Nick Cernis

Developer & Designer

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NickCernis

West Yorkshire, UK

Nick Cernis is a developer and designer from West Yorkshire.

With strengths in a wide range of Web technologies, Nick builds websites that delight and inspire, solves everyday layout and Web scripting problems, designs and codes corporate and personal blogs, configures content management systems, builds custom applications, and takes a keen interest in Web Standards and emerging technologies.

Nick is the founder of Spiffing Apps, a mobile software development house, and the co-founder of Goburo Ltd, a web design and development studio. He is available for freelance design and development work.

nickcernis@me.com

Skills

Development
Confident with HTML5, CSS3, PHP, jQuery, the WordPress blogging platform, and the ExpressionEngine content management system.

A keen advocate of clean code and open standards, Nick prefers hand coding to Dreamweaver and JavaScript or CSS3 animation to Flash, but is comfortable adopting in-house software and workflows.
Design
Design for print, Web, and mobile applications using Fireworks, Photoshop, and Illustrator. Ability to interpret creative briefs and follow established corporate styles.

A career beginning in print design provided a good foundation in typography, layout, and grid-based design.
Writing
Experience writing blog posts, technical articles, and long-form ghost writing, predominantly for the technology, Web, and blogging industries.

Has appeared in high-profile blogs such as Lifehacker and Copyblogger, and hit the front pages of social syndication sites such as Hacker News, Delicious, and Digg.

Experience

Developer

Jan 2009 - Present
Spiffing Apps
Building iOS applications for iPhone and iPod Touch using the Objective-C programming language and Apple's Cocoa Touch frameworks.
Designer & Developer

Dec 2006 - Present
Goburo Ltd
Designing, coding, and configuring websites, predominantly for startups and individuals using the WordPress blogging platform.
Graphic Designer
Bradford, UK
Jul 2004 - Dec 2006
Inprint and Design Ltd
Print design ranging from brochures to building wraps, as well as an active role in the print production process (e.g. imposition, plate making). Idea generation, development, and pitching.

Education