Experience

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  iSimon Web Design and Development

  • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

  • Web Designer and Front End Developer

    • Jan 2001 - Present
    • Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

    A small, dynamic team of web designers and developers. Stand out with a stunning custom website.

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  Silicon Mountain

  • Co-Founder

    • Aug 2018 - Present

  • CTO

    • Jul 2018 - Dec 2020

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  Simon Barnett - Website Design and Web Development

  • Lakeside, Cape Town

  • Freelance Web / UX Designer and Front-end WordPress Web Developer

    • Aug 2012 - Present
    • Lakeside, Cape Town

    As a freelancer, this Experience section here tends to sit still.The Accomplishments > Projects section down there ⬇︎ is where the party is happening.HTML, CSS, PHP, JavaScript / JQuery, WordPress, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign

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  Self-Employed

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Reverse Psychiatry - Infinite Logarithmic Tapering Calculator

    • Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    A calculator for outputting dosages for an ultra-slow withdrawal from dependance-producing psychiatric drugs. The calculator utilises the methods pioneered by the Surviving Antidepressants online forum (https://www.survivingantidepressants.org/). Please be sure to read the warnings and disclaimers should this portfolio item go beyond that usage.

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  Ince (Pty) Ltd

  • South Africa
  • Advertising Services
  • 100 - 200 Employee

  • Web Designer and Developer

    • Jul 2013 - Aug 2013

    Build mockups and working demos for client pitches.

  • Freelance Research and Development

    • Apr 2013 - Jun 2013

    Research, manage, and provide reference materials for Indesign Digital Publishing iPad App creation workflow.

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  Oranjezicht City Farm

  • Oranjezicht, Cape Town

  • Web Designer and Developer

    • Apr 2013 - May 2013
    • Oranjezicht, Cape Town

    Web Designer and Developerhttp://www.ozcf.co.za/

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  TechRepublic

  • Technical Writer

    • Feb 2013 - May 2013

    Wrote a series of nine articles on Mac usage.http://www.techrepublic.com/search/?a=simon+barnett

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  MacMatrix

  • Cape Town

  • App Developer

    • Jul 2012 - Apr 2013
    • Cape Town

    Own project: Created SideEffects Mac App for Finder interface tweaking.http://macmatrix.blogspot.com/p/sideeffects.htmlOver 200 000 users via various distribution channels.eg. https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/43078/sideeffects

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  iSimon

  • Oranjezicht, Cape Town

  • iSimon

    • Jan 2011 - Apr 2013
    • Oranjezicht, Cape Town

    Personalised Computer Support, Web, and DTP Services• Software and hardware IT support• Design / Web Design, Research & DevelopmentI supported a client-base of about 25 companies and individuals on a contract, freelance or call-out basis.www.linkedin.com/company/2343303?trk=tyahwww.simonbarnett.co.zasimon@[email protected]

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  A to Z of Medicines

  • Cape Town

  • Web Designer and Developer

    • Feb 2013 - Mar 2013
    • Cape Town

    Web Designer and Developer - full site, currently still under slow constructionhttp://www.atozofmedicines.com/Reconstructed dev site:http://themeselector.com/atozofmedicines/Using the Genesis Framework:http://my.studiopress.com/themes/genesis/

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  Lizza Littlewort

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Web Designer / Developer

    • Dec 2012 - Jan 2013
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    The website http://lizzalittlewort.co.za was redesigned to be fun, yet professional using a bold, responsive Wordpress theme (Origin, from Elegant Themes) as it's base.The theme was modified extensively using CSS child stylesheets and plugins for internal galleries. It fills the whole screen, yet resizing the browser window causes the elements to fold up into convenient menus and re-arrange themselves for the device it is being viewed on.The target is local and overseas directors looking for a fast shooting board artist for films and commercials in Cape Town.

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  Michel Le Sueur - Fine Art Photography

  • Cape Town

  • Web Developer

    • Oct 2012 - Nov 2012
    • Cape Town

    Michel le Sueur designed the look / front-end of the website and ordering system. It had to be exact (no template-based solutions), so I hand-coded it in html, css, php and MySQL. I created and programmed the ordering system to generate an ordering page for each of the 300 photographs. The 40 galleries access two MySQL databases to reference the photos used and their sizes and positions on the pages, so this serves as a content management system for the galleries.

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  Ince (Pty) Ltd

  • DTP / Design / Finished Art

    • Aug 2012 - Sep 2012

    Typesetting, Layout, Design, Finished Art, Retouching

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  Switch Branding and Design

  • Cape Town

  • Freelance finished art: MyCiti bus signage

    • Oct 2011 - Nov 2011
    • Cape Town

    Set up generic master bus-stop templates for 200 individual routes.Transpose all Cape Town bus time-tables from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet data to InDesign layout.Process included vector graphics for bleed considerations. Perform finished artwork checks to make documents repro-ready.

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  Fizzee

  • Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Finished Art, Layout and Typesetting

    • May 2011 - Jul 2011
    • Claremont, Cape Town, South Africa

    FIFA 2010 Green Goal Legacy ReportTogether with a small team we completed a complicated technical report for international circulation in June 2011. The standard of the report had to improve on the design and standards of the host country of the previous World Cup, in this case Germany.Despite a complete redesign at the point of completion, and another half-redesign shortly thereafter the project was completed with much praise from the mayor and City of Cape Town.I continue to help out at Fizzee from time to time (as iSimon) in various roles ranging from website coding to system installations.

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  Switch Branding and Design

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • Finished Art and Design

    • Jan 2007 - Jun 2007
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Freelance: Mainly finished art and design of collateral elements for South African Parliament new logo brand manual, Wellness Warehouse brand manual, FIFA 2010 stationery and collateral.Parliament Brand Manual portfolio extract:http://simbadesign.blogspot.com/p/parliament-of-south-african.htmlWellness Warehouse portfolio extract:http://simbadesign.blogspot.com/p/ww-brand-manual.html

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  MacTrain Multimedia College

  • Cape Town Area, South Africa

  • DTP Trainer, IT Administrator, Designer

    • Jan 2001 - Jan 2003
    • Cape Town Area, South Africa

    Also 1993 - 1994.Teaching desktop publishing and graphic design.IT AdministratorCID

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  Williams Lea Corporate Information Solutions

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Desktop Publishing / Finished Art / IT / Research / Course Design / Training

    • 1995 - 1997
    • London, United Kingdom

    Desktop Publishing / Finished Art / IT / Research / Course Design / TrainingOrigination department researcher for developing Adobe Acrobat technologiesGlobal linkup via ISDN lines

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  Database Computers

  • 84 Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa

  • Junior Overlord of Paddle Repair Division

    • 1982 - 1983
    • 84 Long Street, Cape Town, South Africa

    actually maybe i was younger but i was 10 or 12 or something and it was my daddys company and i learned soldering and programming and fixed the dials on the games paddles and then afterwards we saw star wars and then he bought me an ice cream and then we went to the beach with the dogs and then we went homethe endDatabase Computers page on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/pages/Database-Computers/113721762095058