Becoming a father for the first time in the midsts of a global pandemic, I chose to freelance in order to focus on a number of diverse projects while having flexibility and freedom to spend time with my son. This has been an invaluable experience, highly rewarding and filled with many learnings, challenges, smells and sounds! During this time I have endeavoured to keep my skills relevant by completing several courses in JavaScript and React as well as undertake some notable projects, such as giving corporate training and launching an NFT collection.

I held the position of Technical Support Manager at Arekibo communications for seven months. I provided technical assisitance to our clients via phone, email, and the Zendesk ticketing system. I managed and sheduled support, maintenence and upgrade tasks across a team of front end and back end developers. I would regularly update site content for our clients, using Sitecore, Sitefinity, Kentico and Expression Engine CMS. I also provided clients with training on the aforementioned Content Management Systems. I was also responsible for QA and testing of new builds - be it entire sites or new sections of existing sites. I was required to provide weekly and monthly reports. I resigned from the role at the end of the probation period as it was not as development focussed as I had hoped.

I worked at CKSK for six years, starting out as an intern in 2012. My initial role was to develop innovative and engaging banner ad campaigns in both Standard and Rich Media formats. Originally this was done in Flash, but later transitioned to HTML5 - animating using both CSS and Javascript. I would build ads using packages such as Adobe Animate, Google Web Designer or Celtra, as well as writing them purely in code, depending on the publishing requirements of the campaign. I was also responsiblefor maintaining the websites of our clients, updading content and developing features, sections & pages as required, as well as building SPAs for specific campaigns or promotions. It was also my responsibilty to develop and broadcast monthly EDMs for a range of clients. Sadly, CKSK went into liquidation in January of 2019.