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Igor Jelen, Web Developer

Web Developer with more than 5 years of freelance experience building and maintaining custom-designed websites seeks employment as a part of a web development team.

Skills

  • Excellent experience with HTML5 (well structured, semantic code, cross-browser compatibility), CSS3 (with Sass preprocessor, Flexbox), JavaScript (Ajax, jQuery, ES6)
  • Working knowledge of ReactJS
  • Responsive web design using Foundation framework with Gulp (or Bootstrap, MaterializeCSS)
  • Ability to hand-code responsive layouts
  • Experience with SVG images (optimization, CSS styling, CSS animation)
  • Excellent experience with ExpressionEngine CMS (10+ websites)
  • Very good experience with WordPress theme development (custom post types, ACF plugin…)
  • Experience with Vagrant for development environment (VVV for WordPress development, Homestead for Laravel)
  • Good knowledge of PHP (OOP, Composer, good experience with Laravel) and MySQL
  • Command-line tools (Bash, Git Bash, SSH, MySQL CLI)
  • Experience with Linux server administration (bash, SSH, installing, configuring packages, MySQL CLI)
  • Node.js based workflow tools (npm, Bower, Grunt, Gulp...)
  • Basic experience with testing framework Jasmine
  • Version control with Git
  • Excellent experience with typography (using Adobe InDesign)
  • Skilled at using Adobe Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Experience Design)
  • Passion for web development and eagerness to learn

Experience

Freelance Web Developer

Vrbovec, Croatia – Dublin, Ireland

2003. – present

  • Učenički dom Križevci (GitHub Repo) – A website for a small middle school campus: custom responsive web design,WordPress custom theme based on Zurb Foundation framework, Ajax, external APIs (wunderground.com, cloudinary.com, mapbox.com, youtube.com)
  • – A website for a local radio station in Vrbovec, Croatia: custom responsive web design, ExpressionEngine integration, client training, Ajax
  • – A website for a middle school in Vrbovec, Croatia: custom design, ExpressionEngine integration, Ajax, maintained and administered the site for 6 years
  • – A website for a small carpentry shop: custom responsive web design optimized for slow internet connection
  • – A website for the public library in Vrbovec, Croatia: custom web design, ExpressionEngine integration
  • Designed and coedited the monograph on my hometown high school (excerpt, pdf)
  • Logo and marketing print material for my hometown high school (brochures, the enrollment poster - pdf)

Education

  • B.A. Philosophy and Russian language and literature, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • B.A. Library and information science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Languages

  • English (fluent)
  • Croatian (native speaker)
  • Russian (fluent)
  • German (very good command)

Interests

  • Cycling, traveling, languages