Andrew Smith's Curriculum Vitae
Last Edited 7 September, 2005
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Education:
High School: Balfron High School, Balfron Stirlingshire. 1994 - 2000.
CSYSD: Maths Paper 1 (General)D: Maths Paper 5 (Mechanics) ScotvecPass: English |
HigherB: MathsC: Physics C: Computing C: Graphical Communication |
University: Napier University Edinburgh. September 2000 - January 2005.
Degree: BSc (Hons) 2:1 Computing.
Honours Project: Engineering based Content Management System for Premier Automotive Group.
Abstract: To research and implement a system for editing, tracking, and auditing content produced for the body Computer Aided Engineering department intranet site within Jaguar and Land Rover.
Areas covered:- Potential benefits of CMS for information intense environments.
- Information Architecture (including searching, navigation and labelling techniques).
- Implementation of CMS system using Perl and MySQL on a testing server.
- Evaluation of Content Management System by current body CAE employees.
Modules Sat (P=Pass, M=Merit):
4th year ModulesP: Knowledge Management in Business OrganisationsP: Advanced Digital Media P: Virtual Environments P: Multimedia Technology P: Honours Project |
3rd year ModulesP: Internet ProgrammingP: Interaction Design M: Internet Mark-up languages M: Server Side Web Languages P: Digital Media for Interactive Applications M: Supervised Work Experience |
Employment:
Job Title: Web Developer
Employer: Jaguar Cars/Land Rover, Coventry.
Dates: August 2002 - September 2003,
Details: A years work placement spent at Jaguar and Land Rover Body CAE department. Developing and maintaining the department intranet site, as well as creating Perl scripts to optimise and aid the engineer's workflow.
This gave me opportunities to work in both solo and team situations, to achieve various goals.
During my time at Jaguar I participated in various roles including, event organisation, team leading, and managing myself and teams.
Participating in the fortnightly managerial meetings helped me gain both confidence, and communication skills.
Job Title: Web Developer / Manager
Employer: self employed Dates: January 2005 - current,
Details: Once I finished University I began doing freelance web development work to support me while I searched for a full time job.
This has brought me more experience with starting a site from the ground up and seeing it through to completion, as well as taking into consideration for future expansion. I also helped develop and create corporate identities for clients.
Technical Abilities:
Web Development: Macromedia Dreamweaver 4 - MX 2004, CGI scripting (using Perl), MySQL Databases. XHTML, CSS.
Programming: Perl, Tk, XML, actionscript V1, Javascript
Graphics: Adobe Photoshop 5 - CS, Imageready CS, Macromedia Flash, Director.
Desktop: MS Word, Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Access. Adobe Acrobat.
Operating systems: MS Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, XP. Unix. Linux (Red Hat).
Δ TopPortfolio:
jiggersaurus.com
Created 05/09/2005
My personal website. Provided an opertunity to design for my own specification. This website is used as a home for discursive articles that I write, and as a gallery for photo's that other people might be interested in. I only completed this website on the 7th of September, and as such there maybe some teething troubles.
I've included a simple CSS based effect, with the domain title and menu staying static in the browser window. This provides the viewer with quick access to the menu all the time, and always having the domain title is a nice touch. This effect doesn't work in Internet explorer, but I have used a hack to get round the fact that IE hasn't utilised the fixed position attribute.
Morrison Associates
Created 01/09/2005
Morrison associates is a management consultancy company based in Aberdeen.
I was asked to create a website to promote the company and the services that they offer. I'm waiting for the remainder of the content, and a final thumbs-up on the design from the client. Due to this fact, please view this as a work in progress. sus-uk.com
Created 21/04/2005
This was my first freelance project that I was given after finished University, the initial plan was for between 10 and 15 pages of information detailing sustainable practices to reduce waste and environmental impact.
This website has grown exponentially and is currently serving 90+ pages of information. The site is running from 5 CSS style sheets and one Dreamweaver template. This set up makes changes to design and non-unique content incredibly easy and quick. For this project I was given the opportunity to do most of the design work in collaboration with the clients, this involved working very closely with them to create the coorporate identity and make sure it works for their perspective viewers.
craftworksdirect.com
Created 15/08/2004
This website was originally set up in 2004 with the intent to grow the site to handle E-commerce. Sadly the client is currently too busy to concentrate on their internet site, and as such the site hasn't been updated since it's initial launch.
This was my last full table based design. The brief was to create a friendly craft themed design that was clear to use. I feel that although there is a distinct lack of content, that the design filled the brief and the site is both friendly and has a nice craft theme.
Jaguar and Land Rover Graduate fair
Created 15/08/2002
While working at Jaguar cars I was asked to take part in a project to encourage applications to the graduate program for the Computer Aided Engineering, and Vehicle crash departments. In this project I was asked to create an external website to promote the open day and flyers to hand out at graduate recruitment fairs.
I saw this project through to the end by taking part in the open day's them selves to represent a new starter, and my experiences. The project was highly successful.