Skills

HTML

CSS

REACT

Node.js

Javascript

PhP

SQL

SEO

Unix/Linux

MySQL/ Maria

PHPMyAdmin

Apache

GIT

Education

BA(Hons) in Communications

Southampton University, UK, 1998

Certifications

Amazon Door Desk Award

Summary

20+ years as a Senior Front End Developer in Fortune 500 tech companies (Amazon, eBay)
Company Founder/Manager Director of iO42, a full digital marketing agency with 10 FTE and $1.5M annual turnover
SEO expert with broad knowledge of technical, on-site, and keyword optimization using Google Analytics & Search Console

Experience

React Engineer - Front End Developer/PayPal.com

January 2022 - September 2022

Updating and maintaining the PayPal front end website.

Founder and Managing Director/ I042

September 2009 - 2018, London, UK

Grew IO42 from a sole operator to a end-to-end digital marketing agency, with 10 FTE & $1.5M turnover.

In addition to heading up the organization and assisting the Director of Sales in driving new business, I functioned as a CTO and worked to identify new areas of opportunity. These included preparing prototypes and MVPs for newly seeded start-ups (both for payment and stock holdings) and developing and offering SEO consultancy and execution, in addition to our core business of building marketing and feature-rich websites for SMBs and start-ups.

Sold client base in 2018 prior to my move to California

Senior Front End Developer / eBay

January 2007 - June 2009, London, UK

Developed a bespoke Project Management system to track customer-facing launches and communications.

Was lead front-engineer for twice-annual Seller Communications launches for eBay Europe. Implemented a streamlined go-to-market process, including enhanced quality checks, leading to a significant reduction in bugs and time to market.

Developed and maintained new and existing features and quality assurance tools for eBay.co.uk

Web Developer / Amazon

December 1999 - October 2006, London, UK

Developed front end for Auctions & ZShops (precursor to Amazon Marketplaces).

Lead UI developer for UK launch of Amazon Associates and UK Borders partner site.

Led development and introduction of Google Ad placements on Amazon.co.uk

Primary maintenance engineer for three European sites: Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de and Amazon.fr

Owner/saltypopcorn.co.uk

Dec 2004 - present

500,00 hits monthly (2019 average)

Designed, built and maintain www.saltypopcorn.co.uk, a film website that curates and distributes news and information on Box Office facts & figures.

The front-end is built on HTML, CSS and PHP, underpinned by a MySQL database. The site is maintained daily, traffic is wholly organic as the result of continuous SEO optimization and experimentation, and was consistently close to a half million visits a month pre-COVID

Volunteer Work

West Coast Ambassador for parkrunUS - Role includes helping maintain current parkuns and helping launch new parkruns
Founding member and ongoing Event/Run Director (weekly volunteer role) at Byxbee parkrun in Palo Alto

Interests

Emerging and established technologies
Film and gadget geek
Running and creating community events
Keen gamer on all platforms.

Travel