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Development of an internal tool to automate and centralise the employee performance review process, replacing a manual workflow based on Excel spreadsheets.
Recently worked on the development of a large-scale website as part of a team of 20+ developers using .NET 10, integrating Microsoft Copilot into the engineering workflow and gaining hands-on exposure to core Azure cloud services.

Replacement of the existing credit card payment gateway on the public facing website
Migration of the authentication/authorization system from ASP.NET Membership to ASP.NET Identity.
Creation of Web API services to be consumed externally.
Adding oAuth2 authentication using JWT tokens to several public facing websites and web services.
Introduction and integration of a new insurance product (motorb

Working remotely on the build of both the Japanese and Canadian Mazda websites using EpiServer

Complete back end build of a multilingual mini-site for Henkel, liaising with the backend team in the London office and with a front-end developer in charge of doing the HTML and Javascript. My responsibilities also included helping out the account managers' team with scoping new projects and solving day to day issues on existing websites.

Mazda Rebels: Working in a team of 6 developers using Agile methodology to create a multilingual website for 25 countries together with a custom CMS for editors to add the content. The website was built using MVC5 and MongoDB as well as Web API 2, ASP.NET Identity and social networks login functionality among other technologies.

Updates and code optimisation on several websites (Cadbury, Heineken and RPM's Intranet) that were built using both Web Forms and MVC4 Code First and SQL Server. Some of the new functionality involved image manipulation by adding overlay images and overlay text to an image uploaded by the user, geolocation using the Google Maps API, chart generation using the Google Chart API and a spreadsheet gen

Working in a team of 8 developers using Scrum methodology for creating new websites and maintaining existing ones, liaising with development and account teams across multiple countries. All the websites were created using MVC4 and SQL Server for clients like McDonald's, L'Oreal, Michelin and Continental. Most of these websites consumed web services and used payment systems like PayPal or SecurePay

Complete back-end build of a website for NatWest Bank using MVC4 Code First, SQL Server 2008 and the Unit of Work Design Pattern. This website mainly consists of a competition where users can upload images and videos that are later moderated by a third party company using a bespoke internal admin interface we also developed. Approved submissions are displayed on an image gallery. I was also involv

My main task was to build an internal administration tool for the “Tesco Mums Choice” website that allows admin users to create surveys that display on the website and are completed by the end users. The tool also displays user statistics and controls some of the content displayed on the website based on several user criteria like age range, gender, etc. The site was built using MVC2 and SQL Serve

Complete front and back end build of a website for a financial institution using HTML, CSS, jQuery, .NET 3.5 and SQL Server 2008.

In charge of the maintenance of several .NET sites, working on both the front and back end.

Worked on several 3.5 and 4.0 .NET projects for clients like Microsoft, Subway and Glade.

I was a member of the technology team for 4 years where I was mainly involved in developing websites for different government-based clients as well as other major international clients.

Provided support for over 200 users of 2 internal bespoke applications within the company. My main responsibilities included training staff to use these applications, meeting with users to discuss possible enhancements to the applications which were later discussed with the programmers and solving day to day user issues.