About

At Sonovate, I'm part of a UI team built around staying close to the customer and evolving our design system rather than rebuilding it every time requirements change.

As Lead Front-end Developer at Organic, I built websites for clients including Heinz, W-Series, Dentally,Cybersmile, and Yomira, a superyacht company.

One of the biggest projects was a bespoke SEO CMS for a major UK retailer, built to give their content team more control over search performance.

I already cared about accessibility and social-good work outside my day job, so Organic’s ‘Digital For Good’ ethos, aiming for social benefit alongside commercial results, was a natural fit for both of us.

I worked as a website designer and developer, and founder of my own business, NoFace.

NoFace took on projects covering brand design, website design and development, hosting, backups, and optimisation.

My stack was built around Node.js for APIs, React, and Gatsby for statically generating high-performing sites.

As a one-man business, I handled client services, communications, and website design and development.

During my studies at Solent University, I undertook a work placement at Moov2 for a full year of internship.

Working as a web designer and developer, I assisted with both the front-end designs of websites and assisted in developing with web technologies, front-end and back-end languages such as PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript and SCSS.

I learnt how to use Git, Bitbucket, and GitHub as part of my source control training, and how to work as part of a large team.

As the only website designer and developer of the team, I was tasked with creating designs for clients and following a structured creative process when generating ideas and solutions.

As well as the initial designs, I was also responsible for creating the website applications and interfaces that will be used as an end product, often utilising CMS technologies such as WordPress.

I also used Git, Bitbucket, and GitHub to manage source control across the projects I worked on.

In late 2019, I returned to my studies to focus on growing my business, taking a post-graduate MA in Creative Enterprise. I achieved a Merit grade, graduating in 2020.

The course introduced several business growth methodologies, strategic thinking models and opened my perceptions to the world of business.

For all those wondering, Creative Enterprise is a fancy way of saying advanced business studies.

Born and raised in Swansea, I came to the South of England to complete studies in Website Design and Development where I graduated with a 1:1 on my undergraduate course.

• 1:1 – BSc Website Design and Development
• D*D*D* – BTEC Extended Diploma Level 3 in ICT
• 9 GCSEs, including English and Mathematics

Amongst competitors from across Wales, I placed 1st in the all-Wales final of the 2013 WorldSkills UK competition for website design and development, hosted by Gower College Swansea.

Official WorldSkills Article

I've had a computer in my life for as long as I can remember, and I always wanted to know how they worked rather than just how to use them. That curiosity turned into a career.