A web application developer with many years experience in the web arena. Specialising in Front End, PHP and MVC, and with experience of TDD/BDD, I strive to make clean, maintainable web-based systems.
Please checkout my personal site at www.kevinmarchant.com for more details of my skillset.
My current objectives are to continue with the success of www.naturallyhappydogs.com and to continue my professional development working for great companies such as Salmon, CompareTheMarket, The Sun and others.
Senior/Lead Front End Developer @ Working within multiple medium to large size development teams, I have delivered a number of eCommerce websites for retailers such as Selfridges, Halfords and Game.
Apart from leading Front End teams of up to 5 developers, I also participate in a Working Group of Lead Developers making improvements to processes and standards and setting a high bar for UI excellence. From March 2014 to Present (1 year 8 months) Watford, United KingdomDirector, Senior Developer @ Mitsol is my limited company providing web services to a number of small clients across various industries. Please see my website at www.mitsol.co.uk for more details.
I also provide consultancy services to a number of clients and agencies, detailed on my profile here separately. From August 2005 to Present (10 years 3 months) Stevenage, United KingdomSenior Front-end Developer @ Working within a small development team, delivering Front End skills to a white-label International Money Transfer application.
The application was built on Knockout with jQuery, and on the Bootstrap platform.
This application is then delivered through a number of high-profile clients, including the Post Office. From October 2013 to March 2014 (6 months) knightsbridgeSenior Front-end Developer @ Provided Front End consultancy services to a medium-sized development team practising Agile. My work contributed to the new website for www.thesun.co.uk as it transformed into a pay-site, generating income alongside the physical edition.
Core javascript was key here, as apart from jQuery no major libraries were used, just well-formed OO Javascript. From July 2013 to October 2013 (4 months) london, united kingdomSenior Front End Developer @ Provided consultancy services to CompareTheMarket within a great development environment using Agile methodologies to deliver a brilliant customer experience. They use the latest cutting edge technologies, such as CQRS, NoSQL databases, and this is backed up by TDD/BDD using C# .NET, as well as striving towards Continuous Delivery. From July 2012 to July 2013 (1 year 1 month) Lead Developer @ Lead developer on a greenfield project to develop a Dealer Management System for the company's clients. Using PHP and a custom-built MVC framework, I developed and delivered the basic system as specified. From May 2011 to December 2011 (8 months) Consultant Front End Developer @ Consulted for the large Front End team using XSLT to develop website interfaces using data from XML feeds. Clients included Chelsea FC, Aston Villa FC, Tottenham Hotspur, and the Wimbledon site for the tennis tournament. From June 2010 to December 2010 (7 months) Group IT Manager @ Was responsible for all IT systems and software for this car dealership group, across 3 main sites plus other satellite locations. Worked with Citrix to allow centralisation of group files and software, and became first line support for their Pinnacle DMS system. From 2004 to 2005 (1 year)
Fearnhill From 1990 to 1995 Kevin Marchant is skilled in: HTML, JavaScript, XML, CSS, PHP, HTML5, Advanced CSS, jQuery, XSLT, MVC, AJAX, JSON, MySQL, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XHTML, Web Standards, SEO, HTML 5, Git, Apache, Front-end, Subversion, LAMP, CSS3, Test Driven Development, ASP.NET MVC, Agile Methodologies, .NET, C#, Web Services, User Interface Design, Unobtrusive Javascript, User Experience, Continuous Delivery, Cron, Cross-browser..., SQL, REST, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, Web Applications, SASS