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Hi John had another look at it, and I'm still amazed!! It's an excellent start that we can build on as time (and the company hopefully) progresses.
Robin Haslam, Trophy Trader, 23 Jan 2007
As well as more than ten years of marketing experience and excellent soft skills such as teamworking, project management and communication, I obviously have a number of technical skills.
Rather than just list them, I thought I'd chart them like a pop chart, ranking my skills according to how much time I've spent doing them in the previous twelve months. I think that gives you more information than a simple list. I'll update it each quarter, this was calculated on the 28 May 2004 for 1 May 2003 - 30 April 2004 and I've commented on it in my blog.
I've also introduced Johnny's bookshelf.
| John Allsopp's top 30 technical skills | ||
|---|---|---|
1 | HTML and CSS | |
2 | PHP programming | (3) |
3 | Networking | (5) |
4 | E-business | |
5 | Writing (content, manuals) | (2) |
6 | Image processing | (8) |
7 | Systems engineering and design | (6) |
8 | Graphic design | (7) |
9 | Search Engine Optimisation | (21) |
10 | Formulation (defining project requirements) | (9) |
11 | Java, J2EE, JSP | (12) |
12 | Procurement | (10) |
13 | JavaScript | (11) |
14 | Flash | (16) |
15 | PC Hardware | |
16 | Project management | (14) |
17 | Marketing | (18) |
18 | Planning | (17) |
19 | Presentations | |
20 | Databases | (24) |
21 | Spanish | (22) |
22 | Website implementation and management | (23) |
23 | Testing | (29) |
24 | Internet computing developments | (26) |
25 | Domain names and DNS | (28) |
26 | C programming | (13) |
27 | Information architecture | (30) |
28 | Usability | (-) |
29 | Linux | (-) |
27 | Web Services | (-) |
A potential new entry for next quarter is SVG.
Being a systems kinda guy, I have a system for everything (yup, everything), not least, my bookshelves. There are four bookshelves in my office arranged into a primary, secondary and tertiary cache and long term storage.
The primary cache holds books I'm working with right now, either ones I retrieved from the other caches or long term storage, or new books. When I retrieve a book for use (from any cache), I put it back on the left hand side of the shelf. When the shelf is full, I remove books from the right hand side and place them in the secondary cache. So, my primary cache holds the most important books for me right at this moment.
You wanna know what's in the primary cache now don't you :-) OK, here goes. Informally .. I don't think I can be bothered to link them, or to properly reference them, you'll have to do that yourself :-) OK, here goes, from left to right, on the 28 May 2004:
So now you know.