Simon Owen
IT Director at McrFRED
High Peak, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Owen is an experienced IT Director and award-winning front-end developer with over 13 years delivering web and e-commerce solutions across agencies and enterprise teams. He has blended hands-on engineering with leadership since roles at The Hut Group and JD Williams through to current IT Director positions at eComplete Group and Naturecan, alongside ongoing freelance consultancy. Simon founded and runs community initiatives like McrFRED and co-founded UpFrontConf, demonstrating a commitment to growing the UK front-end community. His background includes lecturing at university, frequent short-term front-end consultancies for clients such as the BBC and N Brown Group, and an eye for practical design rooted in a BA (Hons) in Graphic Design. An approachable technologist, he once even appeared on national TV in a GitHub hoodie, reflecting a knack for bringing personality to technical leadership.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BTEC National Diploma, Graphic Design, BTEC National Diploma, Graphic Design at Stockport CollegeBA HONS, Graphic Design, BA HONS, Graphic Design at Salford University
Github Skills (177)
bash10
hexo10
ruby10
svg10
linting10
optimization10
javascript10
emmet10
wordpress10
devtools10
minification10
defaults10
cli10
rails10
eslint10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
s10wen/Front-End-Developer-Quiz
Nov 2013 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 11 months
front-end-developerbrowserscssjavascriptcss3
s10wen/s10wen.github.io
Jun 2015 - Jul 2025
Contributions:2 PRs, 307 pushes, 1 branch in 10 years 2 months
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