Murray Champernowne Front-End UI Engineer

Worked as a Senior Consultant within the Creative Technology team, focusing on the NA and EMEA regions.

Specialised in the Jamstack (Next.js/Storybook/Astro/SvelteKit/Vercel) and accessibility, advising clients on content modelling (Contentful/Sanity.io) and front-end best practices across a range of projects, from enterprise-scale rebuilds, to greenfield design systems, to a bespoke AI/LLM-backed GUI (ChatGPT/Claude 3/Python/React) for medical data analysis.

Also developed internal accessibility documentation, including maintaining up-to-date legal guidance for the EU, Canada, UK, and US, whilst helping upskill teams across the business via remote learning sessions and presentations.

Developed several new features for the existing Next.js codebase, including custom analytics, animated landing pages (GSAP/Lottie), and dark mode/theme support. Performed accessibility and SEO audits and improvements.

Significantly increased test coverage (RTL) and prototyped a Cypress E2E test architecture. Led and delivered a greenfield design system project (React/Storybook), used in the redesign of spacecasino.co.uk (Next.js/Apollo/Vercel).

Built growable.io and relaunched talentpoint.co with a modern tech stack (React/Gatsby/Netlify); personal focus was UI components, accessibility, and UX.

Set up a headless instance of Craft CMS (GraphQL/S3) and migrated all content.

Line managed the Content Team. Worked with senior stakeholders to develop content and SEO strategy.

Oversaw the delivery of all social media and web content, including email campaigns (SendGrid).

Part of a small team building greenfield projects, including a new software platform to improve NHS document accessibility.

Wrote all technical documentation and provided internal training. Reduced implementation time by 85% with a custom automation tool (VBA).

Second-line support using rapid, iterative testing. Developed several automation scripts to replace repetitive internal procedures.