Craig Hamnett
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David Storey
It has been a pleasure to know and work alongside Craig - he is highly capable developer with a huge appetite to deliver great work. He's always happy to turn his hand to something new whilst not willing to turn his nose up at job. Can also communicate effectively with others including non-technical clients.
Ross Angus
They're are people who think that unless your code only runs on evergreen browsers using an alpha framework which came out that afternoon, it's not any good. Most web developers dedicate their lives to maintaining much older codebases than this. It's easy to say "let's rebuild this website from scratch", much harder to maintain an existing codebase and reskin it several times, without any drop in performance. I've watched Craig maintain legacy code bases using enterprise level content management systems for years, without complaint. This is hard, unrewarding work requiring mastery of multiple esoteric systems and obscure languages such as XSLT. Needless to say, the reskins which Craig achieved cost a fraction of the cost of rebuilding the platform in this week's framework. Craig's expertise at maintaining such systems would be an enormous financial benefit to any group lucky enough to employ him.
David Storey
It has been a pleasure to know and work alongside Craig - he is highly capable developer with a huge appetite to deliver great work. He's always happy to turn his hand to something new whilst not willing to turn his nose up at job. Can also communicate effectively with others including non-technical clients.
Ross Angus
They're are people who think that unless your code only runs on evergreen browsers using an alpha framework which came out that afternoon, it's not any good. Most web developers dedicate their lives to maintaining much older codebases than this. It's easy to say "let's rebuild this website from scratch", much harder to maintain an existing codebase and reskin it several times, without any drop in performance. I've watched Craig maintain legacy code bases using enterprise level content management systems for years, without complaint. This is hard, unrewarding work requiring mastery of multiple esoteric systems and obscure languages such as XSLT. Needless to say, the reskins which Craig achieved cost a fraction of the cost of rebuilding the platform in this week's framework. Craig's expertise at maintaining such systems would be an enormous financial benefit to any group lucky enough to employ him.
David Storey
It has been a pleasure to know and work alongside Craig - he is highly capable developer with a huge appetite to deliver great work. He's always happy to turn his hand to something new whilst not willing to turn his nose up at job. Can also communicate effectively with others including non-technical clients.
Ross Angus
They're are people who think that unless your code only runs on evergreen browsers using an alpha framework which came out that afternoon, it's not any good. Most web developers dedicate their lives to maintaining much older codebases than this. It's easy to say "let's rebuild this website from scratch", much harder to maintain an existing codebase and reskin it several times, without any drop in performance. I've watched Craig maintain legacy code bases using enterprise level content management systems for years, without complaint. This is hard, unrewarding work requiring mastery of multiple esoteric systems and obscure languages such as XSLT. Needless to say, the reskins which Craig achieved cost a fraction of the cost of rebuilding the platform in this week's framework. Craig's expertise at maintaining such systems would be an enormous financial benefit to any group lucky enough to employ him.
David Storey
It has been a pleasure to know and work alongside Craig - he is highly capable developer with a huge appetite to deliver great work. He's always happy to turn his hand to something new whilst not willing to turn his nose up at job. Can also communicate effectively with others including non-technical clients.
Ross Angus
They're are people who think that unless your code only runs on evergreen browsers using an alpha framework which came out that afternoon, it's not any good. Most web developers dedicate their lives to maintaining much older codebases than this. It's easy to say "let's rebuild this website from scratch", much harder to maintain an existing codebase and reskin it several times, without any drop in performance. I've watched Craig maintain legacy code bases using enterprise level content management systems for years, without complaint. This is hard, unrewarding work requiring mastery of multiple esoteric systems and obscure languages such as XSLT. Needless to say, the reskins which Craig achieved cost a fraction of the cost of rebuilding the platform in this week's framework. Craig's expertise at maintaining such systems would be an enormous financial benefit to any group lucky enough to employ him.
