“I'm a programming artist.”
New media design and development is what I specialize in. As you'll see in my resumé below, I have a passion for creating secure, friendly and International web site designs and solutions. You can see examples of them in my portfolio.
I'm not just a designer, I love programming, too. I'm very often seen refining my actionscript or tweaking some CSS while Photoshop is open in the back with designs for a web site showing through. Oh, did I mention I love my PC and my Mac.
I'm from Hong Kong, but thanks to the Internet, I've worked worldwide from here. So if you're looking for someone who is a wild and creative new media designer but also loves the logical thinking of new media programming, then I'm confident that I'm the right person.
Feel free to contact me if you have a project that you'd like me to help out in or just want to share some ideas.
Scholastic Achievements
- Bachelor of Arts (First-Class Honors) in Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
- Associate of Arts in Media Technology, City University of Hong Kong
Honors and Awards
- Sir Edward Youde Memorial Scholarship
- School of Creative Media Top Student (average GPA: 3.99)
- School of Creative Media Dean’s List (4 consecutive semesters)
- Hong Kong Cyberport Website Competition 2004 Champion
- Hong Kong Web Society Web-Based Project Competition 2003 Certificate of Award
- Interactive Media Awards Outstanding Achievement
Relevant Experience
Languages
- English native speaker
- Fluent in Cantonese (spoken and written)
Web Solutions
- Geography Zone
- A.C.A. Trend
- YMCA SOFA Fashion Project
- MTR Corporation Staff Training Website (internally used)
- City University Biology and Chemistry Knowledgebase (internally used)
- Carol Kwok Portfolio (previous version of http://www.carolkwok.com/)
- Culture-ddd E-Journal
Teaching/Research
- Part-time Instructor II – Mathematics and Physics for Interactive Media
- Research Assistant – Building animated, autonomous characters through learning
- Part-time Teaching Assistant – Digital Media Course
- Research Assistant – Script Visualization System: Animated and Interactive Script Writing
- Student Assistant – Digital Media Course
- MTR Corporation Staff Trainer – Flash Application Design
- Online Tutorials (eg. http://www.flash-mx.com/flash/swift1.cfm)
- Friends of Electronic Designer Forum Moderator
Graphic design
- Internship at looks.com
Full-time contracts
- 2006 – 2007 New media designer at Fluid Design + Marketing
Relevant Skills
Software
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Flash
- Adobe Photoshop
- eRain Swift 3D
- Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
Programming
- Actionscript
- CSS – Cascading Style Sheets
- DOM – Document Object Model Scripting
- XHTML – Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
- Javascript
Knowledge
- Accessible, usable web design practices
- Color calibration and management
- Computer maintenance and repair
- Digital photography
- PC and Mac use
- Photograph retouching and digital restoration
- Search engine optimization (SEO)
- Semantic web design
- Separation of website structure (XHTML), presentation (CSS) and behavior (Javscript)
- Unobtrusive Javascript programming concepts
- Web standards advocate