CURRICULUM VITAE

Derek Abdinor

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 EXPERIENCEtop

June 2001

to December 2001 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) or www.travago.vlec.net
• 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 licenseesDesigned 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

• Developed site for SA Property.com, largest property site in South Africa. Images, HTML, Javascript (http://www.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

Java __ currently learning

JBuilder

mySQL __ CTU

2000 DHTML(self-taught)

1999 Active Server Pages (ASP) __ Cyberschool College

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)

1995 Working Holiday (Europe)

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

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These urls are part of the travago extranet and are not necessarily in the public domain

delta

http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=322&strInfo=info&strPl=delKGXE8

lastminute

http://www.travago.com/Default.asp?strPl=lmt31gr56&iRegion=5254

travelprice

http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=3817&strInfo=info&strPL=tra766cpt

terralycos

http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=2590&strInfo=info&strpl=tlc795l20&ilang=3

continental airlines

http://www.travago.com/default.asp?iRegion=2590&strInfo=info&strpl=tlc795l20&ilang=3

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.