My Career Objective

To maintain a high level of professional and productive service. To extend the networked service to benefit fellow companies and clients in the Internet, multimedia and creative industries.

Personal Details
Kris Nathan Howard

DOB: 23.01.1978
70 Banksia Ave
Coolum Beach 4573.
kris@eucolyptus.com
Ph: 07 54716064
 

To rise to the challenge of new tasks and to utilise my knowledge and experience on a daily basis, exploring my creativity and technical abilities, through the implementation of new, inventive visual ideas and execution of practical web solutions.


My Job- skills Overview
Graphic and Web Skills

  • 6 years graphic & web site Design
  • Solid web development & Site Management Experience.
  • Excellent Creative Art flair with diversity of a strong technical aptitude.
  • An excellent 'eye for detail allows me to know what looks attractive from the viewer's point of view when designing web materials.
  • Strong problem solving abilities.
  • Develop projects from start to finish that are a unified work of art upon completion in minimal timeframe.
  • Corporate branding experience - Can create the look and feel including design of web advertising materials for individual campaigns or new forming companies. Logos, web templates, and other print materials.
  • Ability to budget for projects and campaigns.
  • Strong writing skills - Able to proof read and copyright works.
  • I always keep the clients objectives as a priority.
  • I am a self-motivated, reliable and well organised, with work completed by deadlines at all times.
  • Have complete home based studio if required.



What I can do

  • Customised web template-interfaces combining content, navigational structure and appearance and can include advance elements such as swap image behaviours, JavaScript mouse over's, pop-menus, flash and more.
  • Flash or Gif/Jpg banners.
  • Gif Animation's.
  • Flash introductions, presentations, movies and animation programming.
  • Html programming - CSS.
  • Active Server Page (ASP) Programming. I utilise approx. 85% prewritten Components for development of online auctions, shopping carts, message boards, login pages and other applications. Approx. 15% is raw VB script coding, programming basic code elements as required to customise a dynamic website application. Customisations of code have included payment transaction set-ups with third party credit card merchants.
  • JavaScript - Some hand coding - mainly prewritten Code components.
  • Perl - CGI - Perform modifications to prewritten code.
  • Website Design, content and layout - HTML guru, CSS, DHTML, XML.
  • Graphic design of high impactful images.
  • Database programming and connectivity - Access /ASP.
  • Print designed materials - Logos, business cards, letter heads, brochures.
  • SEO Website Promotion - gaining a top 10 position in the popular search engines.
  • Able to Analyse web pages ranking capacities, compare algorithms with top ranked company sites and better the page rank through proven page optimisation methods.
  • Meta code optimisation -improving keyword prominence in title, keyword description and body tags. Adding various head tags that invoke certain search engines to read and rank pages.
  • A solid knowledge of how to implement strategy to achieve a first page rank on google.com , Altavista, Yahoo, Looksmart and many other major search engines.
  • Good knowledge of SEO Software's that help produce analysis, page creation, ranking checks and notifications of positions slipped or gained.


Personal Achievements

2004 - Awarded as a Contemporary Poet
  • International Poets Association awarded my poem 'Angel In Heaven' , a Silver Goblet and invited me to cite read at the International Poet's Convention in Los Angeles. Funnily enough, I actually spontaneously wrote these words in the format of a song, not realising the reach it had as a poem.

2001 - 2002 - Golden Globe Award

  • Awarded For excellence in web site design.
2000 - 2001
  • Believe to Achieve Award
    Presented for excellence in Web design. Judged on originality, functionality, and creativity.


Education

  • Secondary - Holland Park High School. [1995]
  • Tertiary - Cert. IV Small Business Management. [2000]
  • Other Studies - Web Application Development and Graphic Design online self tutorial training. [1999 - present]


Interests
  • Song writing, poetry and playing guitar.
  • Music, arts and entertainment.
  • Boating, outdoors and weekends away.
  • Creative Designs.
  • Current world political and religious issues.


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Email: kris@eucolyptus.com
Phone: (07) 5471 6064
ICQ:17280540

Address:
70 Banksia Ave
Coolum Beach 4573 QLD

 

 


Available for Contract
& Home based Freelance work

- Kris Howard -
Web Designer

(casual contract or payroll)


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