o.lodriguez@gmail.com
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"To dismiss front-end design as mere ‘icing’ is to jeopardize the success of any site."
— Curt Cloninger
Here is a pie chart that demonstrates my focus area in programming. As you can see I focus heavily and fanatically on client side development. Although I love designing I have always kept up with technology as a whole. Designing is just half the job. Programming is the other half.
My broad work experience has landed me in places where I got to learn tons of CSS best practices. I have picked up advanced techniques and have applied them to all my projects. I am also aware with the browser differences and am very efficient in debugging issues.
HTML is really the foundation of it all, of course. This site is even based on HTML 5 and I have a firm grip on the new technology as its being finalized. But because it is still new, there are of course a lot to learn in this area.
This is by far the most complicated of front-end technologies, just due to it's power. I have a solid knowledge of JavaScript and I make use of the JQuery library daily to ease the routine and speed up development time. I am still learning new tricks on this subject, I love it.
Design is definitely one of my strongest abilities. I have started my career out as a designer and slowly fell in love with programming afterwards. I know color theory and balance well and I use this to guide the users to area of interest on the page and visually engage them. Here are a list of programs I am profecient with for design purposes.
I am experienced using google analytics and know my way well around the tool and it's features. Also being able to implement features on any site that would use this tool for measuring.
So far I have been employed by a lot of big and well respected companies. I wanted to gather as much experience and strategies as possible. I now feel it is time to nail a long-term plan.
BoosterMedia focusses on mobile development for the gaming industry. Here I have learned to work with different phone types and best modern practices for phone development. Everything is about speed and performance on the mobile platform and it really made me focus on that aspect in all my design and implementations.
Ebay is by far the best place I have at worked so far. I have worked close with top frontend and backend developers on the new Marktplaats platform. I have also received Scrum master and programming training.
Working for BIA was awesome. I got to work with clients such as The Black Eyed Peas and Toki Doki. My work here was mainly designing and working closely with a very talented Interaction designer and Art Director.
Worked as Senior cross media designer. Made graphic designs for Nintendo, KPN, Unilever and other companies. Most of my designs were for email marketing purposes.
Cardif is where I started my professional career. I have worked here as a all around webmaster. Doing both design and programming work. During my stay here I was was given an Adobe design suite workshop by respected members of the design community. I have also won the employee of the month November 08
Back when SecondLife was special and new, I worked at the leading company using the platform at the time. I helped built the rock show from Di-rect and I have built ABN Amro and Randstad all in 3D. This was definitely the best of the two internships I have done.
Supertracks was my first intern and also my first step into the interweb's professional world. All in all it was a great experience oppurtinity and I got a good taste of how life would be if I kept doing what I loved.
From Myles Eftos, he is a Perth-based web developer who feels just as at home building INNER JOINS as he does calculating the specificity of CSS selectors. He has worked in all the major web languages, his weapon of choice being Ruby on Rails—although he’s found himself doing more and more front-end development in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.
Certificate of completion
Personal lessons from a successful software developer, long standing web development speaker, writer, evangelist and expert, John Allsopp.
Certificate of completion
Personal lessons from a successful software developer, long standing web development speaker, writer, evangelist and expert, John Allsopp.
Certificate of completion
SitePoint CTO Kevin Yank tells us why you can't afford to miss out on JavaScript Live. I have picked up a lot of tricks and hints doing this course. It talks more about RAW JavaScript, so without any libraries. Fun stuff!
Certificate of completion
I haven't followed a course, but read 5 complete books on the subject and keep up to date with the latest developments from John Resig's team.
Certificate of completion
I have received various training using the Adobe Creatve Suite programs. These include Photoshop, Fireworks, Dreamweaver, Flash and Illustrator. This specific training was a 2 day event in Milan at the Adobe MAX conference.
Certificate of completion
An at home drawing class from the NTI. It's a whole year's course that covers everything from shapes to shades.
Drawing diploma
HBO CMD at De Haagse Hogeschool was a good experience, but a short lived one. I found this course not very challenging and I stopped after one year of studying here. I was not learning as much as I have hoped and they were sadly covering ancient online technologies. So I made the bold move to start my career.
Here is where I have learned to like the web. I grew from someone who did not even know what HTML meant, to someone who can not only write it, but manipulate it to do his bidding. My final exam I scored a perfect 10! I am still proud of that.
MBO diploma
High school diploma
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Vodafone Games
Vodafone is strong in mobile, they also wanted a platform to distribute games and make it easy for their users to get their hands on free gaming content after a phone purchase.
Jeux
A leading French gaming portal in France. OUr mobile site handles all kinds of phones from low-end non touch phones to highend Tablets. All get a custom layout optimised experience.
BNP Paribas
The BNP Paribas Group operates in 80 countries and has more than 200,000 employees. 160,000 of them are in Europe. This makes us a leading European financial services provider in the world.
Marktplaats
Marktplaats is the most popular website in Holland and I had the privilege of working on it
as front-end developer and a team member of the migration project. The migration is not online yet.
The Black Eyed Peas
The Black Eyed Peas website gets constant updates of banners or other promotions. I was responsible for making these promotional materials while working at Brothers in Art
Buscan2
Buscan2 is an initiative developed by Brothers in Art and it is a social website geared toward the hispanic community.
I have worked as a designer for various sections for the website.
Ferro explore!
A really complicated design touched my table the other day, I had to put this in HTML so all email clients could read it.
Shiwi
Design I made for Shiwi bad mode and they loved it. Their sales have gone up since this mailing.
Tnt-post
A lot was made for Tnt-post during my time at Cendris. But this one really sticks out, because of it's creative nature.
KPN veilig campaigne
KPN veilig is a shield for your computer. So I thought, let's just make a shield representing that it is protected.
BEP promo design
While pitching for new ideas to the Black Eyed Peas website I came up with this comp. I am very proud of how it turned out.
Iphone 3gs design
I like recreating existing products in digital form to hone my skills and keep them sharp. By doing this regurarly I end up
expanding my knowledge in design and the tools I am using.
Buscan2 Banner
Making an impact in any media is the key, I focus a lot on art direction and detail of the message I am trying to communicate, to make sure that is both clever and attractive to the targetted audience.
3D world representation
Creation of 3D graphics for any use is also a skill I possess. In this example I recreated the world and added some lighting effect.
Traditional art
I like to thoroughly sketch my ideas out and experiment with it before I turn on the computer. If time allows me to do so.
Ferro explore Christmas game
I have designed this Christmas game for Ferro Explore! While working at Brothers in Art. Enjoy! :)
Hello, I am Oscar Lodriguez and welcome to my portfolio. I currently operate in the Netherlands and I speak English and dutch fluently. I also have 3.5 years of working experience. If there is one thing you should know about me it is that I love web design and development. I am strong in both web design and development. I have a keen eye for detail. I work with the Adobe CS packages every day of the week. The programs that I mainly use are: Photoshop, Indesign, illustrator and Dreamweaver.
I also enjoy front-end development and I do an awesome job using: HTML, CSS and JavaScript!
Here are my awards so far. I am working on achieving more and expanding my collection :)
My goal is to always be ontop of new developing technologies and also be at the top of the existing ones. This is a challenging goal, just the way I like it..
My interests revolve a lot around self improvement. I like expanding my own skills and get better at doing what I enjoy to do, so that means a lot of reading, working out and studying for this fellow.. Of course the occassional beer here and there hits the spot every now and then! :)
Thanks for looking at my CV. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.
