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Gareth Senior 299 Wightman Road, London N8 0NA 07875 871 464 http://www.gareth53.co.uk gareth53@ Senior developer with 10 years’ professional experience in web design and development. Core skills HTML valid, accessible, semantic HTML. Hand-coded to W3C/WAI standards CSS to a high level, including CSS3 techniques. In-depth knowledge of cross-browser issues JavaScript – coding performant ,cross-browser script using unobtrusive design patterns. Use of the jQuery, JSON. Django Python 2.5+ with MySQL Proven Leadership Skills – developer management, training mentoring skills Other skills SEO Techniques – onsite and offsite techniques. Adobe Photoshop (to CS9) Qualified Scrum Master – working with Scrum and Kanban agile process Adobe Flash – ActionScripting and animation. Subversion for source version control. Test Driven Development – using Django’s testing framework and QUnit for JS testing. User Interface User Experience Design – wireframing, user testing, rapid prototyping and interaction documentation. Use of RESTful APIs – experience using APIs: Last.fm, Twitter, Facebook, iTunes, Flickr. Employment History Senior Software Developer / Technical LeadGlobal Radio (formerly GCap Media) March 2008 – current, Technical Lead from May 2011 Development Client-side development and server-side development using Django, an open-source Python framework. Development and technical support of an in-house CMS. Front-end development: HTML, CSS and Javascript. HTML5 iPad applications ManagementManaging a team of three full-time developers ProjectsMajor radio sites: heart.co.uk, , classicfm.co.uk, Head of Client-side Production, GCap Media plc Apr 2007 – March 2008 DevelopmentLead client-side developer responsibility for coding standards, code reviews and mentoring of other developers.Client-side technologies: (X)HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, Adobe FlashServer-side development in Python on the Django framework. Design Creative DirectionInformation Archite