Full stack Umbraco developer

Frontend Development

JP Morgan & Chase

Worked on designing and helping prototype a UI for Restricted Markets for the FX desk for the first 6 months.
Secondly worked on the CIB PCO project, re-architectured the Front-End and installed best practices.

Restricted Markets & PCO

Amido

Joined Amido (consultancy) to start work on the redevelopment of the Hackney Council Modern Tools for Housing (MTFH) project.
Later moved to work partially on a discovery phase for The Gym Group and implementation of a CMS called Amplience.

Hackney Council / The Gym Group

Appnovation

Built the product eCommerce site for the US variant of Souvenaid, a product from Danone.

Next.JS, React, Netlify, Tailwind. I did all the backend integrations with gigya.

Souvenaid US (Danone)

South-East Supercar Club

Ignore the job title, just being facetious.

Part of a car club, got bored of the website that was built on Wix so created an app for them. It's an iterative process but good fun.

Built the full-stack, including GraphQL/MongoDB Atlas integrations. Using Expo as a platform and React Native (w/ Native Base) for the cross-platform app UI.

Buy me a large pinot noir if you want to know more...

Obnoxious Twat

React/JavaScript/Typescript

London Borough of Lambeth

•	Worked with Assistant Director of Digital Services to define and deliver IOT and data product portfolio advancing Council's smart city initiatives and climate action plan commitments.
•	Led requirements gathering across seven Council Directorates, ensuring alignment with the data, digital, and technology (DDaT) strategies to create cohesive, user-focused roadmap for 20 IOT, AI, and data products.
•	Documented user requirements and prioritising based on business strategy and goals, establishing OKRs aligned to organisation's KPIs and business needs, putting in place plans to track progress through data to ensure improvement in service delivery.
•	Improved internal agile process for digital products portfolio management, use-case feasibility planning, product lifecycle planning, and identifying change management requirements.
•	Delivered technical direction, including specifications and infrastructure budget planning for digital product funding application for £4 million project.

IOT and Data Product Manager

Internet of Production Alliance

The Internet of Production Alliance brings together people from around the world to build open infrastructures enabling anyone, everywhere to participate in the production of goods.
•	Lead the development and implementation of the technical strategy including managing the technology roadmap for the Alliance.
•	Manage the technical team and partner contractors in developing, and maintaining the tools and infrastructure to support the use of the Alliance’s standards.
•	Define, manage, and contribute to the development of software projects including online manufacturing facilities maps, custom search engine, and decentralized storage using Solid Pods.
•	Lead the Alliance’s work in defining and testing metadata standards and ontologies for a 
•	Evaluate and provide insight into the direction of the Alliance’s projects, including recommendations to the working groups and guidance and assessment of consultants.
•	Contribute to project design and development, writing technical elements of funding bids, help define fundraising priorities with the fundraising task force and support project reporting processes.
•	Engage with other expert communities and support scoping and consultation activities.
•	Represent the Alliance in expert level events and conferences.

Immersionn Ltd

A start-up building a platform for 3-D immersive experiences (immersionn.com)
•	Led the delivery of multiple software projects to key clients working with the Product Director to implement agile processes along with a streamlined devops.
•	Delivered continuous improvement enhancements by setting up process and templates for projects specs, testing and acceptance criteria, for each feature and release, aligning deliverables and ensuring coherence across technology, customer service, and content development teams.
•	Defined the technical strategy and technology roadmap for the platform and products.
•	Identified, evaluated, and recommended new technology solutions, integrations, partnerships and infrastructure.

Immersionn

Arab Image Foundation

•	Devised the Arab Image Foundation’s (AIF) short- and long-term technical strategy to optimise digital systems, including asset management systems and websites, linked to the various archival collections.
•	Ensured the compatibility between AIF’s database system and online platforms, including documentation of development processes and procedures, and adoption of relevant metadata standards.
•	Developed a custom archival management and display system for photographic album collections.

Big Think Inc.

•	Managed the development and technical operations of a web-based enterprise eLearning system used by a number of Fortune-500 companies, as well as a 2 million visits per month website
•	Leading a team of developers to deliver product features, including the interview and on-boarding processes for new development team members
•	Identifying, assessing and recommending new technology solutions.

