Marc Quinn

• Developed a high-performance financial services website through agency collaboration, tailored to meet sector-specific user needs.
• Developed custom, responsive WordPress components using Tailwind CSS and ACF block builder, optimizing for performance and maintainability.
• Built and implemented a complex navigation menu structure to streamline user flow and enhance site accessibility.
• Collaborated with design and UX teams to ensure cohesive visual standards and brand consistency across all web elements.
• Conducted thorough testing and debugging to maintain high standards of quality and functionality throughout the site.

• Successfully built a multi-language, multi-hotel website using WordPress that allowed each hotel to easily manage their own content.
• Created intuitive filtering with animated transitions using jQuery, helping users find hotels in their preferred areas and enabling them to book easily.
• Crafted dynamic content blocks using ACF to manage multiple website sections with ease, providing granular control over the functionality of each component.
• Developed an updated web and mobile app for JD Wetherspoons using React in Ionic with Tailwind CSS, converting the app from class to functional components to improve its performance.

• Contributed to an existing web video platform for the NHS myGP app by adding new functionality and updating the platform's style, utilizing HTML, CSS, and React/JavaScript.
• Developed mobile features for the myGP app, incorporating the Whereby video API, and using React and JavaScript to deliver optimal user experiences.
• Built new components in React, utilizing the latest features such as Hooks and Suspense to ensure optimal performance and maintainability.
• Improved the usability and appearance of specific components of patient questionnaires, resulting in better user engagement and satisfaction.

• Collaborated with a multidisciplinary development team to maintain and improve an existing codebase for the Polestar car company, ensuring seamless functionality and performance for website users.
• Built custom animations for page sections that required complex interactivity using Framer Motion, resulting in engaging user experiences and increased user engagement.
• Implemented a successful API change for an Australian pricing service with a completely different schema, ensuring smooth communication between the service and the website.
• Conducted daily code reviews and QA testing on other developers' code, ensuring adherence to best coding standards and correct implementation of project stories, resulting in high-quality and bug-free code.

• Successfully designed and developed a custom WordPress theme from the ground up for Standard Chartered bank, ensuring a seamless user experience and streamlined functionality.
• Expertly crafted Gutenberg blocks from scratch with an emphasis on code reusability, enabling matching attributes and controls for a consistent design across multiple blocks.
• Harmonized frontend and backend styles to optimize the codebase and maintain a lean development process, delivering a high-performance website for end-users.
• Collaborated closely with the team to conceptualize and execute solutions for complex issues, while agreeing on best practices and standards to ensure the project's success.

• Designed and developed highly functional admin-side React components for the WordPress Gutenberg editor, with corresponding functionality built in Vanilla Javascript for the frontend, delivering a seamless user experience.
• Built new APIs for a Resource Centre that queries tags and search text, ensuring that server-side rendering matches client-side actions via dynamic updates to browser History, enhancing user engagement.
• Worked with Lottie animations on both the frontend and backend to create engaging user experiences, resulting in higher user retention rates.
• Proactively suggested code updates to existing repositories, improving efficiency, and reducing page sizes, resulting in faster load times and a better user experience.

• Served as a Senior Project Developer for the new Harper Collins intranet, utilizing WordPress as the primary development platform, and taking on both frontend and backend responsibilities to deliver a high-performance and user-friendly website.
• Developed frontend components using SASS and JavaScript, compiled with Webpack, and utilizing Semantic UI to deliver a user-friendly and responsive design.
• Developed new WordPress Gutenberg components in React to ensure a seamless content editor experience that closely matched the frontend user experience.
• Set up a single sign-on (SSO) login feature using miniOrange, integrated with OKTA and Active Directory, and mapped OKTA attributes onto user roles, resulting in a more secure and seamless login experience for end-users.

• Developed a Typescript/React plugin in Wordpress that enables the display of customer transactions and data stored in Firebase, streamlining billing processes.
• Created a share widget with multiple options using a public JS library for Wordpress and built a CI pipeline in GitLab for efficient deployment.
• Optimized an existing Firebase Cloud Functions API to save data in Google Firestore in a more accessible format, improving query efficiency.
• Constructed a custom registration process for a SaaS product using Firebase for user authentication and data storage, and Wordpress for admin usage, utilizing Next.js for seamless user experience.
• Designed and developed a Shopify app in Next.js with Firebase authentication, and utilized Node for OAuth handling.

