hello my name is Leanne Borrowman
I'm a uk based website designer,

Contact Details:

32b High Street
Barwell
Leicester
Leicestershire
LE9 8DQ

E-mail: lborrowman@googlemail.com
Mobile Telephone: 0789 4499 368
DOB: 23 /04 /1985

Personal Profile

With every website, I aim to use as little imagery as possible. Fundamental flaws with many websites arise out of usability and accessibility issues. These are issues I consider with every website I create, and I love the challenge of designing with optimisation boundaries.

All my web work is CSS and XHTML based, I have more than 5 years experience integrating my designs with many applications such as Ruby on Rails, Sharepoint, wordpress and other PHP CMS. I have even created core hacks to enable the best of my designs.

I enjoy both working on my own and as part of a team and have had many years experience of working with not only large clients but also international companies. I have an aptitude for acquiring, understanding, and applying information with skills to everything I do.

On a more personal note, I prefer to lead a happy mature way of life and I understand the values necessary to conduct myself in a professional manner.

Education

Bankfield High School : 8 Subjects - 2001
Warrington College : A level Art - July /2002
Warrington College : National Diploma in Multimedia - July / 2003

Skills

Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Contribute, InDesign

XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, Website Usability and Accessibility, Cross-Browser Integration, Markup for CMS and Markup for Contribute.

 

Recent Position(s)

CL3
Senior Designer
September 2008 - Present

I am currently working for CL3 in Liverpool City Centre.
We offer a range of design services from web and print to marketing and events of a high standard.

Please visit our website for more information : www.cl3.co.uk

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Bit10
Production Designer
June 2006 - July 2008

At bit10 I worked as one of only two designers. My main job was the full design of customer websites and any in-house graphic design projects.
Customers have ranged from Severn Trent Water, The Derbyshire Building Society, Next, Virgin and Sony BMG ( now known as Universal. )

Each site design consists of Information Architecture, Wireframing, Usability and Accessibility.

Although design was my main role within the company, I devoted alot of my time to the markup of non-database driven websites with CSS and templated others. I am fully trained to build websites for use with Contribute and have trained each client how to use Adobe Contribute as part of a small workshop.

I often work overtime to complete projects for deadline. In addition I recently started an after hours basic flash workshop for the children at local school: Small Heath.

Details : www.bit10.net

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Trader Media Group
Dealer Website Designer
March 2005- July 2005

This Job involved the making of new standard/premium package websites and also the administration of all dealer websites. Most Packages are websites of up to 6 pages made from a combination of Flash, HTML and database driven CSS. These packages were given to premium customers and many websites were simply duplicates of the last.

I quickly left Trader Media group due to the restrictions and frustration building these simple duplicated template sites posed. Hardly any design knowledge was needed for this role and the already marked up css templates produced errors, So where not to a w3 standard yet were still sold.
I haven't presented any of these sites in my portfolio but can produce examples within interview if desired.

Details : www.autotrader.co.uk

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ViaNetworks / Clara.net
Domains Technical Advisor
Nov 2003 – March 2005

The domains team consisted of myself and one other person. My main day to day activities included : Helping customers with their domain queries, domain registration and transferring and general website help and administration of over 8000 customer accounts.

I also provided technical support if the support team was short on staff. I was also free to take on any overtime or on-call duties that would involve logging calls via the on-call laptop 24 hours that given day.

Clara.net bought out Vianetworks at the start of 2005. Clara.net also offered a level of service which allowed me to help the customers update and maintain their websites and web pages.
Within this role I interacted with companies such as Nominet and Melbourne IT who are major domain hosts in the web related world and take on board on call duties ( 24/7 service ).

Details : www.clara.net

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Polar Ford
Website Administrator
May 2003 – Nov 2003

During my time at college where I was training to become a car designer I was lucky enough to land a part time job with Ford Cars as a website administrator and general content maintainer.

As my time at Ford progressed I began to work closely with the design team and helped to come up with the 2004 Ford site design. This role fuelled the passion I have today for website design.

Details : www.ford.co.uk