22 Lullington Road, Bristol, BS4 2LH | chris_whitehouse@hotmail.com | +44 (0)7745 100 951 | GitHub
I am a software developer at the beginning of a new career, seeking to pivot from managerial, commercial and analytical roles in the energy sector to a software consultancy.
Motivated by solving complex problems with technology, and with a deep-rooted love of learning, I am committed to the technical challenge of becoming a professional software engineer. In addition, my extensive prior commercial experience has enabled me to become adept at communication, teamwork, and project management.
TECHNICAL PROJECTS
| Name | Description | Tech/Tools |
| Book Swap | A community booksharing application, built as a team, utilizing TDD, and Agile best practices. | Rest APIs, Bootstrap, React, Express, Node.js and Mongodb. With Cypress, Enzyme, and Moch-Chai testing frameworks. |
| Bank Tech Test | Individual completion of an example tech test, focusing on high quality code. | Ruby, Rspec testing framework. |
| Acebook | A Facebook clone, completed as part of a team | Ruby, Rspec, Rails, PostgreSQL, React |
EXPERIENCE
- A strong focus on how to build robust, clean code adhering to design patterns, regardless of technology stack. Particular emphasis on Object Oriented Programming and Test Driven Development, through consistent pair programming and group working.
- Alongside technical capabilities, emphasis was placed on software development best practices, working in Agile methodologies whilst maintaining Extreme Programming rules and values.
- Technologies covered:
- Design principles: OOP, TDD, MVC, DDD, REST API
- Integration and deployment: CI/CD with Travis and Heroku
- Languages: Ruby, JavaScript, React, and Node.js
- Frameworks: Sinatra, Rails, and Express
- Databases: MongoDB and PostgreSQL
- Testing frameworks: Cypress, Jest, Jasmine, RSpec, and Capybara
- Management of pricing and product teams, jointly accountable for optimising over £5m in annual gross margin, supporting the growth of Bristol Energy from 10,000 to 100,000 residential customers, and from start-up to 181GWh of energy supplied to business customers.
- Responsible for the accurate and timely calculation and publication, of over 1 million individual tariffs, across residential, business and renewable energy markets.
- Managed the continual development of the pricing platform in SQL, VBA and Excel. Implemented best practice quality assurance and testing processes, working closely with pricing analysts to develop and deliver feature updates, ensuring accuracy and robustness on deployment.
- Established new propositions team, driving agile cross-functional working practices to support product discovery and delivery, and customer-centred service design.
- Built the pricing and propositions teams, with the recruitment and line management responsibility of three FTE.
- Responsible for the development and maintenance of a variety of commercial valuation models in Excel and VBA, used to steer strategy and insight on the commercial management of gas power stations, and renewable assets.
- Lead on the synthesis and delivery of detailed analysis of hedging strategies and risk quantification, translating large data sets into usable information, and presented actionable insight to senior business leaders.
- Responsible for building financial models in Excel and VBA, to support large rail franchise bids to the Department for Transport. Adhered to best practices of transparency, clarity, and simplicity.
- A course focused on the techology and policy solutions required to combat climate change
- Applied mathematics course covering; Mathematical Modelling, Statistics, and Engineering
GCSEs: 9 grades A-C including English and Maths* | Deben High School Sep 1992 - Jun 1997
Product Management Certificate | Product School, London 2020
Level 5 Certificate in Management & Leadership | Chartered Management Institute 2019
CS50: Introduction to Computer Science - Verified Certificate | HarvardX 2018
Introduction to Computer Science and Programming in Python | MITx 2017
Codebar: Coach - codebar is a charity that facilitates the growth of a diverse tech community by running free regular programming workshops for minority groups in tech.
I am an outdoor enthusiast; cycling, running, surfing, sailing, but occasionally head indoors to code!
References on request.