Rebuilt a fintech corporate website, transforming it into a fully headless Gatsby-powered frontend while integrating existing React components.

• Converted old HTML-only components into reusable React/Typescript components using Gatsby and integrated them with existing Wordpress content in the Gutenberg editor.
• Developed all components twice, in both the Gutenberg editor and Gatsby frontend, to ensure similar experiences in the editor and on the client-facing site.
• Developed and updated appropriate tests for all React components, ensuring the highest quality and best performance.
• Worked with GraphQL interface, using both Apollo and Gatsby's native GraphQL framework, to pull in existing data and incorporate it into the site.
• Coordinated with Moneyfarm stakeholders, including content editors and product managers, to ensure maximum flexibility in page layout and ensure that all options required in all blocks were available.
• Worked in an Agile environment with an international team, updating current libraries to support the best Gatsby integration possible.

Building a completely new corporate site for an exciting new geolocation startup.

URL: what3words.com/business

• Coordinating a massive ten month long project with project managers, senior management and DevOps teams as the sole developer.
• Building on the Next.js framework with React/Typescript on the frontend and Node (Ex- press) on the backend, with a separate Wordpress-based CMS for content editorial and administration.
• REST API design & build on both.
• Wordpress CMS built with Advanced Custom Fields, served via custom Wordpress REST API endpoints to optimise data delivery (standard WP endpoints tend to give more data than one needs).
• Building designs from pattern libraries with Sketch and Principle for UI animations.
• Products page that was like a mini piece of software that required significant optimisation with React Hooks, memos and callbacks.
• CI/CD deployment process via Kubernetes with Helm.
• Heavy Regex writing for Next.js routing system, supported by Jest unit tests for consistency.
• Integrating Hubspot forms via Form API in React.
• Working with many different layers of caching across Wordpress, Node & Cloudfront.
• Some prototyping designs using Sketch & Figma React/Redux Developer, Amunkst, Remote (never launched, can showcase on request).

Building a new Wordpress multisite powered network of sites for an up-and-coming art ser- vices company.

URL: See heni.com

• Working with Wordpress Multisite to build 5 parallel sites, with 1 theme codebase.
• Using Advanced Custom Fields to build a content templating system that is easy to ad- minister and manage.
• Using custom jQuery transitions to improve UX on-site.
• Coordinating with senior managers on design/style changes.
• Responsible for keeping to strict staggered launch schedule.

• Building an online membership site in the personal development space on a freelance contract.
• This project was never launched however I retain the source code that I can showcase on request.
• Building a landing page system connected to Wordpress using React for easy page admin- istration.
• Handling global state with Redux to store important user settings related to UI and mar- keting site preferences.
• Building a buddy matching algorithm (like Facebook but with one friend allowed at a time) to match users based on questionnaire results.
• Connecting to Google Firebase server to handle live-updating of the site based on user input.
• Built a fully functioning messaging system in React with live updating using Websockets.

• Building intranet site for satellite communications company using Wordpress.
• Responsible for all front-end assets across multiple devices, building according to exact design specifications and collaborating with other developers on functionality.
• Duties:.
• Working in CSS3 (SASS), HTML5, PHP, Javascript with jQuery, AJAX and various open source Javascript libraries.
• Writing custom plugins & themes for specific functionality required for projects.
• Developing with Advanced Custom Fields, and experience using Query Monitor for ad- vanced Wordpress debugging.
• Taking the lead on multiple Wordpress projects, coordinating with clients and designers to ensure successful product delivery.
• Managing sprints to meet scheduled deadlines and keeping to core development brief.
• Building an admin-friendly bespoke Wordpress theme and making important develop- ment decisions on usability of the backend interface.

Responsible for participating in the full life cycle of new website development projects, and for implement and maintaining best practice procedures in all areas of work. Also in charge of writing, developing and managing the content of websites.

• Designing and building Wordpress themes for the primary site with PHP/CSS/HTML/JS.
• Building the front-end for multiple Rails and Javascript web applications.
• Building pages for new classes and integrating e-commerce platforms with the page.
• Integrating customer-facing websites with email marketing and other marketing technologies.