In today’s post, we look at the web designer and developer resume. In this particular resume example, we will focus on the core skills required by these positions. Website developers and designers need to show a prospective employer the ability to think critically, and creatively. Of course a website designer and developer needs to indicate the tools, languages and technologies that he or she is familiar with.
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They say a picture is worth a thousand words. As such, we believe that a good sample resume for any web designer should include links to websites to act as a portfolio. Nothing can demonstrate the quality of your work better than a portfolio of your work.
Without further ado, we are pleased to present to you this sample resume for a web designer or web developer. You can use this resume as a template, take ideas that might work for you to land your next job interview.
Web Designer Resume Example, Web Developer Sample Resume – page 1
JANE DOE
Willow Street,
Vancouver, British Columbia
V4N 1K5
Tel (604) 123-4567
Experience and Skills Summary
A website designer and developer with 7 years of experience. Expertise in graphic design, web development, interactive development, usability with knowledge on both Mac and PC. A creative, adaptable, detail oriented professional, with an ability to understand client’s goals.
Career Accomplishments
- Web Marketing Association 2009 Best Design Gold Award
- Website Design Professional Marketing Group 2005 Interactivity and Ease of Target Audience Silver Award
- National Web Developer Association Web Copy Award 2004
Professional History:
Global Web Development Inc, Vancouver, BC, 2006 to Present
ACME Website Design Inc, Toronto, ON, 2000 to 2005
Lead Web Designer and Web Developer
Website Development and Maintenance
- Lead and co-ordinate multidisciplinary teams/sub-contractors of 3 to 5 to develop over 150 web site projects with budgets from $5k to $150,000k.
- Delivered Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 85% of clients experienced a traffic increase of 35%, 24 clients improved from 7 page google rank to first page.
- Created websites with capacity and interactivity to create quality custom/template websites that are cross browser friendly, with quick load times and web presence within time lines
- Understand client’s business needs, strategies, goals and user requirements, translate customer’s vision into web reality, to ensure final product has the look and feel that the customer desires
- Develop web site architecture and determine hardware and software requirements
- Provide training to a diverse client base with non-technical backgrounds.
- Produce/negotiate quotes with customers, work within a variety of client’s budgets while reducing development/maintenance costs for employer
- Setting up of client hosting, email and statistics for client web sites.
- Websites with secure e-commerce functionality, site contained map locators, flash intros, automatic pre-fielded electronic forms on site.
Web Designer Resume Example, Web Developer Sample Resume – page 2
Graphic Design
- Designed logo and print products including brochures, business cards, thank you cards, door hangers, customized letter heads, faxes, stationery etc.
- Consult with clients to establish the overall look, graphic elements and content of communications materials in order to meet their needs
- Determine medium best suited to produce desired visual effect and the most appropriate vehicle for communication
- Develop the graphic elements that meet the clients’ objectives
- Prepare sketches, layouts and graphic elements of the subjects to be rendered using traditional tools, multimedia software and image processing, layout and design software
- Estimate cost of materials and time to complete graphic design
- Produce 2-D and 3-D animated drawings or computer illustrations
- Develop and produce realistic or representational sketches and final illustrations, by hand or using computerassisted design (CAD) software, for printed materials such as books, magazines, packaging, greeting cards, stationery, etc.
Portfolio of Sample Website Projects
| National Retail Chain | samplesite.com |
| High End Jewellery Store | samplesite.com |
| Telecommunications Inc | samplesite.com |
| Social Networking | samplesite.com |
| Online Job Board | samplesite.com |
| Employment Website | samplesite.com |
| Trendy Art Gallery | samplesite.com |
Technical Skills Summary
| Software / Language | Experience Level | # of Years Experience Using |
| Dreamweaver MX | Advanced | 7 |
| Homesite | Expert | 6 |
| CSS-P | Intermediate | 7 |
| HTML | Intermediate | 9 |
| DHTML | Exepert | 10 |
| (X)HTML | Intermediate | 8 |
| Javascript | Advanced | 8 |
| Flash | Intermediate | 7 |
| PHP | Advanced | 9 |
| Illustration and Design | Advanced | 9 |
| Photoshop | Intermediate | 5 |
| Illustrator | Expert | 8 |
| Fireworks | Expert | 6 |
| Corel | Expert | 7 |
| Microsoft Excel, Access, Windows XP |
Advanced | 9 |
| J2EE | Intermediate | 6 |
| C applications | Advanced | 5 |
| Unix | Advanced | 8 |
| Windows API | Expert | 7 |
| SQL | Advanced | 7 |


