smaller companies, working with simple datasets, to very complex big datasets.

Digital Developer

Engineering Manager

Head Of Software

Software Engineering Manager

My main tasks at Shropshire Tourism were to organise and maintain the hosting solution, and to develop client websites. This includes various CMS systems and a bespoke Content Management System. The technologies I used were: html5, css3, SASS, JavaScript, OOP PHP and MySQL.

I created PHP South Wales to bring developers together, no matter of their background or experience level. We host events on a monthly basis, bring in a variety of speakers to aid in our continual learning 

Founder

I am working alongside TechVets to help them move their non for profit forward in the technology space, and to help them scale their digital business. 

Chief Technology Advisor

Columnist

Developer Advocate

I do APIs and education

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