Curriculum Vitae of Harry Roberts—web designer and developer
Personal
me
- Name
- Harry Roberts, Harry
- Age
- 22years
- Location
- Leeds, UK
- Abilities
- Design, Development, UX, UI, HTML(5), CSS(3), Git, Vim, Performance, Responsive Web Design, Mobile Development, Progressive Enhancement, Typography, Accessibility, Usability, Semantics, Web Standards, Grids, Writing
me__contact
- Email
- harry@csswizardry.com
- Twitter
- @csswizardry
- Website
- csswizardry.com
- GitHub
- github.com/csswizardry
Notes
Hi there, I’m Harry. I am a 22 year old designer, developer, writer and speaker from the UK; I work as a Senior UI Developer for BSkyB. I write, tweet, speak and share code about authoring and scaling CSS for big websites.
- Lead developer of inuit.css, popular, open source, OOCSS framework.
- International conference speaker.
- .net Award finalist, 2011.
- Member of Smashing Magazine’s Experts Panel and occasional Smashing Magazine author.
- A web professional with unparalleled CSS(3) and HTML(5) knowledge and a skillset covering semantics, performance, accessibility, usability, sensible development, UX, UI and more…
- A motivated and motivating worker, with a dedication to learning by embracing new tasks and roles.
Employment
job
- Title
- Web Designer/Developer
- Duration
- 4.5years
job--BSkyB
- Title
- Senior UI Developer
- Company
- British Sky Broadcasting
- From
- March 2011
- To
- Present
- Clients
- In-house
- Responsibilities
- Build, Performance, Architecture, Scalability, Mobile Development, Accessibility, UI, UX, Progressive Enhancement
- Notes
- Solely responsible for the build of a front-end framework and complete rebuild of the front-end of Sky Bet website. This was my first time working solo on such a highly trafficked website, exercising web standards dark arts where best practices met performance and pushed the boundaries (and bent the rules) to create a highly accessible yet very performant build.
job--Venturelab
- Title
- Web Developer
- Company
- Venturelab UK Ltd
- From
- January 2010
- To
- March 2011
- Clients
- In-house
- Responsibilities
- Design, Build, UX, UI, IA, Accessibility, Progressive Enhancement
- Notes
- Working as lead front-end developer in a VC’s dedicated web team. I was responsible for the build of websites as well as taking the company toward a progressive enhancement, design-in-the-browser and lean development approach.
job--Sense-Internet
- Title
- Web Developer
- Company
- Sense Internet
- From
- July 2008
- To
- January 2010
- Clients
- Travelodge, Car Care Plan, Mercedes-Benz, Volvo, Renault, Black Horse, Rizla, GHD, Imperial Tobacco, South Tyneside College N.B. These are the clients I worked with specifically.
- Responsibilities
- Build, UX, UI, IA, Accessibility, Designing in the browser, Progressive Enhancement
- Notes
- I secured my first full-time role at Sense Internet when I was 17. It was working here that taught me vital team-working skills as well as providing me with real-world industry/agency experience.
Speaking
I have spoken – and continue to do so – at several conferences, including appearances overseas:
- Digital Barn, Feb 2012
- Front-Trends, Apr 2012 (video)
- Canvas Conf, Sep 2012
- Digital Barn, Sep 2012
Education
Related article; design and education.
education
- A-levels
- 3
- GCSEs
- 13
CSS Wizardry
I write, tweet and speak under the name CSS Wizardry. It has served as my personal brand since late 2007 and has been pivotal to my success online.
csswizardry
- Founded
- November 2007
- Traffic
- 125,000 Average per month as of February 2013
- Topics
- Front-end architecture, CSS for large-scale websites, CSS, Scalability, Maintainability, OOCSS, Performance, More
Projects/open source
I have built and shared a number of open source projects which can all be found on GitHub.
- inuit.css – powerful, scalable, Sass-based, BEM, OOCSS framework.
- CSS Guidelines – high-level guidelines for writing manageable, maintainable CSS.
- csswizardry-grids – simple, fluid, nestable, flexible, Sass-based, responsive grid system.