Anthony
Cregan_.co.uk

Employment History

Aleph Labs

I am currently working at Aleph Labs: a Singapore based full-service design and development agency with a presence throughout the APAC region including Thailand, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines and Vietnam.

My role as a Senior Developer requires me to provide both development and leadership using my experience in offering guidance and mentoring to some of the junior developers. During my time at Aleph I have worked on a number of projects for multiple clients:

United Overseas Bank

Channel Admin Project

March 2023 to Present

The channel admin frontend project is an internal tool which acts as a core configuration application for multiple systems, both internal and customer-facing. My role on this project has been to lead and mentor a team of developers who are responsible for new features and maintainance of exisiting functionality on this business-critical application. Daily duties include liason with various stakeholders, delivery managers, business analysts and project managment on features, converting requirements into action items and working with my team on development, implementation and testing.

UOB Sustainability Project Microsite

Feb 2023 to Mar 2023

Our breif for this environmental sustainability outreach project from UOB was to design and develop an application used to guide UOB Customer SME's in their approach to environmental responsibility. It involves a questionaire that enables UOB to make recommendations to their customers on how they can best adapt to a zero-carbon future.

UOB Infinity & Business Banking

Aug 2022 to Feb 2023

Due to my previous experience working with the UOB Infinity app and component library I was able to use my existing knowledge of the workings of the application and immediately provide value, adding new features, bug-fixing and providing general updates and maintenance.

Standard Chartered Bank

Online Banking Ember to React Migration Project

Aug 2021 to Aug 2022

My first project at Aleph-Labs is working with their long-time client, Standard Chartered Bank. Aleph had been tasked with updating SCB 's online presence to move their existing onlinebanking app away from using Ember to operating solely in React.js. Migrating to a component driven model using Module Federation microservices we fully rebuilt the UI in React using classic Redux for state management. The process involves reverse-engineering the Ember application and splitting the existing application into logical modules to be developed entirely in React.

UOB Infinity & Business Banking

Aug 2022 to Feb 2023

My first job working in Singapore, I was hired by UOB, via a recruitment company, in the role of senior applications developer working on their online-banking portal, UOB Infinity.

The scope of this role was to develop the Hong Kong variant of their core banking application. This involved identifying, planning and implementing the changes required to modify the base application, which was designed for the Singapore market and adapt it to accommodate the differences in the Hong Kong market. This includes changes required to currency, forex, transaction types and banking facilities that are unique or specific to the Hong Kong banking sector

Due to the breadth of changes required across all areas of the application I gained a great deal of experience as we were not focused on one specific area of the app. I also took responsibility for adapting and expanding their core UI component set to facilitate the additional features that were required to accommodate the Hong Kong variant.

Having had no prior experience in the banking sector I found the work at UOB rewarding and enjoyed the challenge of having to understand the obstacles unique to the finance industry and how we can develop software and user interface solutions to overcome them.

Perpetual Summer Ltd

Founder and Managing Director

Mar 2018 to Present

I founded Perpetual Summer as a UK based private limited company to enable me to offer software development consultancy services and to better allow me to travel with my work beyond the UK. I am current working in full-time employment and I am dependent on a work-pass in Singapore, so I should point out that the company is not currently operating and the trading status is dormant.

Booking.com

Ryan Air Car Hire Integration Project

Jul 2019 to Dec 2019

I was approached by Booking.com who were looking for developers with a deep understanding of React to work on their RyanAir car hire integration project. I worked across a number of teams providing API interface design and a suite of front-end components to facilitate the search and selection of hire cars at airports throughout the world via RyanAir's website. Booking.com challenged us to deliver to RyanAir with a very tight deadline but we managed to complete the project on time and both Booking.com and RyanAir commended the work we delivered.

AE Graphics

Application Development Consultancy

Jul 2018 to Jul 2019

Perpetual Summer was engaged by a company based near London who provide video overlay title services to international sports broadcasters. I was tasked with developing a browser-based video overlay control service comprised of a client application to enable the user to control the information shown and an overlay application utilising CasparCG to overlay information graphics over live-video for a variety of sports including international cricket, tour de France and a number of professional league football associations worldwide.

Betfred / Degree53

React.js Development Consultancy

Feb 2018 to Jul 2018

I was contracted to provide experience and mentoring to their react.js developers and help with back-end integration, updates to existing functionality, fixes for validation on registration and some design change implementation on their games offerings.

Although this role was only short-term, to fill a requirements shortfall with compliance deadlines looming, I enjoyed the work and my previous experience in the gaming sector enabled me to quickly integrate and get productive and help Degree53 acheive their aims to a tight schedule.

SIS Betting

UI Designer and Developer

Aug 2014 to Mar 2018

SIS Provide sports betting data and video content to major bookmakers and gaming service providers around the world. Working primarily in react and springboot I was responsible for the development of the front end of numerous applications, both customer facing and internal.

CQ2

Front End Web Developer

Apr 2014 to Aug 2014

I worked as a front end developer for a design agency that operated primarily in the leisure and tourism industry, my role was to design and build websites for their parent group`s various resorts and attractions.

First Found

Search Engine Optimisation Consultant & Pay-Per-Click Adwords Account Manager

Aug 2008 to Apr 2014

My duty as SEO consultant was to manage SEO accounts, update clients' sites to meet SEO best practices, liaise with them and ultimately provide good search engine ranking results for relevant, high search volume phrases.

I was only with the company a short time before being asked to adopt additional duties as a PPC account manager. This involved creating adwords campaigns for a broad variety of clients from basic local services sites to full international ecommerce sites. My client base was broad and varied. I managed SEO campaigns for well-known international companies such as Ariston, Litron Lasers and Vital Services as well as many smaller local services and retail sites.

During my time I managed over 400 accounts and the exposure to various technologies and frameworks I encountered on such a broad range of clients website has proven invaluable in helping me develop and improve as a Web Designer and Developer.

Other Roles

Mercedes Benz

Customer Liaison Executive

Feb 2006 to Aug 2008

Customer service role, arranging vehicle servicing for premium and VIP customers of Daimler Chrysler brands including Maybach, Mercedes-Benz, AMG and Smart.

JD Williams & co.

Customer Service Advisor

Oct 2002 to Feb 2006

Customer service advisor. Skills acquired include: customer liaison, understanding requirements, communication and customer satisfaction.

SY Electronics

Electronics Engineer

Jun 2000 to Oct 2002

Manufacturing of electronic devices. Primarily involved soldering and assembly of electronic components.