Mark Brown

Kooyong, VIC, Australia

Summary

I'm passionate about designing and building high quality web sites & applications using open standards. I enjoy teaching others and working collaboratively with talented people.

For the past four years I have been working full time for PageUp People, the leading Australian talent management software provider. In 2012 I went out on my own and began freelance work. I have been working on the web professionally for over 6 years.

Personal Attributes

Technical skills

High level of competency and experience in:

I also have experience developing with:

Education

2004 – 2007 Swinburne University, Hawthorn
Bachelor of Multimedia - Multimedia Software Development
Achieved a distinction average
1998 – 2003 VCE, Billanook College, Mooroolbark
Maths Methods / Physics / English / Media Studies / VET Multimedia / Information Processing and Management
Achieved an ENTER of 83.55

Academic awards

2006 Golden Key International Honour Society Membership
2003 Subject award: Academic excellence – VET Multimedia
2003 Certificate II in Arts (Interactive Multimedia)

Employment History

2007 - 2012

Web developer & designer at PageUp People

Specialised in design and front end development but also developed .NET and Rails applications.

Mentored other developers in front-end development and produced front end standards.

Was the lead designer & developer working on a re-design of the recruitment product for the global market.
2007

Teaching at Swinburne University

Tutored classes of 120-140 students per semester

  • Internet Technologies (Web Standards, Accessibility and Browser Compatibility, HTML / CSS / JavaScript / PHP
  • Web Programming: (PHP and MySQL)

I also developed teaching material for Internet Technologies.
2007

Web developer at Web Managers Department, Swinburne University

During my final year of study I worked with Andrew Normand and Caroline Rojas in the Web Managers Department at Swinburne. I rewrote the Administration Area (a CMS that enables publishers to update their individual sites) using object oriented PHP & MySQL.

I also made global semantic markup changes to the site including making all navigational menus lists.
2006-2007

Web developer at yellowshoe

My own business mostly in CSS development, I received work from my contributions on the CSS forum at Sitepoint, where I actively participated.
2006

Web developer at Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University

I worked full time during 2006 as a web developer producing content for the site & developing a faculty intranet.

Personal Skills

Working as a tutor in web development subjects at Swinburne University has developed my skills in:

I'm creative, a good problem solver & a life long learner, actively seeking relevant information and new techniques.

Interests and hobbies

Guitar, singing, art, cooking, film & music