Summary of work in 2008

• Contract — recruitment website design for ITI Life Sciences in conjunction with Edinburgh University (XHTML, CSS, XML, Spry AJAX Framework, Subversion)
• Lecturing web design at Stevenson College (Delivered Evening Class)
• Freelance — PI Brokers website and sales database design. Requirements Analysis, XHTML, CSS, Interface Design and Microsoft Access
• Contract — designing web pages for Royal Bank of Scotland, Group Property Intranet. Hand coding XHTML, CSS and XML to web standards
• Contract — designing & publishing web pages for Choose Life Government Website using their Content Management System
• Completed masters module in Dynamic Web Technologies

Other interests and achievements

• Bronze medal winner (Glasgow Art Gallery Competition)
• Mentoring school children (Caledonian University and Cathkin High)
• Helping adults understand the ECDL (6 months voluntary work)

Get in touch, call 07944 541772 or email: alan@almdesign.co.uk

Design and development

• Database Web Technology module — Level Masters, Grade 'A'
• Web Development module — Level Degree, Grade 'A'
• Video, Filming and Editing module — Level Degree, Grade 'B1'
• Design Methodology and Technology — Level CIW Professional
• Internet Business — Level CIW Associate
• Site Development — Level CIW Associate
• Network Technology — Level CIW Associate
• BA (Hons) Applied Graphics Technology — Grade 2.1
• Advanced Database ECDL
• European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL)
• HND (Graphic Design & Multimedia, 11 Merit Units)

Technical skills (Microsoft and Adobe)

• W3C Standards & Accessibility
• Development — HTML, XML & CSS
• Development — Javascript, ASP, VBScript & SQL
• Development — Flash ActionScript
• Relational Database Design
• SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) & Google Analytics
• Design — Adobe Photoshop (image editing)
• Design — Adobe Illustrator (illustration)
• Design — Adobe InDesign (print publishing)
• Design — Adobe Premiere (video)
• Design — Adobe Flash (interactive media)
• Design — Adobe Dreamweaver (website creation)
• Design — Adobe Fireworks (web graphics)
• Design — Adobe Acrobat (PDF publishing)
• Office Applications — Microsoft Office Professional