Anthony George
Front-End Developer
About me
A professional front-end web developer with a proven track record of creating both web and mobile interfaces
Apprenticeship and then work in the pre-press departments of various printers in Leicester and Nottingham
Co-Owner and cook at Pennyfeathers Cafe in Nottingham for two years. Also during this time I was assistant bar manager at a small bar in Leicester before moving onto be the promotions manager at The Alley Cafe in Nottingham.
Dragnet was a company that created integrated internet based solutions for businesses, specialising in its two main products, an e-commerce package that integrated with accounting systems and a content management system.
Development and maintenance of the Social Services intranet and the Social Services area on the public website.
Development of a portal for the Over 50’s including user profiling and testing.
Moved to Bristol to join Team Rubber where we built websites and web applications for Governments.
My responsibilities as a front-end developer included:
- Semantic mark up
- Web Standards
- CSS
- Accessibility
- Progressive enhancement
- Graceful degradation
- Microformats
- Cross browser compatibility
- Performance optimisation
- Usability testing
- Prototyping/mock ups
- User interviews
- Stakeholder interviews
- Persona specification
My responsibilities and achievements as Team Leader included:
- Devising and progressing the companies internal development processes including;
- Quality Assurance
- Agile development
- Marketing
- Team morale
- Team personal development
- Mentoring
- Training
My responsibilities as a senior front-end developer at Mubaloo included:
- Usability testing and benchmarking the old website
- Overseeing and implementing the new Mubaloo 'responsive' website.
- Front-end development of web apps and mobile web apps.
- Email Newsletters / Marketing
- Analyse, improve and implement internal processes.
At Red Robot I was responsible for:
- Analyse, improve and implement internal processes.
- Building and testing responsive websites
- Wire-framing, user interface development and user testing for IOS apps
- Project management
My responsibilities as a front-end developer at Invitation Digital include:
- Development of new product desktop website
- Development of new product mobile website
- User experience improvements
- Information architecture improvements
- Mock ups and wireframing
Freelance developer for the Signage WA website:
- Re-aligning and designing of website for better SEO
- Development of Wordpress based website
- User experience improvements
- Responsive theme development
- Implementation of multiple image galleries based on Flickr sets
- Training
Freelance developer for the Sean McCabe Music website:
- Re-aligning and designing of website
- Wireframing
- Development of Wordpress based website
- User experience improvements
- Responsive theme development
- Soundcloud integration
Freelance developer
- Desktop Photoshop design to responsive HTML
- Responsive UI design
- Media queries
- Custom form elements
- Responsive carousels
- Customised Googlemaps
Interface Developer at Mentor Digital
- Responsive UI design and implementation
- Analyse, improve and implement internal development processes
- HTML5 / CSS3 / jQuery
- SASS
- Node
- Grunt / Gulp
- Umbraco CMS development
- Prototyping / Wireframing
- Usability testing
- Accessibility
Portfolio
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Quadrennial Review
HTML, CSS and Accessibility
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Pancreatic Cancer UK
PSD to Responsive HTML / CSS / JQuery. Umbraco CMS
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425 Financial Solutions
PSD to Responsive HTML / CSS / JQuery. Umbraco CMS
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Education
B Tech. Diploma. - Machine printing; basic computing and origination.
November 2000 - Website Usability Testing
May 2005 - Intranet Usability
5‘0’levels (Including Maths and English)and 2 CSE’s
My Skills
Skill-ometer
I'm working on my Javascript / jQuery to get the meter up higher.
Developer skills
- 90/100Agile Development
- 90/100Cross Browser Testing
- 77/100Git / SVN
- 78/100Grunt / Gulp
- 85/100Perch CMS
- 80/100Umbraco CMS
- 80/100Prototyping / Mock Ups
- 90/100Responsive Web
- 80/100SASS / LESS
- 95/100Team Work
- 85/100User Interface Design
- 90/100Usability Testing
- 80/100WAI-ARIA
- 85/100Web Design
- 70/100WordPress
- 80/100Javascript / CSS Animations
Management skills
- Liaise with customers and communicate their needs where necessary to others in the team.
- Provide input in determining project scope; define design parameters of projects.
- Oversee design and coding of other web developers.
- Collaborate with project management on web team assignments, work flow and scheduling.
- Determine standards, processes and styles for web development to ensure a high level of efficiency consistent with current standards and trends.
- I have performed personnel functions including performance evaluations, hiring, rate recommendations, promotions, transfers and holiday scheduling.
- Evaluation and implementation of internal procedures, reports and presentations.
Contact
Contact info
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"George Bernard Shaw, "Back to Methuselah" (1921), part 1, act 1
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950)