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Enthusiastic and hard-working junior front-end developer and designer

Alan Bridger

Email: [email protected] | Phone: [phone]

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Developer. Designer. Part-time Baker.

I’m a coder and designer with a background in book publishing and marketing. After several years working for independent book publishers in London and dabbling in web design, I wanted to improve my coding and refocus my career, so I decided to enroll in the Makers Academy course – an intensive 12 week coding bootcamp. Now a Makers Academy graduate, I’m looking for a career in development. When not coding, designing, doodling or taking photographs, you’ll almost certainly find me baking bread.

Current Projects

###oodls

Makers Academy final project to create a web application that will connect individuals with surplus food to local charities and organisations in need.

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###Body Image Website Working with friends to create a website to help young people with body confidence, sexuality and relationships.

Code Examples

Project	Description
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock	A Rock, Paper, Scissors game using Javascript and jQuery, deployed on Heroku
Chitter	A Twitter clone that allows users to post messages to a public conversation stream, written in Ruby using Sinatra, and tested using Cucumber and Capybara
Inject	Rewriting Ruby’s built-in inject method and testing with RSpec
FAAST	A small model of the London tube system, written in Ruby and tested with RSpec

Skills & Experience

###Practices

• Test-driven Development
• Behaviour-driven Development
• Pair Programming
• Agile
• Git version control

###Languages

• JavaScript
• Ruby
• HTML5
• CSS3

###Testing Tools

• Jasmine
• Mocha
• Chai
• Caspar
• RSpec
• Cucumber
• Capybara

###Frameworks & Libraries Express Node.js Angular D3.js Sinatra Rails 4 Bootstrap Foundation

Web Services

• Heroku
• AWS

###Software Packages

• Adobe Photoshop
• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Illustrator

Employment

###Freelance Designer & Illustrator: July 2014–present Book cover design, illustrations and layouts for publishers.

###Oneworld Publications ####Marketing Manager: July 2011–July 2014 Oneworld Publications is a small, independent book publisher with a focus on literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. I was responsible for all marketing at Oneworld, with a particular focus on online marketing.

• Website Development: Design, development and maintenance of a new company website, using Drupal 7. From drawing up the initial wireframes to uploading content and writing features, I have developed a completely new website.
• Email marketing: Designing and developing HTML marketing emails, and integrating these into the website and social media marketing.
• Social media marketing: Developing a social media marketing strategy for the company; establishing a presence on prominent social networks; exploring new social marketing opportunities.
• Print marketing: Designing and laying out seasonal catalogues, exhibition materials, and sales packs.
• Ebook marketing: Liaising with key retailers to promote Oneworld ebook titles and find new opportunities.

###I.B.Tauris & Co. Publishers ####Digital Publishing Executive: September 2009–June 2011 I.B.Tauris is an independent academic publisher specialising in the Middle East, Politics and International Relations, History, Religion and Philosophy. As Digital Publishing Executive, for email marketing, social media marketing, and managing the I.B. Tauris website.

• Website: Development – researching competitor websites; developing new ideas; creating a specification; liaising with developers; contributing to the design; testing the website. Management – updating content; copywriting; commissioning articles from colleagues and authors; running promotions.
• Email marketing: Managing email marketing campaigns; improving and redesigning existing HTML email templates; devising and implementing new email marketing strategy.
• Social media marketing: Developing a new social media marketing strategy; establishing a presence on prominent social networks; experimenting with a variety of different social media marketing techniques.
• Tackling online piracy: Locating and removing pirated copies of I.B.Tauris books online.

Education

###Central St Martins ####Illustration Short Course: August 2014 A short intensive course to develop my illustration.

###Skillab June–July 2014 Informal introductory course to programming, focusing on Javascript.

###Oxford Brookes University ####MA Publishing (distinction): 2008–2009 Modules in Editorial Management, Marketing, Design & Production, New Product Development, Rights Management and Digital Media Publishing. For my Major Project I wrote a feasibility analysis and project plan for the creation of an online collaborative publisher.

###University of Durham ####BA (Hons) Philosophy (2:1): 2005–2008 Undergraduate philosophy degree.

###London Academy of Radio, Film & Television ####Digital Photography Master Class: 2006 Professional tuition in image composition, lighting techniques, digital retouching and image manipulation.