CURRICULUM VITAE Derek Abdinor TOC: Personal | Professional Experience | Freelancing | Education | Skills | URLs PERSONAL Name Derek Abdinor Address 304 Curzon Place, 229 Beach Road, Sea Point, Cape Town, 8050 Telephone (021) 434 4408 - Home (083) 317 0353 - Mobile Email abdinor@worldonline.co.za Online CV http://www.geocities.com/dabdinor/cv Date of Birth 08/05/73 Driver's License code 08 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE top June 2001 to present Travago.com Web Producer After performance review and industry research I received a new package, title and responsibilities Projects include ? Defining and writing basic XML structure for 183 guides in 11 languages ? Site design for licensees, including mockups and extranet design ? Creating FLASH movies for the sales team as interactive presentations ? Creating new website as part of an aggressive branding campaign: (http://www.travago.com/defaults/00015/home2k1/alltogethernow.html) ? Liasing with XML providers in Belgium March 2001 to June 2001 Travago.com Web Developer Projects include ? QA and xhtml of 183 guides in 11 languages ? Supervision of editorial team in QA and markup ? Developing site, styles and features for new licensees, liasing with their technical teams ? Build graphics for the site and slideshow functionality into the guides ? Held 3-day workshop at Rhodes University on CSS, Javascript, Web Graphics, XHTML, WML and DHTML December 2000 to February 2001 Travago.com Temporary Team leader and Web Developer New duties include ? Managing team of four full-time editors ? Charged with finding XML solution ? Instructed editors in XHTML, Stylesheets and graphics ? Develop site, styles and features for new licensees, liasing with their technical teams ? Administration of the IIS servers ? QA testing of new site and functionality September 2000 to December 2000 Travago.com Web Editor/Web Developer ? Designed new B2B website for the startup company ? Developed style sheet (css) policy throughout the approx. 10 000 travel guide pages, customizable by licensees ? Designed corporate identity ? Liase with external development group in Belgium that migrated our system onto new server platforms ? Updating and creating new travel guides ? QA testing of new site and functionality January 2000 to September 2000 Leisureplanet.com Web Editor/ Project Manager ? Updating and creating new travel guides, writing feature articles ? Sought out and commissioned freelance travel writers to produce features for leisureplanet.com stable of shopfronts ? Designed and developed new look website: liaised with New York advertising offices as well as designers in Belgium office, defined target audience for homepage and subsequently built specific, web applications to meet this audience ? Updating leisureplanet.com's presence on CNN.com ? Became subsequent Project Manager for Leisureplanet.com homepages. This involves gathering of content, designing the home page and making adjustments using ASP, HTML and JavaScript ? Was instrumental in delivering site for CNN Traveler (carrying Leisureplanet.com content) ? Employment terminated due to Leisureplanet.com going into administration and subsequent liquidation. At its peak it was on of the top three online travel services in the USA, and one of the top five in Europe. December 1998 to February 1999 Cape Times (Temporary Assignment) Staff Reporter Reported on local and national news events: sourced, researched, interviewed and wrote stories for print medium (portfolio of work available) FREELANCING top ? Developing site for SA Property.com, largest property site in South Africa. Images, HTML, Javascript. Currently in development (http://webdev.saproperty.com) ? Developed cgi (perl) script for order-placement (http://www.chipkinscape.co.za) ? Invited by Rhodes University to lecture post-graduate course. Held workshop in August 2000 in CSS, JavaScript & dHTML for 4th year Journalism & Media Studies students at Rhodes University and again in March 2001 ? Developed portal for Grahamstown which was implemented from November 1999 to November 2000 when contract expired. (http://www.grahamstown.co.za; mirror site below) ? Content Editor for iafrica.com over Standard Bank National Arts Festival ? Content Supplier for Powerzone, I-Net Bridge and Cue TV over Standard Bank National Arts Festival ? Built static websites for student organisations in 1997 EDUCATION/TRAINING/SKILLS top 2001 php 4 __ CTU mySQL __ CTU XML (self-taught)___ certified through Brainbench Testing Authority (enter Transcript number 1280100 at http://www.brainbench.com) XSL (self-taught) Perl and Apache (self-installed on windows 98 platform with near complete cgi functionality) IIS 4 (self-taught) Vast knowledge of client-side browser issues, including Navigator 2- 4.7, 6, Mozilla, Internet Explorer 3-6, Opera 5, DOM 1 and DOM 2 2000 DHTML(self-taught) WML (self-taught) Project Management (appointed to position) 1999 Active Server Pages (ASP) __ Cyberschool College VBScript (self updated form VB 4.0) Visual Basic 6.0 Visual Interdev Front Page Dreamweaver 3.0 JavaScript (self-taught) ___ certified through Brainbench Testing Authority (enter Transcript number 1280100 at http://www.brainbench.com) CSS (self-taught) 1996 to 1999 Rhodes University Bachelor of Journalism Majors: Political Science and Journalism & Media Studies 4th Year Specialisation: DTP Computer Software utilised: QuarkXpress Photoshop 5 CorelDraw Flash HTML ___ certified through Brainbench Testing Authority (enter Transcript number 1280100 at http://www.brainbench.com) Visual Basic 4.0 1995 Working Holiday (Europe) Temporary Assignment: Spreadsheet Administration (involving the briefing of specific requirements, data capturing and bulk mailings) 1993 to 1994 SANDF Instructor (Second Lieutenant) in Airborne Artillery 1992 University Conversion Course (Germany) Achieved top marks in German as Foreign Language 1987 to 1991 King Edward VII High School University exemption Subjects: English, Afrikaans, Maths, History, Science, Geography URLs top Travago.com: Design/Development/Writing Travago.com: all design, html, css, javascript, some asp Written material http://www.travago.com/defaults/00000/acknowledgements.html ! Do not open in same process/window These urls are part of the travago extranet and are not necessarily in the public domain delta http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=1974&strInfo=info&strPl=delKGXE8 lastminute http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=6563&strInfo=info travelprice http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=3817&strInfo=info&strPL=tra766cpt&ilang=1 terralycos http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=4220&strInfo=info continental airlines http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=3817&strInfo=info&strpl=conti68l12 Online Research http://nml.ru.ac.za/j4carr99.html (research into e-commerce in the South African market) Old Design/Development Leisureplanet.com (2000) Home page (designed and scripted) http://www.geocities.com/dabdinor/cv/leisureplanet/h01_com.html Feature Story (designed and written) http://www.geocities.com/dabdinor/cv/leisureplanet/newExperience.html Grahamstown Portal (1999) http://www.geocities.com/dabdinor/cv/grahamstown/index.htm A CD (done in Director 7.0) is available, as is my full portfolio of graphic work.