Peter Aidan Henderson

peter_aidan@hotmail.com

Professional Experience

Geek Service

Sept 2002 - Present
Contract Technical Support (Mac Specialist)
Vancouver, B.C.

• On-site technical support to businesses & residences in the Greater Vancouver Area
• Mac, PC & printer networking
• Mac software & firmware upgrades and compatibility fixes
• Hardware repairs and upgrades to Macintosh computers & peripherals
• Training clients in the following areas: MS Office, OS X & Classic, AppleWorks, Photoshop, HTML, CSS, DreamWeaver, FTP, web site management & source control concepts.
• Long-term customer support

Calder Bateman Communications

Aug 2001 - May 2002
Contract Web Developer
Vancouver, B.C.

• Development of Royal Tyrrell Museum's web site.
• Environment: PHP (front-end & basic logic), HTML, Javascript DOM, CSS, Graphic optimization

Resort Reservations Network (Intrawest)

May 2001 - July 2001
Web Content Producer
Vancouver, B.C.

• Content management for Whistler-Blackcomb and Vancouver.com web sites.
• Microsoft Content Management (née Ncompass Resolution) - content editing & writing
• High-volume graphics processing from company-produced Tourism magazines/flyers
• Environment: HTML, CSS, Photoshop, HomeSite & DreamWeaver

JT Halliday Motion Graphics

Dec 2000 - April 2001
Contract Web Developer
Vancouver, B.C.

• Development of Boston Pizza and Boston's Gourmet web sites.
• Development of Wavepointsystems.com
• Development of Slam City Jam (2001 web site)
• Some graphics production & animation - translating print collateral into web graphics
• Environment: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Photoshop, HomeSite, GIF animation

Populuxe Digital (Glennie Stamnes Strategy)

Jan 2000 - Nov 2000
Production Specialist
Vancouver, B.C.

• Front-end development of the following sites: CivicInfo, Credential Direct (2000 site), Knowledge Network (2000 site).
• Editing, writing, proofreading & formatting of help/tutorial files for intranets
• Use & modification of proprietary content-management systems
• Translated Graphic Designer's Photoshop files into robust, cross-browser templates
• Time tracking for client billing purposes via a proprietary intranet
• Environment: HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript DOM, Perl, PHP, ASP (some VBScript/SQL), CFML (front-end, some SQL), Photoshop, HomeSite

SUMmedia.com Inc.

Nov 1999 - Jan 2000
Designer
Vancouver, B.C.

• Graphic design & production for Oracle RDBMS-backed web portal Handling large amounts of graphic files from clients
• Flatbed scanning & clean up of print logos

Dominion Information Services (TELUS/Verizon)

July 1999 - Nov 1999
Web Designer
Burnaby, B.C.

• Graphic Design & Web Development for sub-sites on MyTELUS.com (née MyBC)
• Use of CMGI MyWay Content Management System (née Zip2)
• Managing multiple sites and large amounts of graphic files on internal (SuperPages) server
• Flatbed scanning & clean up of print graphics & photography from clients
• Environment: Illustrator, Photoshop, CMGI MyWay & a proprietary billing system

CruiseXplorer Vacations

Aug 1998 - June 1999
Graphic Designer
Vancouver, B.C.

• Search Engine submission and optimization
• Graphic Design & Web Development for cruise booking website
• Content management using proprietary Oracle PL*SQL web site
• Editing, proofreading & formatting of travel writing for the web (cruise ports of call)
• Environment: Photoshop, Freehand, NetObjects, MS FrontPage, HTML

Education

Emily Carr Institute of Art & Design

Sept 1994 - May 2002
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Visual Arts
Vancouver, B.C.

Skills

Fluent in French & English
Typing 55 WPM

Office Software & Word Processing
Microsoft Office, Sun Staroffice / OpenOffice, vi, AppleWorks/ClarisWorks

Graphics Software
Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, VueScan
Adobe InDesign, QuarkXpress
GIMP, Kontour (née Killustrator)

Markup & Programming
HTML, XHTML, CSS, SGML, DTML (Zope), CFML (ColdFusion)
Javascript DOM, PHP, Perl, SQL
Editors: BBEdit, HomeSite, DreamWeaver, vi

• Thorough knowledge of search engines and optimization techniques
• Able to write W3C-compliant or browser specific HTML, XHTML & CSS on any text editor
• Thorough knowledge of W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Rudimentary knowledge of ODBC database access in ASP, PHP & CFML
• Basic programming principles (Variables, Logic and Loops, Arrays, Structured and Reusable Code)

Content Management Systems
Zope, CMGI MyWay (née Zip2)
Microsoft Content Management (née Ncompass Resolution)

• Knowledge of content-management and source control concepts
• Installation & configuration of Zope on Linux and Windows NT/2000

Operating Systems
Mac OS Classic & OS X, SGI Irix, Sun Solaris
Windows, MS-DOS, Linux
Installation & configuration of all of the above

Photography
Black & White developing and printing, 35mm and Medium Format scanning