Professional & Personal Resume

Bio

I was one of those guys programming and geeking around while my high-college mates were playing the Playstation.
However I was also attracted to design and the recent Flash boom. Later on I mastered CSS and XHTML and I started hating IE and loving W3C standard browsers...

In the meantime, I also started playing guitar; I love music and playing is even cooler. Unfortunately it would seem my neighbors do not like the loud.

At the end of my vocational studies, a two year degree on web development, I got my first job on the market doing AS and designing websites. After a year, I assumed a new responsibility in a communication agency located in Barcelona as web developer. By that time I was already doing complete front-end jobs and some full projects on my own, developing in back-end and front-end professionally.
Finally I was called to work on Sclipo.com, a promising start-up with some great folks. The project was very enthusiastic and we climbed very high in a few months. It was the perfect experience for my career though I'm actually collaborating with Querido Design and doing some internal projects for a near future, whose will be released soon.


"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people."

George Bernard Shaw

Personal Data

  • Full name: Luis Merino García
  • Alias: Rendez
  • Birthdate: October 15, 1985
  • Birthplace: Málaga, Spain
  • Current location: Barcelona, Spain

Contact Methods

  • Cell phone: +34 627 956 357
  • Skype: luismerinogarcia
  • GTalk: alonglistofnames@gmail.com
  • IM: infectedhell@hotmail.com

Studies

  • Scientific/Technologic Bachelor: Public high school - Spain [1999-2002]
  • Vocational Studies: Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Informáticas (Software Developer) [2003-2005]

Computer Knowledge

Web Development

  • XHTML, CSS, XML, XSL, Web Architecture, SEO Coding, Javascript, DOM, Accessibility and Usability.
  • Standards-based web development.
  • Broad knowledge of Web 2.0 technologies, social-networks and web apps.
  • Mootools and Agavi evangelist.
  • Hand-made W3C standards coder for A-Graded browsers.

Software for development

  • TextMate
  • Parallels
  • Built in PHP & MAMP

Software for design

  • Adobe Creative Suite CS3

Other software

  • Ms Office
  • Pages
  • Keynote

Operating Systems

  • Macintosh
  • Ms Windows
  • Ubuntu / Mandrake Linux

Specific software

  • Cyberduck
  • SVN
  • Snippely
  • Zooom2

Languages

  • English: Neat, fluent (written/spoken)
  • Spanish: Native speaker

Working experience

  • Visuarios S.L. (Sclipo.com): Senior Web Developer [2007- 2008]
  • HTTP Comunicació: Web Developer [2006-2007]
  • Exit de disseny: Web Programmer [2005-2006]

Gear

  • MacBook Pro 4,1 - 2.4Ghz Intel Code 2 Duo
  • MacBook 13"
  • Apple aluminum keyboard
  • iPod video 5G + Sennheiser CX 400

Extra info

  • Three months after taking web design seriously, I was working with world-class brands.
  • I started some music bands leading guitar, now I play hard on web development.
  • Actually I use to read 3 books or more at a time and somehow I can't help it.
  • I never read at school.