Front End Developer
Between December 2011 to January 2014 I worked with Universal Music in London on their artist websites and a new classical music portal called Sinfini Music.
We worked with the Universal Music team in Japan to build localised version of our websites using Umbraco.
Between 2008 and 2012 I worked for BBC Worldwide, the wholly owned commercial subsidiary of the BBC.
I began by supporting and building new features for their “passion sites” such as Top Gear, BBC Good Food, Radio Times and Gardeners’ World among others. After a year I moved to the Public Service’s Domestic Homepage team and helped launch the 2009 BBC.co.uk homepage. I then came back to BBC Worldwide to work on rebuilding the Top Gear website, which we launched in 2010. I spent the remainder of my employment at BBC Worldwide working for BBC.com, the international facing website that sits on the BBC.com domain rather than BBC.co.uk. During this time I learnt about various work methodologies and development processes, as well as working with high traffic websites and content delivery networks.
Between 2007-2009 I worked for RAPP UK (then called WWAV Rapp Collins) a leading London creative agency.
Working in the web development team I built HTML email templates, marketing web pages and websites for brands including Apple, Air France, Barclays, Cancer Research UK, Crisis, Disney, Garnier, Pfizer, Unicef and Legal & General. We developed two websites for Pfizer which provided information on health and wellbeing. During this time I was also tasked with developing HTML emails that displayed consistently across leading email clients including Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Hotmail and Outlook. These clients have notoriously poor CSS support so achieving a consistent design was often challenging. I also developed the template for the company email newsletter which involved complex transparency layering. A screenshot of this can be seen below.
During my time working for RAPP UK I developed a website and marking page for the charity Crisis.
We built a website for the charity which allowed companies to donate their Christmas card budget to Crisis, who would send an e-card to everyone who would have previously received a card. This benefited the environment as well as homeless people and the company’s image.