METICULOUS CODING.
PROBLEM SOLVING.
PIXEL HUNTING. ()
PROBLEM SOLVING.
PIXEL HUNTING. ()
I AM RHONDA/
INDOOR SKYDIVE AUSTRALIA GROUP
Indoor Skydive Australia Group provide indoor skydiving facilities to Australia,
New Zealand and South East Asia regions. ISA Group uses specially constructed
vertical wind tunnels to simulate the free fall experience of skydiving
within a safe environment used by tourists, skydiving enthusiasts and the military.
My involvement in the ISA Group website builds for both the Australian based website (iFly Downunder) and the Malaysian based website (AirRider) was as Front End Developer primarily taking PSD designs and creating interactive web pages. This has been a ten month contract with both websites requiring a total build using modules to display packages and prices, news and events, FAQs along with a booking and payment system complete with voucher purchase and redeem and contact-us page.
Components used to build these websites include; Flickity for responsive carousels, Select2 for custom dropdown styling, Isotope to sort and display elements, Bootstrap Accordion for FAQs along with Font Awesome for social media icons and the inclusion of video and Google Maps.
Technical aspects of both websites also include; responsive design with image optimisation along with the use of Bootstraps; flexbox, tabs, modals, fields and forms in addition to styling third party components.
HOW /
8SECONDZ
8secondz is a mentor and competition-driven App for
teenagers to share their raw talent.
8secondz allows the creation and
sharing of 8-second videos according to categories of; sport, fashion, dance,
art, music and science.
Winners as talented up-and-coming in their field
have the opportunity to be mentored by celebrity artists.
The 8Secondz website is feature rich and required a creative approach to resolving technical design aspects; keyframe animations for circular moving text, parallax footer, Bootstrap accordion for FAQs, custom jQuery image stack, dynamic text sizing and dual panel scrolling.
I have a common approach to project setup using the tools currently most suited to a quick startup and effective development. I use Bower to install frontend tools like Bootstrap for responsive design and Font Awesome for widely recognised social media and business icons and the Sass preprocessor with Gulp for task automation.
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PIMP MY CAUSE
Women Hack for Non Profits is a program for women in tech to write open source
software for non profit organisations. One such organisation approached WHFNP
to rebuild their website a company called 'Pimp My Cause' who provide volunteers the
opportunity to support good causes while developing their skills.
In my capacity as front end developer on the Pimp My Cause project I built the front page according to specification while also adapting the design for responsive behaviour. The technologies I used were Zurb Foundation framework, HTML5, CSS3, Sass and Grunt to run tasks.
I worked within a team of women to produce a total solution for the client with regular client meetings. The project was managed using JIRA and a SCRUM approach with weekly stand ups. The demands and work practices comparable to any such industry based project provided me with real world experience as a Front End Developer.
HOW /I have been involved in building websites primarily taking PSDs and templating them into interactive web pages operating across multiple devices. I’ve worked as part of development teams to produce a number of CMS based applications and contributed towards UX/UI discussions and decisions.
I have experience building websites using CSS3, HTML5, JavaScript and jQuery. Setting up projects using Gulp, Sass and media queries for responsive design, installing Bower and Node packages for automated tasks, using Git for source management and MAMP as a web server. Building websites using the Bootstrap framework and currently learning to create custom themes in WordPress.
I am a Front End Developer that thrives on the challenge of taking a design and making it into an enjoyable user experience. I enjoy the feeling of taking flat designs and creating an interactive responsive website that lives and looks professional it's all about getting the small details right. I also like to try out the latest front end technologies, frameworks; for the best responsive behaviour and most compatible features and tools; automating tasks for speed and efficiency.
My working history commenced in Adelaide as a Desktop Applications Developer and continued as the same in London followed by a position in education before returning to industry as a Front End Developer. I'm now working in Sydney and keen to continue working centrally as it's convenient to Manly where I currently live.
I enjoy an outdoors lifestyle of exercise on the beach anything from ocean swimming, running to beach yoga. I also enjoy coastal walks, touring holidays, theatre, eating out and coffee.