Differentstory – Full Stack Developer

As part of a small team (6 of us) we offered a variety of  disciplines including; UX consultation, UI design, SEO, content, social media management, prototyping, web design and development.

During this time I managed to get experience across all of these disciplines as we worked closely as a team to deliver client projects, sometimes in conjuction with more traditional branding projects.

Some clients I worked with included; L’oreal, Carpetright, University of Sunderland, DFDs and Port of Tyne.

My responsibilities

• Building reusable code and libraries for future use
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs
• Providing advice on UX best practices
• Optimise applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Understanding and implementing server, networking and hosting environments (locally and externally)
• Communicating with APIs
• Run website audits, using best practices, data and testing, and make recommendations for improvements
• Understand and advise on technical specifications for EDM’s, HTML5 ads, online video and social media creative
• Build – to standard – HTML5 ads for Google and non-google ad environments.
• General advisor on all digital queries across the business

Skills

• UI design
• UX design
• Component based design and development
• Advanced understanding of web markup, including HTML5, CSS3
• Advanced knowledge of a back-end programming language (PHP, JavaScript)
• Expert understanding of server-side CSS pre-processing platforms
• Good understanding of client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks
• Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates
• Basic knowledge of image authoring tools, to be able to crop, resize, or perform small adjustments on an image.
• Good understanding of development aiding tools & code versioning tools (.git, bower, gulp)
• Good understanding of SEO principles and ensuring that application will adhere to them.
• Advanced usage and implementation of css frameworks (Bootstrap, Foundation, bourbon)
• Good understand of product design tools (Photoshop, Adobe Experience Design & Sketch)
• Good ability to turn online advertising into engaging web-animation.
• Advanced ability to develop responsive EDM’s