Changing How the World Works.
 
 
  • Feedback:   (4.87 of 5)
  • Percentile: 61%
    Based on 18 feedbacks
Hourly Rate: $18.00
Total oDesk hours:
346
Location:
Digos City, Philippines (GMT+08:00)
English Skills: (self-assessed)
5.0
Member Since:
September 26, 2007
Last Worked:
November 10, 2008
Current Assignments:
6
Total Assignments:
42
oDesk Ready:  
Yes
 
 
 
 
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Thabet-Abbas Burias - Top-notch PSD - CSS/HTML specialist, C#.NET & Delphi developer - Freelance Website / Graphic Designer, Philippines

After a career shift from teaching university-level Physics, I have landed in my primary field of choice - I.T. The core of my skills revolve around programming and analysis, graphics design and writing/editing, but I also have experience in web design, since it is very related to graphics. In fact, some of my clients have liked my graphic designs so much they have let me create their web page. I am currently looking for ways to sharpen my existing skills, as well as develop new ones, and I...
See All Work History & Feedback (42 items, 18 with Feedback)
Recent Work History & Feedback
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
35893 06/2008 - Present PAES One-Page Design $763 (38 hrs @ $20.00)
17344 07/2008 - Present MDID $167 (fixed-price)
56087 09/2008 - Present Web Development $1,170 (65 hrs @ $18.00)
62147 11/2008 - 11/2008 PSD to XHTML - PRLTOR $150 (8 hrs @ $18.00)
62147 11/2008 - 11/2008 PSD to HTML (Autoshow 09) $167 (fixed-price)
See All Tests Taken (17 items)
oDesk Tests Taken
Name of Test Score Percentile Date Taken Duration
Adobe Photoshop CS3 Test 4.10 98% TOP 10% 10/24/2007 30 min
Editing Skills Certification 4.50 98% TOP 10% 10/03/2007 30 min
MS Word 2003 Test 4.25 97% TOP 10% 10/03/2007 16 min
English Test (Sentence Structure) 4.90 97% TOP 10% 09/26/2007 14 min
Adobe Illustrator CS3 Test 4.25 95% TOP 10% 10/31/2007 37 min
Recent Candidacies
Job Opening Title Initiated By Date
Flash CS3 ActionScript 3 Programming/Animations Buyer November 20, 2008
Web Design & Landing Pages Buyer November 19, 2008
Process Animation Buyer November 19, 2008
XHTML/CSS Programmer Buyer November 17, 2008
CSS/XHTML Consultant Buyer October 18, 2008
Flyer Design Provider April 9, 2008
Job Category Interests

Web Development

Software Development

Writing

Graphic Arts & Design

Audio / Video & Multimedia

  
Skills
Skill Experience Level Last Used Description
3D Studio Max 3 yrs 3.0 2008 http://h3adrush.deviantart.com
Project Title: Various Logo and image WorkThese are freelance as well as personal works that I created using 3d Studio Max, and can be found at deviantart.
Adobe Flash 2 yrs 3.0 2008 http://www.myricherlife.com
Video Player
Adobe Illustrator 3 yrs 4.0 2008 Most of my Logo Designs are made in Illustrator. I also create wedding invitations, brochures, programmes, business cards using this software.
Adobe InDesign & Illustrator 3 yrs 4.0 2008 For my business card designs and brochures, Adobe Indesign goes hand-in-hand with Illustrator
Adobe Photoshop 4 yrs 4.0 2008 http://h3adRuSh.deviantart.com
Adobe Photoshop is the main tool I use for my design work, and some these works can be found on deviantart.
Borland Delphi 4 yrs 4.0 2008 Job Title: Job Order System. This application is currently being used to monitor and log every detail of every work order in the company.

