Justin Goring

Current

• Senior Designer at Comet Group PLC

Past

• Designer, Coder at Nature Publishing Group
• Owner at Lightsurgery
• Web Designer/editor at Charterhouse Communications

• Web Design assistant at HS Financial Publishing

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Education

• University College Falmouth

Recommended

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Connections

139 connections

Industry

Design

Websites

• Lightsurgery

Justin Goring’s Summary

Front End Developer / Designer, with 10 years professional experience working in London, UK.

I am currently involved in social media development and community driven projects and in both a professional and personal capacity, and this is the area of online design and consultancy I most enjoy working in.

Justin Goring’s Specialties:

Authoring languages: HTML (v4 Strict); JavaScript; CSS; XHTML; some PHP, XML, Javascript.
Social Network development, UI, UX, W3C accesibility standards;
Proficient in: Photoshop, Fireworks, Illustrator; Copy editing and writing; Storyboarding; Picture editing; Stop-frame animation; Audio and video editing; Music composition; Technical troubleshooting. I have a good understanding and practical experience of Agile development methodologies.

Justin Goring’s Experience

• Senior Designer

  Comet Group PLC

  (Public Company; Retail industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Responsible for the design and build of all commercial campaigns, and direct email marketing.
  Also responsible for Customer Experience Support website UI/UX.
  I continue to be responsible for the front end design and development of eComet social tools.

• Designer, Coder

  Nature Publishing Group

  (Privately Held; Publishing industry)

  May 2005 — October 2007 (2 years 6 months)

  Delivered client facing design and coding for Webby award winning Nature.com suite of websites. Designed and coded the Nature History, and Nature China sites, as well conducted user-testing for the most recent build of Nature News. Also involved with the selection and UI development of Movable Type, providing the first Nature P2P publishing platform.

• Owner

  Lightsurgery

  (Design industry)

  June 2003 — October 2007 (4 years 5 months)

  Freelance client facing design agency.
  UI, UX, design, branding, and consultancy for small and large UK clients, including: Ninja Tune, BMW, Greenwich Council, Think Tank Media, Nick Allix, Intelligent Investor, and The Saville Club.

• Web Designer/editor

  Charterhouse Communications

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  January 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 7 months)

• Web Design assistant

  HS Financial Publishing

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Design industry)

  January 1999 — January 2001 (2 years 1 month)

Additional Information

Justin Goring’s Websites:

• Lightsurgery

Justin Goring’s Interests:

technology, design, art, music, film, food, gardening

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