Andy Friel

Helping to establish and develop in-house best practices and workflows for future development projects.
3 month contract with Dow Jones to develop a number of assets within very short timeframes.
Enhancing a bespoke Wordpress theme to include a component library that could be rolled out on client sites with bespoke theming and capabilities.
Optimising existing portfolio sites to enhance SEO benefits.

Maintaining and developing new features for a classifieds ad website brand across fifteen territories worldwide.
Working with a complex legacy codebase and collaborating with others to implement front-end standards that are enforced with team code reviews.
Strong focus on increasing the performance score of the websites on Google Lighthouse for maximum SEO benefit.
Helping to build an internal moderation tool using Vue.js

Working on George.com building creative landing pages with HTML, CSS and vanilla Javascript, including campaigns for prominent events such as Halloween and Christmas.
Maintained their Life & Style Wordpress blog, building creative posts using Bootstrap, and also built email campaigns.
Tasked with rebuilding legacy content and functionality to be suitable for a new site built on React.
Main technical point of contact for the client, involved heavily in optimising content for both site speed and SEO purposes.
Worked directly with designers and copywriters to produce assets that are optimised for modern web standards while still allowing for creative freedom.

Continuing an expanded role in the same team detailed below.
Working directly with clients and project managers to compile merge lists for deployments.
Required to perform live website checks, often out of hours, to ensure the correct content is released on schedule.
Involved in more senior development projects as well as aiding newer members of the team during intensive work periods.
Taken a more vocal role in relation to possible conflicts across projects or issues that may arise when projects are deployed, and actively trying to minimise their impact.

Working in a team of over 50 for an American multinational client to help maintain over 60 international websites.
Required to complete projects on tight deadlines to high design and technical standards, across both desktop and mobile devices.
Constantly working with teams in other time zones and frequently required to attend intensive workshop periods in the USA.
Allowed for a wider view of the entire development cycle from a different perspective, and has required greater management of my own time and of others when delegating work.

Working within an existing Interactive Learner Planner to streamline a number of existing paper-processes within the college.
Adapting an extensive, bespoke MVC site to meet the needs of various clients while allowing appropriate admin control and ease-of-use for the end user.
Responsible for the technical administration of their e-learning software platform.
Required to evaluate existing procedures and determine how these could be best translated to an online system.

Worked on a variety of products, many of which had tight deadlines or required constant adaption due to changing legislation on national levels.
Completed work alone and as part of a larger team, while always managing time and work effectively.

Web Developer