Skillset
Digital services and technology developer Yorkshire
Web design & development is my main source of income, but there is a lot more to me than that.
Today’s work market demands are for the multi skilled. I qualified as a electrician after leaving school & likely because of a background in music, I have always had a geeky interest in all things technical with particular regards to audio & video technology.
Prior to doing a design degree as a mature student I had a history of technical & creative roles in sound, video & broadcast technology.
What kind of stuff?
I have worked in technical roles in music recording studios, radio stations & film/TV tech support including a spell working for channel 5 TV as a broadcast engineer. I have designed & installed radio stations for colleges & community radio stations.
I also partnered in a commercial music recording studio for a number of years so I’ve got superb mixing ears & a good knowledge of audio processing such as EQ & compression. The main skill in running a successful music studio I quickly learned is being calm enough to deal with highly strung musicians!
Background
Digital design:
- Graphic & web design – degree at Leeds Uni (2:1)
- Good knowledge of Adobe Creative Cloud
- Experienced in Dreamweaver & Photoshop
- WordPress & WooCommerce specialist developer
- Experienced photographer & Photoshop retoucher
- Database & web application development (PHP, MySQL)
- HTML5, CSS
- Search engine optimisation (SEO)
- eCommerce & eLearning development
- I can build & configure a web server from scratch, (LAMP Servers – Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
- cPanel geek
Sound, video & tech:
- Qualified electrician – City & Guilds electrical installation & testing
- Music technology BTEC, Leeds College of Music
- Experienced multi cam TV tech support (education)
- Experience in design & installation of radio stations (FM & internet streaming) & music recording studios
- AV digitisation, digital preservation & archiving of audio & video
- Fault finding, signals & systems
- Experienced in sound recording, live sound, location recording, audio mastering, sound editing, MIDI
- Experienced in Adobe Premiere & DaVinci Resolve
- Excellent knowledge of Steinberg Cubase, Adobe Audition, Wavelab sound editing software
- Online video, all aspects of streaming video from filming to website delivery