Hi there 👋 I'm Heather 🙂 I recently discovered and like this approach to being an engineer: https://1x.engineer/
🔭 I’m currently working on Staff Pulse at TES - a tool to measure and improve the wellbeing of teachers, working with Javascript, Node.js, React/Redux, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Postgres, SQL, Sequelize, Docker, Git version control, Jenkins, OOP, TDD, and pair programming. I also have experience with Typescript and GraphQL 👩💻
🌱 I’m currently learning about gardening and the best ways to combine rewilding and food production in my garden in Bexhill-on-Sea 👩🌾
💬 Ask me about yoga - I completed a physiotherapy informed teacher training while furloughed in Spring 2020 🤸♀️
🤔 - I'm often wondering and reading about a mix of philosophy, theology and psychology, which I find endlessly fascinating subjects. This has broadened by empathy and compassion, which I hope to one day somehow help others to do 🌞
💪 A fear I'm working to overcome is sharing my knowledge, skills and passions with the world via writing ✍️
⚡ Fun fact: I once drove the ferry 'cross the Mersey when I was 16 🚢
🕵️♀️ In previous lives I have achieved a degree in chemistry 👩🔬, been a science teacher 👩🏫, and even a SCUBA instructor 🧜♀️
Working on Staff Pulse creating a tool for understanding and developing teachers' wellbeing.
- Javascript, Node.js, React/Redux, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Postgres, SQL, Sequelize, Docker, Git version control, Jenkins, OOP & TDD.
- Mentor & Coach.
- Initiated a campaign to provide training to junior engineers that was previously lacking. Worked with principle engineers to develop a loose program and build their teaching skills.
- Retro facilitator. Succeeding in making retros biweekly - up from once or twice a year - and making wellbeing part of the focus, as well as creating a wellbeing check in on the alternate weeks.
- Active member of Diversity & Inclusion Working Group (2019).
- N.B. Employed permanently after 1 year contract (see below for further info), promoted to Software Engineer Dec '19.
Letterpress printing, design and web development
- Self-taught myself to use gatsby, graphQL and css grid to create fully responsive website to house my writing, trugandmoon.com.
- Made a portfolio website for a product designer, jamesdrayson.com
Physical therapy informed yoga teacher training
Tutoring A-Level students to improve their grades and boost their learning while they get to grips with remote schooling.
Associate Software Engineer on the Registration team, followed by the School Portal team.
- Javascript, Node.js, React/Redux, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Postgres, SQL, OOP, TDD
- Champion of the Study Club for junior engineers to come together and share knowledge.
- Mentor.
A 16-week intensive course at Europe's leading and most selective development bootcamp.
- Learning Full Stack Web Development, Agile Methodologies, Object-oriented Design, Behaviour and Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, XP Values, Independent Learning and Problem Solving, Experience with MVC Frameworks.
- Final Project: Acheezable - a cheesy self development app.
- Mentor to two students in March '18 cohort.
Teacher of Science, Form Tutor and Erasmus Assistant Coordinator
Teacher Training plus Intervention Tutor
Teacher Training
Open Water SCUBA Diving Instructor and Emergency First Response Instructor, following work as a Dive Master
- Royal Society of Chemistry Scholar
- PGCE in Secondary Science - Chemistry Specialism
- Outstanding with Merit
- Confucius Institute Scholar
- Basic Mandarin Studies
- BSc Chemistry
- 2:1 with Honours
- Meditation and yoga
- Gardening and growing my own food
- Walking in nature
- Letterpress Printing
- SCUBA diving
- Learning and reading
- Sewing and knitting