My Journey
Found MyBB, and built my first online website
Using the service IcyBoards (closed), I created my first website - an online forum powered by MyBB. This marks the beginning of my online adventures and interest in website development.
Became Support Staff at IcyBoards
After learning the ropes of HTML, CSS and MyBB Theming I began helping the IcyBoards community in the support section by providing help & guidance to the customers of IcyBoards. After showing my skills and willingness to help, the owner of the company "Spork" asked me to become part of their official community support team. Click to view my "Retired" support profile (wayback machine) - Date also might be slightly inaccurate.
Joined Demonate - MyBB Theming & Plugin Services
A friend, and fellow support staff member at IcyBoards started an online agency providing MyBB themes, plugins, and services to the MyBB community. I joined in 2014 as a Designer / Developer for MyBB Themes. Unfortunately, the site has been offline and all content lost since Dec 2015.
Completed School
Completed education & GCSE's at Huntington Secondary School.
Freelancing, Getting by ☕ & Developming me
After leaving school I decided to focus on work & developing my skills. I started to explore more areas of website development, and began to grow an interest in eCommerce. During this period I'd taken on various freelance projects, website builds, Shopify themes & forum designs.
Joined Yorkshire Trading Co. as a Shopify Developer
Appointed as the main Shopify developer for Rydale Implementing & updating themes for seasonal changes, functional updates & feature improvements. Additionally, I was a support developer for sites such as Yorkshire Trading, Despatch Cloud, AMJ Watches and more.
Moved to Brave The Skies an exciting change!
Taking an exciting and challenging role at Brave The Skies as a Website Developer Implementing bespoke Shopify themes and custom apps for large retail clients. Moving from an in-house role to an agency based position was very challenging, but has been a great journey and has given me the freedom & team to improve my skills and eCommerce experience.
Taking a Senior position 🚀
Hard work really does pay off ❤️ After learning the ropes, and working on my first set of projects with my new team, helping to build new processes and introduce new services for our clients, I was asked to join the Senior team. Taking on additional client responsibilities, leading projects and helping to develop internal toolsets to better the development of the company.