Les McCutcheon

Experience

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  Big Pink

  Jul 2011 - Dec 2011

  Junior Developer

  Developed sites using HTML 5 and CSSUsed Wordpress to build a brochure siteLearned and worked with Skura in order to transform HTML 5 sites into iPad apps for many different countriesLocalized the Skura app for various countries

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  Octopus Tree Limited

  Dec 2011 - Mar 2012

  Developer

  Styled Razor views using HTML 5 and CSS 2Used JQuery and plug-ins such as JsTree and JQuery CycleBuilt skeletons for ASP.Net MVC web sites by creating the controllers, actions and viewsCreated simple helper functions using C# and Razor

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  PharmiWeb

  Mar 2012 - Oct 2014

  Promoted to Developer,Expanded responsibility & Role using new languages and frameworks. Designated in-house Umbraco CMS "Guy", Lead Dev on Large project. Responsible and active in full project life-cycles, from specification to maintenance dealing with both front and back-end development.New Aspects:Ecktron CMSXSLTWeb Services,Trident CMSUse and expansion of the in house C# Toolkit,Expanded use and knowledge of Software Architecture.Taken the Microsoft 70-480 Examination and passed with full marks. Show less

  • Developer

    Jul 2013 - Oct 2014

  • Junior Dev

    Mar 2012 - Jul 2013
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  3chillies

  Oct 2014 - Aug 2015

  Developer

  Umbraco/Sitecore Legacy maintenance and enhancement.Sitecore (6.x/7.x)Jira (Set-up/Plugins)TeamCity (Setup/Octopus Deploy)Unit TestingSitecore Prototyping Umbraco (4/6/7) Green field projectsClient facing support/contactProject workshopsSQL ServerAzure (Virtual Machines, Database Servers, Set-up/Tear down)TFS GITHTML/CSS/SASS/JS/MongoDB/C#/ASP.NET Webforms/MVC

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  Creative Jar

  Aug 2015 - Nov 2016

  Senior Developer

  CMS Development & Maintence - Umbraco/EpiServer/SitecoreBuild Tools - Node.js/Gulp.js/RubyUI - Sass/Photoshop/JavaScriptServer Side - asp.net 4x+ MVC 4/5 Database - MSSQL Source Control - TFS/GIT/SVNContinuous Intergeneration - TeamCity/MSBuildTools

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  CODE OCTOPUS LIMITED

  Jan 2017 - now

  A targeted software and web development house specialising in solving client issues with technology in the most beneficial way to clients. Working directly with clients such as Wickes, the Royal Voluntary Service, AHDB Dairy as well as outsourcing from local digital agencies like ThirtySeven, LiquidModules and Mass Media Design.Soft Skills:Project/Account management (Both Agile and Waterfall)Team management/leader (Both in-house and external based teams)Hiring processes (Team/First line HR)Consultation (Both Technical and technically orientated)Workshop leader/organiser (Both to and for clients)Client/end-user documentationTechnical Skills:Cloud technologies (Aws/Azure)Continuous Integration/Delivery systemsHorizontal/Vertical scaling of systems both defacto and on demandMobile App (Android Development)White hat penetration testing.NET Technologies-- MEF, MAF, Entity Framework, SignalR, Web API 1/2, .Net Core 1/2, UnityGeneral Technologies-- Restful Webservices, HTML 5 development, Node/Gulp, Javascript, Websockets, AngularJs, Microservices, SaaS, Unit and Integration testingDatabases-- MSSQL, MySql, MongoDB, SQLiteCMS -Umbraco, Episerver, Sitecore, Wordpress Show less

  • Director

    Nov 2016 - now

  • Director

    Jan 2017 - now
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  Toca.io

  Aug 2018 - Feb 2022

  Head Of Software

  Head of Software at Toca, a no-code, cloud-based development platform, helping build, manage and mentor the development team and architect and developing the code base.