Hi, I'm Manuel
front-end developer UI/UX designer

About me

Intuitive, innovative and enthusiastic front-end / UX developer with a strong creative background

Self-confessed lifetime geek, who embarked in an adventure of making his past-time a profession.
It all started at the age of 3 with a Commodore64, where to play a game I had to write a line of code and wait for the tape to load. At 14 I discovered the internet. My [at that time] amazingly fast 14.4kb/s modem could connect me to the world. I believed that that was the future and I wanted to be an active part of it. So I started messing around with Notepad (it was the only text editor at my disposal at the time), writing HTML on my brand new Win95 machine. No CSS yet; they only invented it a few years later. Then I shifted my attention to Flash as that was what all the cool kids were doing — ok a geek, but one has to at least try to be cool, right? In the meantime I finished my studies and started working as a pure web designer, but kept coding in my spare time and eventually my career swerved that way. My passion has continued over the years and, as much as it damages my cool side and magnifies my geek side, it's still as strong as it was on day one. Away from the screen, I love spending time with my family, swimming, snowboarding, skating, and climbing.

Skills

Software, tools, and technical proficiency

  • Handcode
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Sass
  • JS
  • Angular
  • Vue.js
  • Jquery
  • Bootstrap
  • Foundation
  • Grunt
  • Git
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • InDesign
  • Sketch
  • Invision
  • Proto.io
  • Mailchimp
  • Jira
  • Responsive Design
  • W3c Standards
  • Mac OSX

Portfolio

A taste of some of the projects that I've been involved in

Crowdfunding

hubbub.net

Giving Days

hubbub.net

Ambassadors

hubbub.net

cashsmart

Mobile App

cashsmart

Desktop App

CreditHQ

www.credithq.co.uk

CreditFocus

www.creditfocus.co.uk

Phorm UK

Digital Advertising

Valentino

High Fashion Designer

Miss Sixty

High Fashion Designer

Energie

High Fashion Designer

YOOX

High Fashion Retailer

CP Company

High Fashion Designer

Stone Island

High Fashion Designer

Maison Martin Margiela

High Fashion Designer

Marni

High Fashion Designer

Bally

High Fashion Designer

The Corner

Men's High Fashion Retailer

MiCollezioni

Fashion Designer

Overline

Beauty Equipment Retailer

Davide Todisco

Surveyor

Davide Calvani

Photographer

Sky

Telecommunications

ME.SA

Image Consultant

GamezTube

Streaming Platform

Banco Popolare

Bank

Effepi Solar

Renewable Energy

Balloonerie

Balloon Artist

Experience

The timeline of a life in web

  • 2002 - 2007

    Unieuro

    Department Manager

    Responsible for all functions of the retail store to include customer service, inventory, technical troubleshooting, stocks management, staff management and sales management. Other duties: new store openings support and staff training.

  • 2007 - 2009

    YOOX

    Web designer & Photo/Video editor

    Website design, video and photo editing, newsletters and DEMs design, Flash banner marketing production, Flash coding in AS2. Main clients: Yoox.com, Valentino, Miss Sixty, Energie, Stone Island, CP Company and many others.

  • 2009 - 2011

    Freelancer

    Web designer/developer & Photo/Video editor

    Website design and development, photo retouching, video editing and postproduction.

  • 2011 - 2015

    Phorm UK Inc.

    Senior Front-end Developer | UI/UX Designer

    Solely responsible for front-end development and UI/UX design within the company. Design and development of multilingual responsive dashboards and portals reaching millions of users around the world. Design and development of mobile web-apps for iOS and Android devices. Optimisation of existing websites for mobile. Liaison with stakeholders to transform their goals and needs into highly appealing and usable tools; taking them from the first idea, through the UX lifecycle, to the final, polished and tested product while ensuring quality and timely delivery.

  • 2015 - 2017

    Ormsby Street Ltd

    Senior Front-end Developer | UI/UX Designer

    Solely responsible for front-end development and UI/UX design within the company. Develop user experience for the product set and develop the company and product brand experience across all devices. Create front-end code for all aspects of the product and work the engineers for implementation. Oversee the development of all versions of the product in harmony with the product and organizational brand. Incorporate a data driven approach to the user experience process and user experience designs. Work mobile first across desktop, tablet, mobile and imbedded functionality platforms to deliver the highest quality user experience at all times. Develop and contribute to user journeys, storyboards and wireframes for product features.

  • 2017 - NOW

    Hubbub Fundraising

    Senior Front-end Developer | UI/UX Designer

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