Profile
- Designed and built 150+ e-commerce, content-managed and static websites
- Clients from major businesses and public sector to one-person arts enterprises
- Good communicator, organiser, people manager and motivator
- Extensive experience of client management, sales, marketing and administration
Specialist Knowledge
- How people use the web – and website usability
- The target market – and what it expects of a website
- Web standards
- Search engine optimisation
- Accessibility in all its meanings
- Writing for the web
- Web imagery
Key Attributes
- Inter-personal skills
- Team management skills
- Commitment to achieving targets and high standards
- Service-centred approach with a flexible attitude to changing demands
- Ability to prioritise workloads and meet deadlines
- Resourcefulness and determination to deliver high levels of service quality
Career Development
- Senior web position with an organisation which understands the potential of the Internet and how it can work for and benefit itself and its target market
Career history
2001 – date - Northern Centre for Digital Imaging
2006 – date
Web Design Division:
- Lead Web Designer / Developer
- Project Management
- Marketing / Sales
- Tender Response Documentation
- Oversee Administration and Contact Management System
Training Division – Digital Design and Web Development:
- Marketing
- Northern Centre for Digital Imaging website development and maintenance
- Deliver Training in: Advanced Web Design, Imaging for the Web, E-Commerce, Using Content Management Systems, Effective E-mail Campaigns
- Oversee Administration and Contact Management System
Evolve Business Training Division - Marketing Manager
- Marketing
- Evolve Website Development and Maintenance
- Course Co-ordination
- Liaison with 6 Team Leaders
2001 – 2006 – Lead Web Designer / Project Manager / Business Internet Advisor
- Content management and maintenance of the Dewsbury College website
- Project Management, Marketing, Print Design, Exhibitions and Promotions
- Built 62 websites for businesses in West Yorkshire
- Delivered digital technology training to 212 West Yorkshire businesses
- Delivered Macromedia Certified Professional training to 13 delegates
2000 – 2001 – Red Letter Design - Lead Web Designer / Developer / Client Manager
- New Business
- Lead Web Designer / Developer
- Project Management
- Marketing
1981 – 2000 – BOS Recruitment - New Media, Marketing and Temp Recruitment
1979 – 1981 –Dandelion Music - Systems Analyst / Programmer
Languages and Software (Mac and PC)
(X)HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, JavaScript, Perl
Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Quark Xpress
Qualifications
- BA (Hons) Graphic Communication
- Macromedia Certified Professional
- Systems Analysis Distinction