Manchester University

Freelance Software Engineer

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

Web development company specialising in data visualisation.

Killawot Limited

Director

Working on The Times and The Sunday Times websites. Initially I was working to improve coding standards and processes within the business. I also led the team building a responsive single page application for premium football video content feeds. This project utilised BackboneJs, SASS, Jasmine, RequireJs, and Grunt. I am currently working on the next generation of The Times website, building a content API and UI components.Key skills: HTML 5, AngularJs, NodeJS, Backbone, BrowserStack, Babel, ES6,  unit testing with Jasmine, Mocha, Karma, SASS, pattern library, Susy, jQuery, Zepto.

The Times

Senior UI Developer

UI developer working for a technology start-up on a complex in house web application platform to improve the User Interface of the product. Employing CSS3 and advanced Object-orientated Javascript to improve the user experience and performance of the UI. Key skills: HTML 5, OO JS, CSS3, SASS, jQuery Templating, Git.

Global Dawn

UI Developer

RIA developer working on new functionality on the audi.co.uk website including advanced filtering and tax calculators. I was using HTML, CSS3 and Javascript using the Mootools library. I was also helping define the APIs which the frontend application would require from the Java backend.  Key skills: HTML, OO JS, APIs, Ajax, Js Templates, CSS3.

Razorfish

RIA developer

User Interface Developer working on a couple of applications, the first for the British Council which was using advanced jQuery and the second a mobile timesheet application targeting the iPad using Sencha Touch. Key skills: HTML5, Jquery, Ajax, Moustache, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, xCode, CSS3, CSS Media queries, SASS & Compass.

Keytree

Senior Client side Developer working an application targeting mainly Android mobile and tablet devices. CSS3 and HTML5 techniques were used extensively throughout the project as well as Media queries for tailoring layouts for differing devices. Key skills: HTML5, jQuery, Ajax, CSS3, CSS Media queries.

Nice Agency

Senior Client Side Developer

Client Side Developer working on one of the UK’s highest profile sites the multi-award winning BBC iPlayer.  Developing both the existing site and the new PHP based v3 site heavily dependent on highly complex OO Javascript, PHP5, MVC design patterns and using CSS3 techniques where possible. Javascript performance was crucial to success of the project – refactoring and fine-tuning to make application as responsive as possible. Working in an agile environment this was a very varied role from developing accessible XHTML to coding the PHP domain models.  Unit testing of PHP code base using PHPUnit. Personally responsible for the SEO, design and usability issues on the project as well as the interaction with embedded Flash components of the application.  Key skills: XHTML, OO JS, Glow JS library, Zend Framework, PHPUnit, CSS SEO, accessibility, usability, MVC.

Client Side Developer

Web development specialising in web standards, usability, accessibility and SEO.

Talawa Interactive Ltd

Owner

User Interface Consultant on <a href="http://tesco.com/groceries">tesco.com/groceries</a> rewrite project. Implementing dynamic scripting/AJAX component interactions using unobtrusive OO Javascript techniques and progressive enhancement ensuring functionality for non Javascript enabled user agents. Development of “Global interactions” documentation derived from conceptual page wireframes. The components were designed to take into account end user accessibility, usability and browser compatibility issues. Development of accessible XHTML pages to Web Standards with emphasis on semantic markup. XML/XSLT development. Key skills: XHTML, Ajax, OO Javascript, XSLT, CSS, .NET, SQL

Aron Shamash

Aron Shamash