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Jack Ridley

Software Developer // Audio Programmer

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Experience

Accolite Digital

Software Engineer

At Accolite, I received training in Java, Spring Boot, Typescript, Angular, HTML, CSS, Agile, and Git.

As an Accolite consultant, I work full-time within an Agile team at Morgan Stanley, working on internal web applications built with Java and Typescript as a full stack developer.

Within this role I have found particular joy in UI design, designing many new features all the way from the wireframing to implementation. I am involved in multiple internal UX/UI Community groups and guilds, and run meetings myself for a small cross-team group that meet to share UI knowledge and offer help to those with less experience.

Within my own team, I've introduced Figma as a wireframing tool, which has significantly improved our design process. I've also worked a lot on consolidating our existing UI to acheive consistency across what had become a sprawling application in both code implementation and design style.

I am proud to be known as a thorough Code Reviewer, and enjoy the way this brings a team together to discuss best practices.

Freelance

Sound Designer, Composer

As a freelance Sound Designer I have created sound and music for performance artist Stacy Makishi including her performances Malama Maki, Proud Marys, and The Church of Latter Day Sinners.

I have also worked as Sound Designer for the Theatre Companies Cardboard Citizens and Just Add Milk on productions such as Digging Deep, and Who Cares.

In podcasting and audiobooks, I worked as the audio producer on the award winning audiobook Brilliant White Peaks, and the podcast PyDataMCR which focuses on open-source data tooling and doubled as a way to indulge my tech interests.

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Education

University of Edinburgh

September 2020 - August 2022

1st MSc Sound Design

Focused on the technical side of audio design. Designed interactive audio experiences, and used C++ to design audio plugins. My dissertation project: Designing Physical Sound Interactions.

Queen Mary University of London

September 2015 - June 2018

2:1 BA Drama

Focused on performance art and experimental forms of theatre. This route led me into experimental sound art, and designing procedural sound systems for the stage.

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