A little bit about Rikki Carroll

Welcome to the personal portfolio of Rikki Carroll. I recently graduated from the University of Kent in Canterbury, Kent, UK. I have also joined the FXhome.com team as a full time web developer.

My permanent home is in a little village called Belton in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, UK. I have a strong passion for developing websites, web applications, iPhone applications and Mac OSX applications. I also enjoy taking photographs of interesting things and then making the photos look their best using digital imaging software such as Aperture.

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Contact me

Email: rikki1234@gmail.com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/rikkicarroll

Employment

Current employer (Web Team Leader: Jun 09 - Present)

I am currently employed by FXhome Limited as the Web Team leader and Web Developer. I started employment with the IS Web Team in June 2009 and was promoted to Lead Web Developer in February 2010. My roles and responsibilities include:

  • Project management
  • Team and Project leader
  • Web design
  • Web development
  • Mentoring colleagues

Previous employer (Senior Web Programmer: Sep 07 - June 09)

I worked within the IS Web Team at the University of Kent as a senior web programmer. I started employment with the IS Web Team in December 2006 and was awarded a promotion to Senior Web Programmer in September 2007. My roles and responsibilities include:

  • Client account management
  • Client consultations
  • Mentoring colleagues
  • Project leader
  • Web support (operating a support telephone and email for web publishers)
  • Web publishing training
  • Web systems programming

Career history

I have previously worked in the following roles at the following employers:

Employer Role Start End
FXhome Limited Web Team Leader Feb 10 Present
FXhome Limited Web Developer June 09 Feb 10
IS Web Team (University of Kent) Senior Web Programmer Sept 07 June 09
IS Web Team (University of Kent) Web Programmer Dec 06 Sep 07
Self employed Freelance web developer Oct 05 Aug 06
Tesco General Assistant Nov 04 Sep 06
Haven holiday camp Bar assistant May 04 Oct 04
TMS Media Work experience May 03 May 03

Experience

I have four years experience with developing websites and web applications. I have experience in both freelance and the corporate environments.

Web development skills

  • XML/XHTML/HTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript (including Ajax)
    • JQuery
  • Adobe Flash & Actionscript (2 & 3)
  • PHP
    • Code Igniter Framework
    • Zend Framework
    • Wordpress themeing & plugins
    • PHP Shop Theming
  • MySQL
  • ASP.NET (C#)
  • Adobe Photoshop, Fireworks and Flash

Desktop development skills (Mac OSX)

  • Cocoa APIs (Basic)
  • Objective C 2.0 (Basic)
  • J2SE (Java 5)

Mobile development skills

  • iPhone SDK (Basic)
  • Java 2 Mobile Edition (Basic)

Other skills

  • High social and teamwork skills
  • Clear and coherent communication
  • Project planning & facilitation
  • Training, teaching and mentoring
  • Writing technical and user documentation