Chris3DPrintsStuff, Manchester

Founder & CAD / 3D Printing Engineer

January 2024 to Present

Founded and operated an independent CAD/CAM and 3D printing service, delivering bespoke design and rapid prototyping solutions for personal and small-scale commercial use. Responsible for the full product lifecycle from concept through design, manufacture, iteration, and customer delivery. 20+ 5 Star Reviews on Etsy & eBay. Designed and manufactured 150+ custom orders over multiple platforms. I have designed, prototyped, and manufactured a range of functional products including home organisation and security solutions, IoT sensor enclosures, tablet docks, device mounts and automotive repair components Worked directly with customers to gather requirements, iterate on designs, and resolve fitment or tolerance issues, delivering improved revisions and communicating updates throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Skills & Achievements

  • An Android mobile application to manage and present material itineraries & improve workflow efficiency while quoting. This development was to experiment with AI Assisted coding tools.
  • Rapid prototyping & iteration of product ideas: Took concepts from initial idea through multiple design iterations to achieve functional, real-world solutions.
  • Customer collaboration & feedback integration: Actively gathered user feedback, resolved design issues, and delivered updated solutions while managing expectations.
  • Business development & marketing: Promoted products and services through clear, accessible explanations of technical functionality to non-technical audiences.
  • Advanced CAD design techniques: Improved robustness, usability, and printability of models by learnign new techniques.
  • Consistent CAM quality: Maintained consistent print quality through printer calibration, material selection, and process optimisation.

Apps

Chris 3D Print Organiser

Chris 3D Print Quoting System

Money Supermarket, Manchester

Senior Android Developer

May 2017 - December 2022

I started at Money Supermarket when they had a team of 15 people on mobile and then rapidly expanded to 150+.

Key Skills & Achievements

  • Being involved with recruitment strategy and training, starting with the mobile team, which then quickly became the whole tech team along with training people into our team.
  • Handing over their legacy app ‘More Money app’ from contractors to a permanent team and then refactoring it to be easier to maintain.
  • When moving to bigger offices, working with the tech team on creating Pi Dashboards to show the team progress on PRs etc.
  • Upon Kotlin getting more mainstream with Android Development, working with the team to create a training plan to get everyone with the same knowledge.
  • Handing over ‘Credit Monitor’ from contractors which we then quickly decided to migrate existing features into. Worked with the team on a migration strategy for the features which lasted a year.
  • Creating a whole new CI Pipeline using Bitrise and working with Bitrise on how to improve their existing flows.
  • Integrating Firebase including: Cloud Device testing, push notifications, analytics, A/B Testing frameworks…

Apps

Money Supermarket - Post 2019

Money Savings Expert

Money Supermarket - Pre 2019

Degree 53, Manchester

Senior Mobile Developer

June 2013 – May 2017

While working with Degree 53, I worked on a wide range of Android & iOS applications spanning from gambling applications, charities to pre school learning. Due to the different scales of projects, this has helped me learn how to work in various team sizes which involved sprints with the agile work pattern. I have submitted many new and updated apps to the app store for this company such as Betfred Lotto, Football Scores, Ready For School and Racing Results. I also integrated new technologies into a wide range of apps such as Touch ID, Apple Watch, Apple Pay, PingIt, Android Wear and Bluetooth Beacons. Due to my knowledge of both Android & iOS, I have been technical lead in larger projects and also been involved in the design stages suggesting what each platform should and should not do.

Apps

Betfred Lotto

Apps removed from App Store

  • Ready For School
  • Football Acca
  • Betfred Sportsbook
  • Betfred Virtual Sports
  • UK Racing Results
  • Other prototypes for businesses.

Great Fridays, Manchester

Mobile Developer

February 2012 – March 2013

While I was working for this company I worked on IOS applications for a range of clients. One of the applications I worked on was the Gucci Style fashion application. While working with this company, this me experience in the field and learn different styles of coding to suit the clients needs.

I also had to follow strict deadlines and had to continuously change designs that needed to be met; pixel perfect. This meant restructuring my code and changing animations and UX design to make the applications.

Gucci Style

Apps removed from App Store

  • Football Tactics

Advance UK, Leigh

Work Placement

April 2006

Work experience for one week, within education time. My main roles were to be a member of the computer technician team and to work on the shop floor, giving advice to customers and noting down the repair problems.

First of all, when on the front desk, I had to note down the problems the customer was having, estimate the solutions and identify on how long the repair may take. A couple of times, customers asked me for advice such as, which software do I think would be needed to do a certain task or what type/make of motherboard I would recommend. Once I familiarised myself with the task I was given the opportunity to work with the computer technicians.

I was assigned computers with multiple problems such as, the equipment wouldn’t turn on, had a virus, registry problems; so had to use problem-solving skills to identify and fix different types of problems. One day, the network malfunctioned, so I was assigned the task of getting it up and running again. The network was a LAN and had a server at source. I was familiar with this type of connection and had it up and running again by using series of commands. I am glad I was given the opportunity to do this work experience as it gave me an insight into how a small computer company worked and helped me improve my time keeping and problem-solving skills.

Westleigh High School

Work Placement

April 2006

Work experience for one week, within education time. I was employed by the school to design and create a new website for the science department and improve the overall design of the main website.

I had to use time management to complete the project within the designated time period I was given.

Within that time period I had to learn HTML, interview the staff for features they would like to request, gather all the documents that they wanted web based and create the website. I had to self start and get familiar with the server and the new web upload system, so I could test the website. Each day I had to self motivate and use problem-solving skills to get round some issues with the features they wanted to implement, as well as the structure of the website and how it was going to be laid out. Once the task was completed, I showed the teachers to demonstrate how I followed the specification, as well as features that it contained. They suggested improvements which I implemented in the final completed design. I then had to become familiar with the FTP to upload the design to the main server.

This work gave me experience to help with my self motivation, problem-solving skills and allowed me to learn a new way of completing a task.