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employment
history

Graphos

February 2011 - Present

  • Communicate with clients to assess their needs and suggest solutions to their business problems.
  • Research new development practices and match them to appropriate client needs.
  • Develop and maintain websites powered by an in-house content management system.
  • Develop modules for unique client needs.
  • Wireframing and pre-planning user flow.
  • Ensure site usability, SEO, semantic HTML, and browser compatibility.

Grant MacEwan University

November 2011 - Februaru 2012

  • Instruct an intro to web design course for the continuing education department.
  • Built lesson plans/code examples/ and tutorials for students.

Tanner Young Publishing

May 2010 - February 2011

  • Focused on developing static HTML and CSS layouts for internal and client projects.
  • Maintained over 15 client and company web sites.
  • Design and develop websites from client brief until launch day.
  • Worked to modernize companies’ development practices.
  • Developed content managed websites with pre-existing systems(Joomla, Wordpress).

summary of
Qualifications

Skills

  • Strong skills with markup languages. Acutely aware of cross-browser issues and solutions.
  • Experience building websites for mobile with a strong testing process across multiple devices.
  • Strong skills with javascript and the jQuery framework to enhance user experience, and streamline database interactions.
  • Extensive experience with PHP as a server side language. Used to build custom CMS components as well as small database driven applications.
  • Basic database design using both MySQL and SQL.
  • Proficient with graphic programs including Photoshop, Illustrator, and Indesign.

Experience

  • 2 years experience in the web industry in both design and development roles.
  • Able to appropriately prioritize and delegate tasks among a small agile team.
  • Able to communicate technical concepts to non-technical team members and clients.
  • Flexible in the development cycle. Able to fill front-end and back-end roles.
  • Eager to expand skill set and apply cutting edge development practices.

Education

  • Graduated From Grant MacEwan Graphic design and Visual Communication with a digital media major in 2010

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