Paul Blake : CV :
Introduction
I arrived in London in 1995. The Internet had begun to grow exponentially and there was an increasing interest in my skills as a website developer. I had created an online portfolio of my animations and graphics - this brought me employment with Emap Publications as a web producer, editor, and later manager. Since then I have been employed in managing website development.
I reinforced my management experience with a MA from London College of Printing in Media Technology Administration, a media management Masters Degree program. My course work included The Management of Human Resources, Projects and Change for which I wrote a project plan for a publishing company to move online. I wrote my final dissertation on Content Management and XML.
As a production manager I have prepared reports for senior management, maintained schedules, projects plans, budgets including invoices and payments and managed human resources. I have developed production websites where all material used in the process is backed up and available.
As a web producer I have maintained content, moderated forums, processed graphics, edited text, and designed interfaces.
Recent print projects have included flyers, posters and brochures using Adobe Indesign.
I pride myself on being able to communicate with developers, designers, writers and managers. Working with a variety of clients I have introduced ideas, encouraged introspection and developed communication across departments and organisations.
I am particularly interested in the application of XML, the creation of DTDs and schemas, the distribution and collation of data and the transformation of data using XSLT into usable formats including websites, mobile technology and print.
I am constantly learning new skills and keeping abreast of changes in web technology. Recently I have been learning about MVC within the Zend Framework, looked into Flex and am turning my sights towards more user rich applications such as Flash and Actionscript and their application within Social networks.