Kevin Litchfield
Operations Director
Greater Derby Area United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorKevin Litchfield is the Operations Director at Smith of Derby Ltd, overseeing manufacturing plant operations and leading the Creative Engineering special projects team. Trained as an Instrumentation Technician, he joined Smith of Derby in 1986 and progressed through roles from fitter to Operations Director, bringing deep hands-on expertise to strategic leadership. He has personally overseen hundreds of high-profile public and private installations worldwide, including projects at St Pancras International, the London Coliseum and the largest inclined clock in the world in Al Ain. Kevin blends practical engineering know-how with project and team leadership, ensuring complex heritage and modern installations are delivered reliably. Based in the Greater Derby Area, he balances professional rigor with competitive-level archery and a family life that includes a son and grandson. An attention to accessible user experience is also reflected in his front-end open-source contributions, where he fixed accessibility and volume-control issues in the popular Video.js player.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
html10
videojs10
javascript10
qunit10
video-player10
player10
testing10
accessibilityservice9
accessibility9
acessibility9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
videojs/video.js
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Video.js - open source HTML5 video player
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 12 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kevin focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the HTML5 video player. Their contributions primarily involved fixing bugs related to the volume and mute controls, ensuring the correct behavior and ARIA attributes for accessibility. The commits show modifications to the mute toggle, volume bar, and related tests. They also implemented improvements to ensure the video player's volume settings and controls function correctly across various scenarios.
dashhtml5-audiovideojshtml5-videojavascript
vhx/import-akamai-logs-into-redshift
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:10 PRs, 44 pushes, 8 branches in 1 month
akamairedshiftlogsaws
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