Martin Owens
Personal Travel Concierge at Scenic - Luxury Cruises & Tours
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Owens is a seasoned travel concierge with 17 years’ experience delivering high-touch leisure and cruise travel services, currently leading reservations and bespoke trip planning at The Travel Village Group and Scenic. He combines deep operational know-how with negotiation and customer-service skills honed across roles from cruise advisor to reservations team leader, plus community leadership as chair and RFL Level 2 coach for Manchester Canalsiders. Martin pairs frontline travel expertise with technical curiosity—he contributes to open-source projects like django-cms (improving migrations, translation tooling, and tests) and maintains creative work in Inkscape supported via Patreon. Based in Stevenage, he’s known for turning complex itineraries and stakeholder needs into smooth, reliable experiences while quietly maintaining a developer’s attention to robustness and detail.
17 years of coding experience
GCSE, GCSE at St Richards High Skelmersdale
Github Skills (7)
testing10
cms10
python10
django10
migration9
web-content8
webpages8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/django-cms
May 2015 - Jun 2016
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin contributed to the django-cms project by fixing migrations, enhancing the language toolbar, and improving test coverage. The user's work involved modifying Python code related to content management, translation handling, and testing procedures. These changes improved the functionality and reliability of the CMS.
cmspythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-cms
Ashmont-Valley/ashmont-valley-website
Mar 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:87 commits, 69 pushes, 2 comments in 9 months
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