Big Think

Technical Lead / Product Manager

Senior Front End Developer

Price Forbes

• Join a greenfield project to lead the Front End development and architecture of a new cutting-edge account management system giving brokers and clients real-time access to their accounts.
• Develop the front end app from the ground up using responsive UI components, REST APIs and iterate at a fast pace.
• Setup the Azure CI/CD pipeline, git repos and front end test framework using Jest and Testing Library.
• Help to improve development team performance by encouraging components re-use, enforcing coding standards and overview peer code reviews.

Insurance portal

Refinitiv

• Work closely with UX and designers to create a global UI style guide based on the new Refinitiv brand, to be used across the company by different teams/products to help deliver faster, better and more consistent code.
• Refactor and update the existing React components to new brand for the official launch.

Design System

Thomson Reuters

• Lead UI development for a new digital program, setting up the React front end architecture, Webpack build and integration with AEM
• Implement a library of React components currently used across 3 different teams
• Establish best practices and coding standards
• Mentor junior developers through pair programming and code reviews
• Interview and selection of candidates, helping build a team of 8 front end devs

New React SPA

PokerStars

• Development for BetStars sportsbook
• Implement new features (BackboneJS) for API driven components (WebSockets)
• Mobile-friendly development (Sass/Less) of new UI elements
• Performance optimisation by reducing number of API requests
• Refactoring to increase re-usability, consistency and maintainability

New sportsbook features

Ford

• AngularJS development for the new Ford Global UX platform
• Responsive single page applications: showroom and configurator
• UI implementation of accessible and SEO-friendly components using HTML5 and CSS3

Ford Global UX platform

William Hill

• Lead UI developer for the new responsive "MyAccount" project
• Extensive refactoring of existing CSS using Sass and BEM for increased consistency
• New modular architecture of html templates
• Build and unit tests AngularJS components, directives, filters using Karma and Jasmine

MyAccount page

UI React Front End development

React Development Services

PTFS Europe

Responsible for both greenfield development projects and enhancements to existing codebases.
Lead developer on substantial projects that resulted in significant market growth for the company.

Achievements:
Designed and developed a real-time Enquiry Management System, six month project. Worked closely with all stakeholders during structural planning of the project, and continued during development resulting in a deliverable that met all requirements. Addition of the system to the company portfolio opened up entirely new sectors, enabling significant growth of customer base.
Key technologies: React, Redux, JavaScript, React Testing Library
https://github.com/stars/AndrewIsh/lists/enquiry-management-system

Led development on a year-long project to take an existing large microservice-based codebase and provide substantial new functionality to an existing product that was not, prior to the project, ready for the UK market. Being an OSS application, the development involved multiple developers across multiple organisations. Provided value to the team by supplying guidance and mentorship to other developers unfamiliar with the domain, performed structural planning of, and oversaw development of, interacting microservices to guarantee coherence and ensured development adhered to stakeholders requirements throughout. Addition of the functionality enabled the company to sell the product in the UK, resulting in substantial increase in customer base in previously untapped markets.
Key technologies: React, Redux, TypeScript, JavaScript, React Testing Library
https://github.com/stars/AndrewIsh/lists/folio-ill 

Led frontend development on a year-long project to create an entirely new system for managing academic reading lists including integration with many third party systems. Development required my close liaison with the backend team to ensure a coherent overall result. Constant back and forth between both teams throughout the entirety of the project ensured smooth development at both ends. After achieving great success within the company customer base, the product was subsequently purchased by the UK’s leading personal learning platform.
Key technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, AngularJS
https://www.kortext.com/keylinks/

Senior Software Engineer

Aberystwyth University

Responsible for staff and customer facing application development
Developed functional extensions of existing internal and third party applications

Achievements:
Designed and developed a web application to enable users to book and pay for items and services online. This replaced the long standing manual system which required users to physically pay in person. This development led to an almost immediate 800% increase in service bookings and item sales, this continued to grow over time.

Created numerous enhancements to existing internal and external systems. These enhancements were largely improvements to user experience, using existing platform APIs to create new, contemporary user interfaces that met modern user expectations.

Expert, freelance Sass engineers