Ambitious, dynamic and reliable Web developer with over 6 years commercial web development experience, always willing to learn new technologies and skills to help adapt to any project.
Driven to delivering the highest standard of work, on time and on budget.
Advanced knowledge of XHTML and CSS in order to build semantically coded HTML to produce flexible sites that work in a variety of browsers.
Good working knowledge of Javascript, AJAX and Unobtrusive techniques, to allow pages to function without Javascript.
Strong advocate for the importance of W3C web standards based development, Accessibility and Progressive Enhancement techniques.
Good working knowledge of PHP and MySQL - Over two years commercial experience of building database driven sites on LAMP systems.
Awareness and some familiarity with the WAI Content Accessibility Guidelines.
Interest and awareness of Micro-formats, HTML5, CSS3, as well as evolving web standards and the semantic web.
Passion for good user interface and user experience design.
Interested in the use of MVC structure, new modern frameworks (Cake, CodeIgniter), Flash/Flex/RIA, .Net, 3D/Motion Graphics
Primary role as UE Developer is to help develop produce solutions for email, internet, intranet and extranet deployment.
Involved in broad range of projects using design/technical skills to translate designs into fully validating, standards compliant XHTML/CSS.
Using jQuery (or equivalent libraries) to provide progressive enhancements to pages, as well as to create custom plugins functions for bespoke solutions.
Helping keep documentation on best practice and coding standards up-to-date.
Main role within the company was as Web Developer, working both PHP/MySQL and front end XHTML/CSS
Converting Photoshop/Fireworks/Illustrator designs into valid, semantic and accessible XHTML/CSS web pages.
Maintaining legacy CMS builds, as well as updating old sites to bring inline with current web standards.
Helped with the on-going development of the custom in-house CMS.
Also helped to introduce the use of, as well as educating other developers, on the use of Progressive Enhancement techniques and unobtrusive DOM Script and AJAX
Ran code reviews on maintenance contracted websites to improve the quality of the code and also to bring sites up-to-date with current web standards
Helped to document best practice and coding standards.
Worked with the design team to improve their understanding of current web trends as well as website usability and accessibility.
Joined the company on their IT Graduate Scheme and was placed in the Web Solutions team
Development roles included:
Joined the company straight from university as the sole web developer.
Responsible for the introduction of Web standards, as well as using open source & custom CMS's
Educated the designers on use of XHTML/CSS and web standards for web projects
PSD - valid xHTML/HTML5 & CSS templates
PSD - Email build. Coded for best practice email build, and tested to ensure full support for legacy
All builds are fully standards compliant and meticulously tested, ensuring full cross browser compatibility.
Course Covered:
Convergence of computer animation with live action film. This involved extensive use and researching of blue screening, 3D software and digital video for recording/editing/post production.
Higher National Certificate Computing [Blackpool & Fylde College]
A-Levels - Computing, Geography & General Studies [Blackpool Sixth Form College]
GCSEs - Maths, English, I.S., Science, Design & Technology, Geography, German [Millfield High School]