Grant Bajere
Verified Expert in Engineering
Front-end Developer
Grant is a front-end web developer and digital designer based in Bristol, UK. He has had the pleasure of working with a variety of companies, big and small, on a number of different designs and projects. He prides himself on his web development and design expertise and always pushes himself to excellence in his work and in his professional interactions.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
ITerm, Adobe Suite, Git, Atom, Coda 2, MacOS
The most amazing...
...thing I've built is a website that provides a fully accessible experience to the visually impaired. I take pride in work that improves the quality of life.
Work Experience
Angular Developer
Admiral Group
- Built data visualization with different gauges, graphs, and tables.
- Developed dynamic templates running off of a configuration file for easy updating.
- Ensured that all features are fully unit, E2E, and visual regression tested.
Front-end Developer
Wazoku
- Created a multimedia uploader for the company flagship app. The uploader consisted of direct upload from the computer, URL linking, and third-party API integrations. Dropbox, Google Drive, Soundcloud, YouTube, and Box were among the systems used.
- Upgraded the app from AngularJS 1.3 to 1.5.
- Made speed optimizations and binding changes app-wide.
- Helped the product owner design features.
- Created a media gallery to view all the images, audio, and documents attached to each idea.
Front-end Developer
ISM Games
- Built two fantasy Olympics apps. These were fully responsive builds that I also helped oversee the design of.
- Helped on the build of the new Premier League fantasy football app. The Premier League had a full rebrand this season, and the new design of the website brought up some interesting issues for use to implement on a fully responsive build.
- Built the English Premier League fantasy app for Fox Sports Australia.
Front-end Developer
- Built for Google mainly on marketing sites.
- Contributed to an interesting project where I had to GPS track a bicycle around Switzerland and plot the route on a Google Map. I then proceeded to pull images that the cyclist took on his trip and drop them into the route.
Front-end Developer and Designer
Open To Export, LLC
- Redesigned and rebuilt the site in entirety. I helped on the responsive design, and then went on to build the templates, ready for data.
- Designed and implemented a new admin system for uploading and editing content. Built in AngularJS, the new system gave image editing, article promotion, and user control to the admin team.
- Provided tools to the front-end of the product's codebase in the form of Grunt.js. This included SASS, image maps, code concatenation, and many other tools, which brought the development progress in line with modern workflows.
Front-end Developer
Nomensa
- Contributed key elements to a team tasked with creating an Alpha intranet site for the Public Health of England, a branch of the UK Government. My role in the team was to build, and help steer the design of, the user-facing side of project.
- Built the front-end to UK government digital standards (GDS).
- Generated ideas with think tanks and helped guide the Alpha. Very interesting to be included in a loop that included doctors and surgeons through to admin and HR workers, each with different needs that we had to meet. The project provided some great challenges.
Experience
Torchbox
Admiral Car Insurance
Fantasy English Premier League
Actual Experience
DotLabel
Wazoku Idea Management
iRelo
Yell Mobile
Bouncepad
https://bouncepad.comOpen to Export
http://opentoexport.comHarrington Starr Recruitment
http://www.harringtonstarr.com/BMW
The first is a booking app that allows customers to book a newly created service called “Genius.” Once the user creates a booking, it then gets passed on to the admin app, also built in Angular 7. Here, the BMW or Mini retailer can view bookings, set working hours/appointment slots and generally administer the product.
The second app is Real Time Test Drive. This is a new service to give customers the ability to see local stock of cars and then proceed to book a test drive. I made a single Angular app that had the ability to output two differently branded builds so they could sit in the BMW and MINI websites. Alongside these projects, I also mentored other developers and took on more of a lead/head role within the business. It gave me the chance to improve workflow too by setting up the Angular builds using Azure devops pipelines.
Skills
Languages
HTML5, HTML, CSS, Sass, CSS3, Less, JavaScript, ECMAScript (ES6), PHP
Frameworks
Protractor, Ionic, AngularJS, Bootstrap, PhoneGap, Express.js, Django
Libraries/APIs
Google Maps SDK, Modernizr, jQuery, LocalStorage, Twitter API, Facebook API, Underscore.js, Google Analytics API, Google API, Backbone.js, Chai, WooCommerce API
Tools
BackstopJS, NPM, Bitbucket, Git, Grunt, Gulp, Jira, GitHub, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Coda 2, Atom, ITerm, Mocha, Vagrant, Google Analytics, Subversion (SVN), FreeMarker
Paradigms
Rapid Prototyping, Model View Presenter (MVP), REST, Agile Software Development, Responsive Web Design (RWD), Model View Controller (MVC), BEM, Scrum, Agile
Platforms
WordPress Theme Design, Parse, WordPress, MacOS, Adobe Suite, Django CMS
Industry Expertise
Web Design, Project Management
Other
Design, Ajax, Front-end, Geolocation, CSS3 Animation, Cordova
Storage
MongoDB, MySQL
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Hons) in Interactive Media
University of Wales - Newport, Wales
Higher National Diploma in Multimedia
City of Bristol College - Bristol, England
BTEC National Diploma in IT Practitioning
City of Bristol College - Bristol, England
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