Tony Barnes's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

📖 Summary

I am a passionate front end developer with many ambitions. With many years of extensive experience, I love building unique and immersive interfaces. I have worked with many different companies and industries - from startups and small-medium businesses to large enterprises delivering scalable, localised applications to global audiences. I have a lot of experience with several market sectors such as ecommerce, book publishing, pet care, mortgage comparison, marketing and many more. I have led and grown front end teams - managing both business and development requirements whilst ensuring that 'smooth and scalable'​ solutions are delivered. I have also led the refactoring and localisation of projects reaching a global audience of millions. I really enjoy collaborating and contributing to open source projects. I've worked closely with many developers in various environments such as Ruby on Rails, typically utilising agile/scrum methodologies. Thriving on the latest technologies, I freelance and study in almost all of my spare time – I am constantly improving my skill set. Most recently I built a Mini Twitter app with the MEAN stack. My next venture is React.Front End Developer @ From November 2015 to Present (2 months) Freelance Front End Developer @ Freelance Front End Developer Most recently built a large greenfield, wealth management app. Also contributed to a new blogging/subscriber platform and various open source projects (see github). Previously built and contributed to many web apps such as a health-focused community, blacklisting platform, a charity app in partnership with the British Olympic Association and many more. http://tonybarnes.me Tech: Angular, JavaScript, MEAN stack, Node, HTML5, CSS3, Sass, Less, jQuery, Grunt, Gulp, many more... From June 2010 to Present (5 years 7 months) Front End Developer @ Building and leading a large greenfield, wealth management app with rich, complex data. During this project I have built a mock API and datastore for the Angular app, all built from scratch. We've built a large amount of in-depth, nested views, using Highcharts for data visualisation. Heavy use of custom directives/components. Tech: Angular, JavaScript, Highcharts, Node, Grunt, HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, Less From September 2015 to November 2015 (3 months) London, United KingdomFront End Developer, Designer @ Building and designing the front-end of Tailster - a platform that matches dog owners with dog sitters. - Building new features, integrating with APIs - Refactoring, cleaning codebase - Proposed and integrated a new, cleaner design - Contributed to cordova iOS app Tech: HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, Less, Angular, JavaScript, Gulp, Photoshop From November 2014 to August 2015 (10 months) London, United KingdomFront End Developer @ I owned the UI/front-end of the Reedsy platform (a marketplace for Indie Authors), as part of a 2-man, remote dev team. - Contributed to the first version of the product, building new features, integrating designs, branding - Built and maintained a custom, scalable UI framework to be used on any device, anywhere - Various 3rd party and social media integrations - Built multiple landing pages during launch Tech: HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, Sass, Angular, JavaScript, Coffeescript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails environment, Photoshop, Sketch From April 2014 to July 2015 (1 year 4 months) Front End Developer, Senior UI Consultant @ Transforming GOV.UK (DVLA) services: - Personalised Registrations - Sell a vehicle into the motor trade - Buy a vehicle from the motor trade I built a custom UI framework to be used across multiple open source Scala/Play apps, adhering to GOV.UK/GDS design guidelines. Also developed some (confidential) internal Valtech projects including the company blog. Tech: HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, Sass, JavaScript, Grunt, Scala/Play environment From May 2014 to November 2014 (7 months) Front End Developer @ Built some websites utilising the Squiz CMS. Tech: HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, Sass, JavaScript, jQuery, Grunt From February 2014 to March 2014 (2 months) Front End Lead Developer, UK Production @ During my time at Powa I oversaw and developed many high profile sites and projects. I grew and managed a team of 5 front end developers for both client and product releases; Utilising agile/scrum methodologies and releasing ecommerce sites for Harper Collins, Robbie Williams, Electrolux, Trinny and Susannah and many more. We also pursued new template concepts involving responsive HTML5 frameworks. Tech: HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, Less, jQuery, JavaScript, Photoshop, Fireworks From February 2012 to February 2014 (2 years 1 month) London, United KingdomFront End Developer @ From September 2011 to February 2012 (6 months) London, United KingdomWeb Developer & Designer @ Designing and developing the initial version of a group buying and e-commerce application similar to Groupon, whopaysfullprice.com. Using Magento, I built this alongside an external senior developer, reaching an audience of 7.5 million. I also produced many web applications, micro-sites, landing pages, logo/brand identities, animations and banners for their parent company Multinational Marketing - one of the most established affiliate partners in the UK. Tech: HTML 4/5, CSS 2/3, JavaScript, PHP, JQuery, Magento, Ecommerce, Photoshop CS5, Illustrator CS5, Flash CS5. From January 2011 to August 2011 (8 months) Front End Developer @ It was my responsibility to maintain the front end development and designs of their corporate website and award winning, white labelled mortgage comparison sourcing system product, Evaluate. - An established and complex .NET C# application enthused by high profile clients such as Confused, This is Money and Fish4. Using SVN with a team of 20+ developers (both senior and front end), it was also my duty to deliver front end designs, solutions and development for Comment Technologies corporate website and products such as their customer/company focused social networking platform, Comment Talk. I also individually took several micro-sites, landing pages and websites from a PSD design to pixel perfect and compatible web applications for Comment's more recent products like Sequoya - an online collaboration tool. All mark-up produced was hand coded to a very high standard - table-less, W3C compliant & cross browser/platform compatible. Tech: HTML 4, CSS 2/3, JavaScript, JQuery, XML, XSLT 2, .NET C# Framework, Photoshop CS4/5. From May 2009 to June 2010 (1 year 2 months) Practical Experience & Development with Evaluate Technologies From 2009 to 2009 GCSEs @ Shenfield High School From 1999 to 2004 Tony Barnes is skilled in: CSS, HTML 5, JavaScript, AngularJS, Node.js, Data Visualization, Sass, MEAN stack, jQuery, Mobile Devices, GruntJS, Highcharts, E-commerce, HTML, Web Applications