Working With Rails

A senior web professional with 10+ years experience in a variety of projects for start-ups, small companies, public sector and blue chip organisations. Certified Scrum Master.

Comprehensive development skills in standards-based HTML, CSS and JavaScript built on a variety of backend systems including Java, PHP and Ruby on Rails. Extensive and in-depth knowledge of Wordpress having developed a number of custom themes and plugins. A passion for frontend tech and usability accompanied with the knowledge and understanding of the full web technology stack and project life-cycle including version control, testing, continuous integration and deployment.

Proven leadership skills as the Faculty Lead for 30 front-end developers, in technical project management, mentoring and recruitment.

An enthusiastic and confident individual with a keen interest in technology, learning and continuous improvement. Has a pragmatic approach to maintaining high quality standards whilst ensuring project delivery.

Excellent client relations skills with a knack of explaining technical solutions to the non-technically minded.

University educated with a Master of Science degree in Technology and Innovation Management.

Specialties:

Technical: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ruby on Rails, Cucumber, Selenium, PHP, Subversion, Apache, Mac OS X, Testing, Release Management

Management: Herding cats, fire fighting, SCRUM and other Agile development techniques