Job Title: Data Integrity Survey Front-endThis application was used to enter the data gathered from a survey conducted to verify the data integrity of the customers of a company.Responsibilities: all back-end and front-end programming was done by me, as well as subsequent updates to the project.Borland Delphi is the main environment we design our software under.
C++ 3 yrs 3.0 2007
C++, C#, Java, SQL, Pascal, Assembler, HTML,Delphi... 5 yrs 4.0 2008 Bundled up summary of my programming skills.
CSS 1 yrs 4.0 2008 http://www.coolaworld.com
I currently take a lot of PSD to CSS/XHTML conversions because I love the challenge of creating table-less, standards-compliant code for websites.

samples:

http://www.isendonline.com
http://www.trendsettingmoms.com
http://www.coolaworld.com
Joomla 1 yrs 3.0 2008 http://www.mockup2markup.net
Designed and created Joomla sites, the most recent of which is http://www.mockup2markup.net, which is my own, from the ground up.
MS-SQL 1 yrs 3.0 2008 I currently work with MS SQL on a daily basis, performing data-crunching, and data-extraction for reporting purposes. On major projects, I design and implement databases for Integrated Systems.
MS SQL 1 yrs 4.0 2008 MS SQL is used as a back-end for the company where i work as a developer/analyst. Projects ranging from the simplest of data-entry work, to very complex logging and customer-monitoring systems all rely on the back-end that we produce. Even reports that we generate are created using stored procedures in MS SQL.
Visual Studio 2003/2005/2008 2 yrs 4.0 2008 Barretto Payroll System - this was a "translation/conversion" job.I converted a DOS-based payroll system without the original source codes and database structure. What I did was analyze the features of the old system and worked out the requirements of the new system from that. The result was an upgrade of the old system (including the back-end) into the 21st century, and I started from scratch, no source old source codes.
Certifications
Date Earned Name Score Percentile Organization Description
2007 Computer Fundamentals (Win XP) 4.44 97% Brainbench —
Employment History
From To Company Title/Role Description
01/2007 Present Iligan Light & Power, Inc. Programmer/Analyst / Independent Contributor Serves as a software analyst and developer, designing both front and back-end of software applications for the company.

Jan 07 – Mar 07: Developed system to facilitate data‐entry of survey results from 44000 customers regarding account and connection details.
Used: SQL Server 2000, Delphi 6
Mar 07 – Nov 07: Designed and developed the Customer Management System, a package of systems designed to enable customer service representatives of the company to serve customers (by priority number) and log the transaction details. All accounts applications pass through the CMM, where almost all the data and requirements regarding the application is gathered, before it is forwarded to another system. Also, customer requests and other concerns are handled and logged by CMM before being forwarded to the Job Order System.
Used: SQL Server 2000, Delphi 6
Mar 07 – Nov 07: Designed and developed the Job Order System, a package of applications dealing with the issuance, dispatching and detailed recording and updating of every task that company field
personnel perform. It monitors the start and end time of every task of every work order, and also keeps track of how many man‐hours are spent on a work order. The JO System has triggers, related to different tasks, that fire whenever that particular task is completed, such as customer disconnection, meter replacement, pole replacements, and around 20 other tasks that could be performed by field personnel. The triggers update the company database with any changes that were caused by the tasks.
Used: SQL Server 2000, Delphi 6
Jan 07 – present: Performs daily report generation using SQL queries. The reports range from simple single table queries to complex ones requiring the need for the coding of stored procedures to extract the data. All these reports are then collated to a single repository called Management Reports, an evolving system also developed by myself.
Used: SQL Server 2000, Delphi 6
11/2006 03/2007 St. Laurence Institute of Technology Instructor / Independent Contributor Taught a computer programming course, and Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, and CorelDraw tutorials.
06/2006 01/2007 iSysDev Programmer/Analyst / Independent Contributor Lead programmer for Barretto Payroll System.Contributor/programmer for several other software projects.Graphics/Animation Designer.
06/2001 03/2004 MSU-IIT, UM, ADDU Instructor / Independent Contributor Taught college physics to Science and Engineering majors in several universities (not simultaneously) in different parts of the country.
03/2001 08/2001 Weblinq Tech Support/Designer / Independent Contributor designed flash presentations and web graphics, performed technical support functions for customers.
Other Experience
College Physics Instructor
Taught university-level Physics to engineering and science major in several universities.
Hobbyist photography, writing, and graphics
http://h3adRuSh.deviantart.com contains some of my writing and graphics designs from the past.
Independent Software Developer
Performed system developer and analyst functions for iSysDev, an independent software group.
Education
From To School Degree Area of Study Description
06/1997 04/2001 Mindanao State Univ - Iligan Institute of Technology Bachelors Physics Graduated CUM LAUDE from one of the country's top universities.

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  • Project Title: Mockup 2 Markup
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 10/18/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Web Design
  • URL: http://www.mockup2markup.net
  • Description: Development and design from the ground up of mockup2markup, a revolutionary web service to convert PSD to valid CSS/XHTML. Fast.
 
