Career Profile
I have over 10 years commercial experience in E-commerce and website development. With a specialization in backend development, my expertise lies in PHP, Magento, and Laravel, particularly in the realm of e-commerce since 2005. Throughout my career, I have collaborated with esteemed brands including Ancestry, Bacardi, Guinness, World Wildlife Fund, McGraw Hill Publishing, Pernod Ricard, Lloyds Banking Group, Barclays, and Nationwide. My journey with Magento began in 2012, working extensively with Magento 1, and subsequently transitioning to Magento 2 in 2016.
Experience
Working for the Finland based Ambientia has given me an opportunity to work with many hight profile Finnish clients including:
- Halonen and Carlson - Magento 2
- Paytrail - Woo Commerce Payment Plugin
- Foodstock - Bespoke Laravel and Vue
Working for the New York based Shero Commere gave me the opportunity to support many US based Magento 2 clients.
Technical Lead and Backend Magento development with both Magento 1 and 2
- Working with clients to plan development sprints to deliver new functionality.
- Estimating and story pointing new development tasks
- Working with our test team, developing acceptance criteria, supporting QA
- Supporting team members, mentoring junior developers, performing code reviews.
- Writing code to enhance and extend Magento’s core functionality.
- Building and deploying Magento code to Stage, QA and Live environments
- Providing support for escalated issues with production websites. Projects:
- High Street TV, Magento 2 Community, highstreettv.com
- CPL Distribution, Magento 2 Community, coals2u.co.uk, cpldistribution.co.uk
- Aston & Fincher, Magento 2 Community, astonandfincher.co.uk
- McGraw Hill, Magento 1 Enterprise / Community, mheducation.com, mhprofessional.com
- Body Building Warehouse, Magento 1 Enterprise, bodybuildingwarehouse.co.uk
- Little Greene Paint, Magento 1 Enterprise, littlegreene.com
- KCS, Magento 1 Enterprise, kcs4education.co.uk
- Pernod Ricard, Magento 1 Enterprise, discoverthehouse.com
- Imperative Training, Magento 1 Community, defibshop.co.uk
Developing custom built Magento application for major banks:
- Lloyds Banking Group (Lloyds, Halifax, Bank of Scotland), Barclays, Nationwide,
- Yorkshire and Clydesdale Bank Developing custom internal applications to support business needs in Laravel. Improving internal development practices, implementing Vagrant for managing development machines, and Capistrano for deployment.
Working as the sole Web developer of bespoke e-commerce websites on a WAMP/LAMP stack, including front end coding in HTML,CSS and Javascript. Clients included:
- Ancestry
- Bacardi
- Guinness
- Scholl
- WWF
Certifications
Current Projects
Websites that I have recently worked on.