George Bardis

Indescon Square 35, Canary Wharf, London, UK

+07766837365GITHUB (bardius)

Versatile and passionateLEAD FULL-STACK WEB DEVELOPERwith a wealth of technical andcommercial skills acquired across a wide range of demanding projects with over 12 years experience within digital agency and web developmentindustries. Self-driven and highly motivated professional, who is able to demonstrate substantial abilities and make apositive contribution in any web development or software engineering team

  • Commercial web development languages experience
    HTML5, JavaScript, PHP, CSS 2 & 3, SASS, MySQL, XML, XSLT, JSON, Flash ActionScript 2 & 3
  • Commercial experience with Open Source CMS and Frameworks
    Symfony2 Framework, Laravel Framework, Zend Framework 1.x, Zurb Foundation Framework, Twitter Bootstrap, Joomla, Wordpress, Drupal, Concrete5, ExpressionEngine 2, Pimcore, JQuery, RequireJs, Backbone, NodeJs
  • Commercial experience with Web Standards and Libraries
    W3C Standards, SVN, GIT, AJAX, cross-browser compatibility, responsive web design, progressive enhancement,mobile first, e-commerce, SEO, various web APIs’, code refactoring, performance optimization techniques, OOP Principles, MVC Principles, Doctrine, Eloquent, automated builds/deployments, accessibility and security standards
  • Commercial server administration experience - automated deployment/builds
    Awareness on LAMP, Plesk, CPanel, Travis, Grunt, Bower, Teamcity, Jenkins, Shell, Rackspace, AWS, CDN, Load balancer
  • Commercial team leading experience
    Staff management, Mentoring, Reviews, Recruitment, Planning, Clean Communication, team re-structuring
  • Architectured & maintainingaSymfony2 Distribution as CMS combined with Zurb Foundation 5 framework for kick starting builds of complex,performance efficient, fully responsive websites designed for large data scaling(github link)
  • Transformed a dissolved team of 2 to a fully functional team of 5 developers, revising processes, workflows, technology stack, infrastructure and communication channels between teamsat Collective London within 3 months.
  • Revived the Hyundai UK website improving performance, monitoring and stability (+300% gain in load time)
  • Served brands like Ben&Jerry’s, Unilever, Reckitt Benckiser, Diageo, Infiniti, Hyundai, HSBC, Meridian, Tate & Lyle, RSV
  • Re-structured a team of 8 people to a totally new 6 people team, reducing the total production cost by 30% and achieving better production qualityand delivery speed as a head of development at Net360 (Greece)
  • Planning and development of solo freelance projects that still dominate relevant search engine results in Greek Market
  • Developed over 65 CMS based websites with varying complexity (non templateswith Zend and Joomla) in a single year
  • Mentored junior developers and designers to rise up and become established professionals

June 2014 – TodayTechnology Lead

Collective London (UK)

Lead of digital development team, responsible for providing technical solutions and estimations for all digital projects along with setting processes, workflows and standards.Hands on coding on both server and client side to ensure complex projects delivery, in a timely manner, andsetting code quality standards.

  • Full Stack Development of new responsive websites and apps based on Wordpress, Laravel and Pimcore
  • Website performance optimization, SEO and automated build / deployment workflows
  • Leading, managing and mentoring a team of 2 back end and 2 Front End developers
  • Ensuring clean communication, proper planning and collaboration between development and other teams
  • Planning, assessment of time and complexity estimations for undertaken projects
  • On page search engine optimization

May 2013 – June 2014Creative Technologist

TMW (UK)

Development and maintenance of new websites, development of Facebook apps, various web APIs implementations, maintaining and updating current websites in various CMS’sfor standards-compliant cross browser compatible code with mobile first responsive techniques and Agile methodology.

  • Development of new responsive websites based on Wordpress and ExpressionEngine
  • Front end Development of new responsive websites based on Umbraco and Sitecore
  • Development of new responsive web and Facebook applications based on Zend Framework and Laravel
  • Website performance optimization
  • Planning and assessment of time and complexity estimations for undertaken projects
  • On page search engine optimization

June 2012 – May 2013Senior Front End Web Developer

Maynard Malone (UK)

Development and maintenance of in house CMS based in Symfony2, development of new websites, development of Facebook apps, various web APIs implementations, maintaining and updating current websites in various CMS’s with standards-compliant cross browser compatible code.

