Summary
For many years I've worked with challenged individuals, impeded either medically or mentally, while pursuing personal interests dedicated to communication. I have realised recently that communication, and facilitating communication, is where my passion lies. To this end I've been studying the theories of 'Semantic XHTML' to better equip understanding and parsing of content on the web.
As a passionate designer I seek to facilitate communication and interaction with data, to make that information usable to all, therein lies my devotion to standards-based, accessible design. With this in mind I seek to:
- Work as part of a team to improve the usability of data.
- Work to facilitate interaction.
- Work to increase the ease-of-use, whether of a system or information.
Skills
- Fluent:
- XHTML / HTML
- CSS
- Proficient:
- PHP
- MySQL
- Learning:
- XML
- Python
- JavaScript
Projects
- Developing my own CMS based on PHP, MySQL and JavaScript.
- Designing:
- An arts-based site on behalf of a friend, in order for him to promote his writing and artistry.
- A website for local advertisers to promote their business or service, and for non-profit organisations (sports teams, charities, churches) to advertise free of charge.
Previous Employment
Aispire Consulting, Ltd.
Web Design Consultant September, 2007 - November, 2007
- Responsible for ensuring coherent design.
- Responsible for creating standards-aware design to increase accessibility.
- Responsible for implementing semantic XHTML.
North Yorkshire and York Primary Care Trust
District Nurses' Referrals AssistantOctober, 2006 - February, 2008
- Responsible for ensuring referals were taken in a timely, supportive, manner.
- Responsible for ensuring accurate recording of caller's, and/or patient's, data.
- Responsible for triaging calls, ensuring that urgent calls were responded to quickly and that the district nurses were not tied-up with non-urgent issues.
Selby and York Primary Care Trust
Interim Bank Nurse CoordinatorJune, 2006 - August, 2006
- Responsible for supplying staff to wards, or units, to cover staffing short-falls.
- Responsible for liaising with staff to cover the wards.
- Responsible for accurately recording the short-falls of the various wards and units.
- Responsible for recording staff-availability.
- Responsible for taking enquiries from prospective employees.
- Responsible for actioning any complaints, whether from staff I supplied or the wards/units to whom they were supplied.
- Responsible for verifying staff time-sheets, ensuring correlation between my records and ward records.
Selby and York Primary Care Trust
Health-Care Assistant August, 2001 - October, 2006
- Responsible for patient well-being and safety.
- Responsible for ensuring the recording of patients' illness and symptoms.
- Responsible for performing medical observations.
- Responsible for accurate reporting of patients' conditions to staff nurses, charge nurses, junior doctors and consultants.
- Resposible for encouraging patients to care for themselves, despite psychiatric impediments.
- Resposible for assisting patients' communications with others, despite psychiatric impediments.
Education
Higher Education
University of Teesside October, 1998 - May, 2001
- English Literature, BA (Hons), 2:1.
Further and Secondary Education
Lady Lumleys' School, PickeringSeptember, 1990 - May, 1997
- 'A' Levels
- English Literature.
- Mathematics.
- Food Technology.
- General Studies.
- GCSE
- English Literature.
- English Language.
- Business Studies.
- History.
- Science (Dual Award).
- Mathematics.
- German Language.
- Design and Technology.
