Jason Grant

Current

• UX Designer / Information Architect at DWP
• Information Architect at Cantos Communications
• CEO at Flexewebs Ltd.

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Education

• Royal Holloway, U. of London
• Goldsmiths College, U. of London
• Alleyn's School

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Connections

152 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• Flexewebs Ltd.

Jason Grant’s Summary

Great communicator across the whole business, able to bring various parties together in order to achieve a common goal.

User Experience development professional who understands the true power of semantics and well structured software.

Working towards creating highest quality W3C standards compliant user interfaces with high usability and accessibility.

Jason Grant’s Specialties:

I am an expert analyst on all things related to work and development of Google corporation.

Jason Grant’s Experience

• UX Designer / Information Architect

  DWP

  (Government Agency; Government Administration industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Integrating major Government on-line services into DirectGov framework
  
  Providing User Experience services to achieve best quality on-line services for identified target personas
  
  Producing annotated wire frames and clickable prototypes for the entire project and handing over to EDS for development
  
  Collaborating regularly with all parties involved to ensure smooth delivery of the programme

• Information Architect

  Cantos Communications

  (Internet industry)

  April 2009 — Present (4 months)

  Developing frameworks for easy video publishing for FTSE100 clients.
  
  Providing PHP development services
  
  Training colleagues in using best practices for UI development in order to improve their code, speed up development process, be able to deliver more in less time

• CEO

  Flexewebs Ltd.

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

  Flexewebs focuses on adding value to business through use of Internet in any way possible that makes sense.
  
  I have been involved in projects which cover: online administration systems, CMSs, SEO, e-commerce and dynamic web sites of all types.
  
  I have also been involved in developing full Web 2.0 applications (Software As Service) from inception to completion.
  
  Adopted process involves: UML modeling to capture requirements and elicit software structure, possible bottles necks and high complexities; Object Oriented modelling at every step; pattern based approach using high performance MVC frameworks (Code Igniter for PHP);
  
  User Experience lead development with heavy focus on usability and accessibility within Web2.0 environment; highly interactive and social applications which work seemlessly across all platforms; SCRUM based iterative approach; Reusable semantic components.

Additional Information

Jason Grant’s Websites:

• Flexewebs Ltd.

Jason Grant’s Interests:

W3C, semantics, usability, accessibility, Google, Web2.0, music production, photography, web design, Internet, video production, song writing

Jason Grant’s Honors:

BSc [Hons] in Computer Science
MSc [Hons] in Business Information Systems

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