I came up with the idea for GitHooks.io back in January 2016. A complex technical project I persevered with on the side, I only felt it was ready in December 2016 almost a year later, when I presented the idea to the BBC’s internal monthly Web Developer Gathering (see slide deck) – the first presentation I... [Read More]

  I was the lead developer for the BBC Olympic Body Match, which takes your physical attributes and matches you to your three closest Olympian counterparts. It went out in 21 different languages including Persian and Russian, and was consumed across BBC Sport, BBC News, the BBC Sport and News Apps, and the bbc.com ad-enabled equivalents, which... [Read More]

After the success of the new responsive VoiceCouncil theme, my company was commissioned to develop four new websites, on a tight budget and deadline. Given these limitations, I decided to architect this in such a way as to minimise the duplication of effort (the DRY principle) across the four sites. Certain elements, such as social... [Read More]

SmartResolution is open-source, extensible Online Dispute Resolution software. It was developed as part of my Major Project (dissertation) and won the Best Major Project award in my year. Skills demonstrated: BDD/TDD, Continuous Integration, Ruby & Cucumber regression tests, modular development, state pattern, publish-subscribe pattern, detailed documentation, continuous and automated deployment, AWS. Read more about my... [Read More]

A calculator that matches you to your top (and bottom) Commonwealth sports, based on your personal attributes.

Application | Report | GitHub 3D visualisation of our solar system, written in WebGL. Uses RequireJS, custom OpenGL shaders, progressive enhancement. This was made for an Advanced Computer Graphics assignment and achieved a mark of 89%.

VoiceCouncil Magazine is an online magazine for vocalists that has now been running for over six years. I joined the VoiceCouncil team as a subcontractor in 2012 while at university, editing articles and scouting for talent to enter their biannual singing competition. Over time, my duties branched out to include running advertising campaigns for them; I... [Read More]

reff.it is a fully responsive web app that allows you to share snippets of pages, rather than the entire web page itself. Uses Bootstrap on the front end, with a MySQL & PDO PHP back-end.

http://www.hover-bike.com/MA/ Freelance work for Malloy Aeronautics Ltd. Built the new website entirely from scratch. Fully responsive – dynamically scaling menu, images and video Image swipe – swipe through image gallery on your device Custom WordPress theme WooCommerce integration – e-commerce WordPress plugin customised to the client’s requirements In-page AJAX updates – see the Hoverbike page

http://aliceholmes.org.uk/ Based on an open-source BBC iFrame scaffold quiz, I built a questionnaire for third-year design student Alice Holmes, which calculates the ideal chair for the individual based on their personality traits.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24756311 Developed spoken-language-agnostic applications which can then be used by BBC World Service. Translated into eight languages. In the UK alone the stress test was viewed almost 1.9 million times and shared 106,000 times in the first seven days after publication.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25055444 Premise User can enter their postcode into a postcode search module, taking them to the BBC NHS Winter landing page and showing them the details of their nearest hospital. They can see whether or not their hospital is hitting governmental targets. Critical reception Nominated for several awards. Technical details The postcode search module uses... [Read More]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23801200 Image-zooming, interactive birds-eye-view of the Zaatari refugee camp, using the OpenSeadragon library. Users navigate through the panel controls on the right. Also developed for BBC World Service, which required layout changes and considerations for right-to-left languages.