James Young
Owner at CUTTING EDGE KNIVES LIMITED
Kirklees, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Young is a seasoned web design and front-end development entrepreneur with 14+ years delivering revenue-generating websites and e-commerce platforms for brands like Virgin Holidays, Jet2Holidays and Hillsong Church. As founder of Cutting Edge Knives and former Creative Director at Offroadcode, he combines client-facing product strategy with hands-on HTML/CSS prototyping and agile project leadership to take ideas from research through optimisation and growth. His work includes an award-winning redesign and scaling a retail concept to a million-pound turnover, showing commercial as well as design acumen. James also contributes to the industry as a subject-matter expert—publishing for Smashing Magazine and .net Magazine and speaking at conferences—bringing a blend of practical execution and thought leadership. An entrepreneurial problem-solver based in Kirklees, he excels at bridging stakeholder needs and multidisciplinary teams to ship measurable results.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Creative Technology, MSc Creative Technology at Leeds Metropolitan UniversityBachelor of Science - BS Business Economics, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Economics at Teesside University
Github Skills (26)
fonts9
logos9
css9
svg-font9
iconic9
branding9
font-awesome9
google-fonts9
woff9
svg8
wordpress8
pattern7
sass7
javascript4
front-end-development4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
welcomebrand/Barebones
Oct 2011 - May 2016
Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 4 years 8 months
wordpress-starterwordpresswordpress-themewordpress-starter-themefor-designers
Offroadcode/Offroadcode-Starter-Kit
May 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:31 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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