Valentina Cartei

Current

• web consultant, designer and developer at Adaptive Technologies Ltd.

Past

• Digital Media Coordinator and Research Assistant at Regency Town House
• Volunteer at various
• Webmaster at Terme di Venturina

• Web Trainer at Centro Studi Arca (Self-employed)
• Web Editor at City University
• Programmer (internship) at Percro

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Education

• The Open University
• City University
• Università di Pisa

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Valentina Cartei’s Summary

Working with museums, heritage organisations and education suppliers to plan, design and build web related projects.


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Valentina Cartei’s Specialties:

PHP, HTML, XML, JavaScript CSS, MySQL, Plone, Python, WYSIWYG, accessibility

Valentina Cartei’s Experience

• web consultant, designer and developer

  Adaptive Technologies Ltd.

  (Internet industry)

  September 2006 — Present (3 years 3 months)

  * php/MySQL and Plone CMS development
  * accessibility and usability testing
  * website design and re-styling
  * strategic planning

• Digital Media Coordinator and Research Assistant

  Regency Town House

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  January 2008 — July 2008 (7 months)

  Assisting Nick Tyson with the digitalization of historical documents of 10 Brunswick Square and conducting a study of the Bevan family letters to investigate constructive discourses of self and society at Brighton between the 1820s and 1850s.

• Volunteer

  various

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Civic & Social Organization industry)

  1996 — March 2007 (11 years )

  held various positions such as:
  scout coordinator - volunteering with the elderly, organising and coordinating young people, fund-raising
  emergency support officer - providing ambulance services to the elderly and the disabled
  web and database assistant for the Women' Design Service, London
  researcher and co-writer for the Soroptimist Club Italia - researching on the social services in Piombino available to women and writing a guide about them
  exhibition assistant for the IWD Brighton&Hove 2007

• Webmaster

  Terme di Venturina

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

  January 2006 — September 2006 (9 months)

  Updating and maintaining the company website as well as its web presence in other portals and CMS.
  Tasks included manipulating images with Photoshop and inserting, modifying the pages using the CMS interface as well as directly accessing the html code, writing javascript scripts and css rules.

• Web Trainer

  Centro Studi Arca (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Education Management industry)

  November 2005 — December 2005 (2 months)

  Teaching HTML and Javascript to adults and university students

• Web Editor

  City University

  (Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)

  January 2005 — April 2005 (4 months)

  maintaining and updating information of the Music Department's website

• Programmer (internship)

  Percro

  (Research industry)

  June 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 4 months)

  winner of the three month placement at the prestigious IT Lab of the Sant' Anna School of Advanced Studies of Pisa, as part of my final year project in Computer Science.
  The project was to develop a web application for 3D rendering of photographs of cultural sites.

Valentina Cartei’s Education

• The Open University

  Cert , Social Sciences , 2007 — 2008

  Modules included An Introduction to Social Sciences (level 1) and Exploring Psychology (level 2), which covered a wide range of perspectives (e.g. cognitive, biological, social, individual differences) and introduced to
  statistical methods and tools of data analysis (e.g. SPSS).

  Activities and Societies:

  Certificate in Social Sciences

• City University

  MSc (Distinction) , Music Information Technology , 2004 — 2005

  Graduated with Honors.
  Thesis: “Data Hiding for digital Audio: Principles and Applications”.
  Conducted a comprehensive literature review examining different techniques to embed data into audio signals and developed Java application for embedding small text files in digital audio sources, including speech.
  
  Modules included Acoustics and Music Informatics, which provided
  an understanding of the acoustic nature of sound itself and offered an overview of psychoacoustic research.

• Università di Pisa

  Laurea Triennale (Magna cum Laude) , Scienze Informatiche (Computer Science) , 2001 — 2004

  Final Year Project: "On-line application for the manipulation in 3D of photographic images", as part of the undergraduate placement at PERCRO Research Centre, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pontedera, Italy.
  
  Modules included Graphical User Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence, with particular focus on visual cognition and the usage of semiotics in Information Architecture.

Additional Information

Valentina Cartei’s Interests:

digital design, social networking. I also enjoy reading non-fiction, especially on topics related to social sciences and new technology.

Valentina Cartei’s Honors:

Design a Logo for Piombino Youth Centre Award for Best Design, 2006

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