  • Development of new projects based on the in-house CMS (Symfony2)
  • Maintenance of websites based on in-house CMS(Zend Framework), Drupal and Concrete5
  • Development of new projects based on Drupal
  • Development of new Facebook applications based on Zend Framework
  • Website on-page performance optimization
  • Providing time and complexity estimations for undertaken projects
  • On page search engine optimization

November 2009 – June 2012Senior Web Developer / Head of Development

Net360 S.A. (Greece)

Leading and mentoring the development teamsetting development standards, dividing tasks amongst members and providing advice to support them. Planning and developing complex projects with standards-compliant cross browser compatible code

  • Lead and mentor 2 designers, a copywriter, a SEO specialist and 2 developers
  • Analysis of client needs, website structure planning and implementation supervision
  • Development of corporate, hotel and e-commerce projects based on the in-house CMS and Joomla CMS
  • Maintenance of the in-house CMS in Zend Framework 1.1
  • Server Administration with WHM / CPanel
  • Website performance optimization
  • On page search engine optimization

June 2010 - June 2012Outsourcing Senior Web Developer

ASAP Network Consultants (Greece)

Planning, development, optimization and SEO of websites based on Joomla CMS, delivering fine tuned corporate and e-commerce websites based on the given designs and requirements.

  • Development of dynamic websites based on Joomla CMS (non-templates)
  • On page search engine optimization
  • Website performance optimization
  • Liaising with company’s graphic designer for custom made website designs
  • Training and mentoring of 2 junior front end developers
  • Analytics accounts setup

June 2004 - June 2012Freelancer Full Stack Web Developer
Freelancing

Undertaking freelancing tasks and projects that involve new website implementations, website planning and analysis, website optimizations, website upgrades and search engine optimization

  • Project analysis and consultancy for the clients
  • Direct meetings with the clients to specify their needs
  • Development of dynamic websites based on Joomla CMS (non-templates) and Flash
  • On page search engine optimization
  • Liaising with freelance graphic designers for custom made website designs

May 2009 - October 2009Front End - Flash Developer

GlobalStar Interactive (Greece)

Development and maintenance of dynamic websites based on PHP, Joomla CMS and XML – Flashfrom custom designs and provided structure under the supervision of the creative director.

  • Creation of interactive banners and galleries using Flash
  • Development of HTML Newsletter templates with compatibility for e-mail clients
  • Development of dynamic websites based on Joomla CMS (non-templates) and Flash

Oct 2006 - Sept 2007MSc in Intelligent Web Technology

Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK

  • Dissertation
    “Development and evaluations of a personalized website: Personalized Online Magazine”
  • Taught Courses
    Data Mining and Machine Learning, Software Engineering in Java, Databases and Information Systems, e-Commerce technology, Network Applications, Web intelligence

Oct 2001 - Aug 2006BSc in Electronic and Computing Systems

TEI of Piraeus, Athens, Greece

  • Dissertation
    “Systems and algorithms of aircraft collision avoidance”
  • Taught Courses
    Electronics, Microelectronics, Programming (C, C++, Visual Basic, Assembly, VHDL, HTML, PHP, FORTRAN, QBasic), Microprocessor Architecture, Operating Systems, Telecommunications,Computer Networks, DSP, Robotics, Automated Control Systems, Mathematics, Physics

Languages

  • Greek (native)
  • English (Michigan Certificate of Proficiency in English)

Personality

  • Ability to adopt in multicultural environments and abroad
  • Good communication skills
  • Team working and supportive
  • Fast learner, willing to learn from others
  • Flexible attitude, ability to perform under pressure
  • A commitment for quality and attention to detail
  • Good problem solving and analysis abilities
  • Self motivating and persistent
  • Humorous and outgoing
  • Non smoker, Social drinker

Personal

  • Male
  • Date of birth:03-07-1982

Interests

  • Keen interest in any sport activity
  • Semi-professional basketball player
  • Cinema
  • Anime Series
  • Electronic Music
  • Emerging technologies

Copies of degrees and references can be available upon request.

Latest websites
Hyundai UK, Meridian Audio, FloraUK,InfinitiUK, Taste And Smile (Tate Lyle), Tate & Lyle Sugars,
The Greek Spots (go live at June)

Latest web apps
Zubrowka, WantMyBet, Knorr –Meet the Chefs

Open Source Project
Symfony2 CMS Distribution + Zurb Foundation 5 (BardisCMS)