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
XHTML, CSS, JavaScript Coding 13 years
  • complete browser and platform layout compliance (Explorer 6-7, Firefox, Safari, Windows XP, Mac OSX)
  • 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 Prototype or jQuery syntax and implement script.aculo.us visual effects
  • can work within Facebook’s Developer app. in order to write and style Facebook app. interfaces
Exploration, Documentation 4 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 14 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
XHTML 1.1 13 years 100% semantic, A.D.A. compliant mark-up
CSS 3 9 years 100% knowledge
JavaScript 1.3 12 years 100% DOM scripting abilities, Ajax content retrieval and page updating abilities
Prototype 1.6 1 year 100% knowledge
jQuery 1.3 0.5 years 100% knowledge

Development/Design Software

Software Version compliance Years of experience Proficiency
Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 (10) 4 years 100%
Adobe Photoshop CS4 (11) 13 years 100%
Adobe Illustrator CS4 (14) 13 years 100%