Melissa Choy

Current

Technical Director at Otilas
Senior Web Developer at Red Ant

Past

Freelance Web Developer / Designer at melforrest.com
Senior Web Developer / Designer at iSell
Senior Developer / Designer at HotDesign

Tech Support at Emerging Systems
Developer / Administrator at BikeTorque.Net

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Education

Charles Sturt University
Blacktown TAFE
Terra Sancta College

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Recommended

4 people have recommended Melissa

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Industry

Internet

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Melissa Choy’s Summary

I am a Web Developer based in Sydney Australia, I am passionate about all aspects of the web especially, web standards, usability, accessibility and interface design.

I am an excellent front-end developer and can produce pixel perfect cross browser / cross platform layouts with CSS. I can also code JavaScript (including Prototype, Scriptaculous, JQuery), PHP, ASP, JSP/JSTL and Ruby on Rails.

Melissa Choy’s Specialties:

Web Standards, CSS, (x)HTML, XML, JavaScript, Ajax, Usability, Accessibility, Information Architecture, Interface Design, PHP, ASP, JSP/JSTL, Ruby on Rails, E-Commerce.

Melissa Choy’s Experience

Technical Director

Otilas

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

Otilas is a boutique web agency currently working on the social media monitoring app www.beehiveapp.com
Senior Web Developer

Red Ant

(Internet industry)

February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)

Front-end Developer using the following technologies: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP and Ruby on Rails.
Freelance Web Developer / Designer

melforrest.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2009 (11 years)
Senior Web Developer / Designer

iSell

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2005 — 2007 (2 years)

iSell provide Business solutions for IT companies through out Australia and New Zealand.

My role as a front-end developer involved designing templates and implementing eCommerce websites using JSP/JSTL, CSS, xHTML, and Javascript.

During my time at iSell I worked with other members of the Web team and the Java team to develop the version 5 iSell eCommerce and eService Manager applications. These applications are powered by a Java back-end with a strict standards based front-end, separation of presentation, functionality and content, this is done by using css based layouts, unobtrusive JavaScript, and most importantly semantically structured markup.

I was also involved in setting up and deploying the Java web applications to apache tomcat environments.
Senior Developer / Designer

HotDesign

(Internet industry)

2002 — 2006 (4 years)

HTML/CSS & PHP/MySQL Development, Wireframing & UI Design.
Tech Support

Emerging Systems

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2005 (1 year)
Developer / Administrator

BikeTorque.Net

(Internet industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years)

PHP/MySQL development and website administration for an online motorcycle network.