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A driven and fast learning, team player who loves technology & solving problems. I've spent the last 5 years across different roles at Makers Academy. Roles described below but this has been scaling the business from a startup of 8 people to now employing 50+ people and training hundreds of developers every year to employment.

• Building simple and interactive sites for small businesses
• Advising on SEO and growth strategy with startups through Escape the City and NEF
• Bug fixing for product sites
• Working on personal projects to keep skills up to date

Following a restructure at Makers at the start of the pandemic I was asked take over the role of centralised operations and bring multiple parts of our business back together under one roof. Projects have included :

• Managing our fleet of 200+ laptops and mobile devices (from spreadsheet -> MDM)
• Restructuring and updating all processes across the business
• Building internal teams up to share knowledge in a remote first world
• Creating a platform for reporting to the board and senior management team
• Cutting costs by approx 35% across the business
• Testing and implenting new software across all teams
• Becoming Cyber Secure to adhere to government supply guidelines

Makers launched Apprenticeships in 2018. I was asked to launch the division using the knowledge and experience gained over the years building the core bootcamp model.

• Hands on launch of Apprenticeships
• Recruited, trained and mentored 100+ students in our first year
• Hired a team of 15 into the business
• Lead the team through passing our first ever OFSTED inspection
• Opened additional Makers training centres in Peterborough and London
• Oversaw our 100% pass rate through to March 2020
• Ensured financial and ESFA compliance was met

After graduating at Makers, I am now working there on a temporary basis as a teaching consultant and supporting the current batch of students with their work and being on hand to answer any technical questions they have.

I am also supporting the Makers Engineering Team by testing some of their software and working with their Director of Engineering to provide mentorship support and feedback on pre-course materials for future students already booked onto the course.

Final Project: Challenge Me - a group project designed to make fund raising fun. Using TDD and Rails, we worked to plug a hole in the fundraising industry and made people accountable for their fundraising.

My responsibilities on the team were to create and work on the back-end of the app and ensure all of our code was tested and working. I paired with Toan mainly for the creation of the database and it's various dependancies. Once the MVP was up we used two API's (JustGiving and MapMyFitness) to create a full user experience.

I started volunteering my time to Esc to help run their evening meetups and events over 2 years ago. Most recently, I am involved with 99 other people on a pioneering program to help shape the future of the Escape School.

• Management of all social media activity
• Research and implement a customised CMS
• Ensuring our booking team was selling all spaces available
• Maximise revenue from available inventory
• Business development and account management
• Increasing brand awareness and raising company profile
• Latest Project: Opening Britannia Study Hotel, Brighton

June -September 2014

A 12 week course with Makers Academy to join the next generation of highly skilled programmers and web developers in London and around the world.

Technologies Learnt at Makers

• Ruby (2.1.x) | Ruby on Rails (4.1.x)
• Sinatra
• RSpec, Capybara, Cucumber and Jasmine
• ActiveRecord and Datamapper
• PostgreSQL
• Agile methodologies (TDD, BDD, Scrum)
• Object orientated programming
• Pair programming
• Version control using Github
• Javascript, JQuery, Ajax, Websockets
• Heroku
• HTML5, CSS, Bootstrap,
• APIs including Twilio, Stripe, Mailgun

Air Transport Studies BSC Hons