Sinan Jaber Ghareb – Calgary Webdeveloper & Graphic Designer

• Calgary based web developer and designer
• 2008 NMPD graduate with honors from SAIT
• Experience in:
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • OOP in PHP
  • XHTML 1.0 Strict
  • CSS
  • Adobe Photoshop^©
  • Adobe Illustrator^©
• e–commerce and shopping carts
• Graphic design for website mock–ups, business cards, posters, and other designs

• Masters degree in common sense!
• MVC frame work using CodeIgniter
• Developed my own MVC frame work and a CMS based on it that includes:
  • Dynamic site page creation. All the expected functionality is there (Create page, edit, delete, publish/unpublish, and sort)
  • Blog system
  • Gallery (Collections and albums within collection) with JQuery drag and drop sorting
  • Photo Bank and File Bank
  • Contact Form
  • Easy to update layouts and the ability to have multiple layouts, each page can have a different look and feel from other pages if needed
  • Admin Settings (e–mail, password, and user name)
  • The system is very customizable with plugins and modular content
• Google Apps and Google Analytic setup and management
• Great problem solving skills. I sometimes solve problems while driving or eating!
• Do my best to simplify the code and make it portable
• Do my best to NOT cripple usability and limit a functionality to use only Java Script, 99.99% of the site features and main functionality should work without Java Script or Flash
• Great skills with regular expression and finding patterns
• Great sense of usability and user interface
• Great debugging skills
• Very good design skills
• Because I am a developer, I know how dynamic sites work and I keep that in my mind when I convert mock–ups to XHTML
• I love a good and tricky design challenge. I get very excited to try new tricks using XHTML and CSS

Browsers and debugging tools

• Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, and the ugly Internet Explorer. NO IE 6!
• Firebug, Colorzilla, Webdeveloper Toolbar.
• HTML Validator.
• Google search.
• Good old common sense!

Coding and other programs

• NetBeans IDE
• HeidiSQL for data base management
• XAMPP
• TortoiseSVN for sub–version.
• BaseCamp, for client correspondence.
• Paymo, tick, and FreshBooks for time tracking.

Previous and current positions

• Freelance as webdeveloper and graphic designer from 2008 – Current.
• Currently at http://stylelabs.cs as webdeveloper, graphic designer, and team manager from 2010 – Current.
• Worked at www.vanquish.ca as webdeveloper and graphic designer from 2009 – 2010.

Sites that I have worked on under www.vanquish.ca

• The Mustard Seed gift catalogue www.theseed.ca/Gift-Catalogue/
  • Developed in–house gift cart (shopping cart) with XML payment gateway processing (PsiGate)
  • Developed CMS to track donations
• www.thompsongraphics.com
  • 80% Graphic design
  • CMS and front–end development
• www.wolfcustomhomes.ca/
  • Development using ExpressionEngine
  • Debugging front–end CSS and XHTML
• www.mca-ab.com/
  • Development using ExpressionEngine
  • Debugging front–end CSS and XHTML
• www.graniteworx.com
  • CMS development
  • Debugging front–end CSS and XHTML
• URL not available due to privacy agreement
  • Travel and social networking site
  • Over 9 months of working with a travel affiliate
  • Used XSLT to transform returned XML to viewable page
  • Extensive MySQL work that involved over 88,000 Hotels and over 1.5 Million hotel images database
  • Extensive code optimization and debugging
  • Site works under the CodeIgniter framework
  • Created custom code that integrates with CodeIgniter framework to do specific tasks
  • Site features flights booking, hotels booking (live and static data), and rental cars booking

Sites that I have developed as freelancer

• traversedevelopments.com
  • CMS development (First ever freelance project right after graduation)
  • CMS involved developing projects/property management system
  • Mailing list and client sign–up
• www.mainland.ca ** Current www.mainland.ca site has changed from original work I have done **
  • Full front–end development, taking PSD Photoshop^© files and coding them into XHTML 1.0 strict and CSS
  • Full CMS including event/seminar management
• www.redlinerealestate.ca
  • Site created using my own MVC framework as well as my own CMS
• http://www.nucontrast.com
  • Site created using my own MVC framework as well as my own CMS
• http://www.tayky.ca
  • Site created using my own MVC framework as well as my own CMS

Old Portfolio site: www.sinanghareb.com

Phone: [403] 286–8626 Weekdays after 8p.m., weekends after 1p.m. (Mountain Time)

Thank you for your time.

Looking forward to hearing from you.