About

Work, Life and Play

I am currently in my final year of studying BSc Multimedia (4 year course) at Teesside University. I spent a year on placement at a small development and IT support company, Bondgate IT working as a web/software developer.

Experience

My experience in web development has been a mix of front end web development working with XHTML, CSS & Flash; and back end development working with SQL and C# in ASP.NET as well as some classic ASP and PHP.

In website development I take web standards very seriously & all websites I create are XHTML valid, SEO friendly and use semantic mark-up. I’m also a fan of Progressive Enhancement and unobtrusive JavaScript. I tend to cringe when I see table based websites, in-line CSS or classes called things like ‘pinkSmall’.

During my placement I gained valuable experience in keeping to deadlines, project estimation & creating Object Oriented code.

Interests

One of my biggest passions outside of work is music. I love going to gigs & festivals and amongst my friends I tend to be the person they ask for new bands to listen to; I’ve also DJ’ed (weekends) since I was 16 and specialise in indie music.