Hi! I'm Martyn. I'm an experienced Web Developer & AgilePM, based in Preston, UK.
Hi! I'm Martyn. I'm an experienced Web Developer & AgilePM, based in Preston, UK.
17+ years experience working in both agencies and internal development teams. Led teams and managed departments as well as attaining an AgilePM certification.
Worked with a variety of different technologies on various sized projects, from small local business, to international ecommerce sites with £60+ million yearly sales & 100+ million pageviews.
Car & Classic
May 2019 - Present
Back to my first love of coding. Working on the old bespoke system, and along with the team modernising it into Laravel as well as introducing new features - user account, auctions, taxonomy. Responsible for running sprints & speccing tasks for the team along with the Engineering & Product Directors. Made Tech Lead in March 2022.
Skiddle
July 2011 - May 2019
Started as lead developer working up to running the dept of 9. Oversaw the development of both websites and mobile apps.
Gained my AgilePM certification whilst employed here, so introduced a more standard agile approach.
iWeb
March 2007 - July 2011
Worked on many bespoke eccomerce sites - mainly mp3 music stores. Introduced Magento into the business.
Voodoo Agency
Sept 2004 - March 2007
First job in web development. Worked on many custom brouchure & eccomerce websites, which eventually led me to building custom online business apps.
University of Central Lancashire
2001 - 2004