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Hey 👋 I'm Brad, A Frontend Developer

7 years of commercial web
development experience delivering
quality user experiences

Vertu Motors
Bristol Street Motors
Vertu Motorcycles
Vans Direct
The Taxi Centre
Total Webshield
Total AV
Total Adblock
Scanguard
Royal Yachting Association
Vertu Motors's new website
Vertu Website re-build View project
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HTML

CSS | SCSS

JavaScript

Typescript

Vite

Git

React

Note

Figma

AI

The new

Astro

Hygraph

Algolia

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Terraform

The other

Webpack

Vue

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Convert

Zod

Apache

Adobe Suite

Jira

SEO

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Frontend Developer

September 2023 - Present | Vertu Motors
Astro Hygraph Algolia GraphQL CI / CD React Typescript Angular SASS Jest Playwright

Achievements

  • Built the new vehicle search application for Vertu
  • Built the new dealership search application for Vertu
  • Built the new main naviagtion for both the Vertu and Bristol Street Motors websites
  • Improved Lighthouse scores by 33% across core retail websites
  • Increased organic search traffic by 10% month on month

Responsibilities

  • Mentor junior developers and provide support, knowledge sharing and code reviews for the team
  • Contribute towards product and architecture decisions and promote best practices
  • Collaborate with the Design, SEO, Data and Marketing teams to deliver the best possible website performance, SEO visibility and user experience
  • Raise sales by implementing new features and components
  • Maintain and extend 6 e-Commerce websites within a large agile team

JavaScript Developer

August 2021 - April 2023 | Total Security
React Typescript BEM SASS Browser Extensions

Achievements

  • Improved subscription rates by implementing new features and components
  • Increased performance of 2 extensions and 1 browser product by creating in-app developer tools
  • Maintained UI / UX quality across 12 languages for a global user base
  • Delivered high quality products supporting 4 browsers

Responsibilities

  • Maintain 3 browser extensions for a global user base supporting Chrome, Firefox, Edge and Opera
  • Maintain UI / UX quality across 12 languages
  • Collaborate with the design team to deliver the best possible user experience
  • Contribute towards product and architecture decisions

Junior Frontend Developer

January 2019 - August 2021 | Royal Yachting Association
Vue Typescript React SASS SharePoint Sitecore

Achievements

  • Delivered a new, automated 'Discover Sailing' campaign journey involving 4 new applications improving the user experience for both sailing clubs and end users
  • Trained content writers on how to use the Sitecore V9 and provided ongoing support
  • Transitioned the RYA websites from an old, customised instance of SharePoint 2016 to Sitecore V9
  • Improved RYA Membership subscriptions by redesigning the membership journey

Responsibilities

  • Run an internal digital agency like service for every department, collaborating directly with staff to deliver business critical objectives from start to finish
  • Manage design / QA expectations, and collaborate with digital agencies to migrate the RYA websites from SharePoint 2016 to Sitecore V9
  • Upskill and stay updated on new technologies and best practices for web development and apply them to the RYA websites

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Whether you want to connect, collaborate, or just say hello, feel free to reach out😊

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