Hello, I'm
Joanne Taylor

React/Redux project for a product configurator tool for a roofing company. Built usingReact/Redux/Redux form, Webpack, Sass, BEM, Jest. Sits as a submodule within a Wordpress site. Agile ran project working with a small team of 2 FEWD and 1 BEWD alongside the client based offsite. Continual code review from client’s Tech Lead and adopting their best practice and coding guidelines.

Healthcare app/web solution using Angular, rsJX, ngStore, ES6,Jasmine/ Karma for TDD, Ionic, SASS,BEM. Worked as part of a tea . Agile project with a team of 3 - 5 developers working on the lead on web project, overseeing code reviews on PR and offering support on the app project. Both projects had a dependency on a common repo with provided components used in both applications. Integrated with a third party API that was been built alongside the web/app project. Used duckrails for mocking APIs whilst API was been built and created tests to help transition the endpoints when we integrated the real API. Involved a lot of close working with the third party creating the API to ensure that data returned met business requirements.

Javascript developer for a portal to create and manage applications. Tech stack includes React, ES6 integrating with a .NET core on the backend via a RESTful API. Introduced to the project webpack, coding standards using airBnB’s eslint guidelines, alongside Redux for state management and Jest for TDD. Created a branching strategy using feature branches.

After the Sony project wrapped up I was asked to help build a POC for a well known airline. Portal Tech wanted to demonstrate a React/Redux implentation with a Hybris backend so I created a small POC to demo. From this we converted it to a MVP, using just ES6, HTML5/Sass, CSS3 (SASS)/BEM. We created a pattern library following Atomic Design principles meeting WCAG 2.0 AA guidelines and are currently integrating that into Hybris using ES6, mustache for JS templates and jQuery.

JS tech lead consultant on Sony Playstation's content pipeline project. Intensive project with a team of over 150 developers, building within the Hybris CMS. Hired and managed a team of 12 developers who were spread within mixed discipline teams, I co-ordinated execution of functionality throughout 10 work streams, ensuring that the JS produced followed the MVP pattern and architecture chosen and met the code standards that were set. All JS stories were overseen and reviewed by myself and used JIRA/PRs to review code to ensure that all JS code commited into the build branch was written to a good standard and we weren't replicating existing functionality used within a different workstreams.

Modules were created to handle isolated common functionality such as calendars and inline searches and we used TDD/mocha/chai for testing. Alongside this we created utility libraries for small utility functions such as string/object manipulation and date utilities (extending the moment.js library).

We used the airbnb JS standards and enforced linting within our IDE's and webpack to prevent conflicts and unlinted code being commited. The revealing module pattern was adopted as standard for consistancy. Majority of the views were handing using the JSPs however for views were the UI was updated based on state changes and the JS, we utilitised mustache for JS templates. JSdoc was used heavily throughout to ensure that all the JS code was well commented ready for handover for the Sony internal team to continue the project post go live.

As a Senior FEWD/Tech Lead of the London office my role spans a lot of responsibilities. I have the day to day FEWD tasks which range from creating sites on CMS predominately WordPress or ExpressionEngine. To creating JS heavy experiences on Blue State’s PaaS - the BSD Tools, utilising various APIs to manage data submission alongside content management.

I am also a Google TVC for BSD and worked on a number of Google projects off domain and on domain. Building in AngularJS or on Google’s internal CMS Goro. In addition to creating documention for security review and undertaking code reviews on all submitted codebase.

As Tech Lead my role also involves scoping new business and helping with the strategy to create a creative solution to execute the strategy to drive signups or donations. Then determining the appropriate tech architecture to deliver the solution. My role also included weekly team lead meetings focussed on process, team development and knowledge sharing. Creating project documentation and rolling out process for London builds, as well as overseeing third party developers and remote developers working on BSD London projects.

I also spent 3 months working from the Boston office with our software team, working on the planning stages of our PaaS redevelopment. My role was to be front-end lead on Sprint 0, helping us choose an appropriate framework and tech architecture for the front end solution. I specced out API endpoints using RAML for the frontend to interact with, created coding standards for the project and compared JS frameworks such as Ember/React/Backbone and Angular. Part of my role also included interviewing and hiring the person who would take on this role within the Boston office alongside the rest of the development team on my return to the UK.

A range of my clients whilst at Blue State have included Google, WaterAid, Tate, WWF, Labour, YMCA, Which & JustGiving.

My role as a UX developer spans from strategy/planning, writing documents to support proposals, creating user personas/journeys, running research workshops to coding front end of the website.

Producing HTML templates/prototypes in HTML5/CSS3 and JS for integration with a variety of CMS systems but mostly Drupal, Umbraco and Sitecore. With particular attention to accessiblity, with all sites conforming by default to WCAG AA. Reading Room is well known for it's accessbility and usability focus so the research phase findings is integrated into everything I do, ensuring that user needs are always met.

As part of my role I help with new business proposals, helping with creative solutions and proposal writing as well as participating in pitches, gaining a high success rate of business won from pitches. I have project directed two pieces of new business both of which were successful.

I started at 9xb as a junior developer having recently graduated and made the most of all opportunities offered to me to continually develop my skillset.
Towards the end of my time at 9xb I was tasked with streamlining the company's frontend framework. My role also ensured that templates produced were inline with company standards and training up the templating team.

My role for the majority of my time at 9xb was web developer specialising in PHP. In 2010 I undertook a ZEND training course and immediately moved to developing on the ZEND framework and produced several ecommerce websites as well as been involved in developing the companies eCommerce module.

For a period of time I ran the company support desk and managed 50-60 of our smaller clients. I was first point of contact, providing support, quoting and upselling new work. This was great experience in bug fixing and been able to analyse other people's code and amend it to provide ideal solutions.