Alfred Lettang
UX / Web Designer
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- Tel: 07957 43 50 49
- Email: me@alfredlettang.com
- Website: www.alfredlettang.com
Profile
Expertise in user-centred design, interaction design, information architecture, email marketing, Drupal CMS, accessibility, web standards, mobile-first and content-first strategies.
It was in 2002 that I first began creating websites. I am currently obsessed with HTML5, responsive web design, mobile-first and content-first strategies. I am a data driven designer, shaping user experiences based on user research and analysis of quantitive and qualitative data.
Experience of all stages of project life cycle including:
- Gathering business and user requirements
- Storyboarding
- Wire framing
- HTML prototyping
- Usability testing
- Visual design
- Front end development
- Website deployment
- Staff training
- Project management
Skills
Hand code HTML and CSS to W3C standards and have a strong understanding of WCAG 2.0 and front-end best practices.
I build solid user interfaces using progressive enhancements and strive for consistent user experiences across browsers and devices. I also have experience implementing popular APIs such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google Maps and responsive, adaptive and mobile theme techniques.
Web technologies
- (X)HTML and CSS - Advanced hand-coded
- HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, HTML5, CSS2.1/CSS3 specifications - Advanced
- WAI-ARIA, Microformats, OpenGraph - Working knowledge
- JavaScript/Jquery - Intermediate
- PHP - Working knowledge
- Drupal 6.x, 7.x - Advanced
- Subversion / Command Line - Working knowledge
- Adobe Suite - Advanced
- Dotmailer, Mailchimp email marketing – Advanced
- Flash – Advanced
- SEO - Advanced
Work History
Lead web designer
Tarsus Group Plc
I was employed to help with planning and migration to open source technologies from a classic asp site network to a drupal 6.x based one. My role is UX / web designer and I am involved in all standard processes (planning, design, development, launch, post-launch). My daily duties involve:
- Gathering business and user requirements
- Storyboarding
- Wire framing
- HTML prototyping
- HTML/CSS production and Drupal CMS integration
- Product and strategy development
- Running usability testing sessions and stake holder interviews
- Conducting drupal training for front-end developers, designers and internal business teams
- Email marketing templates - design, development and training
Achievements
Part of the team winning Marketing Campaign of the Year at AEO Excellence Awards
The campaign theme “Technology to the rescue!” was based on superhero imagery and the entire campaign was personalized and delivered across a variety of different media.
Senior web designer
F&E
I was responsible for research, analysis, email marketing templates, design and development of a user friendly and easy to edit database driven websites.
- Gathering business and user requirements
- Storyboarding
- Wire framing
- HTML prototyping
- User interface design and development
- Running usability testing sessions and stake holder interviews
- Organising and planning projects with the team members.
- Drupal CMS web templates and theming (XHTML,CSS, Php, JavaScript , MySQL).
- Email Marketing, DotMailer.
- Training designer and business team.
- Flash design and development (banners, animated intro’s, video player etc).
- SEO
Front End Developer
British Land, Comgenic Ltd
I worked as part of a team, designing custom build CMS systems for shopping centres. I grasped the use of standards compliant semantic markup and ensured that strict branding guidelines were adhered to.
- Responsible for setting up master and content pages, theming.
- Pages were written in C# and Asp.Net2 and
- implemented with use of Microsoft visual studio 2005.
- XHTML, CSS, XML, Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Creation of supporting graphics (weather icons etc.)
- SEO
Web – Graphic designer – Freelance
Embryoo – Born by design
- Project management
- Website design & redesign
- HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, Action Scripts
- Brand and Identity
- Print documentation creation and delivery
- Communication with clients.
- Banners, Flash Intro’s and Animations
Education and Qualifications
- 2002-2004 – Westminster University Harow - Diploma of Higher Education (DIPHE) in Computer Science
- 2001-2002 - BTEC HNC Multimedia South Thames College, London
- 1987 - 1991 - High school of civil engineering - Zlin, Czech Republic