Sam Dolan

Current

Sharepoint Design Specialist at National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)
Freelance Web Designer/Consultant at Clear Design Consultancy
Director at PINKPETROL Limited

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Past

Specialist SharePoint Designer at Ergo Computing UK Ltd
Specialist SharePoint Designer at WMC SharePoint
Specialist SharePoint Designer at Kaplan Financial

Specialist Sharepoint Designer at BBC
Specialist Sharepoint Designer at UNITE Group plc
Specialist Sharepoint Designer at Precedent Communications
Specialist Sharepoint Designer at Grass Roots
Contractor : Sharepoint Design Consultant at Synetrix
Contractor : Sharepoint Design Consultant at Serco
Web Services Officer at Telford & Wrekin Council

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Sam Dolan’s Summary

• I am a creative, adaptable, and talented Website Designer

• I am self-motivated and able to work under pressure to deliver attractive & interesting site design.

• Talented with a creative eye for design with experience from all kinds of industries. Skills also range from high web standards, accessibility and best practice knowledge.

• I have experience of working in both support and consultancy roles, with excellent client-facing skills and a passion for design.

• I love to work in a standards-compliant mode as much as possible (HTML, XHTML, and CSS).

• I am also open to learning new technologies and have Search Engine Optimisation experience.

Sam Dolan’s Specialties:

XHTML / HTML, MOSS / Sharepoint 2007, Microsoft CMS 2002, Adobe Homesite
Adobe Fireworks, Adobe Flash, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Microsoft Project, W3C Accessibility Guidelines, SQL Server 7.0/2000, Accesibility, User Interfaces, Creative Design, HTML & CSS, MOSS / Sharepoint Branding & Design

Sam Dolan’s Experience

Sharepoint Design Specialist

National Institute for Health Research (NIHR)

(Internet industry)

January 2009 — Present (11 months)

Resource responsible for designing and developing the design and branding side of their portal systems.
Freelance Web Designer/Consultant

Clear Design Consultancy

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

I work as a SharePoint design consultant and also help with web design.
Director

PINKPETROL Limited

(Internet industry)

January 2005 — Present (4 years 11 months)

• I am a creative, adaptable, and talented Website Designer

• I am self-motivated and able to work under pressure to deliver attractive & interesting site design.

• Talented with a creative eye for design with experience from all kinds of industries. Skills also range from high web standards, accessibility and best practice knowledge.

• I have experience of working in both support and consultancy roles, with excellent client-facing skills and a passion for design.

• I work in a standards-compliant mode as much as possible (HTML, XHTML, and CSS). And use various design packages such as Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Homesite.

• I am also open to learning new technologies and have Search Engine Optimisation experience.
Specialist SharePoint Designer

Ergo Computing UK Ltd

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2009 — October 2009 (3 months)

Brought in as a specialist to inject their new forward facing web site design into SharePoint. I set up, installed and configured Content Types, Page Template, Layouts, MasterPages, Stylesheets and also integrated Jquery to add extended functionality.
Specialist SharePoint Designer

WMC SharePoint

(Internet industry)

January 2009 — September 2009 (9 months)

I am the lead designer at WMC SharePoint where I have designed and developed the user interfaces for their software product Delta EPM a flexible PMO, Programme & Project Management solution.
Specialist SharePoint Designer

Kaplan Financial

(Public Company; WPO; Financial Services industry)

June 2009 — August 2009 (3 months)

I integrated designs from 3rd party company TDG into Kaplan's SharePoint platform for their remote learning forward facing sites and Intranet campaigns.
Specialist Sharepoint Designer

BBC

(Public Company; BBC; Broadcast Media industry)

May 2009 — June 2009 (2 months)

Brought into to create their Journalism Portal.
Specialist Sharepoint Designer

UNITE Group plc

(Public Company; Architecture & Planning industry)

December 2008 — January 2009 (2 months)

Brought into the Deliver there The Standard intranet newsletter portal.
Specialist Sharepoint Designer

Precedent Communications

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)

Brought into the design their intranet & NHS bid concept in MOSS/Sharepoint. Developing customed master pages design and styles to create their proof of concept whilst pushing Sharepoint than ever before!
Specialist Sharepoint Designer

Grass Roots

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

October 2008 — October 2008 (1 month)

Brought into the design their intranet concept in MOSS/Sharepoint.

Developed customed master pages design and styles to create their proof of concept.
Contractor : Sharepoint Design Consultant

Synetrix

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2008 — August 2008 (3 months)

Brought into Synetrix to focus working on branding and design Sharepoint solutions combined with Silverlight.

Brought back a 2nd time to develop a style guide and design some User Interfaces for there school software suite.
Contractor : Sharepoint Design Consultant

Serco

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SRP; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2008 — June 2008 (4 months)

Currently working at Serco on a 3month contract as a Sharepoint Design Consultant. Helping them deliever Sharepoint Solutions, my main responsibility is Branding and Styling of Sharepoint/Moss
Web Services Officer

Telford & Wrekin Council

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Government Administration industry)

2000 — 2007 (7 years )