Otaqui.com - Web Development

Hi there.

This is the portfolio site of Pete Otaqui, a freelance web developer, multimedia programmer, e-learning author and copywriter.

Personal Details

Full Name

Shakib Peter Otaqui

Date of Birth

27th October 1976

Nationality

British

Email Address

pete@otaqui.com

Timeline

1996-1999 BA (Hons) Media Arts, Plymouth University

Awarded a higher second.

1999-2000 Web Design Technician, Plymouth University

Sole web design and development support for 200+ students

2000-2001 Web Engineer, WebSight Ltd.

Front-end web development and, by the time I left, the in-house flash expert including all technical aspects of the award winning spring 2001 outpost website.

2001-2005 Technical Leader, Results International (Online)

The e-learning and multimedia arm of Results International, I developed the company's own e-learning platform, as implemented by BTEC Career Path.

2005 NHS Connecting for Health

Striking out on my own, I was awarded a few months helping the NHS Connecting for Health Web Team migrate a large amount of aging content into a Plone content management system, defining the new structure on the way.

2006-2007 Web Developer, IPC Media

Working as part of a fast growing team I developed large-scale websites using IPC's in-house CMS. Areas included e-commerce, AJAX, accessibility, usability, advertising and one-off site tools (for example a pregnancy due-date calculator!). IPC has a large number of websites, some of the ones I worked on included My Holiday Ideas and a set of 'marketplace' sites of NME, Loaded, and Nuts. During this time I did quite a bit of work with the Symfony PHP Framework on the early stages of the House To Home site.

2007 Senior Lead Developer, BDP Media

Leading a team of up to 20 contractors, I managed all technical aspects of developing and delivering e-learning material.

Skillset

Code

Front- and back-end web development, multimedia development, system administration, particularly:
HTML, CSS, XML, JavaScript, DOM, PHP, ASP, MySQL, PGSQL, Actionscript 2.0, Lingo, Linux, Windows, OS X
I also have some knowledge of:
RDF / RSS / ATOM, XSL / XSLT, Coldfusion, Flex, Python, Zope / Plone, PHPNuke, Mambo, NetOffice, Xoops, Xaraya, Ruby on Rails, Cinema 4D, Premiere, After Effects

Design

Although not a proper graphic designer, I am less of a cyan & magenta developer than many. I am an interface & interaction developer, an information architect, a photographer, a copywriter and an amateur 3d modeller and animator, with good skills in the the following software:
Flash, Director, Photoshop, Fireworks, Cinema 4D
I can also integrate with these other packages as required:
Illustrator, Freehand, InDesign, Quark

Learning

I have a long history of involvement in learning, and e-learning, from several perspectives including teacher, content-author, developer, usability-tester and sometimes even user.

Management

I can lead and follow where necessary, defining my own goals or implementing those provided, as required by the task and people at hand.

Portfolio

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