Full stack developer, passionate about technology and how it constantly affects how the world operates.
I've always enjoyed working with technology and my recent enrollment in Makers Academy has helped me delve further into the technical intricacies behind creating beautiful things that we often take for granted.
Coding has reignited my enthusiasm to discover and learn new things. It's given me that long-lost joy of immersing myself in a really interesting problem or project, and seeking the fist-pump moment when it all comes together.
Looking for an exciting opportunity in an area that I care about, in a company with values I share, with a team that encourages and pushes me to constantly achieve more.
Studying maths and working in consultancy has always been about solving one problem after another, whether it's understanding what someone needs and suggesting solutions, or just figuring out how to make a system, process or ambition happen in the best way possible.
- IT Strategy: Worked with a number of retail clients to form long term technology recommendations through assessment of current systems against future strategic ambitions
- Functional Solution Designer: Understood client needs in order to produce and deliver functional design documents across numerous supply chain systems
- Incident Manager: Responsible for resolution of critial production defects across business and technical teams, making key decisions to assess and limit customer impact
Years of experience working across discovery, requirements, design, build, test, implementation and support phases in a quality controlled environment.
- Hands on use of agile methodologies, test-driven development, object oriented programming
- Experience of end to end waterfall delivery methodology for large IT systems integration projects
- Owned the end to end delivery of a key piece of functionality across 50 retail stores, working with design, build, test and deployment to successfully deliver on time, contributing to a 3% increase in revenue for the firm
Demonstration of communicating complex technical processes and concepts to a range of audiences, including senior technical and business focussed stakeholders through workshops and written/visual documentation.
- Established self as key point of contact for a complex warehousing process, becoming a point of contact for the business, information systems, stakeholders and project team
- Lead and facilitated educational workshops to a client covering multiple knowledge areas, including ecommerce, CRM, order management
Below are some projects that I am really proud of.
| Project | Description | Technology | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just-Jam | Web app that allows musicians to connect | JavaScript, Node, Express, Mongoose, MongoDB, Pug | https://github.com/Gweaton/just-jam |
| Instagramdenee | Instagram clone that allows users to post and comment on photos | Ruby, Rails, PostgreSQL | http://instagramdenee.herokuapp.com/ |
| Apiify | Ruby gem that takes any CSV and turns it into an API | Ruby, Rails | https://github.com/oscar-barlow/apiify |
Makers Academy is a highly competitive 16 week computer programming course, accepting only around 10% of applicants. It offers a fully immersive course.
- Broadened my knowledge of coding best practices (MVC, TDD, SOLID, DRY design principles)
- Participation in pair programming has provided experience working alongside other developers
- Technology agnostic, with the ability and confidence to pick up new languages and frameworks as demonstrated in our final project
Technology Consultant
Javelin Group is a boutique consultancy specialising in retail and consumer strategy, now part of Accenture Strategy following a recent acquisition. Worked within the Technology Consulting team as a consultant on IT strategy, technology selection and technology due diligence projects.
Business & Systems Integration Analyst
Accenture is a global, technology consultancy specialising in technology delivery. Worked across three high profile projects covering retail, utilities and telco industries. Gainied first hand experience in leading enterprise applications, such as Sterling Order Management, Message Broker MQ, WebSphere Commerce, Oracle MDM.
BSc. Mathematics and Management, First Class Honours
A Levels: Mathematics (A), Business Studies (A), French (B)