About

Well, if you have got this far then I guess you’re interested in what other skills I might have or you’re a digital stalker.  Either way it’s more traffic to my blog, so you are both welcome.

Not so boring stuff:

I’m a speed freak; I love fast cars, bikes, planes and anything else that goes zoom. Love comedies akin to Anchorman, Southbound and down, Air Plane. Well you get the idea.

Nothing I find better for clearing the mind is going for a run. For my creativity I like to fall back on my previous role as a Photographer, which I must do more.

Boring stuff:

I’ve been lucky enough to for work with some great Digital Creativity and Blue-chip companies in the North West (UK) and have learnt a lot from everyone at these companies.

I believe you should always be open to new methods, technologies and working practices; Finding the right one to fit the gap. The great thing about being a contractor is the number of new skills you learn and the great people you meet in each role.  The last couple of years I’ve been interested in Lean methodology and how this applies to web production and interface workflow.

I love to develop apps. jQuery, CSS and now .NET MVC have just made life that much better for building applications. I strive for fast, light and valid mark-up for any application. The more efficient, interactive and streamlined you make your users experience; I believe, the better your customer satisfaction and return on investment will be.

Here is a just a quick summary of my skills, but not limited to, I’ve left off my stand-up comedy routines.

• ASP.NET C#, MVC,  Classic ASP, Combine/Minify release plans,
• X/HTML Strict, CSS, XSLT, XML all to W3C standards, FBML ,
• SQL 2000, SQL 2005 and SQL 2008 Express, MySQL,
• JavaScript, jQuery, AJAX, FBJS,
• Accessibility and Usability awareness, SEO metric analysis and performance proven track record,
• Team Foundation Server 2010, SourceSafe, Subversion, IIS, Apache and MS Exchange Server configurations,
• Photoshop / Fireworks,
• Web application speed performance analysis, implantation and enhancement,
• Flash / Air / Action Script 2.0 and 3.0.

Please feel free to contact me.

@ArranM