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    Education and professional experience

    Professional experience

    Freelance Frontend & WordPress Developer

    2009-2015

    During the last 10 years working as a Frontend Developer, and the last 6 years as a freelance WordPress Developer, I have collaborated with many digital design agencies from almost all over the globe: Germany, Switzerland, USA, UK, Austria and Romania.

    My main specialization is the development of WordPress themes, based on the designs sent by design agencies; in addition to Frontend and WordPress theme development, I manage the entire project, starting from a secure WordPress installation, up to configurations of the vital plugins, continuing with widget and plugin development, 3rd party API integration, website speed management, website launch and client documentation.

    I am always up to date with the most current technologies and trends in web development and have gained considerable experience in developing responsive WordPress themes and widgets, integrating free and premium plugins, adding interactions with jQuery, implementing custom typography and using proven responsive frameworks such as Foundation5 and Bootstrap3. I have also managed Apache servers, MySQL databases and worked with the CPanel software.

    Also, I have very good experience in developing WordPress Child Themes, custom CMS Fields (Advanced Custom Fields plugin),  WordPress Multilanguage websites (WPML Plugin), WordPress Custom Post Types & Taxonomies, WordPress custom Filters & Functions, WordPress eCommerce (WooCommerce), Blog & News systems, as well as good knowledge in the following fields: SEO, WordPress Security & Backup, 3rd party APIs (Facebook, Twitter, googleMaps, MailChimp, etc).

    I have strong english and german language skills; the work is done out of my home office, while communication with the clients is handled via eMail, Skype, Dropbox and googleDocs.

    Web Designer & FrontEnd Developer

    Boots`n`All (USA) - 2006-2009The US Travel Portal “Boots`n`All” employed me for over 3 years as the leading Webdesigner and Frontend developer. I was closely working together with the Backend Team, and around this time i was exposed to the WordPress CMS, which impressed me with it`s simplicity and user friendliness.

    Web Designer & FrontEnd Developer

    Biemmeti (Rumania/Italy) - 2002-2006My career as a Web Designer started at the italian agency Biemmeti in 2001; i was responsible of the UX and interaction design of the agency`s projects, and later on i started learning frontend development, in order to translate these designs into fully functional websites.

    Education

    Formation: Digital Media Designer

    Tibiscus University - Timisoara/Romania - 1998-2003

    Emphasis on: New Media, Digital Design and Animation.

    German Goethe-Kolleg, Bucharest

    Bucharest/Romania - 1993-1997

    Extensive german langue education.