Experience

REFSIX

• United Kingdom
• Spectator Sports
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder & CTO

  • Apr 2017 - 6 years 9 months

  Brighton, United Kingdom Leading the technical development of REFSIX Android, iOS and web products. React, Vue, Angular, NodeJS, Typescript, Jest, Cypress Swift & Java



doublesix

• United Kingdom
• Spectator Sports

• Co-Founder

  • Oct 2014 - Dec 2019

  Brighton, United Kingdom Co-founder and lead developer of doublesix software. We build innovative tech solutions that reduce the paperwork that goes alongside organised sport at all levels, so that everyone involved can focus on what really matters! Responsibilities include: - Owning the product technology road map - Solution design and architecture - Overseeing application code base - Development of core capabilities both front and back end Tech stack: - MEAN stack (Node JS, Express… Show more Co-founder and lead developer of doublesix software. We build innovative tech solutions that reduce the paperwork that goes alongside organised sport at all levels, so that everyone involved can focus on what really matters! Responsibilities include: - Owning the product technology road map - Solution design and architecture - Overseeing application code base - Development of core capabilities both front and back end Tech stack: - MEAN stack (Node JS, Express, Angular 1.X, MongoDB), Mongoose, Jasmine, Grunt. - Some experience with android (including wear) Show less



American Express

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineer - Payment Tokenization

  • Sep 2015 - Mar 2017

  East Sussex Building the Enterprise Token Vault and a web app that interfaces with it to provide management functions. Payment Tokenization is the process creating a linked 'alias' card number which can also be used for payments which are billed back the original account. Such 'tokens' can have additional rules applied to them to limit how they can be used and can be cancelled independently from the original card. One place this is commonly used is in mobile wallets e.g. Apple Pay, Android… Show more Building the Enterprise Token Vault and a web app that interfaces with it to provide management functions. Payment Tokenization is the process creating a linked 'alias' card number which can also be used for payments which are billed back the original account. Such 'tokens' can have additional rules applied to them to limit how they can be used and can be cancelled independently from the original card. One place this is commonly used is in mobile wallets e.g. Apple Pay, Android Pay... Working on 2 products: - Enterprise Token Vault micro-services which provide RESTful web services and streaming over web sockets. Java EE (6/7) standards based implementation using: JAX-RS, JPA, CDI, Mockito, JUnit, JBoss, Oracle RDBMS - Management portal for business users to interact with the services. Built using Angular JS, Spring MVC, CSS3 (SASS), HTML5 & grunt.

• Senior UI Developer

  • Oct 2013 - Sep 2015

  Brighton, United Kingdom Front end developer on high profile consumer and business facing websites. Experience working on geographically disparate and col-located agile development teams. Working across multiple projects with different tech stacks. Techie detail: - Core: Javascript - Angular (ui-router, mocks) - Node / Express - jQuery - CSS: pre-processing using SASS / Compass - HTML 5 - Task runner: grunt - Unit testing: jasmine - Backend: Java Spring MVC - CMS: SDL… Show more Front end developer on high profile consumer and business facing websites. Experience working on geographically disparate and col-located agile development teams. Working across multiple projects with different tech stacks. Techie detail: - Core: Javascript - Angular (ui-router, mocks) - Node / Express - jQuery - CSS: pre-processing using SASS / Compass - HTML 5 - Task runner: grunt - Unit testing: jasmine - Backend: Java Spring MVC - CMS: SDL Tridion

• Analyst - Mobile Center of Excellence

  • Apr 2011 - Oct 2013

  Brighton, United Kingdom Running the international mobile app and website review process, ensuring that our mobile products provide excellent customer experiences, are consistently branded, follow legal and compliance guidelines and are built securely and in line with enterprise best practices. Proposed and designed information architecture and user experience changes to our internal web-based tools. Created wireframes and requirements for this large initiative. Working with international marketing teams… Show more Running the international mobile app and website review process, ensuring that our mobile products provide excellent customer experiences, are consistently branded, follow legal and compliance guidelines and are built securely and in line with enterprise best practices. Proposed and designed information architecture and user experience changes to our internal web-based tools. Created wireframes and requirements for this large initiative. Working with international marketing teams to help them build high quality mobile websites and applications and review them against policies and standards. Developed strategy to advise and review API projects to ensure they are being designed, organised and built in a consistent and developer friendly manner.

• Tech Graduate Scheme

  • Sep 2009 - Apr 2011

  Brighton - Designed and developed a Java 7 based test tool to validate generated chip personalisation data against product specifications. The tool reduces testing time and allows errors to be discovered earlier in development. - Automated manual scorecard generation process to allow reporting materials to be generated quickly and consistently using VB.net - Presenting to management on resourcing strategy - Conducted marketplace research and facilitated a brainstorming session to generate… Show more - Designed and developed a Java 7 based test tool to validate generated chip personalisation data against product specifications. The tool reduces testing time and allows errors to be discovered earlier in development. - Automated manual scorecard generation process to allow reporting materials to be generated quickly and consistently using VB.net - Presenting to management on resourcing strategy - Conducted marketplace research and facilitated a brainstorming session to generate product ideas. - Identified a differentiated product opportunity for American Express and filed for a US patent.



On Demand Technology

• IT Placement

  • Jul 2009 - Sep 2009

  Suffolk, UK - Prototyped automated personalisation of images using C# .net and integrations in the the Photoshop API. - Project delivery: working to ensure the project was delivered on time and to requirements. - Defined specifications and algorithms for delivering rich personalised content to end users. - Relationship Management: Contacting suppliers, negotiating prices and making recommendations. - Identified substantial cost savings through building a tool in-house. - Regional winner at… Show more - Prototyped automated personalisation of images using C# .net and integrations in the the Photoshop API. - Project delivery: working to ensure the project was delivered on time and to requirements. - Defined specifications and algorithms for delivering rich personalised content to end users. - Relationship Management: Contacting suppliers, negotiating prices and making recommendations. - Identified substantial cost savings through building a tool in-house. - Regional winner at Shell Step program awards, based upon a written report and a presentation. Show less