Alex Kennedy
Website Developer

Alex Kennedy

Awarded Best Freelance Web Designer 2019 (Scottish Highlands).
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About

Alex Kennedy is a web developer and designer with expertise in WordPress design, SEO, copywriting, web maintenance, website reviews, and marketing. She has nearly three years of designing different types of websites, ranging from one-page to e-commerce and multisite. Her past clients include Bark Club Dog Grooming, Caithness Yarns, Gecko Corporate Services, S.A.B.A, Forestry Contracting Association, S.H. Property Service Ltd, Computer Troubleshooters UK, and Duncan Wemyss Ltd, among others. The UK Enterprise Awards have awarded Alex Best Freelance Web Designer 2019 (Scottish Highlands).

Employment

2 roles
Feb 2017 - Jan 2020 2 years 11 months
Web Designer & Developer
Independent
  • Designed several websites using WordPress at an advanced level. These have ranged from 1 one-page website through e-commerce, forums, and large company websites.
  • Provided services in SEO, copywriting, web maintenance, website reviews, logo design, and social media marketing. 
  • Used a range of products associated with WordPress to customize each website. Familiar and self-taught in various coding, such as CSS, PHP, and HTML.
  • Clients: Bark Club Dog Grooming, Caithness Yarns, Gecko Corporate Services, S.A.B.A, Forestry Contracting Association, S.H. Property Service Ltd, Computer Troubleshooters UK, and Duncan Wemyss Ltd, among others.
Jun 2010 - Jun 2011 1 year
Director of Operations & Finance
Arzak Global Securities (AGS)

AGS is a specialist online brokerage house licensed and regulated by the Isle of Man Financial Supervision Commission.

  • Rewrote the application and business plan (twice) with the assistance of Appleby (Lawyers) which was submitted to the Financial Supervision Commission (Isle of Man) (FSC) the result of which was that the company obtained a Category 2 licence to enable it to become the island’s first online internet brokerage house.
  • Drafted various policies and procedures for the online brokerage firm in line with the current rule book and guidance notes, trade flow diagrams, set up contractual agreements with various counterparties.
  • Led the meetings with the FSC to explain the nature and rationale of the investments the company intended to offer.
  • Designed the accounting and financial processes with the company.

Education

Jan 2006 - Jan 2009 3 years
MSc, International Banking & Finance
John Moore's University, Liverpool

Portfolio

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