ryann al-lahiq

Project Outline: Brought in to hit the ground running with the CRM and Creative Team. Tasked with developing responsive Email layouts using NOTHS bespoke Node.js based templating system. The Black Friday, Christmas and New Year period typically involve a great deal of unique one-off promotional content. Experience in Agile Development and planning around tight delivery deadlines proved invaluable here.

Skills Applied: Exposure to creating layouts with the Handlebars.js Framework. Architecting fundamental layout content with the linked JSON file. Campaigns were tested on Litmus before pushing to the Bronto CRM platform. Git command line was used to back up the repository of campaigns.

Project Outline: Covering for a developer on the CRM Team and maintaining day-to-day/week-to-week campaign volume. I liaised with the CRM Team to generate mobile first responsive layouts for this period.

Skills Applied: CSS3 and knowledge of table markup for selecting and optimizing responsive templates for each campaign. Media queries were used for desktop/mobile friendly client rendering. Exposure to Matches Fashion’s newer email platform Sailthru allowed for dynamic product, price and image links.

Project Outline: To maintain, reskin and optimise a number of GameAccount Network's Casino based clientele. Experience in JSP templating frameworks and Responsive SASS based layouts were a crucial to fit working alongside the Front End Development Team.

Skills Applied: Became versed in pushing content across from Local to Dev to Alpha environments via Jira assigned tasks and tickets. Utilised Node.js based Development Tools such as Grunt for compiling SASS and JS to build out HTML5 content and from Design Assets . Used TortoiseHg to commit code back to the main Dev branch

Project Outline: Brought into the Dennis Digital Team to revamp (skin and theme) the BuyaCar.co.uk website. The BuyaCar platform sits on a legacy JSP templating system, so being brought up to speed by their Java Developer on how the pages layouts were populated gave clear context for my Front­End skill set to assess how best to retheme the site.

Skills Applied: Gained exposure to Kanban development. Used team working tools such as Slack and Fogbugz to alert PM’s on development targets reached. Used Koala Sass Compiler to for local builds of the new theme PSD’s. Source Tree was used to commit changes daily and updates to Github. IE9+ compatibility achieved using Browser Stack testing.

Project Outline: Optimizing a proprietary video stream platform for responsive applications in the run up for a soft launch. Worked with the Ready To Air team in auditing the initial platforms Front End look and feel in order to build out an initial specification. Having firm grasp of Responsive Development in SASS was crucial to successful delivery.

Skills Applied: d: Hand coding CSS/SASS in Sublime. Working with the onsite a backend developer to set up a local version of their Ruby CMS. Adopted a Shame CSS methodology to manage the the Agile day to day delivery requirements. Knowledge of HTML stacking structure in context of page layouts to address Bootstrap breakpoints and apply optimisations in a timely manner.

Project Outline: ​​​To develop eight Responsive Email Templates for a Moving Brands Client. Working with Designers and another Developer to interpret an implementation route for maximum 'live text' whilst preserving Design and Branding for delivery.

Skills Applied: Using the Campaign Monitor platform as a benchmark for accurate Web/Desktop/Responsive Email Client rendering. Templates were coded up using fluid HTML & CSS layout techniques where CSS3 Media Queries wouldn't typically be supported.