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D.O.B.: 16th February 1982
CAREER OBJECTIVES & SKILLS
Highly experienced, quality conscious web and graphic designer, with nine years of active work in portfolio. Desire to integrate with a larger team to work on exciting, innovative and professional projects. Experience covers all facets of web multimedia design from initial layout work in Photoshop, Illustrator and Imageready through web coding in Dreamweaver, using CSS, Flash (including ActionScript 1.0 and 2.0), JavaScript, PHP 4 and 5 and MySQL 5.
Familiar with many standard and non-standard applications and takes an active interest and a driven approach to meet and even exceed the requirements of the project. Has regularly expanded into sound design, animation, video effects and editing, 3D modelling and rendering, musical composition, typography, digital colour grading, photography and other such specialist fields when needed, and is able to draw any or all of these skills together into one seamless product.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Raster and vector graphic design for screen and print
- Web coding and administration
- Adobe Photoshop from version 3 to CS3
- Ten years of PC maintenance and repair
- Compression and optimisation
- Photorealistic 3D rendering
- Multi-faceted and non-linear problem solving
- Strong English and proof reading skills
- Pioneering R&D with HDRI, 48-bit colour matching and grading and digital photorealism
EDUCATION
Cleveland College of Art & Design (1999 - 2000)
- ND Communications: Unfinished due to employment opportunity
Langbaurgh Secondary School (1993 - 1998)
- Maths (single award): D
- English Literature: C
- English Language: B
- Art: A*
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE & SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS
Freelance Web Designer (2005 - present) - Blueprinted.co.uk
Multi-talent design work, including:
- Web design
- Extensive web coding in PHP, JavaScript and using DOM
- Database design in MySQL
- Photography
- Cutting-edge 3D work in photorealism and high dynamic range imaging (HDRI)
- Print work
General Staff (2000 - 2006) - Badlanrising.com
Volunteer work for the North-East’s largest LAN party, including:
- Partial website design
- Banners
- Stationery
- Active presence at the events troubleshooting network and PC issues
Lead Graphic Designer (1999 - 2001) - Kronologie.com
- Initial planning, layout design and additional graphic work of several commercial and non-commercial websites, including in-house ventures
- Worked closely with web coder to produce award winning functional and original designs
- Conducted and participated in meetings with clients
HOBBIES & INTERESTS
- Cycling
- Swimming
- Computer games (organiser of online tournament teams and tactics)
- Experimentation with new media techniques and technologies
- Cars and driving
- Amateur music composition
- Paintball (part-time weekend work as a marshal at www.scpv.co.uk)
REFERENCES
Available on request.
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