Jordan Rios - Senior Technology Consultant, Crosstide Limited

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Work Background

CrosstideSenior Technology Consultant

Mar. 2023London, England, United KingdomAt Crosstide my role consists of: Service Delivery Taking ownership on the delivery of work, with a results driven, performance focussed mindset. - Identify, quantify and escalate any potential risks and issues that could impact delivery. - Contribute to successful client delivery by providing excellent consultancy skills - Deliver consistently on individual project (as an individual contributor) and contribute to the business - Effectively communicate with different stakeholders, with clarity and relevance. Client Relationships Maintaining positive, professional and trusting working relationships with clients and stakeholders. - Build reciprocal relationships with existing clients and broader industry contacts. - Aware of different client dynamics and approaches to navigate them successfully. - Build trust and credibility with the client through consistent and transparent communications. People Working with, managing and leading people and teams in a collaborative and inclusive way. - Have a collaborative working style and use a variety of methods to communicate effectively. - Actively understand the value of and how to build relationships across internal teams. - Recognise the impact of my behaviour on others. - Demonstrate empathy; actively understanding others' viewpoints to reach solutions. Practice Application of skills, knowledge and experience. Sharing knowledge, collaborating with my team. Ensuring solutions, simplicity of designs, and implementation. - Be a recognised expert in my field and advise my team accordingly. - Provide constructive feedback to my team and share how I am helping the individuals in my team to improve business relations. - Use my experience to bring simplicity to the product design and implementation. - Align the approach I take in my team with the wider Crosstide team. I leverage the good work others have done and lend my efforts to strategic objectives. - I help transform my team to always find the way to yes.

Jordan's TravelsTravelling

May. 2022 - Mar. 2023WorldwideCouldn't find the the relevant industry for my adventures, so I chose photography as I shot over 50,000 different types of footage with my iPhone (13 Pro Max), drone (Mavic Air 2s), and GoPro (10) during my unbelievable adventure! The journey in chronological order went as such; Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, New Zealand, finally Australia. Working as a professional programmer in the last 8 years has been amazing! However the dream to travel to the four corners of the world has always been a burning desire in me. Really my biggest travel dream since young was to travel to the magical continent of Africa. I've always been so curious of the wildlife, the food, and the African community. I adore the continent because it is so amazingly different from what I generally associated the continent with, Lion King!!! From the dunes of Namibia, to the overflowing Okavango delta, to the beautiful marine life in Zanzibar. It's all very unique. Going back to South America as a whole was extraordinary as that is where my roots are from. It's such a musical and spiritual place, that everyday it was so lively to be out in town or in nature. Although the most strenuous of walks I did was here which included; 1am starts, vast humidity, and high altitude. I feel accomplished achieving such feats, but it was certainly nice to just relax in the hot pools when there was a chance. Then South East Asia! It's always so much fun!!! Food is amazing. Parties are awesome. Adventure always! Then New Zealand is just stunning. The south island has one of the best hike trails because everything is so picturesque. Everywhere that you walk through, you just see an opportunity to take a photo because the view looks like from a postcard. North island I loved coming across the Māori people. They have such a history and personality.

Tribal Worldwide LondonFrontend Technical Team Lead

Aug. 2019 - Apr. 2022London, United KingdomAs a highly motivated Front-End Technical Lead, I combine the art of design with the art of programming. My role is a mixture of hands-on development, oversight, and planning/leadership of multiple projects and I'm always expected to always lead by example. Working closely with our Experience Design team, my role has ultimate responsibility for ensuring the translation of our UI/UX designs and wireframes into front-end code that delivers the visual elements of our web platforms and applications. My key responsibilities are: - Day-to-day management of technical team members on projects you are responsible for, ensuring they understand their tasks and deliver them to the highest standards. - Hands on development, code reviews, and coaching to ensure that as a team we deliver the highest quality code. - Working closely with the Delivery/PM team to create accurate project plans and proposals, manage project risks, and ensure we deliver on time throughout our projects. - Creation of technical specifications, coding standards, and another project documentation as required. - Being point of escalation and resolution for project delivery issues. - Collaborating on key technical decisions for each project with the wider team (PM, QA, Back-End, DevOps, Solution Architecture, Business Analysts). - Working with Operations and Project Management to allocate team members to suitable tasks and projects. - Selecting the best tools, frameworks, and libraries that allow our team to develop their work for our clients efficiently. - Taking ownership of Frontend task breakdown and estimates for project and ensure they are rigorous and accurate. - Directly responsible for line managing another member of staff. Often reporting into a higher level of management, overseeing their day-to-day duties and ensuring a clear career path for progress into more senior roles.

Tribal Worldwide LondonSenior Frontend Developer

Feb. 2018 - Jul. 2019London, United KingdomMy role as Senior Front End developer is to lead by example, as the role is a mix of hands on development. The role is joint (with the Head of Front End Development) responsibility for implementing processes, communicating and enforcing Front End standards and quality across the team and ensuring consistency across our delivery as a whole. In addition, I provide mentorship and leadership across the team inspiring the best work from each of them. I lead and take ownership of larger projects while for smaller projects I guide and support more junior members of the team. I present work and ideas clearly and methodically within the team and document large projects. I work with designers to realise designs and offer ideas/alternatives on routes to best complete a project. I meet and get introduced to clients whenever my work is needed to be presented and for this my work will speak for me and the team. I am required to field questions and answers with clients and other project stakeholders.

FirmstepProduct Specialist (Senior Dev)

Jun. 2016 - Feb. 2018LondonAs a Product Specialist at Firmstep, I am ultimately responsible for architecting, designing and developing for websites, mobile apps and API’s whilst mentoring junior members of the team.I also attend regular meetings with stakeholders and volunteers in order to establish IT strategy. Team and Client Delivery - Producing documentation for all features and customers. - Providing Development Account Managers with notifications of any critical issues. - Attending Daily Scrum meetings. - Assisting Developers. - Ensuring the release testing is completed by every Thursday evening. - Attending Sprint Planning Meetings. Coding and Testing - Conducting coding review and ensuring all code review is completed by the end of each day. - Ensuring coding standards are maintained at all times. - Producing detailed specifications and writing the programme codes. - Testing the product in controlled, real situations before going live. - Ensuring coding standards are kept to a high level. Leadership - Managing all critical issues that arise. - Mentoring at least 1 individual - Leading a team of 2 to ensure projects are on track for completion. - Assisting with new starter induction training - Conducting weekly development meetings. - Ensuring the development roadmap is kept up to date

FirmstepWeb Developer (Apprentice -> Junior -> Mid)

Jul. 2014 - May. 2016London, United KingdomThe many responsibilities of my role in the company include: - Assisting in defining software architectures. I collaborate with leads to explore existing systems, determining areas of complexity, potential risks to successful implementation, and learning the applications capabilities. - Communicating continually with the project teams, explaining progress of the development effort. - Updating and communicating development based system tools - Attending regular update team meetings - Translating designs and style guides provided by the UI/UX team into functional user interfaces, ensuring cross browser compatibility and performance. - Contributing to continual improvement by suggesting improvements to user interface, software architecture or new technologies. - Working within ISO27001 guidelines and standards.