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My strengths lie within two main areas; logic-based methodology and interpersonal skills.

I am from a non-coding background. I went to the University of Warwick to study politics with a philosophical focus. After graduating with a year abroad in Melbourne, I joined a media company specialising in finance as part of the sales team – I always thought that understanding sales is important at every level of every job.

Whilst I realised that I may be able to make a successful career in sales, I wanted more. I needed something more technical and stimulating. I began to teach myself the basics of coding during my lunch breaks. I was drawn to the logical structure of its foundations through to the opportunity to be creative and show your personality in how and why you write the code. The issue was I had no experience in coding… yet.

I managed to achieve a spot on one of the most sought-after development bootcamps - Makers Academy. I relished the chance to improve my technical abilities through programming. This has provided me with the opportunity to achieve the job I have spent the last few years of my life pursuing. My aim is to work in a relationship focused aspect of programming to combine what I have always believed my strengths to be.

Most importantly it will allow me to have the career I have been working for.

This comes down to being well organised and in control of your time.

With one week before my first big event at Infopro Digital there was 12 K to secure from clients. I had spent time cultivating leads and speaking to my prospects and subsequently knew how much would still be sold. This calm approach under pressure meant we hit target without panic.

I studied Politics at University focusing on the Philosophical side. This was an essay based subject but at its core; problem solving without a ‘correct’ answer. This is similar to programming in the sense that you can successfully solve a problem in many ways.

This skill aligns with solving a problem in code: analyse and understand the issue, research solutions, write the solution, refactor to improve its readability.

This follows on from the above, understanding the meaning behind a piece of writing is one thing, it is another to express your own thoughts and analysis in a manner which is accessible to others. You need to have an appreciation for the final product over anything else.

This is a skill I will be able apply when writing code. The final product is far more important than words on a piece of paper or code in a text-editor.

I was successful in sales because I used a consultative sales method. This means I was looking to find a solution to solve my clients problems rather than trying to convince them to buy something that was of no use to them.

In project teams at Makers, I found that listening to my team rather than pushing ahead with my own ideas ultimately helped our workflow.

A 16-week intensive development bootcamp (10% acceptance rate) emphasising:

• OOP, TDD, BDD, MVC, DDD
• Agile/XP
• Ruby, Rails, JavaScript
• RSpec, Jasmine
• HTML, CSS, Bootstrap

• 2.2 in Politics (with a philosophical focus)
• Intercalated year at Monash University
• 2015 Warwick Skills Portfolio Award – completed workshops and blogging on the following: Getting started on skills development and the Warwick skills portfolio, leading a group project, an introduction to emotional intelligence, an introduction to critical thinking, becoming more assertive and reading and note making.

• A Level- Politics (A*) Geography (A) Maths (A) –Winner of the St Benedict’s Ranger cup for Geography 2013

Infopro Digital (May 2018 – December 2018) Senior Delegate Acquisition Executive:

• Management position within the delegate acquisition team
• Stakeholder engagement - client relations with C-level and senior management from international financial institutions identifying key players in the specific sector of the industry
• Commercial awareness - the ability to identify delegate interest and match across the portfolio in relation to a number of different brands – leading to exceeding target over my time at the company
• Awarded delegate sales of person of the year 17/18 as well as events person of the quarter (Q1 2018)

Infopro Digital (July 2017-  May 2018) Delegate Acquisition executive:

• This included the responsibilities as above without the management role
• Professionally trained in: ‘Intro to sales’ (July 17), ‘Objection handling’ (August 17), ‘Assertiveness’ (April 18) and ‘Advanced sales’ (April 18)

Campden Wealth (1 month 2016) Internship - US Marketing Executive:

• Research-based role analysing the needs of potential clients within a new geography to the company
• Developed a database and introduced the brand to prospective clients by both the telephone and email
• Utilised salesforce to keep a clear, accurate and concise record

• Escape rooms - gamification of my passion of solving problems
• Football - Fulham football club season ticket holder with my brothers since I was 11 and play 5-aside football once a week
• World travel

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