Boston Dell-Vandenberg
Web Designer & Developer

About

Name: Boston Dell-Vandenberg
Location: Toronto, CA
Skills: Design, UX, UI, Branding & Identity, Typography, Usability, Accessibility, Development, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, WordPress, Python, Django, Git, Responsive Web Design, Performance, Semantics, Mobile Development, Phonegap, Online Marketing, SEO, SEM, Email Marketing, Digital Animation & Modelling.

Contact

Email: me@bostondv.com
Twitter: @bostondv
Website: bostondv.com, pomelodesign.com
Github: /bostondv

Notes

I am a multi-disciplined designer, developer and freelancer from Toronto.

I run Pomelo, a boutique web development studio where we specialize in designing and building unique web and mobile applications for small-medium businesses and startups.

I am passionate about creating great user experiences and inspiring designs for the web. To that extent I am an active contributor to WordPress plugins and love tinkering with design, code, new software and tools.

Employment

Pomelo

Duration: 2007 Sep - Present
Title: Owner
Clients: Prondo LLC, XMG Studio, Martin Prosperity Institute, Parade Creative, Naked Creative, Eggplant, Bungalow 7, BiG Entertainment, Michael-Angelo’s, Jazinga, and more
Responsibilities: Business operations, sales, design, development, project management
Notes: I started Pomelo Design Inc. formally in 2007 after many years freelancing part-time. Since then have progressively grown revenues and expansion of projects from small-medium businesses to startups, mobile apps and marketing.

XMG Studio

Duration: 2011 Sep - 2012 Jun
Title: Level Designer
Clients: In-house
Responsibilities: Level design, play testing
Notes: I was hired on a part-time contract to contribute to two mobile platforming games with a AAA brand in the industry. The games are currently unreleased.

In Store Solutions

Duration: 2009 Aug - 2010 Nov
Title: Creative Director
Clients: In-house
Responsibilities: Creative direction and planning, project management, hiring, web design and development.
Notes: I was initially hired by In Store Solutions (Spain) to develop a new Freetalk website and was asked to stay on permanently, after a few months I took on the role to manage the creative department which I did until the company moved to Canada.

KOEI Canada

Duration: 2006 Jun - 2007 Jun
Title: Artist
Clients: In-house
Responsibilities: Level design, UI design, environment art and modelling.
Notes: KOEI was my first job out of school from the Seneca Digital Animation program. I worked on a variety of elements of the Xbox 360 game, Fatal Inertia.

Education

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology

Duration: 2003 Sep - 2006 May
Certificate: Diploma - Honors
Skills: Classical and digital diploma, life drawing, layout, character design and animation, digital modelling, rigging and animation.

Open Source Projects

I build and share a number of open source projects which you can find on Github.

Enhanced Text Widget: Powerful text widget for WordPress.

Ultimate Posts Widget: Highly customizable widget to display posts in WordPress.