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I’m Matt Rayner, a talented and dedicated full stack Ruby on Rails developer. I’m looking for a challenging environment to test and improve my skills. I love learning new things and am an early adopter of bleeding edge technologies. Outside of work I’m involved in volunteering and a number of side projects. Everything from training students in...

I’m Matt Rayner, a talented and dedicated full stack Ruby on Rails developer. I’m looking for a challenging environment to test and improve my skills. I love learning new things and am an early adopter of bleeding edge technologies. Outside of work I’m involved in volunteering and a number of side projects. Everything from training students in multimedia and design skills, through to Give Cat - a bookmarklet that replaces all the images on a website with pictures of cats (what more could you want, right?). I’m a massive geek at heart, anything that goes ‘bleep bloop’, I’m all over it. In the past, I’ve acted as an IT Consultant for the Citizens Advice Bureau and the Head of IT for a community radio station. I’ve got a passion for products that make people’s lives easier; whether they take the stress out of a task or are accessible to everyone, that’s my sort of thing. In the past, I’ve been a graphic designer and a front end developer so I have extensive experience with both front end technologies and back end solutions (Wordpress CMS, MySQL, PHP, HAML, Responsive websites using Twitter Bootstrap, Javascript, JQuery, Ruby, CSS, iPhone, Android - all the usual suspects). I’ve also had exposure to web standards, ensuring the code I write is semantic and cross browser tested. At the age of 17 I wrote my first content management system in two weeks as part of a college project and my love of back end has grown from there. I’m interested in everything from speaking at events, to new job opportunities - get in touch and we’ll see what epic-ness ensues.Full Stack Developer @ Working as part of the digital team within BD, I am responsible for delivering a wide array projects from augmented reality apps to brochure-wear and promotion websites. As well as my technical skills, I've gained a number of personal skill including: • Server management and Ops • Managing people • Project leading • Project scoping Some of the technologies I've used include: • Android Studio • Vuforia • PhoeGap • SilverStripe • PHPUnit • Objective-C • Hammer JS • Gradle • Ruby • Rails • Continuous Integration • Continuous Delivery From April 2015 to Present (9 months) London, United KingdomThird Cow (Web / Mobile Designer / Developer) @ I work with Imaginative cows on a casual / freelance basis, providing them with mobile and web technologies to their clients specifications in often challenging time frames. From April 2011 to Present (4 years 9 months) Canterbury, United KingdomRuby on Rails Developer @ As a Full Stack Ruby on Rails developer at Macmillan I was responsible for everything from Unix server administration and monitoring, to writing front end JavaScript and everything in-between. I practiced Continuous Development as part of an Agile Scrum team and manage our servers and applications using a combination of Puppet, Jenkins and Webistrano. Our development team tracked errors and performance using Nagios, Graphite and Airbrake, tying it all together with Dashing and Grafana for live monitoring across our server and application cluster. Just a few of the technologies I used include: • Puppet • Vagrant • Sinatra • Bash • Capybara • RSPEC • Cucumber • Dashing • Jenkins • MySQL • Redis • NodeJS • Bootstrap • MarkLogic • Nagios • Webistrano • Grafana • Dashing From October 2014 to April 2015 (7 months) Brand Ambassador @ Regularly attending conferences and Expos, I introduce people to Yelp. I show them how they've already been using it and most importantly, why it's unbelievably awesome! From May 2014 to April 2015 (1 year) London, United KingdomFull Stack Ruby on Rails Developer @ I worked as a Full Stack Ruby on Rails developer for BCSG, creating a new international SaaS cloud app designed to make starting, running, and managing a small business a piece of cake! I worked as the tech lead for this development. The app was being developed using Ruby 2 and Rails 4, along with a whole host of custom gems and functionality. From February 2014 to October 2014 (9 months) London, United KingdomWeb Developer @ As a web developer, my focus was largely on improving on the front-end and back-end technologies used within some of BCSG's legacy projects as well as working on a new platform that the business could use to grow. I was involved in a number of small projects writing WordPress instances for brochure-ware and help centre sites. From November 2013 to March 2014 (5 months) London, United KingdomWeb Developer / Designer @ Tasked with redesigning and recreating a previously poorly developed website from the ground up. This is an on-going project of interactive refinement over a long period. In this role I primarily developed with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and JQuery, although I was free to diversify and often thought of projects that would allow me to explore HTML5, CSS3, CreateJS and PHP further. From August 2012 to November 2013 (1 year 4 months) Canterbury, United KingdomMarketing Co-ordinator @ During my year in industry as part of my degree, I took over responsibilities from the Kent Union Marketing Manager whilst she was on maternity leave. I was in charge of brand development and marketing for the organisation over a 12-month period. In this time I was the only designer outside of licenced trade and I developed my B2B and leadership skills immensely, working daily with InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator to create high quality materials. From June 2011 to July 2012 (1 year 2 months) Canterbury, United KingdomGraphic / Web Designer @ Whilst at university, I worked as a graphic/web designer for Kent Union. My role largely centred around Photoshop and InDesign, creating posters and other promotional material for the marketing department. This role often involved performing repetetive design tasks, creating high volumes in small amounts of time. This environment helped me to streamline my workflow through multiple applications and hone my team-building skills immensely. From September 2010 to June 2011 (10 months) Canterbury, United KingdomGraphic Designer / Web Developer @ This was my first real experience of product design and technical drawing. I worked on the design of a new carpet cleaning machine being developed for Ashbys, creating branding and instrument panels for the Enforcer cleaning machine. My design is in use today on hundreds of machines around the country. Along with this product design I worked on the companies website, creating a new design which is also still in use today at carpet-cleaning-equipment.co.uk. From June 2010 to November 2010 (6 months) IT Consultant @ I was responsible for maintaining the Swale Citizens Advice Bureau’s IT network across their three sites; Sittingbourne, Faversham and the Isle of Sheppey. I had to maintain their Active Directory and File Servers whilst also supporting their mostly elderly staff with their computing issues. From July 2009 to September 2010 (1 year 3 months) Head of IT @ As head of IT I was expected to continue the work I had been doing as a tech team member, working on a new Joomla website and attending bi-weekly committee meetings. I was the first person in the history of CSR to be elected to a position unanimously. From March 2010 to June 2010 (4 months) Canterbury, United KingdomTech Team Member @ I was responsible for redesigning and redeveloping the CSR website using Joomla. This was my first forey into open source content management systems, having previously only worked with my own bespoke system. This responsibility was given to me at the age of 17 before I had been accepted at the University of Kent as I had shown a lot of interest in CSR. I was solely responsible for both the look and functionality of the website. From July 2009 to March 2010 (9 months) Canterbury, United KingdomBachelor of Science (BSc), Computer Science with a Year in Industry, Upper Second Class Honours (2:1) @ University of Kent From 2009 to 2013 BTEC National Diploma as IT Practitioner, Computer Programming, A, A, B (Distinction, Distinction, Merit) @ Mid-Kent College From 2007 to 2009 Matthew Rayner is skilled in: CSS, HTML 5, JavaScript, PHP, jQuery, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, XHTML, Illustrator, CSS3, InDesign, HTML, MySQL, SQL, Programming