Paul Stanton

Curriculum Vitæ

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About me

A passionate generalist web designer and front-end developer who loves to experiment with the latest trends in the industry while creating accessible, useable websites that work great, and look fantastic too.

Employment

Web Designer / Developer
November 2007Present
ISS Web Solutions
This involves working on a wide variety of departmental and corporate sites at the University of Leeds. Technical lead on the spring 2009 overhaul of the leeds.ac.uk corporate website.
Support Technician
September 2004November 2007
University of Leeds
PC Based support technician performing a wide variety of diagnostic and repair tasks across campus. Left to persue my passion in Web Design and Development

Notable Experience

Wellbeing.ac.uk
January 2010April 2010
This project involved building an ambitious design into a Wordpress theme as well as integrating and modifying third-party plugins to achieve a desired level of functionality on a minimal client budget. This site is a leader in its field and has achieved national recognition.
Screenshot of wellbeing.ac.uk website
Leeds.ac.uk
September 2008September 2009
Technical lead of the 2009 redesign / rebuild. This was a huge transformational project involving many departments and the rollout of a new institutional CMS service. I was primarily involved in developing large sections of bespoke functionality within JaduCMS, interaction design using jQuery and assisting with the CSS architecture over a 12 month build.
Screenshot of leeds.ac.uk website
Coursefinder
February 2009September 2009
Full development of a system to bring the complete list of academic courses into a JaduCMS managed module, with full front-end UX design to allow courses to be easily and effectively searched.
Screenshot of Coursefinder website
Leeds for Life
October 2009
Front-end development of a challenging visual design within an ASP.NET application incorporating a high degree of layering and transparency. This build had a large focus on cross-browser compatibility and was completed within a very short timeframe.
Screenshot of Leeds for Life website
Business and Enterprise
September 2008
Implementation of design into Jadu 'Galaxies' product. This involved creating 4 seperate microsites within the larger parent site. Each microsite required delivery of seperate CSS and images with no change in markup.
Screenshot of Business and Enterprise website
Sports Alumni
July 2008
Full design and development in-line with existing Sports website design but incorporating Alumni colours and imagery.
Screenshot of Sports Alumni website

Freelance

Global Fire Training & Consultancy
June 2010
GFTAC approached me to design and build a small brochure site for their new consultancy business. This site was built around the Perch CMS which offered a lightweight mechanism for the users to update their site.
Screenshot of GFTAC
Deliciously Timed Tweets
September 2009
Deliciously Timed Tweets is a collection of API’s which allow you to bookmark links in Delicious, and then automatically tweet them at a specified time interval. This is the code I wrote to run my @boaglinks twitter stream and I decided to open-source the code for anyone who wishes to use it, or build upon it.
Screenshot of DTT
Homeofmuppets
2001Present
This is my continual playground and side project. ‘HoM’ is a niche social website revolving around a small group of friends all over the world. The primary focus of the site is a moblogging platform which I've built over the past few years and the whole site is currently being rebuilt from the ground-up using the CakePHP framework.
Screenshot of Homeofmuppets
Boagworld.com Researcher & guest co-host
April 2008Present
Member of the production team for the world's longest-running web design podcast. Involved in researching latest industry news and trends. Also invited to co-host on occasion as well as the odd interview
Screenshot of Boagworld website
My online CV / Résumé
June 2009
I chose to build an online CV to both list, and demonstrate, my abilities and experience. I also used this project as an excuse to experiment with HTML5 and microformats which are both used.
Screenshot of my CV

Recognition

Government publication: “Higher ambitions: the future of universities in a knowledge economy” (page 72)
November 2009
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills featured the Leeds for Life site — for which I did the front-end build — as a case study in a national publication which sets out the government's strategy for sustaining Higher Education in the current economic climate.
Cover shot of the Higher Ambitions publication
The Web Designer's Idea Book – Patrick McNeil
October 2008
I contributed to the design and development of the 'Havoc Studios' blog — now offline — which I co-authored with long-time friend and colleague Ryan Taylor, and was featured in this book.
Cover shot of the Web Designers Idea Book
.NET Magazine – issue 184
December 2008
I was named by Paul Boag, along with the rest of the production team, in an article that appeared in .NET magazine, in which he pays credits to our contribution in winning the 'podcast of the year 2008' award.
Cover of .NET issue 184