Jabulani Robbins


jr@iamjabulani.tech |
(+44) 7969 910 258 |
www.iamjabulani.tech

Summary

An enthusiastic and creative web developer with four years' recent experience working as a freelancer. I have demonstrable skills working with both front-end and back-end technologies and thrive on learning new things. Looking to gain additional experience with a forward-thinking digital agency or brand management company.

Experience

Web Developer

Freelance 2017 – Present

  • Creating designs from scratch, wireframing, mockups using Adobe Photoshop and XD
  • Learning to develop web apps and PWAs using Vue and Nuxt.js
  • Installing and configuring Wordpress and Wordpress plugins
  • Modifying Wordpress themes
  • Fixing issues with existing sites, primarily Wordpress
  • Creating and implementing solutions on existing sites, both Wordpress and bespoke solutions.

Developer / Designer / Content Manager

Adventures of the Valparaiso 2015 – 2017

Web developer for a creative social enterprise located on an antique canal boat in Amsterdam. Partly onboard, partly remote.

  • Modifying and fixing the existing website
  • Wordpress, PHP, CSS, JavaScript
  • Graphics work (Photoshop)
  • Remote working (Skype, messaging, email).

Creative Director / Collaborator

Dantanna Beatz 2012 – 2015

Music production and live performance project. I was responsible for conceptualising and producing print, video, and web-based media as well as collaborating and performing on some music pieces.

University Lecturer

Wolverhampton University School of Art & Design 2006 – 2012

  • Course Leader in Digital Arts & Media
  • Lecturer in Computer Games Design
  • Module Leader in Digital Image Manipulation; Design for Interaction; Gameplay & Game Mechanics; Final Project.
Special Achievements
  • Rising Star Award
  • Successful KTP (Knowledge Transfer Partnership) bid writing and project specification bringing in £150,000 for the department
  • Game Design Team co-ordinator for AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) joint project bid with Birmingham University Superconductivity Research Laboratory
  • Artist & Speaker at ISEA Symposium, Singapore (2009).

Web Developer

Freelance 2004 – 2006

Various web development projects mostly creating custom solutions using HTML, CSS, and PHP. Clients included:

  • University of Wolverhampton School of Art & Design
  • Induced Energy Limited.

Web Designer

Arkwright Consulting Limited Sept 2004 – Sept 2005

I started at Arkwright Consulting as a graduate trainee on a placement scheme but was soon promoted to a lead role. This allowed me to gain firsthand experience of many aspects of running the business and gave me the confidence to become self-employed.

  • Graphic design
  • Web development (PHP + MySQL)
  • Web design (HTML, CSS)
  • Account management
  • Technical sales
  • Business networking
  • Bookkeeping.

Projects

Prosperity Health

Custom Wordpress site with ecommerce 2019

Consulting on web marketing strategy. Designing and implementing a custom Wordpress site with WooCommerce.

The Little Big Programme

Bespoke full-Stack web app 2018

Child project of The Big Programme. Built with Laravel, Bootstrap, and GSAP Animation Library

The Big Programme

Proof of concept 2017

Built with Laravel. Full-stack project

3 Days (Shots fired)

Personal project 2017

Programmatically generated photo gallery of the locations and details of gun violence incidents across the USA over 3 days in December 2015. Created using Google Street View API, Gun Violence Archive datasets, PHP. Active research for a broader project on crime data.

J-Grain

Personal project 2015

A breadboard prototype for a pocket-sized granular synthesiser made with Arduino.

Skills

  • HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, jQuery
  • Vue.js, Nuxt.js
  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Wordpress
  • Sass/Scss
  • Webpack
  • Git

Awards & Education

MA in Media Arts

Coventry University 2008

Research into language and semiotics, modern mythologies (Bartes), experimental practice. Final project (entitled "Scionica") created using:

  • Microsoft Speech SDK (C# .Net) for language processing
  • Actionscript 3 for visualisations
  • PureData for audio processing.

BA(Hons) 2.1 in Interactive Media

University of Wolverhampton 2004

Course content included:

  • User-centered Design
  • Design for Interaction
  • Project Management.

Interests

Open source culture, music (playing & listening), yoga & meditation, self-improvement, life hacking, productivity techniques, art, science, technology, philosophy, food (cooking & eating), film, psychology.