Horace C. GRANT
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Bio :
Senior Full-stack Developer with over 8 years of proven development, leadership and teamwork experience to teams of varying sizes and scope. I have worked anywhere from being a co- founder in a startup company, working directly with clients in a medium sized company, to working in a large scale financial enterprise utilizing management skills acquired from being a junior manager and eye for detail while serving in quality assurance. I pride myself on my fast pickup of new technology stacks and find it exciting to be integrated with new people and work environments.
Work Experience:
March 2019 – Present: Ingenuity Technologies – Software Developer Team Lead Tech Used: Jira, React, Material UI, Spring Boot (Java), SQL, PKS, Team City, Octopus, Postman, SoapUI, Scrum/Agile
● Working closely with a large scale financial enterprise to help implement features for the general public.
● Working directly with clients to ensure desires were met
● Provide technical leadership, mentoring and direction to other team members
● Work across the stack from UI to database
● Work closely with architecture to define, design and implement system requirements
● Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design
● Lead and participate in design/code reviews
● Interview and provide technical assessments of employment candidates May 2021 – July 2022: Edufocal – Senior Software Developer Tech Used: Jira, Trello, GitHub Issues, React, Vue, Next, Node, Firebase, Postman, Scrum, Waterfall
● Creating, organizing, assisting and managing of external team to complete task
● Creation, implementation and integration of cloud services
● Work closely with CTO to define, design and implement system requirements
● Lead and participate in design/code reviews
● Interviewing of employment candidates
● Provide technical leadership, mentoring and direction to other team members
● Work across the stack from UI to database
● Review functional requirements and analyze their impact on schedule and software design
August 2018 – March 2019: Webbabox Technologies – Lead/Full Stack Website Developer. Tech Used: Jira, Vue, Node, Express, Mongo DB, Firebase, Postman, PM2
● Operated in the capacity of lead full stack developer.
● Lead a team from design to delivery of client products
● Assisted in the design and development from start to end of multiple websites.
● Drafted comprehensive reports to document bugs and design flaws.
● Perform bug fixes, updates and overall maintenance of the completed product.
● Spoke directly to clients in order to fully grasp the concepts of the projects. May 2014 – July 2018: The Vinelist – Co-Founder / Website Developer. Tech Used: Trello, PHP, Jquery, Bootstrap, MySQL, AWS, Postman
● Assisted in the design and development from start to end of the website.
● Participated in decision meetings that helped to define direction
● Drafted comprehensive reports to document bugs and design flaws.
● Implemented an SQL database for data collection, storage, and management of users.
● Perform bug fixes, updates and overall maintenance of the completed product. December 2015 – October 2018: LeadGenius – Project Coordinator (Junior Manager).
● Assisted in the directing of all phases of projects from setup to closing.
● Supervised the work of multiple team members, offering constructive feedback on their work performance.
● Defined clear targets and objectives and communicated them to other team members.
● Scheduled tasks for team members and managed how time should be used on projects.
● Performed regular reports on the success or problems team members had for the senior project manager.
● Coordinated and trained a team to perform research and quality assurance functions.
● Mitigate any problems or concerns that may occur along with making any recommendations to prevent issues reoccurring.
● Perform performance evaluations for all member of my teams to ensure company quality is maintained.
● Continued duties as Data Quality Assurance Officer February 2015 – December 2015: LeadGenius – Data Quality Assurance Officer.
● Provide accurate and timely checks to ensure information is correct.
● Communicate directly with managers of projects to ensure a smooth process.
● Assist and offer advise to researchers in order to reduce the chance of errors.
● Perform regular reports for managers on quality of data, time and any problems reoccurring.
● Creating of an automated quality checker program that assisted to signifcantly reduce work load using Python.
Hobby Projects
CovidJamBot - https://twitter.com/covidjambot
Jamaica Decides - https://jamaicadecides.com/
Codeware - https://codewhare.com/
Education:
August 2009 – 2017: University of Technology.
Bachelors of Computer Science
2009: University of Technology.
Certificate in Computer Science
Sept 2004- June 2009: Jamaica College
Continued Learning
● Udemy - The Complete 2023 Web Development Bootcamp
● Udemy - Management Skills - Team Leadership Skills Masterclass 2022
● Youtube - Any and every thing youtube throws at me.