Hello, I'm James
I am a Junior Developer, who loves frontend design.
I live in Bronte; love the ocean as well as motorbikes & my best mate Cooper (he's over there). After 11 years in IT Recruitment, I finally got the chance to pursue my passion and enrolled in General Assembly's first Software Engineering course. A VERY intense 13 week, full-time course on full stack development.
During My Course We Covered
We covered the full stack of modern software development. With a focus on Javascript and its popular frameworks, React & Vue. As well as this, we looked at backend tech such as Ruby on Rails & NodeJS. I can tell you the whole list when we met for a coffee!
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General Assembly
Mar 2019 - Jun 2019
Followed my dream and pursued my passion for development. I enrolled in the first Software Engineering course to train a full stack developer. My goal is to become a Frontend Developer.
Business Owner
Aug 2017 - Mar 2019
Following 11 years in recruitment, I started my own company with my partner specialing in Automation Testing, DevOps & Development partnering with FinTechs & Startups assembling agile teams.
Attribute Group
Feb 2014 - Jul 2017
Senior Recruiter specialising in automation testing. Worked closely with Test and Development Managers to build agile testing teams to designing & building automation frameworks from scratch.
Move To Sydney
Jan 2014
As beautiful as Stoke-on-Trent is... I wanted to explore the world and experience sunshine. While I had the chance I sold everything I had, packed my bags and jumped on a flight with no job & no plan!
What I Have Learnt & Projects
Weeks One To Six
- Tools & IDE Induction
- HTML5
- CSS3
- JavaScript
- jQuery
Project 1
TicTacToe
Weeks Seven To Thirteen
- Ruby on Rails
- npm & nodeJS
- AJAX, JSON & REST APIs
- ReactJS & VueJS
- GatsbyJS
Project 2
Daycare CRM
Extras On The Side
- Udemy: Adavance CSS & Sass
- Hours of Homework
- Udemy: React & Hooks
- Meetup: SydJS
- Meetup: ReactSydney
Project 3
Kahoot!
TicTacToe
Interactive TicTacToe Game
Brief: Make an interactive Tic Tac Toe game to familiarise yourself with DOM manipulation using Javascript, jQuery and CSS styling. Players should be able to select their icon, know when the game is won & play again.
Tech: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Javascript, jQuery
Dog Day Care CRM
Responsive CRUD System For A Dog Day Care Center
Brief: Using Ruby on Rails create a CRUD System on a subject of your choice. You should have at least 3 models in your project (I have 6 ), a user should be able to log in, there should be an admin account, and it should be hosted on Heroku.
Tech: HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, Ruby on Rails, Heroku
Kahoot Clone
Multiple Player Quiz Game
Brief: A group project using any technology you wish & making anything you like in 5 days We decided to replicate the Kahoot Quiz game. Initially, we tried using ActionCable (Bad Idea) and then went with Firebase & got all 21 students playing a game at the same time!
Tech: ReactJS, Javascript, SASS, RoR, Firebase