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Marketer turned Junior Developer. I’m passionate about problem-solving, keen to be intellectually challenged and excited to find a role that will allow me to consolidate and extend my programming knowledge. I am a creative and curious individual who really enjoys working within a team, thinking up new ideas as well breaking existing things into little pieces and putting them back together in a more efficient way to make them work better.
For a complete list, see my Github.
| Project | Description | Technologies |
|---|---|---|
| Commandos | This was my final project at Makers Academy, which I worked on with four other students in my cohort. Commandos is a unique command line tool and learning aid that monitors commands entered into the bash terminal and suggests helpful tips based on the user's activity. | Ruby, Bash, RSpec, Aruba |
| Love me Tinder | I spent four days, working within a team of six to create this dating simulator/ relationship compatibility game. | Ruby, Rails, Travis CI, PostgreSQL, CSS & Bootstrap, RSpec, JavaScript & Jasmine |
| Acebook | Our international cohort of 12 programmers from 4 countries working in 2 timezones spent a week making this clone of a popular social media website. | Ruby/Rails, RSpec, Capybara, Postgres, Devise, AWS S3 |
| Chitter | Following an introduction to creating Sinatra apps, were given a weekend challenge to build a Twitter clone. | Ruby, RSpec, PostgreSQL, Data Mapper, Database Cleaner, Capybara, Sinatra |
In my previous roles, I was taught to be strategic, be it from a theoretical or practical standpoint. With coding, I can tell that my strategical skills will be put to work and I look forward to building on them and adapting them to a new professional environment.
Working across a range of projects, within different teams, across a business with a wide variety of performance and organic channels is something I really enjoyed doing in my previous roles. I also had the pleasure of working with different groups of people with different skillsets, on a range of projects, at Makers and whilst this wasn't easy at first, I truly enjoyed being a part of a team that worked through team-related challenges to eventually work seamlessly.
I've only ever known how to work under pressure and so it has become the environment in which I thrive in. I have learnt to meditate, organise and move on and I plan to combine my growing methodical and organisational skills to help strengthen this skill.
From my time studying to my last role, I have always taken an analytical approach to building strategy, creating & testing and have always considered the range of relevant factors before taking next steps.
An example of my Analytical skills within a professional environment:
- Whilst working at MOO.COM, I considered short-long term performance data and other business development/ change to create a new and successful strategy for marketing to design students, also known as "Summer's most important customers", this went on to contribute to the significant growth of the student customer-base and database, YoY, two years in a row
- As well as executing design-led, cross-department campaigns, I also designed and implemented vertical-specific landing pages that were influenced by the relevant PPC and on-site search terms, SEO bugs and web-merchandising opportunities
- OOP, TDD, SOLID, MVC, DDD
- Software Craftsmanship
- Ruby, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, JQuery, Bash, Node.js
- HTML, CSS, Express.js
- PostgreSQL, DataMapper
- Rspec, Aruba, Jasmine, Mocha, Chai, Capybara
- Agile methodologies and XP values
Design & Business - Foundation Degree
- Graduated with Distinction across all modules
- Whilst studying at the FRA, I was shortlisted and interned at the X-Factor live shows as a wardrobe assistant
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Google Adwords Fundamentals (April 2015)
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Best STL - Advanced Excel (April 2015)
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IAB UK - Digital Marketing Essentials (October 2014)
Freelance - Radar Radio/ IVAN/ MASESI LDN (July 2015 - Present)
Marketing & Brand Consultant / Writer
MOO.COM (January 2014 - March 2016)
International Digital Marketing Executive
Michael Kors (November 2012 - October 2013)
International Marketing Assistant
- Baking : I am business partners with my sister, she started a gluten free and dairy free baked goods pop-up called Masesi in July 2015, which had stands at a variety of popular London Food Markets as well as having a stand at SS17 Fashion Week. She's since up and shipped the business to South Africa, but I still bake cakes for family, friends and neighbours every month.
- Sewing : I've been pinning, sewing and altering garments since I was about 9 and I haven't stopped since. Every year, I choose my favourite runway or trend piece and re-create it. I also designed, created and altered wardrobe items in BAFTA nominated short Sea View
- Writing : I'm not an expert writer, but I still love to write, mostly about design, menswear and sneaker trends.