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A hands on technical manager working in the digital advertising industry. With a background as a full stack developer (LAMP) and a senior javascript developer, I now champion digital and lead a team of developers, system administrators and consultants at one of the largest advertising agencies in London. Proven hands on coding experience with Object Oriented JS,...

A hands on technical manager working in the digital advertising industry. With a background as a full stack developer (LAMP) and a senior javascript developer, I now champion digital and lead a team of developers, system administrators and consultants at one of the largest advertising agencies in London. Proven hands on coding experience with Object Oriented JS, HTML5 APIs, CSS3, Mobile responsive UIs, Canvas animation, third party API integration (eg Facebook, Twitter, etc), single page web applications, DevOps & continuous integration. Proven management track record of delivering in regulated environments such as Banking and Pharmaceuticals. Such environments require exhaustive technical discovery, liaison & approvals processes, external application security and penetration testing requirements and adherence to guidelines such as WCAG A & AA, OWASP Top 10. # Technology & Development Manager As the Head of Technology at JWT London I have overseen projects ranging from content managed websites, bespoke web applications, native mobile apps and API integration services. I have experience with every step of complex website/application development: from discovery & early planning, project definition, documentation, design, development, quality assurance, deployment and maintenance. # Speaker I’ve spoken at conferences in the U.S, Holland and UK and I enjoy talking publicly about technology developments, side projects as well as releasing newly developed software at these events. # Teacher As an Adobe Certified Instructor I delivered Adobe certified training courses throughout England at introductory, intermediate and advanced levels for software such as Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Dreamweaver & Flash. I also delivered bespoke training sessions on topics such as HTML5 & Javascript, PHP, MySQL and CSS.Head of Technology @ #Overview Joined the JWT London as Head of Front End development and co-department manager. After 7 months I was promoted to Head of Technology. The Head of Technology is an operational role that oversees all technical aspects of digital project delivery for JWT London. # Department operations As well as being a client facing role, it involved many department operations such as staff management, writing key project documentation (Eg Functional & Technical specifications), project technical recommendations, project resource allocation, project cost estimation, third party supplier liaison, client account & technical liaison, project brainstorming with creatives etc. As well as handling department operations I introduced new processes such as: automated asset building & optimization for all projects, modern techniques for building internationalised interfaces, tooling creation as a project phase in order to validate development and Q&A, modern version control and continuous integration techniques. # Management Managed a team that consisted of full stack, front end, back end, technical consultants and system administrators. This involved internal department operations such as daily stand ups, project code reviews, regular employee performance reviews/HR liaison, staff hiring etc. External to the department, I provided regular operational updates to senior JWT management as well as clients. #Clients HSBC, Bayer, Canon, Microsoft, Nestle, Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, Kimberley Clarke, Falcon & Associates. From September 2013 to Present (2 years 4 months) Lead Developer @ Joined the team at Moresoda Design Ltd as Lead Developer. Oversaw all web projects and instituted new company development practices such as the use of Git version control, automated deployment and the use of roll back strategies. A selection of projects developed during my time at Moresoda: • A mystery shopping web application for handling assignment invitation & distribution, mystery shopper recruitment, mystery shopper vetting, assignment ranking & analysis as well as a client reporting system. The system includes a bespoke questionnaire builder, area manager analysis tools as well as a unique mobile assignment acceptance mechanism. Built on Dojo & CodeIgniter. • iOS Apps for both iPhone and iPad. Fully customised look and feel as well as integration with custom web API service for supplying updated product data, news and latest blogs. Built on jQuery Mobile, Backbone, RequireJS, Custom JS Framework & Phonegap. • Web product viewer and customiser that is touch enabled and allows for the viewing & layering of some 150,000 product images. Built with a bespoke TouchJS library & jQuery. • Bespoke E-commerce checkout system for Whoooz! Media in order to sell & allocate tickets for conferences. In use for three different yearly conferences and the system supports 3 different currencies. as well as integration with Whoooz! Media invoicing systems. • Mobile web app for conference delegates to capture & validate leads. Built with jQuery Mobile & CodeIgniter • Selling custom EE software • CMS integrated mapping & route plotting tool for publishing adventure holiday trek routes and points of interest. Built with CodeIgniter, Google Maps, jQuery & RequireJS. # Clients Del Monte, Um Bongo, Bisque Radiators, Clip Displays, Pomegreat, The Foodie Bugle. From February 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 8 months) Bath, United KingdomFounder/Technical Lead, 2007 - 2010 @ Founded web development company based in Bath focused at providing web & design services to media agencies. Specialities were in web sites & print media that represented the ethos and spirit of the clients business. The company developed many PHP technology solutions for clients, such as a powerful, scalable & transportable Content Management System built on the CodeIgniter PHP framework, a bespoke Email marketing system (also PHP) as well as many bespoke extensions and modules for many mainstream web publishing solutions such as ExpressionEngine, Wordpress, Magento etc. The company also expanded into providing white label web development services for various media agencies throughout the south west of England. This encompasses HTML & CSS conversion of mockups, custom PHP development, AJAX, E-commerce and Content Management System integration. From January 2007 to February 2011 (4 years 2 months) Bath, United KingdomBachelor of Engineering (BEng), Aerospace Engineering @ University of Bath From 2002 to 2007 International Baccalaureate (37 points) @ St Julians School, Portugal From 1991 to 2001 Christopher Imrie is skilled in: CSS, JavaScript, Node.js, HTML 5, PHP, CodeIgniter, LAMP, Front-end, Backbone.js, MySQL, Web Standards, Web Development, ExpressionEngine, Advanced CSS, SASS