Harriet Lawrie Wakelin

I am currently working as a Full Stack Umbraco Developer at Moriyama, an Umbraco Platinum Partner. My role involves designing and maintaining websites using Umbraco and .NET, with a focus on delivering high-quality web solutions.

I design and maintain websites, primarily using Umbraco and .NET. My experience includes working with clients such as Marstons Pubs, nPower, National Grid, FuelGenie, D3O, QED Environmental Systems, and more. I handle the full development stack, building frontends with Webpack, integrating them into Umbraco, configuring subscriptions and resources in Azure, and deploying through DevOps.

• Worked on multilingual websites, leveraging Umbraco's language features and extending them with a custom package that uses AI to translate content pages when editors save them.
• Led the migration of onsite DevOps and hosting to Microsoft Azure, including setting up DevOps pipelines and using Bicep files to standardize and expedite the creation of cloud infrastructure, reducing set up time from hours to minutes.
• Maintained a base project template for new site rollouts, a Visual Studio project that includes APIs for quickly creating Umbraco modules and using the Umbraco API to generate essential doctypes such as SEO, sitemaps, and modular pages.
• Designed and implemented an interactive Carbon Intensity Dashboard for National Grid, leveraging Azure Static Web Apps and a .NET backend. Integrated real-time data from National Grid APIs via Azure Functions and Cosmos DB.
• Recent sites I have worked on:
  The Fold Leamington
  QED Environmental Sytems
  D3O
  Delta Three Oscar
  National Grid

I started Junior Developer at ESOS Ltd, which led to a Web Developer role at Pertemps, the parent company of ESOS. I worked with Umbraco and .NET.

• Built and maintained over 80 Umbraco websites across the Pertemps Network Group.
• Trained Junior Developers and created a documentation portal to enhance the team's skills and knowledge.
• Maintained a base project template for new site rollouts, which contained all the core functionality required for a recruitment site.
• Implemented GIT version control to improve efficiency.
• Developed an internal training portal, hosted on Pertemps intranet will full Active Directory integration.
• Developed features for the websites, including a branch locator, job-saving functionality, and created the 'Crack the Code' campaign, which was entered for an award.

Signis Group author, host and maintain over 200 online procedure manuals for the care sector. My masters degree dissertation project was to overhaul their website template, so I returned to Signis Group to implement this.

• Implemented a website template that meets the same accessibility standard as government websites (WCAG AA).
• Built a custom PHP/MySQL CMS to maintain all the links throughout their websites.
• Ensured the sites were responsive and mobile friendly whilst also being supported on browsers as old as IE6.

My role was to update the content on the procedure manuals hosted by Signis Group using Adobe Dreamweaver.

• Wrote scripts to speed up formatting procedure manuals saving formatters time manually checking for errors.
• Installed an online forum (phpBB) for internal discussion

The Bridge ran programmes for university graduates to enable them to get the experience they need to get into work.

• Updated their SquareSpace website using HTML/CSS
• Customised their Facebook Page by creating Facebook apps
• Created leaflets, letterheads and documentation
• Edited promotional videos in Adobe Premier Pro
• Designed graphics in Fireworks and Photoshop

I did my year 10 work experience here. I updated clients' websites and helped come up with design ideas. I worked on various websites including Energia Spain, Gibraltar Dyslexia Support Group and Gibyellow.

Activities and societies: Student Rep

Modules: Computer Systems, Essential Skills for Computing, IT Project, Information Systems and Modelling, International Computing, Internet Programming, Network Systems, Practical IT Systems and Web Design and Web Analytics.

I did extra modules 'Introduction to Dreamweaver', 'Advanced Dreamweaver' and 'Making Money Online'.

Environmental Studies, Geography and Biology and an AS-level in ICT (B).

6A*s, 5A's. 3B's and 2C's including Maths, English, Science and a Diploma In Digital Applications (DIDA) equivalent to 4 GCSES (B, A*, A*, A*)