Chris Hawkins

Experience

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  BMW

  Sept 2006 - Dec 2008

  Motor Vehicle Apprentice

  Began my Motor Vehicle Apprenticeship. Lean Manufacturing Processes. Diagnosing faults.

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  North Oxford Garage

  Dec 2008 - Aug 2011

  BMW Senior Technician

  Diagnose complex electric and mechanical faults.

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  VTUK

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2013

  Web Developer

  Web Development For VTUK.Client Estate Agent and Letting Agent WebsitesScorpio Product Manager - Architected, scoped and developed new product which came second to British Telecom in 2013 British Computer Society Innovation Awards.3rd party API and web service integration.

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  Ridgeway Digital

  Jun 2013 - May 2017

  A technical lead / technical architect responsible for delivering large and small projects for high profile clients ensuring they are to scope and budget. Projects include Kentico global site of the year 2017 and Kentico Best consumer goods site BakingMad.com.Leading and mentoring a team of developers assigned to current project(s)Leading and running technical workshops and discovery sessions to define project scope and requirementsWriting functional specifications and technical documentation including planning and architecting solutions Show less As Project Technical lead I was leading and owning client projects on a technical level, providing support for the project team and project manager through the full project life cycle.Validating development approaches for change requests/projects within the support team.Fielding questions from developers and support executives and validating or providing technical responses to clients.Managing and executing deployments where required.Assisting with the on boarding of new members to the support team. Ensuring that budget and scheduling constraints are met within projects.Scoping projects, requirements capture and delivering time estimates.Preparing functional and technical specification documents.Undertaking web application development using C# ASP .Net development, Kentico CMS and SQL Server. Leading and supporting others within the development team.Front-end development using HTML / CSS combined with Ajax, jQuery and other JavaScript technologies.Researching and promoting good practice and new approaches for usability, user interfacedesign and responsive design. Show less

  • Senior Developer / Principle Developer

    Nov 2016 - May 2017

  • Middleweight Developer

    Jun 2013 - Nov 2016
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  Audley Travel

  May 2017 - Feb 2022

  Mentoring team developers and carrying out code reviews.Lead greenfield project, carried out requirements gathering from all stakeholders, creatingdetailed specifications and technical documentation as well as necessary POCs,coordinated wireframing and design.Responsible for reviewing developer pull requests and deployments to the main public site.Creating and reviewing A/B/n tests for major developments and site enhancements.Creating detailed project specifications and providing technical feedback and advice onintegrations.Managing servers, monitoring uptime and site performance.Carried out site performance overhaul including site profiling, rebuilding the site wide cachemechanisms and coordinating a front end restructure.Managed and supervised freelance contract developers.Sitecore Certified Developer Show less

  • Web Development Manager

    Sept 2018 - Feb 2022

  • Senior Web Developer

    May 2017 - Sept 2018
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  Precious Metal E-commerce Retailer

  Feb 2022 - now

  Chief Technology Officer

  • Led full technology migration from external suppliers to internal development team, enhancing efficiency.• Delivered a rebuilt website with live market pricing, boosting user engagement and retention.• Launched multiple integrated internal applications to maximise business efficiencies and capacity.