Victor Webster
Web Developer - (HTML, CSS, Jquery & PHP Specialist)
Nationality: Australian (EU citizen & passport holder)
D.O.B: 25/01/1978
Languages: Native English speaker, learning Italian
P: +61 44 (0-437-******
E: ****@**********.***
W: http://www.vicwebster.net
Please visit my website to view my portfolio.
OVERVIEW
HTML & CSS, W3C standard-compliant .. expert (10+ years experience)
(including HTML 5.0 and CSS 3.0)
JQuery excellent (4 years experience)
PHP Programming (Object Oriented) excellent (5 years experience)
Graphic design, Adobe Illustrator & Photoshop .. excellent (10+ years experience)
JavaScript good (7 years experience)
(standard, non-JQuery ECMAScript, inc. OO)
SQL Server & MySQL .. intermediate (3 years experience)
Software architecture, OO patterns and design intermediate (2 years experience)
Journalism, professional writing .. 1 year experience
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Information Science, Software Engineering major.
University of Newcastle, 2003
Newcastle, Australia
Certificate in Graphic Design (Advanced)
Hornsby College of TAFE, 1999
Sydney, Australia
RECENT EMPLOYMENT
April 2010 present BUPA Australia - Front-end Developer
Worked with a small team of HTML, CSS and JavaScript developers, in liason with a UX,
graphic-design and Java team, to extend and refactor the front-end codebase for the launch
of a new BUPA Australia website. The site includes a high level of JavaScript (utilising JQuery
and AJAX) functionality, and elements of HTML 5 and CSS 3.
May 2009 Appril 2010 Capture Pty Ltd - Senior Front-end Developer
Acted as the senior front-end specialist in a small team working to develop cutting-edge
commercial websites. The company's clientele included some of
Australia's largest business' such as Guinness Australia, Budget Direct and
Bundaberg Rum. This role has involved exposure to various content management systems
such as Joomla, NEO and MOSS, as well as in-house custom-built CMS's.
September 2008 May 2009 Self Employed - Freelance Web Design & Development
Building small/medium scale websites from scratch concept to final implementation. Includes
all elements of web development from concept & graphics design to programming (PHP) and
database development and implementation (MySQL). Part of this job involved working with
the WordPress CMS as well as developing simple, custom-built CMS's in PHP.
July 2007 - July 2008 Pfizer Ireland - Technical Engineer, Graphic Designer & Web Designer
12+ month contract in Cork, Republic of Ireland. This varied role, working for one of the
world s largest Pharmaceutical companies, included IT technical support, corporate graphic
design and Intranet maintenance.
December 2006 May 2007 Nextgen.net - Software Engineer & Web Designer
During this time I worked on large-scale websites as part of a medium sized development
team. Examples include the websites for Supr, Kostya Tszyu, SunCorp, Virgin, Rams
Homeloans and the NRL.. My specific role entailed updating table-based designs to newer
CSS layouts that conformed to W3C standards. I also worked with SQL Server 2005 and
ASP.Net (Jscript).
May 2006 November 2006 Ambrow Pty. Ltd. Website Designer & Developer
This open-ended contract involved working in a small team to build the online ecommerce
site, ToysWholesale.com.au. Over 2000 stock items were photographed and inserted into the
database. The website was built using ASP and MySQL.
May 2005 May 2006 Austereo Internet Producer (Website manager)
In this 12-month maternity contract, I was ultimately responsible for the websites relating to
the two largest Newcastle based radio stations, NXFM & KOFM, but also created animat ed
flash adverts for all of the other Austereo radio stations, nation-wide. In addition, I worked as
a graphic designer and was responsible for large-scale adverts including motorway signage
and stadium ads for the Jumbo-TV.
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