Head Of Front-End Web Development
CurrentResponsible for news.com.au, The Australian, All lifestyle sites such as escape.com.au and body and soul, Metro and Regional Mastheads, Codesports, skynews.com.au
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Jack Chen is listed as Head of Front-End Web Development at News Corp Australia, a with 1841 employees, based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Jack Chen.
Jack Chen previously worked as Head of Front-End Development - Metros, Regionals and Sport at News Corp Australia and Tech Lead Metros at News Corp Australia. Jack Chen holds Bachelor, Computer Engineering from University Of New South Wales.
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I see myself foremost as a front-end engineer with a keen interest and appreciation for Design and UX.Over the course of my career I have worked for organizations of all shape and sizes ranging from Telecommunications companies, e-commerce, entertainment startups, Government corporations, digital agencies and large media companies.I have led teams of diverse developers in all walks of life. Obtaining significant experience in setting up and managing both onshore and offshore development teams, at times from scratch.Running my own website consulting business working with various clients has given me exposure to industries which I have never came across in my company roles, such as membership systems, hospitality and medical industries each with their own unique quirks when it comes to product development.My eventual goal is to evolve my business to become a platform which can provide affordable and easy to manage online presence for all small businesses.
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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Responsible for news.com.au, The Australian, All lifestyle sites such as escape.com.au and body and soul, Metro and Regional Mastheads, Codesports, skynews.com.au
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Responsible for Metro and Regional Mastheads and Codesports
Ultimo
Constructed Freemarker front-end templates for core media CMS that will be used across a majority number of ABC Departments.Refactored front-end components build on top of Bootstrap, Jquery Widgets and Sass so that components can be easily extended and modified.Working closely with UX to setup pattern library and baseline skinning framework across both responsive and mobile specific templates.
Australia
Netoss is a creative and development agency, where we work closely with our clients to develop web-based products for a range of plateforms including desktops, smart phones, and tablets utilizing cutting edge technologies build upon simple but elegant principals.
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Worked on cutting edge realtime cross platform voting application capable of processing thousands of votes per second build on SASS, Backbone.js, require.js, node.js and grunt.Optimised Javascript, Sass to expose certain extendible presentation layer that can be easily customised by designers which frees up developers' time for the development of new product features.Integration with various 3rd party APIs such as twitter, Facebook, jwplayer, Gigya to enrich the experience of… Show more Worked on cutting edge realtime cross platform voting application capable of processing thousands of votes per second build on SASS, Backbone.js, require.js, node.js and grunt.Optimised Javascript, Sass to expose certain extendible presentation layer that can be easily customised by designers which frees up developers' time for the development of new product features.Integration with various 3rd party APIs such as twitter, Facebook, jwplayer, Gigya to enrich the experience of the voting app as well as monetizing the platform. Show less
Australia
Creation of new mobile templates and ensuring the new front-end framework is flexible and compatible with existing CMS modules and doesn’t add overhead to existing new page creation process.VHA Blog and VHA Home website performance analysis. Setting front-end recommendations in terms of http requests, page size and image optimization.Vendor management, working with vendors to ensure the quality of the work during hand over follows VHA quality standards as well as assisting… Show more Creation of new mobile templates and ensuring the new front-end framework is flexible and compatible with existing CMS modules and doesn’t add overhead to existing new page creation process.VHA Blog and VHA Home website performance analysis. Setting front-end recommendations in terms of http requests, page size and image optimization.Vendor management, working with vendors to ensure the quality of the work during hand over follows VHA quality standards as well as assisting vendor in making sure they solution is compatible with existing VHA platforms.Conduct weekly code review sessions with the dev team to ensure cross skill training, code quality consistency across the team as well giving the team a chance to show off their work and be generally excited in what we do.Involved with the creation of front-end development guidelines, UX and design handover guidelines, VHA vendor coding standards documentations to ensure same consistency in work produced internally and externally. Show less
North Sydney
----------------------------------What I did and also currently doingResponsible for the front-end architect on the Vodafone unified CMS project. Ensure that the pages produced from Fatwire CMS are flexible, maintainable, SEO friendly, accessible with a strong emphasis on page performance and page weight.Create responsive design page templates so that a page template coded on a single code source can be rendered correctly both on a smart phone and… Show more ----------------------------------What I did and also currently doingResponsible for the front-end architect on the Vodafone unified CMS project. Ensure that the pages produced from Fatwire CMS are flexible, maintainable, SEO friendly, accessible with a strong emphasis on page performance and page weight.Create responsive design page templates so that a page template coded on a single code source can be rendered correctly both on a smart phone and desktop.Developed page templates for vodafone.com.au which drives various Vodafone campaigns with varying needs. These projects presented me with opportunities to work on different external APIs such as Twitter and Sportal feeds.Setting up and maintaining development servers on virtual machines, installing and configuring SVN and Wiki for my development team so that we all have a standard of sharing our work, sharing code and sharing documents.Maintain and development for the Vodafone intranet site as well as integration with internal tools. Developed various forms and modules to cater for the various needs of the internal communications team and online teams. Show less
St Leonards
----------------------------------what I didFront-end web developer for the planet 3 web portal, creating html/css and ensuring they can be rendered on 50 different handsets.New handset testing and configuration including development of a handset test suite so that handset testing is streamlined, along with some modification to the handset configuration process means what was originally a day for a new handset setup was cut down to 3 hours.Some Java backend… Show more ----------------------------------what I didFront-end web developer for the planet 3 web portal, creating html/css and ensuring they can be rendered on 50 different handsets.New handset testing and configuration including development of a handset test suite so that handset testing is streamlined, along with some modification to the handset configuration process means what was originally a day for a new handset setup was cut down to 3 hours.Some Java backend development using the spring and hibernate frameworks for web portal as well as ingestion module for Fatwire CMS. Show less
Camperdown
----------------------------------what I didDesigned and created new webpage templates to provide more choice for customers in terms of our products.Fast ad-hoc onsite maintenance and updates for 2 live E-Commerce systems which require changes on a daily basis.SEO research into improving the company position within the market.
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Colleague at News Corp AustraliaGreater Melbourne Area, Australia
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Rebecca Caratti
Colleague at News Corp AustraliaWoollahra, New South Wales, Australia
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Jack Chen works for News Corp Australia.
Jack Chen is listed as Head of Front-End Web Development at News Corp Australia.
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Jack Chen has worked for News Corp Australia, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (Abc), Netoss, Ipowow, and Vodafone Hutchison Australia.
Jack Chen's colleagues at News Corp Australia include Adrienne Whareorere, Shiva Mohan, Rebecca Caratti, Renee Castleman, and Felicity Bath.
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Jack Chen holds Bachelor, Computer Engineering from University Of New South Wales.
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