CV

Contact Details

Telephone: 07525 492764
Email: me@peterjharrison.me

Professional Profile

An enthusiastic and professional Website Developer/Designer, who enjoys being part of, as well as leading, a successful and productive team. Quick to grasp new ideas and concepts, and to develop innovative and creative solutions to problems. Able to work well on his own initiative and can demonstrate the high levels of motivation required to meet multiple deadlines. Even under significant pressure, possesses a strong ability to perform effectively.

Objective

Looking to develop an extensive range of technical skills within a new challenging role at SubHub, Cardiff . Keen to achieve further professional development.

Key Technical Skills

XHTML (Semantic) W3C Standards Adobe PhotoShop
CSS Search Engine Optimisation Adobe Fireworks
PHP Pay Per Click Adobe Acrobat
MySQL Windows Server 2003 Adobe Director
XML IIS 6 Adobe Flash
JavaScript Apache Adobe Dreamweaver
Wordpress Wordpress MU Drupal

Career Summary

May’09 – Present
Client Support Associate – SubHub, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff

  • Providing ongoing customer support to partners and customers, ensuring that the highest quality support is delivered at all times.
  • Providing a timely and courteous response to all customer support queries.
  • Advising the product team of bugs, issues and suggestions reported by SubHub customers.
  • Managing and adding to the knowledge base to reduce support load.
  • Investigating issues through MySQL where needed.
  • Using CSS skills to investigate issues and make quick changes to web site designs.
  • Giving advice and guidance in the application and set-up of a variety of payment gateways such as Protx, PayPal and others.

Oct’06-May’09
Senior Website Developer/Designer – Shropshire Tourism, Shrewsbury, Shropshire

  • Working as a Senior Web Developer/Designer for a marketing & web services company in Shrewsbury, Shropshire; working in a very busy office, tasked with developing their web department.
  • Assessing client’s requirements and implementing practical solutions.
  • Supporting and organising my team in scheduling projects; while maintaining a high standard of customer focus.
  • Training clients on websites powered by content management systems, some based around open source software such as Wordpress and others custom built from scratch depending on specification.
  • Produced e-marketing campaigns for different projects for the company and for a selection of clients.
  • Communicates closely with Business Manager, reporting regular updates on current work schedules, work issues and costing for potential new projects.
  • Manage and maintain numerous websites for clients and local government agencies.
  • Initiating a company-wide changeover to a much faster data management system; custom built to reduce maintenance costs and allow flexibility for future expansion.

Formal Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Media Technology
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales (2002-2006)

Key Modules:
Media Rich Website Design Multimedia Communications
Internet Technologies Interactive Multimedia & Hypermedia
Multimedia Group Project Software Design and Visual Programming

Obtained a Second Class Honours in Media Technology and also won the Multimedia Group Project of the Year Award.

BTEC National Diploma in Computer Studies – Pass
Shrewsbury College or Arts and Technology, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (2000-2002)

9 GCSEs (Grade A-C) including Mathematics, English.
Corbet Secondary School, Shrewsbury, Shropshire (1995-2000)

Personal Details

Date of Birth: 15/06/1984 Driving Licence: Full/Clean
Nationality: British Health: Excellent; non-smoker

Interests & Activities

Enjoy playing various sports including golf and football. Also like socialising with friends and dining out. Have a huge interest in web and the new technologies. Enjoy keeping up to date with the latest news and writing articles for levelledup.com a website for independent gaming news and reviews.

References

Available on Request