Louistrations

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Education

A Levels in Art and Design, English Literature and Media Studies.
8 GCSEs including GCSE Art and Graphics.
Short course in Information technology.

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Skills

A natural flair and love of creating comic art, illustrations and design. Including both traditional ink and digital methods. Personal art style resembles a European and Japanese hybrid, although tries to be as versatile as possible.

For samples of artwork please visit http://louistrations.co.uk/gallery

Expert in all versions of Adobe Photoshop for both raster and vector work with additional experience using PaintTool SAI, the GIMP, Anime Studio and other common desktop software including Microsoft Office. Also has a good understanding of video, photo and audio manipulation.

Comfortable working under Windows, Macintosh and Linux environments with a high level of computer literacy and the ability to master new applications very quickly.

Proficient at web site coding and design using the following technologies:

• PHP (4 and 5)
• MySQL and Oracle databases
• HTML, XHTML and XML (inc. RSS and Atom)
• CSS
• Javascript (inc. JQuery and the Yahoo! User Interface)
• Web services (inc. SOAP and REST)
• Perl

A good understanding of web standards and accessibility. Hardcoding websites by hand is preferred over using applications such as Dreamweaver.

Experience in the setup and running of on-line advertising including Google AdWords/AdSence, Yahoo! Search Marketing and Project Wonderful.

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Employment History

BT Directories Ltd. (previously Ufindus Ltd. and iomart Internet Ltd.)
Developer, Feb 2003 - Nov 2009

Working in a team based and deadline driven environment. Jobs include directly working on the creation and maintenance of business directories (ufindus.com, smilelocal.com, moreuk.com), search engine optimisation of websites, creation of internally used web applications (work flow and content management systems), on-line advertising and data reporting.

Fulfilled IT support tasks such as building and fixing workstations, desktop support, networking and patching of telephone systems.

Some general office administration including printing, mailing letters/invoices and creating/updating documents.

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Interests

Non smoker, likes cycling, comics, animation and Japanese culture. Highly skilled and experienced in the preparation and serving of tea.