John Bucksaw

Designer, Developer, Inventor & Entrepreneur
in Plovdiv, Bulgaria
An expert in the area of web site creation, customization and maintenance with more than 20 years of experience in web design and development and 13 years of experience with WordPress. Excellent organizational and time management skills that guarantee delivery on time. Creative, innovative, forward-thinking and collaborative. Challenges are his true motivation.
WordPress UI/UX HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript jQuery PHP MySQL InVision Sketch Photoshop Illustrator

Highlights

  • Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Economics, Electronics
  • Freelance Designer and Developer
  • Entrepreneur

Preferred Environment

WordPress, HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, MySQL

Experience

Photoshop23 yearsHTML21 yearsCSS21 yearsPHP15 yearsMySQL15 yearsJavaScript15 yearsWordPress14 yearsjQuery14 years

Location

Employment

Inventor of an Innovative Car Roof Bike Carrier

Ivtec
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Invented and started production of an innovative bicycle carrier that was awarded a gold medal at the Eurobike Show in Friedrichshafen, Germany in 2017.

Creative Director

Freelance
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Recruited and managed a multi-national team of freelance designers for clients located in the Silicon Valley and Europe. Specialized on creating visual prototypes for mobile and desktop apps, which helped raising multi-million dollar investments.

Freelance WordPress Expert

LouKad Inc
• April, 2008
- June, 2014
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria / Montreal, Canada

Designed and developed countless WordPress websites, most of which required custom-coding of themes and plugins.

Freelance Senior Designer

Blogtronix LLC
• March, 2008
- May, 2009
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria / Montreal, Canada

Worked as a senior designer of the Blogtronix social sharing platform (later known as Sharetronix).

Freelance Designer & Developer

Absart LLC
• March, 2007
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria / Montreal, Canada

Founded own company and started offering design, development and consultancy services to clients from Bulgaria, Canada and the USA.

Project Manager

BB Media LLC
• August, 2006
- February, 2007
• Sofia, Bulgaria

Recruited and managed a team of web designers and developers.

Senior Designer & Front-end Developer

ConsultCommerce LLC
• April, 2003
- August, 2006
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Web Designer & Front-end Developer

BalkanSys LLC
• December, 1999
- April, 2003
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Skills

Database/Storage/Cache

MySQL

Designer Tools

Illustrator, InVision, Photoshop, Sketch

Languages

CSS, CSS3, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, PHP

Libraries

jQuery

Platforms

WordPress

Roles

Freelance, Front-End, Web

Other

UI, UI/UX, UX

Education

Master of Information Technology

University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
• October, 2000
- June, 2005
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria

International Economic Relations

University of Plovdiv "Paisii Hilendarski"
• October, 1998
- June, 2000
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria

Electronics & English

Secondary School of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
• September, 1993
- May, 1998
• Plovdiv, Bulgaria
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Certifications

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