Originally hired as a Senior Front-end Developer at Vanilla LLC, I now am a Team Lead on the Vanilla product acquired by Higher Logic.

In my role, I am responsible for all things Front-end related to the Vanilla, a Community & Forum product. Together with the leadership team, I am involved in product conceptualization, specification and technical breakdown working closely with our architect.

As party of my role, I work with various front-end, back-end and full stack developers to see product features through to production. Including backlog refinements, planning and other Agile activities, as well as, working together with those developers in what ever way is needed to ensure productivity and timeous delivery.

Together with these other responsibilities I remain an individual contributor to the product, often being tasked with more nebulous projects as I have proven my capabilities to not only deliver, but work efficiently with various stakeholders.

At the Globe and Mail I was part of the Sophi Analytics project. Sophi aims to help online publishers produce better, more reader focused news content by using Machine Learning to assist those publishers to make the most relevant articles easily findable to their subscribers.

I helped create and maintain a React.js and Redux stack with a custom Webpack configuration which is deployed through Kubernetes.

I was also involved in creating and maintaining a browser extension responsible of overlaying analytical data atop existing publishers web pages. I use d3.js heavily for creating custom charts and I am involved in all facets of the customer facing application including but not limited to; Visuals and Design, User Experience, Accessibility, Performance, Testing and Documentation.

At Mosaic Manufacturing, I was part of the software development team focused on creating cloud-based 3D printing tools. I was intimately involved in both the design and development processes, often doing both in my daily duties. On occasion I would also interface with the firmware, hardware and customer success teams.

At VML, I head up a code team which is part of a end to end fintech centric team. My role is to create responsive, accessible, and standards compliant front-end code. I also create front-end architecture and define technological requirements. I was a manager at VML.

Clients worked on: Nedbank, Bonitas, Nike, Amstel, Sta-Soft, Simba, Randgold

I created responsive and standards compliant front-end code for web and apps at this large corporate in Johannesburg. Working within multiple agile teams, we created and maintained digital products, primarily of which was a video on demand service.

Products worked on: DStv Now, DStv.com, DStv EPG, SuperSport

In my role here I built custom themes for WordPress as well as configured and modified purchased themes. This was of course accompanied by constant maintenance on a wide range of websites too.

Clients worked on: The Works Film Group, Megarom Games, Indigenous Films, ConceptualEyes, CoachTrax

During my postgraduate year, I tutored ActionScript 3.0 and helped first, second and third year students with their various projects in aspects of code and design.

I was initially hired as a paid intern at Regenesys. After proving my abilities, I was offered a full time position as Web designer and Video content creator. I created print media marketing materials as well as digital banners and collateral.

I also shot, edited and produced promotional and education video content for e-learning students and specialized courses materials for in-company education programmes.

Products worked on: Regenesys.com, Regenesys Free Education Program, Regenesys LMS

While completing my studies, I was employed as a part-time salesperson, cashier and delivery driver here.

During high school, I was employed as a part-time salesperson and stock packer.