Ember cli best way to convert xml to json

I'm new to Ember so please bare with me.

I want to convert my xml to json so I've installed xml2json bower component but I'm not sure how to import & use in my app.

My steps were

bower install xml2json

in ember-cli-build.js I put this line before return app.toTree()

app.import('bower_components/xml2json/xml2json.js');

in app.js I have this code

import xml2json from 'xml2json';

...

ready: function () {
 Em.$.ajax({
  url: "/data/sequence.xml",
        dataType:"xml"
    }).done(function(xmlData){
        var jsonData = Em.$.xml2json(xmlData);
        console.dir(jsonData);
        console.log(JSON.stringify(jsonData));
    });
}

I'm getting this console error:

Could not find module `xml2json` imported from `sequence-app/app`

I'm hoping it's something simple I've missed, can anyone outline what the process should be?