Jen Keane

Current

Senior Web Developer at Cahill May Roberts

Past

Account Manager & Web Developer at Cognitive Network Solutions
Field Marketing Staff at Lites Group
Graphic Design and Website Design at Personal Contracts (Self-employed)

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Education

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

Connections

33 connections

Industry

Internet

Jen Keane’s Summary

• Application development, maintenance, and administration in a wide range of settings.
• Proficient in HTML, XHTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, MYSQL, and many other web technologies. Also proficient in Java, J2EE, Struts, and Caché. Several years experience in the field of web design.
• Proficient in the use of Paint Shop Pro and Illustrator for the creation of high end vector-based graphics, recreation and recovery of graphics, creation of raster graphics, image modification.

Jen Keane’s Specialties:

• Web Design
• Graphic Design

Jen Keane’s Experience

Senior Web Developer

Cahill May Roberts

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

May 2008 — Present (1 year 7 months)

Senior Web Developer at Cahill May Roberts, developing a number of internal and external projects for future release.
Account Manager & Web Developer

Cognitive Network Solutions

(Internet industry)

June 2007 — April 2008 (11 months)

Held the position of Account Manager & Web Developer. As well as handling general account queries, my duties also include programming websites (both dynamic and static pages) with extensive use of languages such as PHP, XHTML, Perl, and Javascript, and database systems such as MySQL, and creating and managing graphics for these sites.
Field Marketing Staff

Lites Group

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 6 months)

• Job involves interaction with people, both on the streets and in venues (pubs, shops, etc), and the ability to grab the attention of a group of people in the various settings. Also emphasis on selling skills, promoting the product in question, and getting consumers involved
• Involved in numerous Diageo campaigns (Carlsberg, Guinness and Budweiser mainly), as well as several other campaigns for companies such as Irish Ferries, Tesco and Irish Examiner.
Graphic Design and Website Design
Personal Contracts (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

January 2004 — May 2007 (3 years 5 months)

Fulfilling varying briefs for a number of personal clients including:
• Recreation of images (vector graphics) from raster images or other source material (such as scanned artwork, photographed, or scanned media including cloth patches, wood carvings, and photocopied media). Often recreation of graphics from poor quality sources.
• Creation of original artwork and vector graphics for delivery via various media (clothing, websites, print advertising, etc), progressing through all design stages from original brief, to proof images, to final vector and raster graphic delivery.
• Creation and optimisation of graphics for various media (i.e. optimisation of graphics for high quality print media, and for delivery via the internet)
• Alteration of existing graphics (both vector and raster based).
• Typically, work completed using Paint Shop Pro, but proficient in the use of other graphic suites, such as Illustrator.

Jen Keane’s Education

National University of Ireland, Maynooth

DH BSc , Biology & Computer Science , 2002 — 2007

Twice winner of Whittaker Awards (2006 & 2007) for Biology.
Website designed for the Games Society won Best Website award at Clubs & Societies awards ceremony, and was nominated for BICS (Board of Irish College Societies) award in the same category.
Won Club Executive of the Year for extensive work as Self Defence Club President.

Activities and Societies:

Self Defence Club (President), Minds IT Soc (member), Games Society (member, website administrator)