As a former business analyst, I had worked alongside other developers on various projects which started my fascination about coding and wanted to understand it more. I wanted to pursuit this interest further and have since graduated from Makers Academy where I have gained the skills to set me up to be a successful developer.
I love the logic behind coding and visually being able to see how you can apply it to real world problems. My current strongest areas are using Ruby, Rails, Javascript and React native.
From managing projects and analysing data, it's given me useful tools to bring a balanced mindset when working on projects. Both of these skills are invaluable in my journey of being a developer.
| Name | Description | Tech/tools |
|---|---|---|
| Guilt trip / Sloth | The app is designed to encourage you to reach your step goal set and tracked by the app. My main contributions were towards the logic using Javascript and the design. | React native, Javascript, Expo, Jest |
| Bank account | Designed to allow customers to use usual bank account features such as credit/debiting an account and viewing the transactions. This was to focus purely on coding within Ruby. | Ruby |
| Acebook-sholk | A Facebook clone where users can login, post messages and like each others posts. This helped me focus on CRUD principles and how this can be applied within rails and then change the needs of the website to meet the requirements we had set out. | Ruby on rails, Travis, Heroku |
Along with plenty more available to view on my Github
I understand how to break problems down into small pieces and take a structured approach to solve them. Having this structured approach has helped me save time in all of my coding projects as well as my efficiency in debugging.
I have learned to work both autonomously and collaboratively using both influence and compromise. I am willing to listen to team members and embrace their ideas, but also have the ability to influence to entertain different ways of thinking. During one of my projects at Makers it really made me appreciate how important it is to stick to scrum practices, allowing the team to work better and more effectively.
I have frequently changed the focus from one project to another at short notice; this allows me to thrive in fast-paced environments. When working as a project coordinator, project requirements would change weekly; therefore, I have learned to embrace change and become resilient.
I break problems down piece by piece and always have a good image of what clients/ businesses wants when an idea has been pitched. I am able to use my initiative to build on these ideas to produce meaningful work, using previous experience working as an analyst/project manager and online resources as my tools. I have been able to transfer this skill whilst studying at Makers Academy.
Marks & Spencer (July-2019 to November-2020)
Project Manager
- Managing large schemes throughout the whole project lifecycle.
- Accountable for: project scope, project team, budgets, timelines and presenting progress.
- Collaborating with external developers to create bespoke technologies to cater for the needs of the project.
- Built and nurtured a great relationship with various stakeholders.
Marks & Spencer (November-2017 to July-2019)
Business Analyst
- Created and developed new function reports to bring a higher-level of understanding of costs/budgets across the board and highlighting areas of concerns on each project.
This reduced the need of external resources putting this together saving time and money every week. - Using excel, power BI and other technologies to automate processes.
- Supporting programme managers to carry out projects.
Marks & Spencer (January-2017 to November-2017)
Technical Administrator
- Implemented a new project management/document holding software on the M&S systems.
- Testing new software – working alongside IBM and TCS to ensure software was implemented correctly. Raising tickets through JIRA and administrating them.
- Working alongside developers to try and overcome the problems that were arising with the changes/developments that were going on with the new software.
Age Wandsworth (October-2017 to present)
Out & About volunteer
- Being a key part of the support networks for two vulnerable elderly people, one with a lot of health concerns and the other being visually impaired.
- By supporting them it's helped build confidence within themselves to carryout tasks where they would normally struggle.
- Teaching them how to use new digital items to improve their quality of life.
- Further developed my personal skills in countless ways especially empathy.
- During my time at Makers, I built full-stack applications using test-driven development and object-oriented programming.
- Frequently used pairing in order to problem solve efficiently, requiring teamwork and communication and ran stand-ups and retros Extra skills used throughout:
- OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD
- Agile, CI/CD
- Ruby, Rails, JavaScript, React native, HTML, CSS,
- RSpec, Jasmine, Jest
- Emotional intelligence, empathy, teamwork, self-awareness and motivation.
- Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Finance (Honours)
- A levels - Mathematics, Chemistry, Business with Economics and Physical Education
- Actively play a lot of sports: basketball, netball, sailing, tennis as my current favourites. Competed at a university level for basketball and sailing.
- Enjoy volunteering in my local community to try and give back wherever I can. Typically for Age Wandsworth to help raise funds for them to be able to carry on with their service. These tend to be organised sporting events in which I will help officiate or help promote.