Nicholas Morss

Current

• Sharepoint Developer at Content and Code
• Producer at Pistachio Monkey

Past

• User Interface Developer at Conchango
• Lead Front End Developer at Icom
• Web Developer at Agency.com

• Web Developer at ICC Information Limited
• Site Builder at Good Technology
• Web Devloper at AKQA

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Education

• University of Nottingham

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Website

Nicholas Morss’s Summary

I have produced, manitianed and fixed many websites across different platforms for Friends, Family, Small Compaines and Leading Agencys. My expertise in Front End Development come's from a background of design and formal tutition in Object Oriented methods at University.

Producing quality work, adhearing to standards and working to satisfy all users is something i consider on a daily basis. Making sure everyone has a usuable and informative experinace is my aim.

My goals are to become a User Interface Architect, where i can help teams of developers learn, practice and deliver the kind of work i would be proud of.

Nicholas Morss’s Specialties:

My recent focus has been on Front End Web Development, managing my skills in XHTML, CSS and Javascript across platorms for SEO, Accessibility, Browser compatibility and Content Management Systems like MOSS. I have a keen eye for detail, user experinace & flow.

Nicholas Morss’s Experience

• Sharepoint Developer

  Content and Code

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  Working on a variety of Internet and Intranet MOSS projects for BG Group, the MCC (Marylebone Cricket Club) and the AGO (Attorney General's Office). Specialising in creating a cross browser interface and achieving AA accessibility standards.

• Producer

  Pistachio Monkey

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2004 — Present (5 years 7 months)

  Production and support to small clients, friends and family.

• User Interface Developer

  Conchango

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; EMC; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 2008 — October 2008 (4 months)

  working on Sharepoint (MOSS 2007) projects for Barclaycard and Equiniti. Also producing UI demo's for Visa and support for The White Company (HTML, CSS, JS, JQuery, C#, XSL)

• Lead Front End Developer

  Icom

  (Internet industry)

  March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)

  Front end development for a variety of internal products focusing on the student demographics personality profiles, and User Interface development of a custom built Social network for university unions. Supporting producers in production of templates and advanced techniques. (XHTML, Javascript, CSS, JQuerey, OpenCMS, JSP, Velocity)

• Web Developer

  Agency.com

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; ACOM; Internet industry)

  February 2008 — March 2008 (2 months)

  Support for a variety of clients including IKEA, Fairy, LG & British Airways in .Net using Visual Source Safe and built and integrated a database driven application information system. (MySQL, C#, Asp.Net, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript)

• Web Developer

  ICC Information Limited

  (Information Services industry)

  September 2007 — December 2007 (4 months)

  Initial refactoring of the front-end of this enterprise application (which searches and reports on documentation from Companies House) delivering browser compatibility, scalability and accessibility. Followed by further production of new front-end components and providing an information & graphical layout review. (HTML, XSL, CSS, JavaScript, Eclipse, CVS, Maven, JBoss)

• Site Builder

  Good Technology

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  April 2007 — September 2007 (6 months)

  Contracted to provide front-end solutions for various projects in including localised Xbox emails, investigations for Windows Mobile localisation project.
  
  - RAC ~ Template build for new Micro site. Provided in house tuition for junior’s in development best practice. (XHTML, CSS)
  - Norwich Union ~ Wire frame build for user journey testing relying on JavaScript to provide dynamic data components (XHTML, JavaScript)
  - ASDA ~ New front-end build for online Groceries store. trying to adhear to AAA accessibility (XHTML. CSS)
  - MSN ~ Preliminary research & development for Microsoft Virtual Earth and News Feed Mash up (JavaScript, PHP)

• Web Devloper

  AKQA

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 5 months)

  Working for an established portfolio of clients including; Nike, Dell & Intel, Coca-Cola, Johnnie Walker, Orange, Joe Malone, Boston Scientific & NTL.
  - Digital Studio (Sainsbury’s & International Hotel Group) ~ Initially I worked on the newsletter development program where I built an Integrated technological infrastructure to streamline the process. An ASP.Net 2.0 application provided an interface for client services to gain more control.
  - Microsoft ~ Web production in the Microsoft Business Advisor program
  - RAC ~ Working in a team of 8 Developers to port 500 pages into a new website.
  - Sainsbury’s Your Ideas ~ Community based front-end integration
  - ITV ~ Microsoft content management system front-end integration
  - XBOX ~ Front-end development for a multi-lingual shopping.com & Kelkoo.com web service consumption site
  - AKQA Mobile ~ Research and Development into a Content Managed J2ME application.

Nicholas Morss’s Education

• University of Nottingham

  BSc , e-Commerce & Digital Business , 2002 — 2005

Additional Information

Nicholas Morss’s Websites:

• My Website

Nicholas Morss’s Interests:

Skiing, Diving, Cycling, Basketball, Rugby & Football Travelling, Trekking & Photography

Nicholas Morss’s Groups:

•    AKQA
•    Digital Breakfast
•    London Advertising & Design Group
•    SharePoint Magazine User Group
•    Digital Lounge

Nicholas Morss’s Honors:

Base camp Photography Competition Winner (March 2007)
Entertain the Nation Winning Video (December 2006)
W3Schools HTML, XHTML & CSS Certified. (August 2006)
Formal ASP.Net 2.0, AJAX and CSS training at JB International London. (2006)
Employee of the Month - AKQA (March 2006)
Arkwright Scholarship (1999-2001) (Engineering & Innovation)
Sponsorship from Rolls Royce Plc (1999-2001)
Silver Crest Award for Science and Innovation
Nelson Helmsley Senior Project Prize (2001)
NJ Hill Junior Project Prize (1999)

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