Shendrew S Balendran M.A. Mass Comm., BCA
Creative Director / Web Designer & Developer / Photographer

I am an aspiring Content Developer / Creative Director with a passion for design & coding. With a sound IT knowledge and a creative mind I enjoy producing beautiful modern designs ready for print at industrial standards. I work mainly on the Windows platform but also own a Mac. I have hands on experience setting up and maintaining computers as well as maintaining apache web servers for hosting websites complete with mail box setup, configuring MS Outlook managing databases and using phpMyAdmin.

 

TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

Performance	Website design, coding & testing. Evaluation & improvement of website performance & search rankings. Search Engine Optimisation. Host & server maintenance.
Software	Expert level use of Adobe Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Premiere & Corel Draw. Average use of Adobe Illustrator, InDesign, Quarkxpress, Flash, Google SketchUp & Gimp.
Programming Languages	XHTML, HTML, CSS, PHP, Flash Action scripting, phpMyAdmin, mySQL, jQuery & Java scripting (AJAX). CMS - WordPress, Joomla, Drupal. SEO Skills, SQL.
Photography	Qualified professional photographer. Shot for: Nike, The Ministry of Defence (UK), Tony&Guy, IBIS Hotels, Miss USSR London, Miss Universe Contestants, Marks & Spencers, Australia House, Anabas UK Ltd and many more.
Clerical	Good with Microsoft Office - Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio & Outlook. Average touch typing speed of about 50 WPM.