Joe Fletcher

Experience

• Mar 2021 - Present

  Junior Software Engineer

  BeZero Carbon

  United Kingdom

  Responsible for rolling out greenfield project enabling customers to analyse their carbon footprint from driving and purchase offsets

  Worked with key stakeholders to ensure that business and client needs were met, while using my experience in E-Commerce to optimise the customer journey and user experience

  Managed testing processes using previous project management experience to organise user acceptance testing and using Cypress to implement end to end testing

  Currently working with React, Redux, Typescript, Tailwind CSS, Golang, Vite, AWS, Cypress

• Apr 2020 - Apr 2021

  Career Change

  United Kingdom

  After 8 years of leadership roles in E-Commerce, I decided to follow my passion of software development. Under the instruction of several industry mentors I've retrained, learning software development; primarily JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS and AWS. I've delivered a number of projects to demonstrate these skills, including a commercial site for a small business that can be seen in the projects section below.

• 2019 - 2020

  Sabbatical

  United Kingdom

  I took 8 months out as a career break to travel to Asia and South America.

  While away, I dived with Manta Ray in Indonesia, learned to surf in Brazil, hiked across glaciers in Patagonia, started learning Spanish, completed my advanced certificate in scuba diving and spent weeks in the Peruvian jungle!

• 2016 – 2019

  Director of EU E-Commerce

  Wolverine Worldwide

  United Kingdom

  As an adaptable and credible business leader I was bought in to lead the E-Commerce team (15 people) responsible for 4 branded sites, shipping 150k units across Europe.

  During this time I was responsible for delivering a rich digital experience across all Wolverine sites, creating and implementing site content, improving user experience, managing digital marketing and rolling out new technologies. I project managed multiple site roll-outs, hitting tight business deadlines while ensuring existing site performance was not impacted.

• 2011 - 2015

  Senior Management Positions - Finance and Operations

  Wolverine Worldwide

  United Kingdom

  As a senior manager, I was responsible for technical projects, operations and analysis, with 3 direct reports.

  I project managed the transition of EU and CA platforms to Demandware, worked closely with dev teams to implement site changes and 3rd party integrations, and launched and managed customer retention programs. As the critical link between the commercial and technical sides of the business, my strong communication and team working skills were invaluable.