Masana Ikeshima.
I am a web designer and developer based in Edinburgh, Scotland with industry experience in search engine optimisation, website design and development as well as knowledge in games development through my time at university.
I have worked on a variety of projects from budget sites to e-commerce websites as well as websites that have been coded and designed from the ground up.
My aim as a website developer is to learn the latest techniques and technologies in order to improve my designs and functionality of each website.
At present, I am currently learning HTML 5 and CSS 3 and hope to incorporate these techniques into my newest sites.
Search engine optimisation and web development.
Immediately after graduating from university I undertook a summer placement with Caliber Interactive as a joint role of online marketer and web developer.
As an online marketer I learnt the foundations of search engine optimisation and I was immediately tasked with improving high-profile clients' search engine results page rankings using industry standard SEO tools such as seomoz.org.
I was given the opportunity to work on their intranet system and to develop an extra two modules to help assist their day-to-day needs as one of the fastest growing SEO companies in Scotland. The system was developed using CodeIgniter's model-view-controller framework and self-taught code.
Web design and development.
In early October 2010 I joined RSTO who provide an outsourcing service for BT's website development service. RSTO ran the government incentive scheme, Getting British Businesses Online, inconjunction with Google. The websites ranged from basic starter websites to e-commerce websites as well as full content management systems.
I began with their starter package, Online Starter Kits, and by the start of the following year I was promoted to work on e-commerce websites using the ePages platform.
During my time at RSTO I was required to manage clients, design and develop professional websites that were tailored to each unique client in a fast-pace environment.
