Mark Ross

Entire online transformation + all subsequent management of design, content, development, production and maintenance, in a full-time capacity, of subsequently award-nominated B2B e-commerce website for a popular independent bricks-and-mortar office furniture store based in the Manchester area (www.armstrongsofficefurniture.co.uk). The aim: to build the easiest to use shopping experience possible for potential office furniture purchasers, at every screen width. My responsibilities: - Overall design of e-commerce website - Iterative transformation of vanilla site with zero downtime - Coding of all new unique site features throughout the stack - Graphics design and production - Product photography and editing - New feature conception -> coding to realisation - Codebase maintenance - General testing cross-browser, support response and bugfixing - Responsive design implementation (bootstrap, media queries) - CMS maintenance (WordPress, WooCommerce) - Hosting maintenance (SiteGround, AWS) - EPOS management and integration (Worldpay, Stripe, PayPal) - Online product inventory management - Google Shopping product submission and management - Speed optimisation - SEO - Copy writing for site and social media - Conception, design and production of external animation/graphics/video for social media and other advertising - In-house IT support Main languages/libraries/architectures: JavaScript, jQuery PHP HTML CSS WordPress CMS (as inherited) Primary software used: Sublime Text FileZilla Adobe Photoshop Adobe After Effects

Working on a range of solo and collaborative projects in the fields of design, graphics, artwork production, photography, website creation, coding and scripting.

Coding data-driven web applications for the NHS, both front and back end. Designing and creating graphical user interfaces for hospital internal web and ward-based large touchscreen deployment including the creation of extensive original iconography. Leading a major visual overhaul of Flow (now Servelec Flow), a flagship touchscreen ward/patient management solution. Designing and producing marketing materials to demonstrate the software’s capability to improve hospital workflow, workforce productivity and patient journey. Visiting partnered hospitals to liaise with doctors and other healthcare professionals in order to help guide development of the interface and functionality of software. Working closely with an in-house team of healthcare and implementation specialists to match functionality with site requirements and NHS guidelines. Responding to internal and external support tickets including implementation of bug fixes and creation of new major software functionality.

Working on a range of solo and collaborative projects in the fields of design, graphics, artwork production, photography, website creation, coding and scripting.

Coding educational games for commercial CD-ROM based release. One product programmed and produced by myself being nominated for a BETT award in the category of Primary Education. Designing and producing character animation, background art and interface graphics for a string of successful educational computer games and applications. Mainline involvement in ground-up design of the games, from conception through to completion. Producing interface graphics for the BBC's cBeebies online games. Producing/editing in-game sound effects and composing/arranging in-game music. Designing and producing print-ready graphic layouts for manual covers, CD/DVD cases and on-body disc prints. Visiting schools to meet pupils and teachers to trial new ideas and gain real feedback on how existing software was being used in the field. Representing the company at educational IT exhibitions. This involved manning a stand showcasing our new games and software, giving speeches at seminars and liaising with others in the field including teachers and representatives from other software manufacturers.

Using Photoshop and Illustrator to design and produce original web pages, banners, mail-shots, email-shots, fax-shots, press ads and flyers. My work was regularly sent out to thousands of IT resellers and featured many major manufacturers. Analysing and cleansing various aspects of a large contact database using MS Access, SQL and Visual Basic.

Capturing human movement using custom motion capture software, equipment and studios. Editing 3D human motion data for major computer games companies.