About Me

My name is Rob Tyler and I manage Circlewebs from a small studio in Hall Green in the West Midlands, United Kingdom. My aims are to design and implement web sites using current stringent W3C web standards and which are easy and enjoyable to use. Below are some extracts from my Curriculum Vitae which show my qualifications, skills and my experience of current web tools and technologies. Here is my
web design philosophy, explaining how I go about the complex process of putting a high quality web site together in a user friendly and easily maintainable format.

Education:

The Open University

MSc. Information Systems.

September 2003 - Ongoing

Modules:-

M874 Software Development for Networked Applications using Java

M879 Distributed Applications and E-commerce.

The University of Central England

MSc. System Design (Software Design).

(1 Yr Ft./2 Yrs Pt.) September 1995-June 1998

The University of Central England

B.Sc Honors.(2.1) Industrial
Information Technology.

(3 years) Sept 1991-June 1994

Skills:

Overview:-

Web Site Requirements Capture, Page/Site Planning and documentation. Site mock-up design and development using hand rendering followed by page rendering in Photoshop. Further graphical elements generated with 'Fireworks' and 'MS Visio' Origination of artwork. Search Engine Optimisation definition and implementation for page/site optimisation, Site implementation using 'Dreamweaver' and 'Flash'. PHP/MySQL back office support including database design, setup and administration. Open source software utilities (such as B2Evolution,Moodle and Drupal) and plugin deployment and debugging (e.g. 'Scriptaculous' controls). Web site configuration control and server upload. Site Testing, optimisation and SEO monitoring.

Applications:

Dreamweaver, Frontpage, Flash, Fireworks, Photoshop, Illustrator, Topstyle, Style Master, JBuilder, Freehand, Paint Shop Pro, Microsoft Visio, Acrobat, Font Expert. CMSynergy Build Management, Subversion.

Languages:

HTML, XHTML, CSS2, PHP, SQL, MySQL,ASP (limited) JavaScript, ActionScript, DTD, XML, XSL, Java, Visual 'C++', 'C', Fortran, Basic.

Platforms:

Windows 2000/XP, DOS/Novell, UNIX shell, Linux, Mac System 6, VAX/VMS, Citrix Desktop

Software:

Systems/Software Engineer. Using Data Modeling and Structured Analysis, Object Oriented methodologies and CASE tools. Applying Systems/Software Quality assurance principles and practices (ISO 9000/CMM). Web Developer to W3C Standards.

Graphic Design:

Visualising, Pencil Sketching / Drawing, Illustration, Lightbox, Typography, Layout, Finished Artwork, Presentation.