Experienced and motivated contract front end web developer with over 12 years experience. Specialties: Problem solving, learning new technologies, bug fixing, eye for detail.

Front end developer @ From February 2015 to Present (9 months) Remote workOwner/Founder @ From January 2012 to Present (3 years 10 months) London, United KingdomFront end developer @ I worked as the sole frontend developer on this 60K+ page redesign/rebuild project alongside a small sized Adobe CQ (Java) development team. Working within an agile environment with daily standups we used JIRA to manage our ongoing tasks and fortnightly sprints. My role consisted of: implementing ideas and mockups from the UX and design team and incorporating them into the Adobe CQ application (as well as acting as a go between for the Java developers, business and design team on what was possible to implement in the given timeframe and potential pitfalls), giving feedback to the business on the current (old) website and offer ideas on how best to include them into the new look and feel, maintaining a style guide as well as working alongside the copywriting team to ensure the designs work with the vast amount of content we had to migrate. A strong focus of the project was to ensure the vast amount of content was both user and search engine friendly and optimised for mobile using responsive design. From October 2013 to February 2015 (1 year 5 months) London, United KingdomFront end developer @ I was brought in to work on an internal project for a fixed length of time. As part of a small team I was tasked with bringing a 10 year old website up to date, both visually and functionally. This involved creating mockups, liaising and presenting to the business, server side developers and other key stakeholders and finally implementing them to completion. This was quite a challenging role because it involved assessing the technical restrictions of the old server­side framework, what could actually be achieved and what couldn’t and creating realistic time estimates and milestones based on these. From May 2013 to September 2013 (5 months) Front end developer @ I was the sole front end developer on my small team working on both redeveloping the new pay wall barrier pages and the toolbar used across all of News Internationals online offerings, including thetimes.co.uk, thesundaytimes.co.uk, mytimesplus.co.uk plus more. Previously the toolbar was included and built up server side but the new version I built was solely JavaScript which an emphasise on performance, robustness, ease of inclusion and maintainability. From May 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 1 month) London, United KingdomFront end developer @ Working on a mobile app (Sencha/ExtJS) for the Daily Mail on the Blackberry playbook platform. From March 2012 to May 2012 (3 months) London, United KingdomFront-End Engineer @ Working within a small team (2 PHP, 2 Java, 2 front­end developers) to create a brand new travel comparison product (Hotels, Flights, Holidays, Car Hire). From April 2011 to March 2012 (1 year) Front end developer @ Working on a large scale website (http://www.pottermore.com/) as part of a team of 20 people, in an agile environment with daily standups. Most of the technical team are based in Newcastle so communication is important. My role is to transform the intricate designs into working pages and integrating into the ASP.NET website. Technologies involved include CSS, CSS3, HTML, JavaScript (jQuery and Raphaël). Using Visual Studio 10 and Team Foundation Studio (TFS) to integrate and manage my work including tasks and bugs. Accessibility and browser compatibility are an important factor of the build (IE7+). One of my roles is to make sure the website functions and appears correctly in 6 different languages (English, German, Japanese, Korean, French and Italian). From November 2010 to March 2011 (5 months) Front end developer @ Half of my time on this project involved developing a component, written in pure Object Oriented JavaScript without the use of a framework such as jQuery etc. All with a focus on new technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and Webkit across multiple devices including iPhone and iPad. The rest of my time my role was Front end lead developer with a server side team (Java) consisting of approx 10 people. This involved ensuring best practices were being used, making sure that code was clean and maintainable for future developers, implementing designs, overseeing all markup including CSS, JavaScript and HTML. The project was managed in an Agile environment with daily standups and storyboarding. Atlassian Jira was used to document and track bugs. Subversion was used for our Source Control solution. From August 2010 to November 2010 (4 months) Client-side Developer @ I was invited back to the BBC to work on various projects including the internal BBC Pensions website, a JavaScript based MP3 music player for Radio Wales and help with bug fixes using a variety of technologies ranging from xhtml, css, JavaScript, xml, xslt, json. All done in line with the BBC's stringent standards & guidelines for browser support and w3c valid