James Cleworth

Front End Web Developer

AQA | September 2021 - Present

Contributed to the roll out of a corporate rebrand through updating our own web frontend Azure npm artifact through continuous integration and continuously deploying to our test environments.
Mentored other colleagues in the team on the cooperate website’s backend Content Management System – Squiz Matrix.
Worked with UX designers and Content Designers to deliver many marketing campaigns.

Stark | July 2018 - August 2021

Contribution to the build and launch of Stark’s core product; its rebranded online energy data platform in early 2019.
Used ASP.NET framework to communicate with the database in order to display varying types of customer datasets with Chart.js.
Learnt Knockout.js’s MVVM framework to create and organise JavaScript files into reusable view models
Used Team Foundation Server to routinely track and fix bugs for each release of the Stark ID platform.
Used Microsoft Visual Studio in conjunction with Team Foundation Server to communicate updates on a task effectively with development and software testing.
Peer programmed to ensure code was high quality and refactored prior to release.

AQA | April 2016 - July 2018

Contributed to build of robust and modular branded components for the AQA web framework - designed for other agencies and third party developers to use.
Focused on code quality by implementing BEM and scoping JavaScript files whilst ensuring code remained dynamic and reusable.
Built and ran several Grunt tasks to consolidate files to decrease file sizes.
Tracked tasks, sprint burndowns, team capacity and integrated continuous delivery builds with Team Foundation Server.
Used additional libraries such as RequireJS for performance improvements and made CSS files load asynchronously with LoadCSS.

RSA | June 2014 - April 2016

Developed websites for major brands such as John Lewis, Tesco and Argos.
Worked on internal and optimisation tasks for RSA and MORE TH>N.
Built webpages using HTML5, SASS, Front End Frameworks and JavaScript.
Redeveloped an internal site whilst retaining AAA accessibility standards.
Implementation of third-party APIs (PostCode Anywhere).
Applied Agile practices for task completion and team collaboration.
Created robust code to allow the codebase to be shared amongst other developers.

Profitable Websites | March 2012 - May 2014