The Forensic Science Service (Oct 2001 to Jan 2002)

Front End Developer

Brought in to help optimise the huge FSS Intranet (Tracenet).
Investigated possible content managed solutions for intranet.
Maintained current intranet development, create design/dev guidelines for intranet and to the live FSS website.
Work with perl developers to create simple auto html generation from Word documents.
Migrate away from graphics heavy based intranet design to a lighter text based design for faster access via fat and thin clients.

Graphics Navigation When the intranet was loaded in a browser, hundreds of images were loaded for the multi-level navigation alone. It was a bloated system which needed a major overhaul.
Tracenet Text Navigation I did away with images and introduced a cross browser CSS system with much higher performance.
Internet Homepage Although Tracenet was the most heavily updated system in the organisation, the public website was needed to be optimised.
Internet Press Releases The web updates were usually quite basic, but there were lots of updates to make. This was a typical example of the live site updates.