Kieran Bowler

Front end developer at News International

Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom
Industry: Internet

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Kieran Bowler's Overview

Current

Front end developer at News International

Past

Front end developer at Beyond
Front-End Engineer at Kelkoo
Front end developer at TH_NK

Front end developer at News Corporation
Client-side Developer at BBC
ColdFusion Contractor at Open University
Front End Engineer at LBi
Client-side Developer at BBC
ASP.NET Contractor at Sequence Collective Ltd
ColdFusion Contractor at Red Ant Solutions
ColdFusion Contractor at Open University
ASP.NET Contractor at Caboodle Interactive
Web Developer at Sequence Collective Ltd
Trainee at B-DAG - Awen Interactive

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Education

Graig College, Llanelli
Llandeilo Comprehensive

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4 people have recommended Kieran

Connections

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Contract Front end web developer from Cardiff but mostly work in London.

Specialties

Problem solving, learning new technologies, bug fixing, eye for detail.

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Front end developer

News International

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NWS; Newspapers industry

May 2012 – Present (1 month) London, United Kingdom

Front end developer

Beyond

Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

March 2012 – May 2012 (3 months) London, United Kingdom

Front-End Engineer

Kelkoo

Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry

April 2011 – March 2012 (1 year)

Front end developer

TH_NK

Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry

November 2010 – March 2011 (5 months)

Working within a .NET MVC framework as a front end developer. CSS (including CSS3 techniques), HTML, and JavaScript.

Front end developer

News Corporation

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; NWS; Entertainment industry

August 2010 – November 2010 (4 months)

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.

Client-side Developer

BBC

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry

February 2010 – August 2010 (7 months)

ColdFusion Contractor

Open University

Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry

November 2009 – January 2010 (3 months)

Working on an internal system built on ColdFusion and MSSQL.

Front End Engineer

LBi

Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

October 2009 – October 2009 (1 month)

Worked on the Barrat Homes website, CSS and JavaScript.

Client-side Developer

BBC

Public Company; 10,001+ employees; BBC; Broadcast Media industry

June 2008 – October 2009 (1 year 5 months)

Working on various sites including BBC Films, Ashes to Ashes, Mistresses, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Amazon with Bruce Parry, Last Chance to See with Stephen Fry, /programmes templates and styling, Doctor Who plus more, using CSS, Javascript, XHTML, XML, SSI and the BBC's internal CMS and templating system.

ASP.NET Contractor

Sequence Collective Ltd

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Design industry

April 2008 – May 2008 (2 months)

2 month contract working on various ASP.NET websites.

ColdFusion Contractor

Red Ant Solutions

Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry

February 2008 – March 2008 (2 months)

I was hired on a 2 month contract to work on one start to finish website (Allianz's Find a Pet Petplan website) and also a few others. All of this was done in a Coldfusion MX and MySQL environment.