Walter Verdejo's CV

[^]Summary

I've been working on Internet related business since year 2000 and specifically in online gambling since 2005 for one of the biggest gambling sites in the online bingo scene in Europe. Currently my portfolio holds the development and design of gambling sites for MSN.co.uk and AOL.co.uk as partner deals.

[^]Goal

My goal is working on a larger scale with bigger gambling sites to enhance my skills as web designer. I want to learn new techniques that involve delivering a better user experience. I enjoy working in a team and being able to achieve my objectives.

[^]Work Experience

Netplay TV (1/10/2005 - actually)

Web designer for a ring of PARLAY based egaming sites. I develop their website public and private area's look and feel, templates, corporate image, online advertising, newsletters, mailers and customer support interface.

Suntelecom(1/12/2000- 30/9/2005)

Head designer for an online company, leading a team of 3 designers. My scope of work mainly entailed the coordination of the project development and meet the set targets.

Auidó Software(1/5/2000- 1/8/2000)

Graphics contribution for game developing [ 'Obscurus destiny' and 'Space Hell' ], Main tools where 3Dstudio MAX and Photoshop.

Isurf media(1/11/1997-1/6/1998)

Head designer for an e-kiosk company. Studying navigation psychology, customer needs, video managing. Responsible for the technical equipment, and also hardware's maintenance.

Serigrafía Puerto Portals(13/2/1997 - 1/4/1997)

Designer for a serigraphic factory, printing corporate material (mainly t-shirts). Responsible for designs and logo processing for the whole factory (6 employees)

[^]Additional Experience

Domain management

DNS managing, domain book and redirection, subdomains, mail accounts setup.

CMS integration

Wordpress and Mambo/Joomla knowledge. Able to create templates for both CMS.

Freelancing
Several full web solutions delivered to private customers. More info on the gallery.

[^]Additional knowledge and skills

I'm a curious person by nature, autodidact. I like to find solutions to problems, and simplify situations so they can be easily solved. I enjoy working in a team and learning from others. I'm fast and accurate in my development of work, and understand and carry out my responsibility in a timely manner. I enjoy the web, building it, and I do it with a passion.

Online marketing

I started in the gambling business designing Banners (animated gifs and flash), but soon I got involved into microsites, newsletters and mailers. I experimented with the most common webmail clients to get the most out of them.

Javascript
I understand javascript to a level that lets me control the functionality of a website. I like working with it since is more powerful that seems at first.
CSS

CSS is a passion to me. Splitting content from aspect is one of the major advantages of it. Based on CSS, you can build correct websites with simple HTML code that are easy to modify, and better indexed by search engines.

PHP, JSP

knowledge to work on both server-side platforms, and able to integrate templates, and perform error-debugging on both languages related to design and it's implementation within the dynamic tool of choice.

SEO

Understanding of the HTML as a correct semantic implementation for search engines to index correctly. Keywords, Meta tags, duplicated content, inbound and outbound links.

Drawing Skills

Able to draw cartoon artwork, either on a vectorial program such as Freehand or Coreldraw, or simply on paper for post processing on Photoshop and/or Flash. Animation skills.

[^]Education

Elementary School
Graduated on Balearic Island University.(PAAU 6,36 final mark)
Logotype and Syntesis

Course certified by W-mega  January 4th 2001, taught by professionals for professionals working in the design sector, Studying Corporate Image and communication of a brand.

Adobe Flash

Course certificated by CAEB on September of 2002, focused on Flash5.0 and MX implementation on web; Animation techniques and dynamic implementation with DHML applications. Basics for RIA(Rich Internet Aplications) development.

ASP

Course certificated by CAEB on October of 2002, focused on Active Server Pages server side technology focused on website with database management to be able to provide dynamic solutions

Corporate Web Portals

Course certified by CAEB on November of 2002, focused on the theory behind corporate portals: New media, Advertising systems, Content Management systems.

[^]Languages

Language Spoken Written
Spanish Native Native
English High High
Dutch Basic -
Catalan Basic Normal
German Basic -

[^]Mobility

Driving Licence yes(B1)
Available for travel yes

[^]Personal Interests

Interfaces and Web
Usability, User behaviour study, Information structure and its formatting. Code Standards, Tableless design, clean and easy-to-use layouts. Interface Design, interactivity, Flash video.
Online Media
Online advertising, Viral marketing, Social Networks, Virtual environments.
Video
Rich content platforms, Flash Video servers.

[^]Personal profile

Name: Walter Osvaldo Verdejo Beisterveld
Date of birth: 23th of June 1977
Address: C/Vicente Juan i Rosellò, nº40, 3º, 1ª, 07013, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Email: waldito@gmail.com
Phone number: +34639575335
Nationality: Spanish/Dutch

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