markup. From February 2010 to August 2010 (7 months) Cardiff, United KingdomColdFusion Contractor @ My work here involved speaking to project managers and other key people at the University and based on their business requirements and reporting needs come up with a system to help with the tracking of small to large projects. Technology wise this meant creating a robust MSSQL database, writing the Coldfusion backend and also the frontend HTML, CSS and JavaScript. From November 2009 to January 2010 (3 months) Milton Keynes, United KingdomFront End Engineer @ I was brought in to help with the implementation of a series of phase 2 changes to an existing site (http://www.barratthomes.co.uk/), as well as various css and Javascript bug fixes. I worked closely with one of their ASP.NET developers to integrate my fixes and changes. From October 2009 to October 2009 (1 month) Client-side Developer @ Whilst at the BBC I worked on a variety of large network TV and radio supporting websites, using the BBC's custom CMS and templating system. The system is based on a combination of technologies including XML, SSI, Perl, XHTML, CSS and Javascript. Projects I have worked on here include The Sarah Jane Adventures, Doctor Who, Radio Wales, Torchwood, Coalhouse, Amazon with Bruce Parry, Stephen Fry's Last Chance to See and Mistresses. Due to the bespoke and large network infrastructure of the BBC, I have had to place special emphasis on ensuring all my code is accessible and conforms with the strict standards and guidelines set out by the BBC. From June 2008 to October 2009 (1 year 5 months) ASP.NET Contractor @ I was contracted to work on a couple of start to finish web builds including an e­commerce site built in ASP.NET and SQL 2005. I also helped with bug fixing and trouble shooting on other projects. From April 2008 to May 2008 (2 months) ColdFusion Contractor @ I worked on a number of websites and systems during my 2 months here, one of which was a large pedigree­pet finding website for an insurance company called Allianz. This involved building a daily import script for 35,000 breeders and tools needed by breeders to manage their litters online as well as a public facing search engine for finding these pet litters. Technologies used include ColdFusion MX, Apache, MySQL, CSS, Javascript (AJAX, Prototype tool­set), Google Maps/Geo­mapping. From February 2008 to March 2008 (2 months) ColdFusion Contractor @ Whilst at the Open University, my role consisted of making improvements and prototyping new features to an existing internal system. The technologies I used include ColdFusion MX, MySQL, CSS, Javascript (AJAX, YUI tool­set), Subversion. From January 2008 to January 2008 (1 month) ASP.NET Contractor @ At this role I was contracted to work on one project that was to last just the one month. The project was for a large Gas provider and will be used to manage all of the work that was previously solely managed using a paper­based system. Working with another contractor, the system was built using ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL 2005. We were responsible for taking the technical specification and turning that into a working system as well as giving daily progress updates. From November 2007 to December 2007 (2 months) Web Developer @ During my 6 years at Sequence I worked on a large number of projects and my day to day and long term roles consisted of: ● Communicating with clients via phone, email and in person. ● Keeping track of time spent on projects and reporting to project managers. ● Keeping up­to­date with new technologies and methodologies. ● Advising project managers and other developers on ways that we can use these new technologies commercially to come up with new, exciting features for client websites. Both meeting evolving client demand and providing users with a better, more advanced online experience. ● Providing support with and working on legacy websites. ● Reviewing project specification documents and wireframes before client sign­off. ● Ensuring all work is source managed and backed up using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. ● Reviewing specification documents and giving timescales and project breakdowns. ● Developing/coding websites through entire life cycle starting with a specification document and design mock­ups. ● Working on and enhancing in­house ASP.NET (C#) and ColdFusion developer framework. ● Using the Mozilla bug­tracking (bugzilla) system for on­call and queued work. From April 2001 to November 2007 (6 years 8 months) Trainee @ From 2001 to 2001 (less than a year)

I.T @ Graig College, Llanelli From 2000 to 2002 Llandeilo Comprehensive From 1993 to 1998 Kieran Bowler is skilled in: CSS, CSS3, HTML, XHTML, HTML5, JavaScript, ASP.NET (C#), ColdFusion, Classic ASP, MySQL/MSSQL, XML, Subversion, Adobe Photoshop, SSI (Server Side..., Photoshop, XHTML, HTML 5, E-commerce, ASP.NET, User Interface Design, jQuery, Accessibility, Web Applications, PHP, Scrum, Web Standards, Information Architecture, HTML, MVC, Web Design, User Experience, ASP, REST, Front-end, Git, JSON, Apache, Agile Methodologies, Web Development, MySQL, CMS, AJAX, User Interface