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A former underwriter turned web developer, who has just graduated from an intensive 16 week web development boot-camp at Makers Academy.

Previously working for a FinTech offering alternative business finance, I became interested in coding a year ago and spent a lot of time using online learning resources (Code Academy and EdX), but not getting as far as I'd like. I was lacking the ability to apply what I was learning. To be able to be become a developer I had to fully commit to coding, which lead to successfully gaining a place at Makers Academy.

Makers Academy is more than just a place that teaches you how to code, during my time I leant how to learn, providing me with the skills needed to quickly overcome new challenges such as tackling new languages and frameworks.

Along with learning how to code in Ruby and Javascript, I have leant industry best practices, building TDD, object-orientated web apps. I'm looking to work in a challenging and engaging environment that allows me to continue to learn, write test-driven code, apply SOLID and XP principles.

Ability to communicate clearly and concisely to a wide range of audiences. From initial sales conversations to presenting to management.

• Pair programming - Makers Academy are advocates of working in pairs This required being able to quickly adapt to different personalities and being able to quickly adapt
• Stand-ups - occurred daily to maintain focus and productivity of the team
• Feedback - an important part of XP principles is being able to give an receive feedback. This was practiced each week

• Team leader - lead a team of 4
• Mentoring - weekly 121's to focus on development and coaching

Necessary to write clear, clean, consistent code that can be easily built on. Work place experience analysing applications and justifying an underwriting decision.

• Clean code - refactoring and sticking to DRY practices and makes sure clear and concise naming conventions were used to allow code to be easily built on by another developer
• TDD - only writing code that is satisfying a test

• Decision making - presented with a combination of credit reports, financial data and companies management accounts, I would decision their application for business funding
• Building quotes - analysing data using excel.

Thrown in a the deep-end during Makers Academy. Had little coding experience when I started, but now have the skills to approach a problem in a logical and practical way.

• Problem solver - weekly challenges to build on what we have learnt. Breaking them down into their logical parts.
• Technologies - learnt basics of Javascript and Rails in days using the techniques taught by Makers Academy.

• Inter-department - working with the two other departments to build a fast track application process. Required me to quickly become familiar with their processes and policy.

Underwriter Nov '15 - May '16
Senior Relationship Manager July '14 - Nov '15
Senior Sales Executive Aug '12 - June '14
Relationship Supervisor Oct '10 - Aug '12
Sales Executive May '10 - Oct '10

Europe’s #1 Developer Bootcamp. A fully immersive, full-time computer programming course in London.

Languages: Ruby, Javascript, HTML & CSS

Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Sinatra

Databases: PostgreSQL, DataMapper, Active Record

Testing: RSpec, Jasmine, Capybara, Zombie, Chai, Mocha, Unittest

Principles: OOP, TDD, XP, SOLID Design Principles, Agile Development, Pair Programming, Version Control (Git)

• BA, Business Management
• President, University of Sheffield Rowing Club

• Cycling, running, golf, climbing, shooting.