CV - The Web Hero is looking for someone in need of a hero

No Request

Website designed and partly programmed by me.

This was a site for a radio DJ that wanted a personalized Wordpress blog theme. In this designed I tried to capture the club and techno feeling that the client wanted.

Live site, www.NoRequest.is

Sómi

Website programmed by me but design was mostly in the hands of an ad agency.

I am not happy with this design. I like the look of it to a certain extent but when considering SEO for this site then it falls flat on its face. This is designed by a typical "paper" based designer, relying heavily on images and leaving no meat on the bones for the search engine.

Live site, www.somi.is

Gallerí Lundi

This sign and flyer was designed by me.

Usually I don't do things for print, well unless you ask nicely! So this is for a gallery that sells handcrafted things, so my idea was to make the sign look like a wrapped parcel suggesting there was something handcrafted inside.

Here you can take a better look.

Tennis

Here I did the designing and some of the programming.

This is a site about, yeah you guessed it, tennis! The aim was to appeal to kids, therefore I went with a lot of colors and pig bald imagery.

Live site, www.tennis.is

Baseball

This site is a sister site of the tennis one, so here I went with the same look just different graphics, again aiming at the young ones.

Live site, www.hafnarbolti.com

Höndinn

This was a pro bono job I did for a charity organization.

The goal for me was to have calm over look of the whole design.

This site is not up an running at the moment.

Last but not least...

My own site! Backstory, my brother has a kids entertaining company, LazyTown and there he is his own superhero, Sportacus, and there was no way that I could let my brother be the only hero in the family! So the Web Hero was born.

I am ashamed to say that my site isn't ready, but you can take a

Look here at the work in process.

Yeah, sure I have been busy! My CV!

Lets start with my education:

2003 – 2003 Anglia Polytechnic University, Chelmsford, England, B.Sc. Software Engineering, (one semester left)

2002 – 2002 Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 4 months working on my final thesis for Roskilde Business College

2002 – 2002 Deakin University Geelong, Australia, exchange student for half a year

2000 – 2002 Roskilde Business College Roskilde, Denmark, Datamatiker

Employment history:

2009 – current Planet Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland

Web designer and developer
Site: www.planeticeland.com
New navigaton: www.planeticeland.com/testing

2007 – current Vefhetjan (The Web Hero), Reykjavik, Iceland

Working freelance as a web designer and programmer
Site: www.vefhetjan.is
Alternative: vefhetjan.is/index.htm

2006 – 2007 Hotel Akureyri, Akureyri, Iceland

CEO
Took care of everyday business for the firm which consisted of a hotel, 3 guesthouses, 9 apartments and 8 commercial housings
Handled all marketing and sales

2005 – 2006 Leit.is

Webmaster for the number 1 search engine in Iceland
My main job there turned out to be a sort of fireman, putting out small fires here and there in the system as the foundation behind it was not too strong. So most of my time there I spent fixing broken code

2003 – 2005 Somi ehf., Gardabær, Iceland

Sales and marketing
A company with 80% share in the sandwich industry in Iceland. I handled sales and also took care of their website and actually still take care of it

2003 – 2004 StudentOnBoard.com

Project manger
Managed an international project based on my own ideas for an online information system for international offices at universities worldwide
The team consisted of 8 people in four countries
Beta version was launched but due to lack of financial support then the project was cancelled