Joel Carr

Personal Statement

I am a contract web developer, specialising in Front End, with over 7 years experience in product startups, charity, and fast-paced digital agencies. My ability to quickly learn new coding practices and environments aids the delivery of advanced and high quality products for my clients and their users. I deeply care about the user and developer experience for the products I work on.

Professional Experience

• Friday (part of PA Consulting) (August 2019 - December 2019)

  At Friday (PA Consulting), I worked with their client 'Nokia' to build a new site to display a their new range of products. As this was Friday’s first Drupal 8 project, I ensured the front end was structured in a way to be as familiar as possible to front end developers without any Drupal experience and maintaining Drupal’s standards. A front end developer could build out components using Fractal, independently from Drupal, and the Drupal build could use the same component template. I also ensured the front end code followed at least WCAG’s AA accessibility guidelines and the latest performance techniques where possible.

  Worked with:

  • Acquia Cloud
  • Drupal 8
  • ES2017+
  • ESLint
  • Fractal
  • Jenkins
  • Jest
  • Node
  • npm
  • SASS
  • Stylelint

• Barnardo's (September 2017 - August 2018, January 2019 - June 2019)

  At Barnardo’s I am part of a new digital transformation team building researched prototypes aimed to assist service workers and children under Barnardo’s care. For example, a tool to build a legally sound consent form for research within Barnardo’s and a tool to assess the risk of a case. I am also part of helping the team grow by interviewing new developers, coaching junior developers, and writing clear documentation for each project.

  Worked with:

  • CircleCI
  • Cucumber
  • Design systems
  • ES2017+
  • ESLint
  • Gatsby
  • Heroku
  • Jest
  • Netlify
  • Node
  • npm
  • PostCSS
  • Rails 5
  • React
  • Stylelint
  • Yarn

• Beamly (January 2017 - June 2017)

  Working as part of a “delivery team” ensuring the delivery of fast performant, accessible, high quality websites for brands such as Max Factor and Escada. As part of my role, I helped maintain and deliver components for the in-house library.

  Worked with:

  • Babel
  • Chai
  • Cucumber
  • ES6+
  • ESLint
  • Gulp
  • Mocha
  • Node
  • SASS
  • Stylelint

• Livestax (July 2016 - January 2017)

  I was responsible for updating the Angular application to use recent practices along with building and maintaining a public JS API / theme. As a product team, I worked very closely with the client with fortnightly show & tell updates.

  Worked with:

  • Angular 1.x
  • Cucumber
  • ESLint
  • Mocha
  • Rails
  • SASS
  • Sinon
  • Stylelint

• RefME (January 2015 - July 2016)

  I built the UI for an application with a fast growing user-base and maintained the Rails API along with a few Node microservices. I ensured to use the latest practices to deliver the best performance. The Angular applications were written in a TDD approach.

  Worked with:

  • Angular 1.x
  • Chrome Extension Development
  • Cucumber
  • ESLint
  • Grunt
  • Heroku
  • Jasmine
  • Node
  • Rails
  • SASS
  • Wordpress

• Dare (July 2012 - January 2015)

  I worked on the successful delivery, sometimes as Tech Lead, on a range projects for well known organisations like Sainsbury’s, Barclays, The FA, and Post Office.

  Worked with:

  • Backbone
  • Canvas
  • CodeIgniter
  • iAd development
  • Level AAA Conformance to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
  • Umbraco
  • Wordpress

Education

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