Daniel Hansson

Skilled Senior Web Designer with more than 15 years experience. Career freelancer interested in full time opprotunities. As an employee I have a lot to offer through both hard work and dedication to my field. Both commercially and technically aware, I communicate effectively with clients and suppliers to infuence them on correct decisions for the project at hand. Positive, decisive, humorous, professional, dependable and loyal.
Awards
7city Learning Ltd
London, UK
Learning innovation of the year 2007
2006-11-01 – 2006-11-01
  • Synergised the design, structure and content of the E-learning delegate portals for ACCA and CFA qualifications. Break through merge between online learning and streaming ebook content. This solution won the company “Learning innovation of the year 2007” by World of Learning Awards.
Contracting
HL Design & Media AB
Växjö, Sweden
Web Developer
2011-11-01 – 2011-01-31

Started freelancing for HL Design after ending my employment. Focus on more front-end development and cutting edge technologies like responsive webdesign, HTML 5 and advanced redesign for their major clients.

GT London Ltd
London, UK
Web Designer
2008-04-01 – 2008-04-30
  • Produced manual newsletters for Microsoft Xbox, in particular for the launch of GTA IV taking place in 17 different languages and 13 countries mid April 2008. Utilized techniques to ensure accessibility both in web based clients as well as desktop equivalents.
  • Optimised bugfixing techniques for ASDA.co.uk to meet deadline by end of April.
ASOS.com
London, UK
Web Coder
2008-02-01 – 2008-03-31
  • Primary responsibility for quality, assuring newsletters, landing pages and microsites for the various fashion trends highlighted on the company website.
IPC Media
London, UK
Web Co-ordinator
2007-11-01 – 2008-02-01
  • Implemented design and code on some of the more distinguished titles such as Marie Claire, Womoan and Home, InStyle and Living ETC.
  • Produced online applications such as and online advent calendar and a Google Mashup for Woman and Home Walking Clubs.
  • Harmonised the code between older and newer sites, to increase reusable code.
Affiliations
Blondy & Blacky
Växjö, Sweden
Marketing officer
2003-01-01 – Present

Member of the board and responsible for marketing the company online and offline.

Career
HL Design & Media AB
Växjö, Sweden
Graphic Web Designer
2009-06-25 – 2011-10-31
  • Enforced rigorous routines and work tools to cut down the development time of templates for Intranets and CMS specific designs from one month to less than one week. This increased the amount of projects the team could handle concurrently.
  • Redesign of “MyPages” – an administrative front end for all major regional bus companies in the south of Sweden. Focus on speed, accessibility and ease of use for staff.
  • Conceptualised template designs and site structures, as well as prototyping and information structure for all 270+ websites using the WebManager CMS.
Polar Rose AB
Malmö, Sweden
Front end Web Developer
2008-08-01 – 2009-04-30
  • Introduced new features and functions in two major updates of the company’s website and beta service in November 2008 and April 2009 to boost marketability to 3rd party users on Flickr and Facebook.
  • Reworked the interface scripts from script.aculo.us and prototype to jQuery library to increase productivity and increase performance in leading web browsers.
7city Learning Ltd
London, UK
Web Designer
2006-10-12 – 2007-11-12
  • Developed b2b portals and e-learning systems in a front end capacity for major banks and financial institutes on a daily basis.
  • Synergised the design, structure  and content of the E-learning delegate portals for ACCA and CFA qualifications. This solution won the company “Learning innovation of the year 2007” by World of Learning Awards.
Churston Heard
London, UK
In-house Designer and Assistant IT-Manager
2003-10-01 – 2006-10-31
  • Designed and coded a company intranet with a digital booking system for meeting rooms , equipment, and a digital office plan using plain XHTML, with a use of ASP, PHP, and connecting both to MySQL. This increased efficiency on a cross-department level.
  • Establishing work process. Reducing response time for design projects from 2 weeks to 2 days – improving productivity for the IT department and higher customer satisfaction, and decreased cost of outsourced projects.
Education
Ben Hunt
Online
Pro Web Designer Course
2011 – 2012

Course focusing on webdevelopment, SEO, standards and marketing solutions

VTC Online Training
Online
Various courses
2007 – 2008

Various online courses in development and programming. Focus on PHP, prototype, scriptaculous and jQuery

Harlequin Solutions
London, UK
Course: Advanced Dreamweaver and Javascript course
2000 – 2000

Focus on Dreamweaver in a professional setting, advanced HTML and Javascript

RMI Berghs School of Design
Stockholm, Sweden
Diploma in Layout
1996 – 1997

Layout, Advertising, Graphic Design, Typography and Illustration.

Kungsmadskolan
Växjö, Sweden
Media programme
1992 – 1995

Majors: Multimedia, Graphic Design and filmmaking.

Areas of expertise
Design
  • Photoshop CS+
  • Illustrator CS+
  • Acrobat
  • Indesign CS+
  • Advanced illustrations
  • Design templates
  • Advanced photo manipulation
  • Typography
  • Interface design
  • concept design
  • Comic illustration
  • Brand development
  • Corporate identities

 

Soft skills
  • Project management
  • Team management
  • Client meetings
  • Teaching experience
  • Client presentations
  • Creative briefs
  • Documentation
  • Usability evangelist
  • Accessibility evangelist
  • Styleguide development
  • Information design
Programming
  • Javascript
  • jQuery
  • W3C standards
  • PHP (Basic)
  • SQL (Basic)
Web development
  • XHTML
  • HTML5
  • CSS 2&3
  • Dreamweaver
  • E-text editor/Textmate
  • Mambo/Joomla CMS
  • Social Networking
  • E-commerce systems
  • Browser compatibility
  • Template development
  • SEO
  • Prototyping
  • Grid work flow
Personal
References

Available upon request

Eligibility

Authorised to work in the European Union.