johndevans.io
This is me in days gone by
I've always had a keen interest in technology and a desire and passion to create. Hence my decision to pursue a career in engineering with degrees in Mechanical engineering and Informatin Technology. Over the years I have developed my skills to effectively deliver technolgy enabled change enabled through the effective integration of resources and technologies. Through my passion to create, I applied my energy to learning new skills in frontend and backend web development, while driving delivery of new products and services, using my skills to deliver technology enabled change.
IT Programme Delivery of Cloud-first strategy for National UK Government organisation (June 2017 - )
End-to-end delivery of data centre relocation programme for Cloud-first strategy.
FOUNDER, ArhoTech (Aug 2016 - )
Digital Services Solutions. Defining strategy for new web enabled startup, with current focus to achieve effective market entry. o Implemented business canvas for startup venture. Focus on value proposition and segmentation. o Defining data driven operational and business models used to support cost leadership strategy. o Developing insights from market research feedback to build feature differentiation..
Accounts Projects and Portfolio Lead, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (Oct 2013 – Jul 2016)
Directed IT change programmes for C-Level account leaders within the Healthcare, Manufacturing and Transport & Distribution sectors, working as an integrator of multiple resources over the full project and programme lifecycle to deliver technology changes to time, cost and quality.
London Business School: Executive M.B.A.
University College London: M.Sc(Eng.) - Information Technology
University of the West Indies: B.Sc(Hons.) - Mechanical Engineering
KEY SKILLS:
Full Stack Web Development
Agile Project & Programme Management
Benifits realisation, Delivery management, MoSCoW Prioritisation, Timeboxing and Project sprints, Risk Management.
Digital and IT Change Management
Voice of the Customer, Voice of the Business, Waste identification, Management of Change frameworks and techniques.
Implemented key business deliverables across £Multi-million, multi-year contracts within complex multi-national organisations.
Trustee at local church, leading activities for children and young people. I really enjoy fostering young people’s potential; seeing them grow into capable young adults ready to take on new challenges.
Currently working on updating and revision of website for my local church
Sci-fi movies; especially those that explore the nature of man’s relationship with machine intelligence. For example BladeRunner, West World and Humans.
Completed the 10K London Winter run for Cancer Research. Regular participant in 5k parkrun and regular 10k runner. Completed Tuff Guy challenge.
Here are some of my latest projects completed while at General Assembly.
Click on the images to try the applications out.
MUSICAL SQUARES
This project focused on delivering a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) within 3 days using JavaScript /jQuery. I created a game that manages the interaction of randomised audio clips and images, with timers to enable the fading of images in response to user inputs. The web page was created using HTML5/Responsive CSS3 for support of mobile/tablet Front End interaction with a Back End served with PHP.
Build: JavaScript/ jQuery, HTML5, Responsive CSS3, CLI, PHP, Git, Heroku, Trello.
SOBUYLOCAL
This is a RESTful desktop and mobile app I developed using an AngularJS Front End and Ruby /Ruby on Rails Back End. Postgres SQL was used to manage an internal API created for customer/ store and product details. Insomnia was used for Back End resource management, while Bootstrap enabled the rapid deployment of styling updates. I used Trello, Balsamiq and MoSCoW to support planning and delivery of key tasks to achieve MVP and deployment of the solution via GitHub and Heroku.
Build: AngularJS, Ruby on Rails, SQL/Postgres, JWT, Bootstrap/CSS3/HTML5. Gulp.