Experience
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Promtek
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United Kingdom
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Industrial Automation
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1 - 100 Employee
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Front End Software Engineer
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Mar 2020 - Present
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Kin + Carta Europe
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United Kingdom
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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100 - 200 Employee
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Frontend Developer
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May 2015 - Mar 2020
Working as the primary developer maintaining a range of Aberdeen Standard Investments, Ryder Cup, and British Lions partner websites. Using XML, XSL, SCSS to build a range of static and dynamic sites. A wide variety of stakeholders requires excellent communication and a deep understanding of client requirements. Compliance issues are a major factor in the financial services industry so accuracy and due diligence are essential. Conducted A/B testing with Marketo. Created reports on the findings and implemented changes. Most sites built using Teamsite or Squiz CMS. Within the organisation I have delivered in depth presentations to the team on schemas, accessibility, and maintainable CSS. I have worked remotely via a VPN for over a year in my dedicated home office.
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Movember
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Australia
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Non-profit Organizations
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200 - 300 Employee
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Frontend Developer
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Aug 2014 - Sep 2014
Working as a contractor for IEMedia I was part of a small but well oiled team of developers, designers, and testers. The main goal was to get a rebranded version of the main Movember website and mobile website released in time for the Movember season. We used Jira to track bugs and issues, and worked in agile weekly sprints. Working on three different staging environments would normally be a challenge, but with the use of Jira and a great test team, bugs were easy to find and communication was a breeze. After working on the reskinning of a batch of pages and controls within the site, I mucked in where I could on the mobile site which is run on the lovely Sencha. It's not normally my cup of tea, I prefer mobile sites to be free of overarching frameworks. Sometimes you just have to muck in and get your hands dirty. The team were fantastic, a small digital agency that worked at a fast pace with great companies.
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Websilk
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Australia
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Frontend Developer
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Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
I worked in a fast paced environment with a high churn of websites. My role was to integrate web, tablet, and mobile designs from the creative department into a Sitefinity CMS. The work was then peer reviewed before being signed off and released. The majority of the work was done in a .Net environment with TFS versioning control. The frontend on all projects was built with modular SCSS utilising custom mixins. The frontend build system we used was Grunt. Introduced a more agile method of working on a large internal project as their traditional waterfall methodology wasn't going to work. Requirements and scope changed frequently and an agile process was implemented to avoid inefficiencies.
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Xero
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New Zealand
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Front End Developer
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Oct 2011 - Apr 2014
Arriving in Wellington I got acquainted with a local DesignMeetup group. After attending many of the tech talks, I landed a job working with the primary sponsor, Xero. I settled into the growing front-end team and worked over many iterations of the main application, and occasionally on the marketing website. The team underwent many changes, from SVN to Git, from raw CSS to compiled SASS, from HTML markup to JS generated markup with ExtJS. I transferred to the Melbourne office early in 2014 after a desire to live in Australia.
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frooly
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Retail
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User Interface Architect
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Jun 2009 - Jun 2011
A true startup environment. I was developer number 2 and headed the frontend work for the marketing site and the client portal. We expanded to 5 backend developers and went through a massive product change and rebranding before I got the help of another frontend developer. Frooly was where I learnt about the power of agile development. Towards the end of my time here I became the Product Manager which involved writing feature proposals, specifications, and requirements. A true startup environment. I was developer number 2 and headed the frontend work for the marketing site and the client portal. We expanded to 5 backend developers and went through a massive product change and rebranding before I got the help of another frontend developer. Frooly was where I learnt about the power of agile development. Towards the end of my time here I became the Product Manager which involved writing feature proposals, specifications, and requirements.
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Select Property
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United Kingdom
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Real Estate
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100 - 200 Employee
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Web Designer
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Jan 2009 - Jun 2009
I worked closely with the lead designer and lead developer to implement major refits of a lot of the company websites. Planned and executed a successful major SEO strategy. Redundancies were being made throughout the company and as a result I found another job working for frooly. I worked closely with the lead designer and lead developer to implement major refits of a lot of the company websites. Planned and executed a successful major SEO strategy. Redundancies were being made throughout the company and as a result I found another job working for frooly.
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FirstFound
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United Kingdom
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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SEO Consultant
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Jun 2008 - Jan 2009
Liased with clients to enhance search engine rankings and helped rebuild the company website to the latest web standards. Liased with clients to enhance search engine rankings and helped rebuild the company website to the latest web standards.
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Education
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2005 - 2008
University of Central Lancashire
2:1, Business Studies
