Skills & Experience

 

The following charts detail my years worth of experience working with the skillsets, programming languages and graphic design software that I use when building Web site interfaces…

Skills, Experience levels & Abilities

Skill Years of experience Abilities
HTML/XHTML, CSS, JavaScript Coding 15 years
  • complete desktop browser and platform layout compliance (Explorer 6-7, Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, Windows XP, Mac OSX)
  • expanding mobile touchscreen browser and testing devices (iOS 4.2 (iPhone, iPad, iPod touch), Android 1.6 - 2.1 (Motorola Blur, Samsung Galaxy S Captivate), BlackBerry OS 6 (BlackBerry Torch 9800), webOS 2 (Palm Pre))
  • can seamlessly integrate CSS into semantic XHTML to create any visual layout without needing to use tables
  • can write backwards compatible JavaScript, CSS and XHTML to make Web pages fully A.D.A. (American’s with Disabilities Act) compliant
  • can write jQuery syntax and implement DHTML DOM scripting visual effects
  • can work within Facebook’s Developer app. in order to write and style Facebook app. interfaces and Fan Page Tab content
  • can create interactive touchscreen visual effects using the new onTouchstart, onTouchmove and onTouchend touch event triggers to activate CSS3 animated @-keyframes sequences
Exploration, Documentation 6 years
  • can investigate and find solutions to page content, style and behavior challenges
  • able to write easy to understand best-practices/how-to documentation detailing the “what”, “why” and “how” of a front-end engineering technique
  • can create fully commented XHTML templates (with attached CSS and JavaScripts) of common layouts for junior engineers to quickly swap content into
Former Professional Graphic Designer 16 years
  • has full understanding and a keen eye for what makes for good typography, colour and page composition

Front-end Languages

Languages Version compliance Years of experience Proficiency
HTML/XHTML 5/1.1 15 years 100% semantic, A.D.A. compliant mark-up, familiar with new HTML5 elements
CSS 3 11 years 100% knowledge, CSS3 @font-face, transitions, transforms and @-keyframe animation skills
JavaScript 1.8.2 14 years 100% DOM scripting abilities, Ajax content retrieval and page updating abilities, JSON, Object Oriented coding skills, mobile/ touchscreen event detection abilities
jQuery 1.5.1 2 years 100% knowledge

Development/Design Software

Software Version compliance Years of experience Proficiency
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 (11) 6 years 100%
Adobe Photoshop CS5 (12) 15 years 100%
Adobe Illustrator CS5 (15) 15 years 100%