My CV

Present Employment

Web Developer (Contractor), Shopcade, November 2011- Present

Shopcade is a social shopping application on Facebook where you can shop together, and earn together by buying items your friends recommend.

Duties:

  • Building the app's website www.shopcade.com (built in Wordpress with several custom made plugins and templates)
  • Enhancing their Facebook Page by integrating their blog into a tab, as well as building other Facebook tabs.
  • Amending their existing blog (Wordpress)

Employment History

Junior PHP Developer, Mind Unit, December 2009 - Present

Duties:

  • Building websites and email templates for the arts using Object Oriented PHP, jQuery and the latest technologies which we experiment and explore on a regular basis.
  • bug fixing
  • Assessing website's accessibility and improving our work to make it conform with the WCAG Software/Technology Experience

Front End Web Developer, TUI Travel, August 2009 - November 2009

Duties: Liaising with designers, UI designers, data analysts and content managers in regards to

  • producing XHTML & CSS pages which are then passed to IT for backend development
  • bug fixing
  • implementing and testing of analytics scripts and advertisement assets and script

Front End Web Developer (intern) in the Marketing Communications dept, Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf, London, September 2008 - Jully 2009

Duties:

  • Re-branding of some legacy Thomson or legacy Reuters websites, making sure they are on brand and to the accessibility guidelines. This includes tests in all the main browsers (using Litmus)
  • Production of internal and external emails, making sure they are on brand, cross-browser compatible and accessible.
  • Updating the team WIKI where all shared information on projects are stored

Sales Administrator and Account Manager for Disotto Foods, Park Royal, London, April 2007 - to 30th January 2008

Disotto is a company that supplies restaurants all over London and in some part of the UK with ice cream (produced locally) Italian cakes, desserts and frozen food, produced locally, or imported from Italy, France and Norway.

My role at Disotto involved:

  • taking and processing food orders from the many restaurants;
  • assisting customers with general enquiries about Disotto products and particularly customers in the West London/ The City territory who can refer to me as second point of contact if not able to speak with their Sales Representative;
  • Credit Control for any customer and particularly for customer applying for credit account (I was responsible of checking trade references);
  • Processing payments coming by mail (i.e. cheques) and via the drivers;
  • Organising the distribution and tracking the nationwide deliveries made by an external transport company.

Work experience for Fountainhead Creative Consultants, West Ruislip, London, November 2006 - March 2007

Fountainhead is a small graphic design consultancy which deals mainly in printed media, corporate literature and annual reports.

I have been able to assist with some HTML coding and problem solving on a recently developed website, English Rose, check my portfolio, and provided working templates for future use.

During my time there I have been able to learn and understand the basic steps in a project and experience them in a real working environment. I now have a better knowledge of how a project goes from the concept stage to finished article as well as being given guidance in graphic design standards, printing formats, colours and layout.

Education History

Advanced Web Programming using PHP/MySQL, November 2010

The course covered databases and content management, security and session handling, client and server side data validation using Javascript and PHP, on the fly generation of multimedia content such as images, PDFs and Flash, configuration of web development environments under Windows and Unix and object orientated programming in PHP 5.

W3C Certification in Mobile Web Standards, October 2009

The Introduction to W3C's Mobile Web Best Practices course helped me to become familiar with the Web as delivered on mobile devices. It is based entirely on W3C standards, particularly the Mobile Web Best Practices document.

PHP, MySQL & Apache, Richmond Adult Community College, London, 17th and 24th September 2009

This course provided a hands-on introduction to some of the key web development tools available today - PHP, MySQL and Apache. Armed with these tools, the website developer is ready to produce effective data-driven sites.

Javascript Course, Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning & Skills Service, London Sep '09 - Nov '09

This course covered valid syntax and the Document Object Model. It begun with essential programming fundamentals, and progressed onto writing complete scripts. It also involved creating exciting graphical effects and developing intelligent web pages that process information.

Graphic Design Basics,City Lit, London Jan '09 - March '09

This course provided me with the opportunity to explore the stages, from initial design brief through all the processes involved in reaching a creative visual solution. There is emphasis on researching, generating and visualizing ideas, methods of realizing those ideas, and the technical knowledge to transform them into real projects.

The corse is very hands on and I had a piece of work to produce every week.

Access Course to Higher Education in Digital Media (A level) with 26 credits level 3 and 2 credits level 2. City & Islington College, London, September 2003 - July 2004

  • Study Skills
  • Numeracy and I
  • Multimedia Authoring (Flash Mx)
  • Web Authoring (programming languages as HTML and JavaScript, using also Dreamweaver MX)
  • Visual and Audio Assets (Photoshop, Sound Forge)
  • Narrative and Communication Skills (Storyboards, site maps, video pre production)
  • Digital Video (Video production filming and editing with Adobe Premiere and Adobe After Effects)
  • Data Connection for the Web (PHP, MySql)

I.T.C.S. Giulio Cesare Bari, Italy 1998-2003

Diploma in languages, 75/100

  • English - fluent
  • French - good
  • German - basic

About me

I'm a PHP Developer and one of the organisers of London Web Standards I'm an enthusiastic person: always on the move, always positive and ready to start the next project, both in life and in my career.

I prefer the new markup side of HTML5 to the crazy CSS3 animations (apart from the very accessible storyboard-style Madman Animation - open it in IE6 as well as in Chrome and you'll know what I mean), so don't ask me to join your Canvas van, because I'll probably be in the Forms BW Camper.

I like to play with APIs and data, so you can instead easily drag me around the many hack days.

When I'm not coding or attending a tech event, I'm probably organising an event for Friends of Puglia, the cultural association I run or I'll probably be managing Amaraterra, a Southern Italian Folk Band

If I'm nowhere to be seen, I'm probably shopping or enjoying a nice Sunday Roast with a pint of Wheat beer

In any case if you find me come say hello!

What I'm working on at the moment..

5th November 2011

I am now contracting! So if you are looking for a Contractor email me at hello@morenafiore.com. It's all very exciting, I am building a website for Shopcade at the moment using Wordpress. It's my first time building plugins and templates and I'm finding Wordpress very flexible, especially compared to the framework I was using in my previous work which kept on breaking.