I am a northerer, a front-end developer, a musician, a cyclist and a father of two living in a small not-so-sunny northern town near Sheffield, South Yorkshire (UK). I graduated from Wakefield College in 2006 with an HND in Interactive Media. I`ve got 8 years experience in Front-End Development and spent 3 years working for an NMA Top 100 Interactive Agency in Technophobia. I was lucky enough to be asked to teach Web Development to FdA students and I consulted for the University Centre Wakefield for 1 year. I`m currently employed by Ledgard Jepson, a small but highly-skilled New Media agency in Tankersly, Sheffield. Where we do great work. I specialise in building responsive HTML5 templates styled with the Sass framework using the BEM methodology to ensure best practices for accessibility (WCAG 2.0 ‘AA’ (Double A)) and standards are met. I build with a mobile-up philosophy with graceful degradation and progressive enhancement. I tend to use vanilla JS now over jQuery but have experience of both. I have a working knowledge of integrating front-end templates into .NET and RoR applications, it`s been a while since I`ve used PHP, but know that Laravel is making waves in the dev world. More recently I`ve started dabbling in Node and React. I`ve worked with clients such as: Green Flag, Pizza Express, South Yorkshire Police, Western Digital, NVidia, Microsoft, Best Western Hotels, Council for British Archaeology, Geographical Association, Meadowhall and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council. I even passed my Cycling Proficiency and I`ve got my 100 meters swimming badge. Although I`m sure I can swim much further than that now. :-)
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