Where I have worked

1994 - 1998

Warner Brothers Film Studios

I worked as a film set carpenter, prop maker, painter and various jobs in the Art department at Warner Bros Film Studios. Working on many Australian and American blockbuster films, produced on the Gold Coast. This was a creative and very high pressure industry, that gave me invaluable design experience and skill sets to which I draw on today.


1998 - 1999

Hedgehog Productions

I worked in Art Department as prop-maker, carpenter & props painter for Hedgehog Productions, a reputable special events company, currently based in Yatala, QLD.


May 1999 to Present
Current Location: Coolum Beach. Qld, 4573.

I was working in Brisbane as a web/graphic designer & developer until 2003, before relocating to the Sunshine Coast.

I am presently networking my web design skills on a freelance-contract basis out to local and national Companies and Clients. I can if required, work efficiently from a complete home design studio, ensuring a high level of integrity in the work I perform. Until present work has been typically via contractual agreement or on negotiated hourly rate on payroll based on my experience.

I have worked consistently and to a very high level as a leading graphic designer and mid-level Asp(E-commerce applications) developer on each website project, producing an effective, easy to navigate website for all my clients.

I have graphically designed website interfaces, logo's, business cards, page backgrounds, banner ads, brochures, roter-image banners, animate with JavaScript and or Flash. I provide a consistent theme and symbolically harmonise with colour from the colour wheel.

More technical work includes developing site applications in ASP code. My ability to understand these code components and the properties and methods involved with web development has enabled me to create online ASP applications: search engine, auction site, classifieds, mailing list, enquiry forms with full VB-script or JavaScript error validation, auto-responders, domain name availability checker programs and e-commerce shopping carts.

I code using mainly pre-written components in languages, ASP, Html, DHTML, JavaScript, VB script as well Perl Cgi scripting. I always provide an easy to navigate and browser compatible platform for a website to ensure visitors navigate a site with ease.

Database Development:
Setup of access database, selecting and retrieving information, updating member information to database and distributing data to email addresses. An example of my most recent pride and joy to be is:
Auweb.net.au - Online Tech & Multimedia Sales
I completely designed this site over the duration of 8 weeks and although the database is still only 80% populated, the concept of offering closer to wholesale prices, I feel will serve a practical online solution for the home shopper.


Key Design Duties on projects

  • Web site design in HTML/CSS
  • Content editing & page layout.
  • Graphic design.
  • Professional web interface design.
  • Navigation design(CSS/Javascript)
  • Image optimisation for various outputs.
  • JavaScript dynamic graphical manipulations.
  • JavaScript Error Script validation.
  • Cross-browser compatibility test and analysis.
  • ASP and VB-Script component programming on NT Server to create interactive web elements such as an e-commerce shopping cart applications and much more.
  • Access Database connectivity.
  • Flash presentations,introductions and movies programmed using Macromedia Flash.
  • Promotion of websites - SEO - Gaining a high placement in the popular search engines.



Levels of Experience

Web Designer | Advanced Level
Graphic Designer(Web) | Advanced Level
Graphic designer(Print) | Mid Level (Can create great designs, though not yet fully knowledgable with print publishing formalities.Will learn.)
Web Developer(Asp) | Mid Level
Flash Animator | Basic-Mid Level
Web Site Promotion | Mid Level



Software Programs

& Competency Level

  • IBM Macromedia Web Authoring Programs
    Dreamweaver4 [Advanced]
    Fireworks 4 [Advanced]
    Freehand [Advanced]
    Flash 7 [basic - Mid Level]

  • Adobe Software
    Photoshop 5.5 [Advanced]
    Illustrator [basic - Mid]
    LiveMotion [Advanced]
    InDesign (will learn for print work)
    Acrobat [Advanced]

  • Microsoft
    FrontPage [Advanced]
    Microsoft Word [Advanced]
    Publisher [Advanced]
    Powerpoint [Advanced]
    IIS [Advanced]

  • Search Engine Placement Software Tools
    Web Position Gold and Submit Wolf 4 [Advanced]

  • FTP Program
    WSFTP Pro [Advanced]


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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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