Adam Patterson - Visual Designer/Developer

Skills


General:
  • Positive attitude
  • Excellent customer service
  • Quick to grasp theory's and concepts
  • Open minded, forward-thinker
  • Excellent computer and hardware skills
  • Apple OS X and PC
  • Photography
Software:
  • MS Office and iWorks
  • Adobe Creative Suite
  • OmniGraffle
  • Axure RP Pro
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Languages: XHTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL
  • Source Control using SVN
  • Wordpress
  • ZenCart
  • Dingo PHP Framework
  • Blueprint CSS
Goals:
  • Learn Ruby-on-Rails
  • Learn jQuery
  • Learn ExpressionEngine
  • Learn Wordpress Plugin Development

Experience


Vision Creative Inc. - Graphic Design, Web Design - 2009 - Current

Projects:
  • Vision Creative - Design Collaboration/Development
  • Britta - Development
  • Valour Place - Development
  • Prescription Drug Misuse - Development
eventIQ - Graphic Design, Web Design, User Experience, Support - 2009 - 2009

nForm- Graphic Design, Web Design, User Experience - 2007 - 2009

Projects:
  • Alberta Education - Graphic Design, Style Guide
  • CMEC - Graphic Design
  • Alberta CTS - Graphic Design
  • APAS - User Testing
  • Arts In Medicine - Website Design
  • Midori PM - Graphic Design, User Testing
  • Data Gardens - Axure Prototype
  • CanUX 2007 & 2008 - Website Design

Previous Experience


  • Leverage Controls - Website 2009
  • SPT Drilling - Website 2009
  • Sassy Cakes - Website 2009
  • AccuTax - Website 2006
  • Fox Creek Wilderness - Website 2005
  • Lorna Bennett - Website 2004
  • ArtHouse Productions - Video Editing & Web design 2002
  • Urban Angling - Video, Website 2002
  • Root Media - Website 2001

Scripts


Addressbook

PHP Addressbook has had over 5500+ Downloads, it's main purpose is to allow management of your personal contacts online.

Spoke Calculator Lite & Pro

PHP spoke calculator is a free program for bike shop or personal use. I created this because I was unable to find the features I needed in pre-existing solutions.

PHP Installer

PHP installer is a simple setup that can be used to create a config.php file and populate a database, it's is intended to make it easier for Developers to include an installation scripts for their end user.

PicLens for Zenphoto and PixelPost

I created a plug-in for Zenphoto that allows PicLens (a browser plug-in) to interact with the images in the gallery using Media RSS.

Education


United Bicycle Institute – Ashland OR - June 2003
Bicycle Mechanic certificate program

Alberta College (currently NAIT) – Edmonton 2001 – 2002
Multimedia Certificate Program

Victoria School of Performing & Visual Arts 1997 – 2000
Graduated with diploma