Accessibility Specialist

• Mar 2022 - Present

Accessibility Consultant

• Sep 2021 - Mar 2022

Supporting delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure services are accessible, work for everyone and meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018. Providing assurance and oversight of accessibility across wider programmes of work. Supporting delivery teams and business stakeholders to ensure services are accessible, work for everyone and meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), Equality Act 2010 and the Public Sector Bodies Accessibility Regulations 2018. Providing assurance and oversight of accessibility across wider programmes of work.

Development Specialist

• Aug 2018 - Sep 2021

I worked with multiple higher education institutions, helping to implement a revolutionary, award winning, student management system. I focussed on user experience and accessibility through the development of a UX process at the company both in the UK and Australia. A large part of my role was designing easy to use, accessible products, balancing the understanding of user needs and technical challenges to create useful systems that could be delivered to universities across the world. I worked with multiple higher education institutions, helping to implement a revolutionary, award winning, student management system. I focussed on user experience and accessibility through the development of a UX process at the company both in the UK and Australia. A large part of my role was designing easy to use, accessible products, balancing the understanding of user needs and technical challenges to create useful systems that could be delivered to universities across the world.

Volunteer Coding Instructor

• Oct 2017 - Nov 2017

• Worked with two other student volunteers to help teach classes of around 20 students. • Worked to create weekly sessions based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. • Designed sessions to try and cater for everyone’s needs as we had a mixture of students, some who had coded entire websites before and those that had never coded. • Used sessions to teach different parts of the syllabus and then allowed time for students to try working through examples and helped out where needed. • Worked with two other student volunteers to help teach classes of around 20 students. • Worked to create weekly sessions based on HTML, CSS and JavaScript. • Designed sessions to try and cater for everyone’s needs as we had a mixture of students, some who had coded entire websites before and those that had never coded. • Used sessions to teach different parts of the syllabus and then allowed time for students to try working through examples and helped out where needed.

Santander T&O Summer Internship

• Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

• Interning at Carlton Park, Leicester. Taking on the role of an intern within the Change Management team at Santander. • Taking part in weekly tasks such as collating weekly reporting from all areas of the business, helping to oversee project planning and keeping track of key milestones. • Putting together a key document to aid the implementation of the project I was working on. • Working in a collaborative way to deliver tasks to a set deadline. • During the internship, took part in a CSR challenge, raising money for Santander's charities, Age UK and Barnardos.

Shopfloor Assistant

• Aug 2014 - Jul 2017

• Working shifts and having to make sure that I arrive before my shift starting time and making sure that I’m always punctual. • Working in a team to make sure that the large shop floor is kept tidy and that the layout is all kept to brief. • Working independently to re-brief areas and making sure that stock is out as soon as possible. • Communicating with the general public and attempting to resolve any problems that they may have. • Being flexible enough to work in different sections of the shop when different departments are busy. This includes making sure that I know what’s needed of me in different areas and getting on with the task in-hand as quickly as possible.