---
layout: default
title: Experience
use: [posts]
experiences:
    - company: horse_country
      location: Cwmbran, Wales
      role: Web Developer
      start: 2010
      end: 2011
      description: |
          Maintaining and adding new features to the Horse & Country TV website (Drupal 6).

    - company: proctors
      location: Bristol, England
      role: 'PHP Developer'
      start: 2011
      end: 2012
      description: |
          Website development, mainly with Drupal and PHP, including the agency’s first Drupal 7 project.

    - company: nomensa
      location: Bristol, England
      role: 'Contract Drupal Developer / Application Developer & System Administrator'
      start: 2012
      end: 2013
      description: |
          Drupal 7 website development and Linux server administration.

          I originally started as a contractor, and later took a staff role.

    - company: precedent
      location: Cardiff, Wales
      role: Senior Drupal Developer
      start: 2013
      end: 2014
      description: |
          Drupal 7 website development, including site building, theming, module development, data migration and server configuration.

    - company: drupal_association
      role: Drupal.org Developer
      location: Remote
      start: 2014
      end: July 2015
      description: |
          Maintaining and improving Drupal.org - the home of the Drupal community.

          Speaking at user groups and DrupalCamps to promote the Drupal Association.

    - company: microserve
      location: Bristol, England
      role: Senior Drupal Developer
      start: July 2015
      end: November 2015
      description: |
          Full-stack Drupal development, focussing on data migration.

          Lead Developer of the [road.cc](http://road.cc) rebuild project onto Drupal 7, including working with non-Drupal PHP applications and utilising of Symfony components, and interacting with Drupal via REST.

          Community and contribution advocate.

    - company: cti
      role: Lead Drupal Developer
      location: Remote
      start: November 2015
      end: May 2016
      description: |
          Working on various Drupal 7 projects for clients including Greater London Authority (http://www.london.gov.uk), British Land and British Council, as well as various retainer contracts.

          Working on internal Drupal 8 learning initiatives, focussing on custom module development and data migration.

          Initial development of a CLI application for generating new and auditing existing codebases to ensure consistency across projects. This uses various Symfony components - mainly the Console and Filesystem components.

    - company: appnovation
      location: Cardiff, Wales
      role: Senior Drupal Developer
      start: May 2016
      end: March 2017
      description: |
          Drupal 7 and 8 site building, custom module development and theming.

          Part of various pre-sales teams, including the company’s first UK Drupal 8 project and first FTSE 100 client.

    - company: develop_me
      location: Bristol, UK
      role: Coding Fellowship Mentor
      start: May 2018
      end: ~

    - company: freelance
      location: Remote
      role: 'Web Developer & System Administrator'
      start: 2007
      end: ~
      featured: true
      description: |
          Working on Drupal and Symfony development, maintenance and support projects in my spare time.

          Administration of Debian, Ubuntu and CentOS servers, and configuration using Puppet, or more recently, Ansible.

    - company: microserve
      location: Bristol, England
      role: Senior Drupal Developer
      start: March 2017
      end: ~
      description: |
          Drupal 8 site building, custom module development, theming, data migrations.

          Drupal 7 site building, custom module development, theming.

          First Acquia certified Drupal 8 Developer and back-end specialist.
---
{% block content %}
    <div class="listing">
        {% for experience in page.experiences|reverse %}
            {% set company = site.companies[experience.company] %}

            <div class="mb-12">
                {% if company.logo %}
                    <div class="float-right mt-2 mb-4 ml-4 w-16 sm:w-24 lg:w-32">
                        <img src="/images/experience/{{ company.logo }}" alt="{{ company.name }} logo">
                    </div>
                {% endif %}

                <div>
                    <h2 class="mb-0">{{ company.name }}</h2>

                    <div class="mb-4">
                        {% if company.url -%}
                            <a class="inline-block text-blue mb-1" href="{{ company.url }}?utm_source={{ site.short_url }}&utm_medium=experience">
                                {{- company.url -}}
                            </a>
                        {%- endif %}

                        <div class="text-grey-dark">
                            {{- experience.role }} from {{ experience.start }} to {{ experience.end|default('Present') -}}
                            {%- if experience.location %} ({{ experience.location }}){% endif %}.
                        </div>
                    </div>

                    {% if experience.description %}
                        <div class="markdown">
                            {{ experience.description|markdown }}
                        </div>
                    {% endif %}
                </div>
            </div>
        {% endfor %}
    </div>
{% endblock %}