A summary of what I have been doing so far
I have worked on the Guardian Soulmates website, designing, prototyping and implementing new user interfaces, using jQuery and HTML5.
I have worked on the Coca-Cola Olympics website - Explore Nominations section, built using JQuery, plugins, JQuery templates and HTML5.
I have worked on two large financial report websites for Cairn and African Minerals, coordinating the work with other developers, ensuring the quality of the code and delivering on time under very tight deadlines.
Building and branding the new Autumnwatch website
Front-end technical lead of BBC Wallace and Gromit
Building and branding the new Springwatch website
Part-time support to the BBC News team building the new BBC News website
the BBC news site won the 'Redesign of the year' .Net magazine 2010 award
Technical lead of the front end of The Virtual Revolution
International Digital Emmy Awards 2010 - Virtual Revolution won the Award for Digital Program: Non-Fiction. The product has also been nominated for a Bafta award
Rebranding Bang Goes the Theory and building new features
Building the homepage of BBC Food - Christmas a website built on Forge, the new BBC development platform.
Rebuild of Watchdog
Building the new BBC Nature homepage
Building Autumnwatch 2009
Technical support that enabled the scheduled launch of Crimewatch and Crimewatch Roadshow
Building the site Bang Goes the Theory
Building Springwatch 2009
Improving and bug-fixing the new release of the B-templates. Developing a test suite, based on Selenium, ANT and XSLT, to verify accessibility, validation and compliance of the B-templates.
Building Autumnwatch 2008
Developing a set of higly accessible templates known as B-templates, that respect the W3C/WAI standards; integration into a proprietary Content Management System. Testing, debugging, extra features.
Re-engineering of the "BBC learningZone" user interface. Building a new user interface with enhanced usability using AJAX features
All the projects involved strict guidelines about web standards, accessibility, semantic html and its validation, cross browser compatibility.
Concept and specs for two iPhone games, "Gangster Rocco" and "Pidgey", both released on the iTunes App store
Developing business opportunities of Wise-Lab (other company that I've been working for) and other start-up, strongly innovation-oriented companies. Technical analysis of innovative IT products and test of their usability. Supporting the marketing staff to understand IT products and related issues.
Projecting, developing and implementing the front-end presentation layer of various web applications, based on a proprietary Java CMS and its modules across various projects, working alone or with a team of 2-3 developers under my management. Technologies used: Java, JSP, JSTL, XHTML, XML, XSL, Javascript, AJAX, CSS.
Gathering of requirements and project analysis of several customers.
Training customers to use the applications.
Acquired competence in Accessibility (WAI/W3C and section 508) as two of the largest projects have been conducted with the two largest universities in Milan.
Developing a web application under specific project commissioned by a cooperative group of banks, to manage the HR of the whole group. Modelling and implementing with an UML based Case.