Andrew Mee

Current

• Client-side Web Developer at Nature Publishing Group

Past

• Lead Front End Developer at Songkick.com
• Front-End Developer at Enrich Social Productions
• Front-End Developer at Nature Publishing Group

• Front-End Developer at Public Zone
• Senior Front-End Developer at KND Web Consultants
• In-house Freelance Web Developer / Graphic Designer at Florentzos Design
• Freelance Web Developer at FAUNStudios

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Education

• Queensland University of Technology

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website
• My Portfolio

Andrew Mee’s Summary

I am a Front-end web developer with a passion for building beautiful, efficient and elegant websites.

In particular I focus on creating enjoyable and easy-to-use interfaces from clean, semantic markup, flexible and cross-browser-reliable stylesheets, and nifty DOM-massaging javascript.

Andrew Mee’s Specialties:

HTML, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, MooTools, DOM, usability, UI design, w3c, standards compliant, web applications

Andrew Mee’s Experience

• Client-side Web Developer

  Nature Publishing Group

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  May 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Lead Front End Developer

  Songkick.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)

• Front-End Developer

  Enrich Social Productions

  (Online Media industry)

  September 2008 — October 2008 (2 months)

• Front-End Developer

  Nature Publishing Group

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

  August 2008 — September 2008 (2 months)

  Initially contracted to complete new interfaces for the European Molecular Biology Organization's Journal and Reports websites ( http://www.nature.com/emboj/ and http://www.nature.com/embor/ respectively.)
  
  Re-skinned the main interface elements of Nature’s range of online research journals, consolidating and unifying the various stylesheets in the process to improve maintainability.
  
  Worked always within the Nature development guidelines and developed new work as an extension of the existing website cluster.

• Front-End Developer

  Public Zone

  (Online Media industry)

  August 2008 — August 2008 (1 month)

  Responsible for creating the XHTML/CSS website interface for the Business in Schools initiative http://www.businessinschools.com , including some jQuery-based JavaScript functionality.

• Senior Front-End Developer

  KND Web Consultants

  (Online Media industry)

  May 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 1 month)

  Created website interfaces from scratch using semantic (X)HTML and CSS.
  
  Coded rich web-based software utilising innovative JavaScript and AJAX implementations – particularly using the MooTools JavaScript framework.
  
  Provided front-end applications of PHP classes and data objects, and modified or extended those server-side scripts as required.
  
  Designed and implemented consistent micro-conventions for UI elements such as form feedback mechanisms.
  
  Developed all websites with an eye to SEO optimisation and usability.
  
  Crafted HTML email templates and set up mail-out campaigns.
  
  Conducted tutorials and provided ongoing training for other staff members (including; HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, Mootools, etc.).
  Interviewed and provided hiring advice for other prospective front-end developer employees.
  
  Drafted best-practice coding standards documents for staff orientation and Q.C.

• In-house Freelance Web Developer / Graphic Designer

  Florentzos Design

  (Graphic Design industry)

  November 2006 — March 2007 (5 months)

  Web Design consultant and chief Web Developer

• Freelance Web Developer

  FAUNStudios

  (Internet industry)

  January 2004 — December 2006 (3 years )

  ‘FAUNStudios’ is a small web design company located in Brisbane, Australia that was started in 2004 by myself in order to provide flexible, tailored graphic and web design solutions to my happy clients both local and abroad.

Andrew Mee’s Education

• Queensland University of Technology

  b. Creative Industries , Communication Design , 2003 — 2006

  Graduated with Distinction

Additional Information

Andrew Mee’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Portfolio

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