Heavy Penguin Digital

Founder of Digital Agency Heavy Penguin, specialising within the membership, not-for-profit and charity sector.

Founder / CEO

Ministry of Justice UK

Agile feature delivery on selected digital services working as a UI Developer. Developing accessible features using GOVUK Front-end components with Nunjucks and typescript on Node.js and Express. TDD using Cypress, Jest and consuming backend APIs developed in Kotlin.

Senior Frontend Developer

NHS England

Working on the live NHS 111 Online service as a Frontend developer. Part of an agile team working with departments through DUEC. Full stack development with extensive experience of govuk and nhsuk frontend libraries. Strong emphaisis on accessiblity and remediating the applicaton to meet WCAG.

Senior Frontend Developer (111 Online)

ZPG Plc

Senior Software Engineer (Front End) Contract working on Zoopla.co.uk agent finder tool. Microservices architecture working on Node.js and Express, using postCSS, Roll up.js, ES6 Javascript, Preact. TDD with TAP.  

Also some Vue.js.

Senior Software Engineer (Front-end)

Wunderman Thompson Commerce

Senior Front End Developer leading front end development on some very well known E-Commerce Websites such as Argos, Boots and Selfridges for various high profile clients. Core skills in Javascript, CSS & HTML. Building both responsive and adaptive applications. A split of hands-on development, architecture and management. Code reviews, mentoring and client-facing interaction.

Senior Front End Dev & Lead

Bounty UK Ltd

•	Responsible for a team of 4 front end developers overseeing implementation of front end technologies including CSS, XHTML, Javascript, AJAX with JSON, XML & XSLT
•	Upholding accessible and compliant, cross browser compatible front end code to W3C standards
•	FE Lead on Bounty.com through all stages of web lifecycle from design and concept right through to testing and implementation. 
•	Good interaction with all areas of both the business and client/affiliates gathering requests and managing expectations and deadlines.
•	Implemented and co-ordinated CSS framework ZEN with Drupal for Bounty.com new launch

MailOnline

•	Designing creative for various channels for dailymail.co.uk
•	Gained experience in working in an AGILE environment working with both back end development and editorial. Also using SVN source control
•	Helped in refactoring the whole site CSS. This included removing unused classes creating re-usable CSS framework and overall optimizing of style sheets
•	Helped Compiled a Design Style Guide for the dailymail.co.uk website, including guidelines from good coding practices to colours and fonts
•	Worked closely and managed the Olympics 2008 sports channel, providing design creative and front-end CSS and XHTML
•	Introduced to Eclipse and working in a JAVA enviroment.

Front End Web Developer & Designer

Tesco

•	Responsible for live front-end development across various Tesco.com micro sites including the most popular grocery site in the UK and Tesco direct & Clothing
•	Worked proficiently in XML, XHTML, JavaScript, ASP and CSS across a wide variety of web sites to strict standards. Following WAI guidelines with good understanding of DOM model, accessibility and W3C compliance.
•	Created campaigns for clients such as Vodafone, Prada and Sony Ericsson
•	Developed skills on Accessibility in CSS and coding to strict W3C AA standards including cross browser compatibility
•	Working in Adobe CS I was responsible for designing promotional banners and landing pages for Tesco Telecoms & direct.

Telecoms Web Designer & Front End Developer

Gold Network Ltd

Tech Support / Web Designer

Founder of Heavy Penguin Digital. Senior Software Engineer with over 20 years experience, (Inc. 10 years in E-commerce), developing high profile websites such as Argos, Boots, Selfridges, Zoopla, Tesco, The Daily Mail and many more. Dedicated to building safe, scalable, accessible and cost effective digital solutions

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