Able to work independently or as a team member. Good communicator with clients, across departments, working with developers and designers. Motivated to learn new applications, web technologies and platforms. Previous experience includes coding for open source CMS platforms such as Magento, WordPress, Symfony and Joomla! and able to adapt to many CMS systems built in-house. Experience in building and setting up my own Windows Server 2012 or Debian/Ubuntu server for website building.
This graphic displays the range of experience gained over my career on web development.
Turnkey Mortgages, Bridging and Life
Turnkey Landlords and Umbraco 6. Losing the illustrative approach for a more contemporary look using the Bootstrap CSS framework
Original TurnKey Mortgages website. Umbraco 3 classic ASP website. My Adobe Illustrator graphics used as backgrounds for forms and banners, complementing the TurnKey logo design
Smartloan on Facebook. A 'Create your Smartloan' microsite was built and using the Facebook Developer section, it could be hosted within the Facebook website.
Smartloan Redesign. A selection of views displaying some of the pages from the main Smartloan website, including homepage, About us page, search results, document upload, contact us form, the Smartloan Blog and FAQs
Create your Smartloan. A selection of views displaying some of the pages in the Smartloan application form, including the Loan Calculator and upload documents page.
MI Commerce - Greenpeople. After the initial build was styled and put into development, I worked closely with the team at Green People customising the CMS, building templates that enabled them to update content easily.
MI Commerce - Fur, Feather and Fin moved their existing site across to the MI Commerce platform, there was a degree of redesign throughout their website to accommodate new functionality, the product departments, product listings and product detail pages
Pod1 - Yahoo! The sites have been designed by Pod1 and developed using Pod1's Epifony CMS (based on the Symfony framework)
Pod1 - Red Carnation Hotels. Responsible for the Front End Development and successful launch of 10 hotel websites and a group site.
Pod1 - Matthew Williamson. Involved in email marketing campaigns and online advertising campaigns to promote the launch of new seasonal collections.
Pod1 HTML Newsletters. Coding up table based html for email Newsletters with inline styles, to standards that took account of the variety of email clients these would be sent to.
Pod1 and Magento. I was tasked with building the micro-site that looks at the technology and features of the Magento platform
Pod1 - Client website maintenance. Responsible for maintaining and improving on the existing e-commerce websites built and maintained by Pod1
Pod1 - Barcelo Hotels. Lead Frontend Developer on this project, taking designs and creating fully working templates, liaising with Designers, Backend developers and the Client.
Pod1 - Fred Olsen Cruises. A detailed booking system was integrated, with facilities to update, browse itineraries and book excursions.
Pod1 - Anna Scholz. Responsible, as Lead Front End Developer, for creating the XHTML, CSS and JQuery to present the designer's quality collection of garments
Pod1 - Aspinal of London. Soon after joining Pod1 I took over the responsibility to finish the build for launch.
Pod1 - Romo
Before my employment at Norfolk Capital I was located in London after graduating from my masters course in Fine-Art Printmaking. After teaching myself Photoshop, to mix computer Photoshop work with my fine-art prints, I taught myself the desktop publishing application QuarkXPress and gained employment at The Guardian Newspaper. This led onto becoming interested in web design.
The Guardian set up WorkThing.com, to move their advertisement to an online platform, I was included with this project from the outset until the project was sold by The Guardian newspaper group. I accepted redundancy and went freelance to gain experience in many aspects of web design and frontend web development.