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Michael Duerinckx
is a (mostly front-end) web developer for Carswell Gould. Other than web development he is into electronics design as well as music production.
All content by Michael Duerinckx unless mentioned otherwise.

Resume

Web development

Work experience

Carswell Gould – Front-end developer (October 2011 – current)

Moto.R.varen (freelance) – Back-end and Front-end development (2011)

Bert Branders (freelance) – Front-end development and design (2010)

Hobby experience

TheAudioPortal Front-end and Back-end development, design (2009-2011)

This website Front-end development and design (November 2011)

Various side projects See portfolio (2009 – current)

Key skills

Front-end

(x)HTML, HTML5 – to write semantically correct, minimal markup presenting the content

CSS2, CSS3 – using the latest techniques to achieve styles that gracefully degrade in older browsers

JavaScript and jQuery – to create an optimal user experience that works in all major browsers and uses the best practices

PSD2HTML – Converting Photoshop designs to semantic HTML documents styled with CSS

Back-end

PHP5 – Good knowledge and working experience of object oriented programming

(My)SQL – Good working understanding and experience with building queries of varying complexity (joins, subqueries, …)

MVC – Good experience-based knowledge of the Model-View-Controller design pattern through usage of FuelPHP framework

Apache – Setting up web servers and configuring them

Various

Git – experience working with the Git distributed version control system

Linux – Using Ubuntu as main operating system, setting up LAMP on it, working with a command line interface

Electronics

Work experience

Data cabler – Manual labour which mostly got me more experience in dealing with wiring (September – October 2010)

School and hobby experience

Digital design and some analog: Yearproject during my course: FPGA-based MIDI synthesizer. More information (2010-2011)

Key skills

Circuit analysis – Locating faults in circuits and fixing them

Soldering – Clean PCB soldering skills, as well as de-soldering for fixing things

VHDL / Xilinx ISE – Creating digital designs for Xilinx FPGA’s in their software, using both schematic editor and VHDL code

AVR-C – Programming embedded C for Atmel AVR microcontrollers

Programming general – Extensive background programming in various environments, able to pick up on new languages easily.

Education

First class bachelor’s degree Electronics – CVO VTI Leuven (Belgium) (2009-2011)

Technical “Higher Secondary Education” (Equivalent to College) - VTI Leuven (Belgium) (2007-2009)

If you’d like any more information, head over to the contact page and get in touch.