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Present Employment:

Trainee PHP Developer, MindUnit .Creative, December 2009 - Present

Duties:

Building websites and email templates for the arts using Object Oriented PHP, jQuery and the latest technologies which we experiment and explore on a regular basis.
bug fixing
Assessing website's accessibility and improving our work to make it conform with the WCAG Software/Technology Experience

Employment History

Front End Web Developer, TUI Travel, August 2009 - November 2009

Duties: Liaising with designers, UI designers, data analysts and content managers in regards to

producing XHTML & CSS pages which are then passed to IT for backend development
bug fixing
implementing and testing of analytics scripts and advertisement assets and script

Front End Web Developer (intern) in the Marketing Communications dept, Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf, London, September 2008 - Jully 2009

Duties:

Re-branding of some legacy Thomson or legacy Reuters websites, making sure they are on brand and to the accessibility guidelines. This includes tests in all the main browsers (using Litmus)
Production of internal and external emails, making sure they are on brand, cross-browser compatible and accessible.
Updating the team WIKI where all shared information on projects are stored

Work experience for Fountainhead Creative Consultants, West Ruislip, London, November 2006 – March 2007

Fountainhead is a small graphic design consultancy which deals mainly in printed media, corporate literature and annual reports.
I have been able to assist with some HTML coding and problem solving on a recently developed website, English Rose, check my portfolio, and provided working templates for future use.
During my time there I have been able to learn and understand the basic steps in a project and experience them in a real working environment. I now have a better knowledge of how a project goes from the concept stage to finished article as well as being given guidance in graphic design standards, printing formats, colours and layout.

Education History

W3C Certification in Mobile Web Standards, October 2009

The Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices course will help Web designers and content producers who are already familiar with the desktop world to become familiar with the Web as delivered on mobile devices. It is based entirely on W3C standards, particularly the Mobile Web Best Practices document.

PHP, MySQL & Apache, Richmond Adult Community College, London, 17th and 24th September 2009

This course provides a hands-on introduction to some of the key web development tools available today - PHP, MySQL and Apache. Armed with these tools, the website developer is ready to produce effective data-driven sites.

Javascript Course, Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service, London Sep '09 - Nov '09

This course provides the opportunity to explore the stages, from initial design brief through all the processes involved in reaching a creative visual solution. There is emphasis on researching, generating and visualizing ideas, methods of realizing those ideas, and the technical knowledge to transform them into real projects.

Graphic Design Basics,City Lit, London Jan '09 - March '09

This course provides the opportunity to explore the stages, from initial design brief through all the processes involved in reaching a creative visual solution. There is emphasis on researching, generating and visualizing ideas, methods of realizing those ideas, and the technical knowledge to transform them into real projects.

The corse is very hands on and I have a piece of work to produce every week which will make uo my portfolio.
I really hope it will improve my web design skills.
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City & Islington College, London, September 2003 - July 2004

Access Course to Higher Education in Digital Media (A level) with 26 credits level 3 and 2 credits level 2.

Study Skills
Numeracy and I
Multimedia Authoring (Flash Mx)
Web Authoring (programming languages as HTML and JavaScript, using also Dreamweaver MX)
Visual and Audio Assets (Photoshop, Sound Forge)
Narrative and Communication Skills (Storyboards, site maps, video pre production)
Digital Video (Video production filming and editing with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects)
Data Connection for the Web (PHP, MySql)

I.T.C.S. Giulio Cesare Bari, Italy 1998-2003

Diploma in languages, 75/100

English – fluent
French – good
German – basic

My internship at Thomson Reuters

When I started I suddenly realised there were so many things I did not know, especially about servers, methodology, latest technologies.Working on small to medium projects for me has meant having something big to work on.

I’ve learned how to follow the brand guidelines, how to be consistent when coding, how to make my work easy for anybody else to pick up and keep on working on.

I think there could have not been a better time for me to join Thomson Reuters: the merge happened in March 2008 and when I arrived in September 2008 things were still not totally settled. It was a vibrant period, when I was one amongst other people still discovering the way to go for this company.

This was made even more vibrant thanks to the continuous arrival of new technologies which the members of my team were in turn pushing forward, experimenting and including in some of the projects (i.e. including twitter feeds in some of our projects).

One of my first jobs was to validate the web template provided by the agency that put together our brand guidelines. I found and corrected some errors and then improved the template so that it was compatible with all major browsers.

One of my first jobs was to validate the web template provided by the agency that put together our brand guidelines. I found and corrected some errors and then improved the template so that it was compatible with all major browsers. Many hours of my work were then spent on testing email templates. Even if we reach mainly corporate email addresses, my team stressed many times how important was to “please” email clients such as the problematic Google and the older email clients version lie Lotus Notes 6.5. After a few researches I have managed to compromise with Google and almost with the latter. I have also come up with other templates and all of those were put by me on the team WIKI with tips on email compatibility for the future developers.

When I have not been working on projects, I have been studying ASP.NET 2.0 in C#. I was not totally new to programming, as I have some background in PHP. In 2 months of self teaching in the spare time at work, I have learned how to interact with a MSSQL database, how to use stored procedures and display data.
I have also started Form Validation, concentrating on the Client side validation.

My software and technology knowledge

Very good knowledge of HTML hand coding, CSS, Photoshop CS2, JavaScript / jQuery, Dreamweaver and Expression Web

Good knowledge of PHP, MySql / MSSql and Flash

Basic knowledge of ASP.NET 2.0 with C#