Made VP this year!

After just over 6 and a half years in the firm I got promoted this year to Vice President. I’m beyond chuffed and slightly terrified, but concentrating on the chuffed for now. I’d made a big drive over the last year to promote Accessibility (a11y) in my workplace and was able to make some impact…

at last!!!

Today marks the end of a pretty stressful old time in the weestoater team. Happily things appear to have turned a corner and should be on track for much better days. A new challenge awaits and I am part champing at the bitt / part making buttons. What was a previously awesome team at work…

new challenge

As part of my personal development, through work, I’m going to try and gain some professional certification in the Cloud environment. We have a corporate account with those wizards at Cloud Academy, so my first target will be to get AWS Developer certified. We have a couple of different learning paths in work, which I’m…

UX testing

So part of my new role at work is to try and improve the User Experience on one of the companies many (internal) sites. The site in question has recently had a refresh and my initial involvement was to help port content from the previous design into the latest. During this I made some observations about things I’d noticed…

agile ceremonies

Trying to be more disciplined at work with our agile ceremonies. They are a really important practice to help bridge some of the knowledge gaps in our team and the general concensus is that we’re doing well as a group. With such a variety of work experience and coding backgrounds, it’s hard to see sometimes how…

learning every day

Enjoying a period of constant learning right now. Whether it’s about the Jenkins build I’m trying to set up; using JS prototypes for handling a data model or just getting under the bonnet with some AngularJS – everything is all bright and sparkling. It’s just as refreshing to return to something that I’d consider my…