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Tanya Eloise Parker

Senior Developer | WebXR Specialist | Fan of Pigeons

With nine years experience as a senior developer with a proven track record of delivering polished Extended Reality (XR) activations. My skillset focuses on frontend workflows and Three.js whilst ensuring smooth, optimised performance across a swathe of mobile devices. I’m looking to further develop my frontend skillset, and expose myself to new tech stacks, workflows as well as to contribute to memorable experiences and projects.

Professional Highlights

  • Primary developer behind three years of award-winning digital content for a leading UK Attraction.

  • Coordinated development for a multinational webXR activation for a leading children's brand.

  • Lead developer for an educational app for a New Zealand retailer which reached #1 on the app stores.

  • Solo developer behind supporting digital content for a documentary by a leading UK broadcaster.

  • Primary developer behind five years of post-launch content drops and app updates for a leading European confectionary brands digital platform.

Technical Skills

  • Typescript | Javascript

  • Three.js

  • PixiJS

  • React

  • Zustrand

  • HTML5 & CSS3

  • RESTful APIs

  • AWS

Employment History

Freelance Frontend Developer

Six Months

Skills Used: HTML, CSS, Typescript, Three.js, PixiJS, WebGL, Source Control.

  • Key developer for an interactive training experience for customers of a US home improvement supplier. The project made extensive use of HTML5, Three.js, WebGL and WebXR Libraries. Additionally provided post-launch support which included implementing structure for a Spanish localisation.

  • Increased proficiency in Vite and Pixi.JS as well as defining Github versioning policies alongside general development in Typescript as part of an external developer team.

Senior Developer - Zappar

Chiswick, Six Years

Skills Used: Typescript, Three.JS, AWS, RESTful APIs

  • Directly managed junior developer team, conducting 1:1 meetings to discuss workloads, wellbeing, project issues and blockers, and facilitating any necessary training and upskilling.

  • Close collaborator with the production team, vetting incoming projects for early issue detection as well as providing timing and costing estimates. Ensured stakeholders were informed in a timely manner through multiple deliverable milestones and completed on time and to client satisfaction.

  • Led numerous major projects, taking time to establish frameworks for junior developers to work from, as well as enshrining best practices regarding Git source control. Notable projects include:

    • Disney Princess: Portal to the Princesses (2024): A global Three.js based activation across 14 separate markets. Actively managed Junior developers whilst also managing concurrent development of a HLS alpha video streaming implementation. Across all markets, the activation has been viewed tens of thousands of times.​

    • Legoland (2021-2024): Spearheaded multiple award winning (2023 Auggie Awards) initiatives to revitalise LEGOLAND Attractions including the iconic Minilands area. Based around bolstering in-park digital content served through the LEGOLAND app, these initiatives have attracted over two million users, and over 400 cumulative hours of playtime across two parks.

    • Countdown Super Insects (2020): Led development of this award-winning (2021 Auggie Awards) educational app for Countdown, a leading New Zealand supermarket. Developed the core framework and sticker scanning element, along with the capstone Insect Race game experience. By the end of the campaign, Super Insects had reached #1 in the App Stores, had been seen by over 50,000 users and provided Countdown with a 4.5% increase in transactions over 30$NZ.

Creative Content Developer - Zappar

Chiswick, Three Years

Skills Used: : Typescript, AWS

  • Handled small scale projects and activations, steadily progressing to larger and larger contributions.

    • ​Developed a capstone activation for an interactive Panini sticker album celebrating Disneyland Paris’ 25th anniversary in 2017.​

    • Contributed two of the games available within PEZ Play at launch in 2016.

    • Sole developer behind the AR Activations attached to the BBC & Open University program “The Human Body: Secrets of Your Life Revealed” in 2017

Qualifications
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Ba (Hons) Computer Games Arts

UCA Farnham - 1st

References available upon request.

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