Ben joins Enovate
Ben joins the team at Enovate as a junior front-end developer after retraining and transitioning away from a career in the mechanical engineering industry.
After ten years working in the mechanical engineering industry including mechanical fitting, mechanical design, five axis CNC programming and project coordination I decided it was time for a career change.
A friend introduced me to web development and this sparked my interest in the field because there are a lot of transferable skills between engineering and digital technologies. Having an engineering mindset as well as experience working with programming languages for CNC machining made the transition very rewarding and enjoyable.
I studied a full-stack development course on CodeCademy for an average of 3 hours per day and after a year of studying I reached out to Enovate to discuss the option of work experience which I took part in for six weeks before being offered a full time position.
I now have one year of industry experience and have been involved in a variety of projects which utilise different programming techniques and languages.
