Highly proficient developer with over 15 years commercial experience in a range of fast-paced agency environments.
Always happy to hit the ground running, whether it be integrating into an existing team or working independently, from home or on-site. Since starting out in 2007 I’ve worked at many well-established London-based agencies, producing sites for big name brands such as BMW, MINI, GSK, Sky Sports, Heineken, Post Office, Ben & Jerry's, London Fashion Week and Amnesty International to name a few, often working alongside talented designers, building out modern designs to exacting standards.
Career highlights include producing a Fantasy Football game for Sky Sports, which at the time saw regular TV promotion and was played by over 100,000 users each game round. InColchester and TheJunction were a joy to build, involving some rather flamboyant design aspects - they're certainly worth a look. Back in 2012 I built a sentiment-based trading platform for Derwent Capital Markets, working alongside company CTO within a small startup environment. Other highlights include creating a 'Postage Finder' web-app for the Post Office, a Ben & Jerry's promotional micro-site, and a 'Perfect Bar' web-app for Heineken.
James is a highly skilled front-end developer with a very keen awareness of the overall user experience. The combination of design skills, knowledge and understanding of development and quick pace of delivery made James a very valuable member of our team. The end result of the product is testament to James' input and support he gave the project over the time he worked on it. It was a pleasure to work alongside him. He made a big impact on the entire team. Cerven Cotter, UX Lead at GFM
I had the pleasure of working with James on a small site prototype. The turn around was quick, he was only with us for a few weeks, but his attention to detail was very impressive. He matched my designs perfectly which saved me having to spend a lot of time on QA. That in turn enabled us to work closely together to fine tune and tweak the interactions and responsive layouts of the prototype. In short we got a lot done in a short amount of time which looked and worked beautifully. Tony Goff, Freelance Designer
James was hired to work with me in a consultancy role to provide technical direction for the implementation of a responsive framework. I found James to be extremely knowledgeable and a pleasure to work with. I would strongly recommend James to anyone seeking advice, technical direction or strong front-end skills. Wayne Lavender, Front-end Developer
I worked with James at Maynard Malone on projects for Ben & Jerry's. He is a very skilled front-end developer with a considerable talent for translating customer requirements, corporate graphic designs and Agile iterative development into robust, fluid and responsive designs. He is easy to communicate with on both a personal and technical level and he an asset to anyone requiring their front-end code to work right first time. Brian Butterworth, Freelance Developer
We had the pleasure of working with James over several months on a web-based project. The project was based on a CMS he was unfamiliar with but he was fast to get his head around it. James was able to seamlessly adapt to our way of working and was quick to turn our ideas into reality. Looking forward to working with him again soon. Tyson Edwards, senior designer at Studio 2br