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Digital based postgraduate, whose career progress to date, has included experience in digital management in the gambling and publishing industries.

Special interest in the African market, with a focus on the sectors, gambling (wagering of money) ; technology; money transfer; food and drink business.

I am passionate about digital development and software integration.

Positions held 

Freelance Projects Digital Architect and Drupal Developer. Owner of Foydigital

  • Developing WA Phones, West Africa Casino and West Africa Cooks. This involves Amazon affiliate api, Yelp api, Eventbrite api, Meetup api and Ticketmaster api JSON/xml feeds on the drupal 7/8 CMS
  • Drupal security updates, maintaining data and content. Design on web sites and micro sites
  • Developing West Africa Money on drupal 8 CMS. Backend integration with Tradedoubler
  • Developing inclusivefm.co.uk. Radio station website development using drupal 7 CMS
  • Testing web content for cross-platform and cross-browser display. Mulesoft architecture self-study

BOA Media Group, London Senior Technical Manager. Technical development in online gaming.

  • Api integration of gaming white label with affiliate platform, product management and DevOps
  • Launching and development of two gaming and four contracting service industry websites
  • AWS Management (EC3, Elastic Beanstalk, RDS and S3), SSL and cloud administration

Agency Campaign Works, Front End Contractor. Updates drupal 7
Agency Proximity London, Front End Contractor. Updates sitecore .net

Williams Interactive, London Web Content Specialist/Developer

  • Developing front-end content based on the Umbraco Content Management System. Working with UK designers and US developers on backend data issues. Applying Agile Scrum methods
  • Responsibility for the group’s marketing UK and Belgium websites. Coding and delivery of specified marketing web gaming pages for casino slot promotions. Language translations for websites

Gaming Media Group, London Webmaster

  • Responsibility for the group’s marketing websites. Implementing web pages and maintaining content. Coding marketing web gaming pages for poker, casino and affiliate promotions
  • Website management using in-house MySQL CMS, Wordpress and Drupal. Implementing PPC and Google promotions online marketing and SEO strategies

Hodder Education (Hachette Group), Publishing, London Data Content Manager

The Random House Group, Publishing, London Web Data and Production Manager

  • Database administration. Included creating databases, designing relation structures, importing, exporting data, updating records, queries, database connectivity. Managing 60 company sites
  • Assistant Webmaster Designed and maintained tools to market book titles to over 100,000 individuals

Africa Centre Ltd Volunteer Program Coordinator

Skills: Web design and development using Drupal and Umbraco open source projects. Dedicated to the Scrum - Agile Project. Data management with Mysql and php. Web and Internet Marketing. Self-study Mulesoft architecture and API integration.

Web authoring software: Drupal, WordPress, Hubspot, Umbraco, Adobe Creative Suite 4 Databases: MySQL Software: MS Office Programming languages: HTML5, CSS, Javascript, bootstrap, jQuery, XML, PHP, ASP, SQL, API’s, Postman, Apigee, Linux, Agile Scrum, Git

Education

Licenses & Certifications

BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
BCS Level 2 Certificate in IT User Skills (ECDL Extra) (ITQ) (QCF)

City & Guilds
Level 2 Diploma in ICT Systems Support 501/1430/X

Umbraco I/S
Umbraco Developer Level 1 Certification

PHP5, MySQL5 HTML5 and CSS. Microsoft SQL
HTML AND JAVASCRIPT (301) Certificate

Photoshop, Umbraco Developer and Scrum
ADVANCED DATABASES (301) Diploma

POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN MARKETING, BSC APPLIED CHEMISTRY

Interests
Member of the AWS, Oracle, IBM, DevOps, Mulesoft, Umbraco and Drupal developer meetup groups. Gaming, mobile industry, reading current business and science, cycling, running and swimming