Raj Persram
Drupal Instructor at Q-College and contract Web Developer
- Location
- Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (British Columbia, Canada)
- Industry
- Internet
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Raj Persram's Overview
- Current
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- Drupal Instructor at Q-College
- Contract Web Designer and Drupal CMS Web Developer at Pure Web Media
- Past
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- Contract Drupal CMS Web Developer at Trapeze Communications
- Lead Interface Developer and Web Designer at Eightfold Logic (formerly known as Enquisite Software Canada)
- Contract Web Developer at British Columbia Insight Mediation Society
- IT Support at University of Victoria
- Contract Web Developer at Granville Island Day Vendors Assoc
- Contract Web Developer at Action Canada
- Contract Web Developer at JM Music
- Senior Web Developer at Creative Edge Design Group
- Website Developer at Irish Wildlife Trust
- ESL Teacher at Centre of English Studies
- Education
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- Q-College
- University of Victoria
- Capilano University
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Centre of English Studies
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Bodwell Internet School
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Saskatchewan Institute of Technology, Regina SK
- Recommendations
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9 people have recommended Raj
- Connections
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112 connections
- Websites
Raj Persram's Summary
Dynamic web developer, designer and programmer with over a decade of experience in the web industry.
Currently a Drupal Instructor at Q-College in Victoria as well as being a contract web developer operating as Pure Web Media, Raj specializes in websites built with the Drupal content management system (CMS).
Specialties
Website design and development, Drupal content management system (CMS), Drupal Theme Development, HTML5, XHTML, CSS, Graphical User Interface (GUI), Adobe Photoshop, PHP, mySQL, Javascript, jQuery
Raj Persram's Experience
Drupal Instructor
Q-College
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
September 2011 – Present (5 months) Victoria, BC
Contract Drupal and MySQL instructor at Q-College, formerly Victoria School of Business and Technology (VSBT), teaching the Drupal content management system to students whom have completed the Web Development course.
Contract Web Designer and Drupal CMS Web Developer
Pure Web Media
Internet industry
2001 – Present (11 years) Victoria, BC
PureWebMedia.biz is a web development, design and hosting business handling ground-up site development from start to finish.
Services and duties include custom Photoshop website design, Drupal CMS theme building, Drupal development, website hosting.
Select portfolio pieces can be found here: www.purewebmedia.biz
Contract Drupal CMS Web Developer
Trapeze Communications
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry
April 2010 – September 2010 (6 months) Victoria, BC
Contract Web Developer hired by Trapeze to assist in medium to large scale website production, primarily using Drupal 6 CMS.
Duties involved transforming Photoshop design layouts into custom Drupal CMS themes, hand-coded websites, administration of internal network, external hosting setups, client presentations for training and support. Additionally helped manage, update and diagnose on-site Mac computers.
Skills involved Drupal, CSS, XHTML, jQuery, mySQL, cPanel and Plex.
A wonderful company to have worked with!
Lead Interface Developer and Web Designer
Eightfold Logic (formerly known as Enquisite Software Canada)
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry
May 2007 – March 2010 (2 years 11 months) Victoria, BC
Lead interface developer and designer for Victoria-based search engine optimization analytics and link-building company (now known as EightFoldLogic).
Duties included creation and management of all graphic needs, user-interface design and development, WordPress-based website maintenance, some project management with overseas contractors.
Tools included Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, Adobe Flex Builder, Adobe Catalyst, XHTML, CSS, mySQL.
Contract Web Developer
British Columbia Insight Mediation Society
May 2008 – May 2008 (1 month)
Created a Drupal CMS for a Vancouver non-profit organization, designed to be run by its members with subscription services available to the public. Employs clean design, simplicity and a flexible architecture.
IT Support
University of Victoria
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
January 2007 – April 2007 (4 months) Victoria, BC
Semester position to manage subset of IT needs of the Humanities Department, including website maintenance and design.
HTML, CSS.
Contract Web Developer
Granville Island Day Vendors Assoc
July 2006 – July 2006 (1 month)
Created Drupal CMS designed to host around 100 businesses within the Granville Island Public Market in Vancouver, BC. Site allows for each vendor to update their personal page at any time, and categorizes each business type for easy navigation.
ESL Teacher
Centre of English Studies
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry
September 2001 – December 2001 (4 months) Dublin, Ireland
Teacher of ESL classes of varying competency, covering beginner to upper intermediate level students
Raj Persram's Skills
Raj Persram's Education
Q-College
Certificate, Drupal Open Source Development
2011 – 2011
E-commerce shopping carts, security, user interaction, forums, blogs, hosting, search engines, SSL, photo galleries, advertising, portals, calendars, advanced theming.
University of Victoria
BSc, Geography
2005 – 2007
Outstanding
Capilano University
(transfer), Jazz, Biology, Geography
2003 – 2005
achieved transfer credits for UVic, Victoria, BC
Activities and Societies: Jazz studies in bass guitar. Biology, Geography and Sociology focus for transfer credits towards Environmental Studies focus at UVic (before Capilano became a University)
Centre of English Studies
Certificate, (TEFL) Teaching English as a Foreign Language
2001 – 2001
Located in Dublin, Ireland.
http://www.ces-schools.com/Dublin/default.aspx
Activities and Societies: Obtained Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language
Bodwell Internet School
Diploma in Advanced Internet Development, Web Development
2000 – 2000
Activities and Societies: 800 hour diploma in Advanced Internet Development granted from Vancouver's first Internet School
Saskatchewan Institute of Technology, Regina SK
Diploma, Advanced Internet Development
1991 – 1991
Four full-time terms, each two months long concentrated respectively on design and graphic layout; multimedia and 3-D; programming and animation; e-commerce and business management.; Certificate in HTML 4 Web Publishing
Learned the fundamentals of web design using HTML 4 and explored how the world wide web functioned. Developed basic sites including usage of forms and frames. All sites projects were coded by hand - no WYSIWYG applications used.
Raj Persram's Additional Information
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- Interests:
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Graphic design, web design, Drupal theming, web developer, single-engine pilot, road cyclist, backpacker, captain of Victoria dragonboat team, outdoor leadership, meditation, photographer.
- Groups and Associations:
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Drupal Meetup Victoria, Victoria Flying Club, Go Row and Paddling Dragonboater
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- Honors and Awards:
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Best Design Award - Bodwell Internet School
Various dragonboating awards
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