Andrew Birks

In order to be true to the company and their purpose, we simplified some of their most difficult processes. We developed a CMS (content management system) in order to replace their old in-house system and we took the designs from their in-house team and transformed the flat graphics into HTML code. From the code, we also came up with a number of modules and components to allow the editors to maintain and update the site.

Because Churchill Mortgage members of staff may work at multiple locations, we created a complex, fully bespoke admin system named “The loan officer management system” in order to help them track and manage these staff postings.

I was given the task of enhancing a pre-existing eCommerce website, which had been abandoned by the previous developer. The system was built on top of an older version of the DNN CMS, and in the migration process, it had stopped working.

My time was initially spent diagnosing the reasons why the site didn't work on the new hosting environment. There were a number of server-level settings which needed to be enabled to allow the older aspects of the application to work.

Once the core site was up and running again, I was tasked to improve the user journey for entering an athletic event. This was achieved by simplifying the number of pages across the site and using some custom modules to indicate which events are open to book.

Once I was familiar with the overall architecture of the system, I was able to optimize some of the SQL queries which sped up the site and put less strain on the server as the queries no longer needed to be as complex.

The Fire Fighters Credit Union (FFCU) approached me with some HTML files which had been coded from a PSD design. I was tasked with taking the HTML and turning it into a CMS Skin for their Next.js site.

The files which they'd had created were of poor quality and using outdated frameworks. I explained my thoughts on the HTML files, and they agreed that they would prefer that I created the template from scratch ensuring it would be responsive.

This was originally given to me as a coding challenge, but I spent some time later enhancing it further.

The purpose of the application is to fetch data in the GraphQL format from the Pokemon API.

It had to display a number of the attributes of each pokemon on the "list" view, and clicking on a "more information" link would take the user to the "detail" view for that selected pokemon.

On the "detail" page, the app had to pull through the "evolution" relationship and display the connected pokemon.

Developed a multilingual eCommerce website for this supplier of major fast-food chains and restaurants, resulting in a successful expansion into the Chinese market.
The initial steps for the project consisted of researching the best methodologies for creating a multilingual site on top of an already established EN-US variant.

Additionally, there was a large number of corresponding PDF documents which needed to be translated for the various foreign markets. A document module was created to upload the different formats

This was a long term project, as there were many products which needed to be transitioned into the Chinese market. During the process, the site also had some minor cosmetic changes to keep the style fresh.

A custom-built video catalog module was developed so that the new "video manuals" could be attached to the products. This involved creating a system which could process the video uploads and automatically generate the thumbnail.

This system also expanded into being used for the marketing materials used for the general sale and advertisement of the product. Because of the ease in which the site administrators could use the module, it was requested to enhance the video content throughout the site.