Carl Wood
Senior Frontend Developer
cjwood17(at)gmail(dot)com
Conscientious and hard-working Senior Frontend Developer with 10 years' experience of building user interfaces
Career history
Bookwhen
Senior Frontend Developer, Jan 2021 - Present
- Building new features in HTML, CSS, JS (ES6), and integrating with Ruby on Rails
- Bug fixing
- UI design using Figma
- Wireframing using Balsamiq
Graphite Digital
Senior Frontend Developer, Jun 2018 - Nov 2020
- Single Page Applications (prototypes) using ES6, React, Storybook, styled-components, Jest, Enzyme
- Working closely with lead dev and designers to create CMS and marketing sites
- HTML and CSS (Sass)
- Accessibility evangelist
- QA and accessibility testing
- Performance testing and optimisation with lighthouse
Bright Interactive
UX Developer, Dec 2017 – Jun 2018
- UX developer working on company product
- HTML and CSS (Sass)
- JavaScript: Angular
- UX design
Shed Collective
Frontend Web Developer, Aug 2015 – Nov 2017
- Frontend lead working as part of a small multi-disciplinary team
- HTML, Sass, Javascript, jQuery, Knockout.js, Gulp, NPM, PHP
- Integrating designs with in-house CMS
- Writing blog posts on relevant tech for company Medium account
White October
Frontend Web Developer, Jun 2011 – Jul 2015
- Client-facing frontend developer
- Working closely with the design team to produce responsive websites and apps
- HTML, CSS (preprocessors) and some Javascript, with a smattering of UX and design
- Version control with Git to work on multi-developer projects
- Leading client meetings to demo new features
- Given presentations on CSS architecture, jQuery Mobile and front-end workflow tools
- Mentoring work experience students
Education
BSc Web Design (1st)
Bristol UWE, 2008 - 2011
3 A-levels
East Devon College 2006 - 2008
- English (A)
- History (A)
- Media Studies (B)
11 GCSEs (A* - C)
Fred Longworth High School 2001 - 2005
- Maths (A*)
- Science (A*)
- English (A)
- History (A)
Skillset
- HTML5/CSS3
- Sass
- Javascript (ES6), TypeScript
- React
- Next.js
- Vue.js
- Storybook
- Git (CLI)
- Webpack
- jQuery
References available on request