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James Davies

Hi, I'm James. A Full-stack engineer.

I am Makers Fellowship graduate currently working as a Full Stack Engineer at the Capgemini Applied Innovation Exchange. My background in engineering has crafted me into an extremely technical individual with a love of problem solving. I am profoundly deaf, I want to prove to other deaf people that they can make it in the tech industry, hopefully one day I can help them in the future to achieve their dreams.

Skills

  • Quick Learner - Able to pick up new technologies quickly and effectively. In my current role in the Innovation Exchange, I need to learn new stacks quickly to create potential prototyes for clients

  • Inquisitive - I love learning, researching anything that piques my interest, from learning about engines to cooking techniques. I relish learning about different technolgies, learning about how to be the best code craftsman I can.

  • Finer details - Throughout my working life I have had to apply intricate attention to detail, I have gained this in my engineering background. Commissioning sensor systems where a small detail can affect the entire infrastructure. I apply this to my coding, as I learn more about syntax I can spot things very quickly.

  • Drive - I am highly motivated, I relish a challenge. My success in getting into the Fellowship programme in Makers is an example of this, I pushed myself above and beyond to achieve my dream.

  • Team player - I have always been a team player, willing to offer my help or experience whenever required.

  • Adaptable - I am profoundly deaf, adpatation comes naturally to me in this world with a hearing majority. I have worked around Europe with various teams with language barriers included!

Education

Makers Academy (March 2019 to May 2019)

Makers Fellowship, enrolled in the highly selective 12 week intensive Full Stack coding bootcamp.

  • Great collaborator - My background as a Commissioning Engineer saw me collaborating with other companies, in the UK and abroad.
  • Test Driven Development - Makers teach the fundamental importance of TDD in projects
  • Agile - scrums, stand-ups, mobbing - I'm AGILE

Chichester College (September 2008 to June 2010)

  • HND Computing with Software Development module - Merit Grade

Mary Hare School (September 2003 to June 2008)

  • 11 GCSE's 1 C, 9 B's and 1 A
  • AS Level Physics C

Experience

Capgemini AIE (July 2019 ongoing) - Emerging Technology Engineer/Full Stack Engineer

Creating innovative solutions to solve client problems, using emerging technologies wherever possible. I have worked with many technologies across various prototyping projects. We focus on rapid prototyping with emerging technologies to develop greenfield projects.

  • Working in small sprint teams to devise a solution, coming up with Tech Stacks and then implementing/creating the solution. Collabrating with UX designers to tailor the best experience.
  • Keeping in the loop with emerging technology by researching and monitoring the web space.
  • Learning and adapting to new tech stacks on the fly, each project may have a different or new unknown stack!

Example projects I have worked on:

Working on concept store using AI and Computer vision to aid hands free shopping and analyse customer behaviour also a try on virtual clothes feature. Integrate low energy bluetooth beacons within the store to track customer location and deliver content. Creating API endpoints to integrate analytics data to the front-end using Node and Google cloud platform (GCP).

Tech stack:

  • React Native and React Web Frameworks
  • HTML, CSS, Styled-components, JS, NodeJS with Google Cloud Platform

Developed and shipped a geo-location-based web app for local business to register and advertise products during COVID-19. Developed a serverless REST API using geo-location and integrated results into the frontend.

Tech stack:

  • StencilJS Framework
  • HTML, Styled-components, NodeJS with Google Cloud Platform (Firebase)

Pharmagraph (January 2014 to January 2019) - Commissioning Engineer

Development a commissioning of Pharmaceutical monitoring systems installed worldwide. Ranging from NHS, Private pharma, packaging machine developers and many others.

  • Terminating of electrical cables, installing various sensors/monitoring equipment. Electrical panel termination and wiring.
  • Creation of electrical drawings, hardware drawings and room layouts using CAD 2D software.
  • Calibration of various sensor/monitoring equipment (Temperature/Humidity sensors, Particle Monitoring Counters,Gas/VOC Sensors)
  • Creating high quality Project Documentation such as User Requirement Specifications, Qualification protocols and hardware testing protocols.

Fresenius Kabi (September 2011 to December 2014) - Technical Specialist

Worked within a team co-ordinating packaging lines for the despatch of oncology drugs to hospitals all around Europe. Operated/repaired complex machines that do tasks such as labelling, shrink sleeving and carton printing.

Interests

  • Cars & Anything petrol powered - I am an absolute petrolhead, I could probably bore you to death talking about cars.

  • Cooking & beer - Built my own kitchen for this very reason, enjoy regular ale tasting sessions.

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