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14+ years experience developing web sites and web applications. Consultancy, User Experience/User Interface Design, HTML/CSS/jQuery Coding, Shopify Themes/Apps (eCommerce), Web Application Development (Ruby on Rails, PHP).

Design Director @ RyanFosterDesign is a digital agency. We are a team of designers and developers working with clients big and small in the UK, USA, Europe and Australia. www.ryanfosterdesign.com Example projects include: Pebble ($10.4m raised on Kickstarter and 190,000 pre-orders through its Shopify store) DODOcase (Shopify build a business competition winners, $1m turnover in 6m) Triangl (Fast growing bikini brand that has gone from $5 million worth of sales in the first year to $25 million in the second) adgrok (Y-Combinator alumni acquired by Twitter) GamesThatGive (Facebook gaming platform for brands, acquired by Vitrue/Oracle) RapGenius (design for MVP, raised $15m in venture round funding) Homelight (MVP for startup backed by Google Ventures) Shopify (2 official themes) / Shopify Plus (5 Enterprise clients). We are Shopify Experts, and have designed over 100 client themes and custom apps. From November 2009 to Present (6 years) Consultant @ In the eCommerce Business program, students learn how to design projects and lead teams towards the development of solutions that evolve the way we do business online. From April 2010 to December 2014 (4 years 9 months) SwedenCo-founder @ A freelance community based in the Northeast of England. Freelance Romance is all about making connections between good freelancers and good businesses, for mutual benefit. From February 2011 to February 2013 (2 years 1 month) Northeast EnglandCo-founder @ Twileshare is a free service that allows you to share files on Twitter. Upload and share anything from images, documents, PDFs, ebooks and more. Go share: www.twileshare.com From August 2010 to January 2013 (2 years 6 months) In the cloudProject Manager @ Project Manager, leading development team(s) creating websites and web applications for clients across the UK including Adidas, Newcastle United Football Club, Connexions, Northeast Regional Portal, Prospects, Academy for Sustainable Communities, UK Sport, Shell LiveWIRE, ONE Northeast, Northeast Chamber of Commerce and Durham County Council. From 2000 to November 2009 (9 years) Internet Co-ordinator @ Internet Co-ordinator responsible for the design and development of the councils corporate website, intranet, economic development website, tourism website, Empire Theatre website and members extranet. Also worked at a strategic level with key partners developing the City of Sunderland telematics strategy. Role also involved commissioning agencies to work on specific projects on behalf of internal departments within the council. From 1998 to 2000 (2 years) Multimedia Designer @ Multimedia designer (based at Quarry Bank Mill, Manchester) working on gallery interactives and multimedia collections databases. In 1997, started work on a National Grid For Learning pilot project with Research Machines (RM), creating a museum website aimed at school children to support curriculum learning requirements. From 1996 to 1998 (2 years)

BA(hons), Visual Cultures @ University of Derby From 1991 to 1994 Ryan Foster is skilled in: User Interface Design, User Experience Design, Conversion Optimization, Project Management, SEO, Information Architecture, Web Design, E-commerce, Interaction Design, CSS, HTML 5, Digital Strategy, Digital Marketing, Wireframes, Online Advertising, jQuery, Web Development, Web Project Management, Shopify, Website Development, Usability, User Interface, Front-end, Web Applications, Social Media Marketing, Start-ups, Mobile Applications, Integrated Marketing, Strategy, User Experience, Content Management, Web Analytics