Elliot Crosby-McCullough

I'm currently employed full-time as a developer at Reevoo, a company which collects, aggregates, and displays consumer reviews.

Part of the in-house team of 6 developers, I work on all areas of several codebases with a specialisation in front-end work.

At Reevoo I've had the opportunity to develop an understanding of real-world scalability (with one of the apps serving 40 million impressions a month via websites such as Sony, Best Buy and Tesco), and to truly get to grips with JavaScript as a language, not just a means to a front-end.

Some examples of my front-end work include:

• the sliding rig for JBTO's category page navigation
• the Reevoo.com's TV size/distance widget
• the physics in the footer of Just Buy This One's homepage, and the effect when the sun/logo is clicked

My back-end work is less visible, but includes the refactor of large chunks of JavaScript client code, Google AdWords API interfaces, and other significant chunks of infrastructure.

Before its closure, Eden Development was an agile web development agency which specialised in Ruby on Rails. I spent my 14 months at this company working on Rails (and other Ruby) applications for clients.

Eden followed agile practices, so I am comfortable with pair programming, BDD (with Cucumber), TDD (with RSpec), XP-style commit-based iterations as well as the more sequential form of agile of lean/kanban.

Among the various projects I worked on for clients I was on the core teams for Quiet Riots and an internal social creativity application for the BBC.

While initially focusing on back-end Ruby work, I quickly moved to working on both back-end and front-end development under the tutorship of our internal designer. I am therefore proficient in back-end Ruby coding, front-end Javascript coding (via jQuery) and front-end design.

I left Eden with a thorough knowledge of Ruby and the ability to work well in and occasionally lead a development team.

O'Neill Modern Media is design agency which specialises in print, web, and LED advertising. I was the Technical Manager for OMM for two and a half years, which comprised all sorts of work from building client websites in ASP.NET, to managing the IT needs of the 50-strong company, and overseeing the installation and running of animated pitch-side advertising boards at 9 Premiership football clubs, including Manchester United.

It was during this time that I developed my client communication skills as I dealt directly with the heads of IT and marketing at the various football stadiums. I also developed my ability to deal with responsibility and pressure, which were available in equally large amounts.

Metronet was the ISP to pioneer pay-as-you-go broadband. This was my first "real job", and my responsibilities were that of telephone tech support for the ISP and its subsidiary companies (web hosting, domain registration).

There were no support tiers, so I handled support requests from first contact through to resolution, and developed my skills with unix-based servers along the way.