INNER THOUGHTS OF A CHAOTIC DEV
A space to showcase my career as a Software Engineer so far through blog posts and other cool bits 🤠
HEY, I'M LORNA 😊
Passionate, easy-going and bubbly software engineer with 7+ years in the industry across healthcare, digital agency, payroll and edu tech. A keen learner who spends a lot of spare time working on side projects to improve existing skills and gain more. Passionate about investing in self-development, enjoy writing documentation and data analysis - spreadsheets and so on.
Interests: all-things dev, mentorship, data, spreadsheets, jokes (dad and anti), horror crime thriller tv shows/movies, self-investment, mechanical keyboards, succulents.
EDUCATION
BSC (HONS) COMPUTING (2:2)
University of Huddersfield
2011 - 2015
4 year course including a 12 month placement as a Software Developer based in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT (DMM)
Leeds City College Tech Campus
2009 - 2011
Achieved Distinction Merit Merit (DMM).
9 GCSES
Allerton High School
2004 - 2009
Achieved 9 GCSEs including Maths and English.
SPEAKING EVENTS
24 Feb 22
A talk about improving personal and professional development, as well as DORA metrics. 600+ were registered and 62 attended.
BOOTCAMPERS
Code Nation
5 May 21
Spoke about my career journey with 25 inspiring developers at bootcamp.
YEAR 10 INSPIRATION DAY
14 Apr 21
Spoke about my career journey with 200 year 10 high school students for a role model event.
VOLUNTEERING
FELLOWSHIP
Apr 21 - Jun 21
Taught a "Data and SQL" course to 35 girls for 2 months, whilst doing so participated in a group research project where I was also Project Manager.
FULL STACK DEV
Sep 21 - Sep 21
💻 React / Typescript / Firebase
Volunteered through Social Coder as a Full Stack Dev to help build a web app used for organising pre-loved clothes within local communities.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
Smoothwall
Oct 21 - Current
💻 Angular 11, Azure, .NET Core 3.1, .NET 6, React
Smoothwall is the leading digital safeguarding solutions provider in UK education.
SOFTWARE ENGINEER
IRIS
Sep 20 - Oct 21
💻 C#, ASP, MVP, SQL, Teamcity, Bitbucket, Octopus Deploy
IRIS is one of the biggest private software company in the UK providing solutions and services for accountancy, payroll, HR and education.
.NET DEV
Epiphany
Mar 20 - Sep 20
💻 .NET, C#, Umbraco
Epiphany is a search marketing digital agency owned by Jaywing who are a consulting business located across the UK and Australia.
SOFTWARE DEV
SRCL
Mar 19 - Mar 20
💻 .NET, C#, SQL, Umbraco, Less CSS, Bootstrap, JS, jQuery, TFS, Azure DevOps
See previous role detail.
JNR SOFTWARE DEV
SRCL
Jan 17 - Feb 19
💻 .NET, C#, SQL, Umbraco, Less CSS, Bootstrap, JS, jQuery, TFS
SRCL is part of Stericycle which provides healthcare services to customers worldwide mainly in pharmaceutical waste.
SOFTWARE DEV
ATD Solutions
Jul 15 - Dec 16
💻 .NET, C#, WebForms
ATD Solutions is an IT consultancy services company specialising in the design and delivery of projects within the commercial, finance and insurance industries.
SOFTWARE DEV
Caldervale Technology
Jul 13 - Jul 14
💻 .NET, C#, WinForms
Caldervale Technology manufactures a range of tooling and equipment for installing plastic pipe systems.
CERTIFICATIONS
DP-900 AZURE DATA FUNDAMENTALS
May 2022
Microsoft
MTA 98-361 SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT FUNDAMENTALS
Apr 16 - Expires Jun 22
Microsoft
SIDE PROJECTS
PLANNING POKER
2022
TBC
TEST RESULTS PARSER
2021
💻 MVC, .NET Core 3.1, JSON, XML, API
Internal tool created to help QA in parsing NUnit test results into an Excel file. What took days now takes seconds.
DEVOPS ANALYSIS TOOL
2021
💻 Angular 11, Node.js, JSON, API, Swagger
Stats and metric (i.e. DORA) focused internal tool that streamlines existing processes by simplifying common DevOp data.
PORTFOLIO APIS
2020
💻 Node.js, Heroku, API
Backend project used for V1 Portfolio site. Purpose to send contact emails, get list of GitHub repos, and to get list of blog posts.
BLOG
In my own way, blogging as a developer is a way of expressing myself on the web whether it be because of finding something interesting, solving a problem or in general just having that space to write my thoughts down. It's also pretty useful for when inevitably I forget bits I do on a reg like setting up services and new project packages to install. It gives me space to free my mind and be creative, accountability in a way and may be even by helping a reader with a problem I solved - even better.
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