  • Project Title: http://www.coachingfootball.com.au/shop/
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 10/17/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Web Programming
  • URL: http://www.coachingfootball.com.au/shop/
  • Description: Performed CSS and XHTML correction and styling for the site.
 
  • Project Title: EFM
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 10/16/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.efm.net.au/
  • Description: Performed PSD to CSS/XHTML conversion for the site.
 
  • Project Title: National Healthy School Canteens
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 10/02/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://nhsc.com.au/
  • Description: Performed PSD to CSS/XHTML conversion of the site.

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  • Project Title: Prompt Machine Products, Inc.
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 09/18/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.promptmachine.com/
  • Description: Performed PSD to CSS/XHTML conversion for the site.
 
  • Project Title: Mailsend
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 08/22/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://mailsend.com.au/
  • Description: Performed PSD to CSS/XHTML conversion for the site.

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  • Project Title: Triple R locksmith
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 04/19/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.rrrlock.com/
  • Description: site design and implementation

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  • Project Title: http://www.runpolitics.com/
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 04/19/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.runpolitics.com/
  • Description: coding from PSD to CSS/HTML

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  • Project Title: https://www.coolaservices.com/
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 04/04/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: https://www.coolaservices.com/
  • Description: PSD to CSS/XHTML conversion

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  • Project Title: www.soleilleswim.com
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 03/28/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.soleilleswim.com
  • Description: AI to CSS/XHTML conversion plus PHP

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  • Project Title: http://www.awclog.com/newsite/
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 03/26/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.awclog.com/newsite/
  • Description: PSD to CSS/HTML conversion plus graphic work and some PHP

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  • Project Title: CSGLI.com
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 03/19/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.csgli.com/
  • Description: CSS/XHTML and streamlining

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  • Project Title: trendsettingmoms.com
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 02/29/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.trendsettingmoms.com
  • Description: PSD to CSS/HTML conversion project, plus flash design and web forms programming.

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  • Project Title: isend online
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 02/22/2008
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.isendonline.com
  • Description: a PSD to CSS/HTML conversion project.

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  • Project Title: Early Work
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > 3D Modeling/CAD
  • URL: http://h3adrush.deviantart.com
  • Description: Early 3D artwork. My university logo.

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  • Project Title: ODEPER brochure
  • Attachment: odeper.pdf - 391.198KB
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > Other - Graphic Arts & Design
  • URL: none
  • Description: Designed brochure for ODEPER Culinary Innovations, LLC.
 
  • Project Title: Yakoomama
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.yakoomama.com
  • Description: PSD to complete flash site conversion. Included conversion of videos to .FLV format for streaming.

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  • Project Title: Early work
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > 3D Modeling/CAD
  • URL: http://h3adrush.deviantart.com
  • Description: One of my earliest 3D renders.

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  • Project Title: Sample works
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > 3D Modeling/CAD
  • URL: http://h3adrush.deviantart.com
  • Description: Logo I designed for last year for a friend.

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  • Project Title: PhilHealth Presentation Image
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > Graphic Design
  • URL: none
  • Description: More 3D + 2D compositing work, for a government agency.

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  • Project Title: Sample Works
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > Graphic Design
  • URL: http://h3adrush.deviantart.com
  • Description: Compositing work I did for a yearbook cover. 3D and 2D.

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  • Project Title: ODEPER CULINARY INNOVATIONS, LLC.
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Web Development > Other - Web Development
  • URL: http://www.odeper.com
  • Description: Redesign of http://www.odeper.com from the ground up. New logo, images, color scheme, and content. Also added e-commerce functionality (OSCommerce) and live chat support.

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  • Project Title: Sample Works
  • Attachment: none
  • Completed: 12/26/2007
  • Category: Graphic Arts & Design > 3D Modeling/CAD
  • URL: http://h3adrush.deviantart.com
  • Description: A more recent version of my university logo.
Hourly Assignment History
Buyer ID From/To Job Title Paid Feedback
35893 06/2008 - Present PAES One-Page Design $763 (38 hrs @ $20.00)
56087 09/2008 - Present Web Development $1,170 (65 hrs @ $18.00)
62147 11/2008 - 11/2008 PSD to XHTML - PRLTOR $150 (8 hrs @ $18.00)
62147 10/2008 - 10/2008 DMS Template $45 (3 hrs @ $18.00)