Melissa Choy

Web Specialist

Sydney Area, Australia

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
Education
  • Charles Sturt University
  • Blacktown TAFE
  • Terra Sancta College
Connections
66 connections
Industry
Internet
Websites

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 2009Present (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 2007Present (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)

    19982009 (11 years)

  • Senior Web Developer / Designer

    iSell

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    20052007 (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)

    20022006 (4 years)

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

  • Tech Support

    Emerging Systems

    (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

    20042005 (1 year)

  • Developer / Administrator

    BikeTorque.Net

    (Internet industry)

    20022005 (3 years)

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


Melissa Choy’s Education

  • Charles Sturt University

    B.IT , Online Systems , 20082011 (expected)

  • Blacktown TAFE

    20002001

  • Terra Sancta College

    19981999


Additional Information

Melissa Choy’s Websites:

Melissa Choy’s Groups:

  •    Web Accessibility
  •    Australian New Media
  •    Open Source
  •    WSG
  •    Ruby On Rails Community
  •    Web Standards Design + Development
  •    Prototype Community
  •    jQuery

Melissa Choy’s Contact Settings

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