Chris Durham Email & Phone Number

Bowmanville, On, Ca

Markham, Ontario, Canada

Senior Ecommerce & Web UX Specialist at National Sports/FGL Sports LtdCreated brand website using Shopify platform from inception to online selling.Responsible for the online maintenance of merchandise and pricing to drive online sales for the brand website. Day to day maintenance of website focusing on Home Page assets to display latest promotions and deals and ownership of store location hours on website and via Google My Business.Managed content and products across corporate and banner websites and other digital media and channels.Merchandising the websites products to maximize sales and improve conversion rate, including organisation, categorisation, colour selection, images, product content, cross-sells/reccomendations, bundles and taxonomy.Building and managing and maintaining SEO optimised landing pages for promotional offers, brand campaigns and search results.Building and deployment of weekly emails using MailChimp and Klaviyo integration with our monthly schedules.Technologies & expertise in:• Shopify• Shopify Apps including, Powertools, Zapiet (Store -Pickup), Yotpo (site reviews), Algolia Seach, Chameleon, Product, Search & Filter, Bold Discounts, Ultimate Special Offers, Metafields Guru.• MailChimp• Klaviyo• Google Analytics• Google Trends• Excel• HTML• CSS

Toronto, Canada Area

Web Producer & eComm Specialist for thebodyshop.ca website.Working primarily with Hybris content management systemMaintaining defined areas of the website ensuring accuracy of promotions, merchandising, and marketing. Maintained product dataand promotional assets using publishing and content management tools and assist in building, checking and testing all content.Execute daily maintenance and uploads to site requested by merchandising, marketing and production.maintain product database, create new product entries with content and images and SEO and price changes.Use of different apps and plug ins for website to enhance overall site look and feel and usability, using knowledge of HTML and CSS and imagery.

Contractor

Manage updates/edits/change requests and build campaigns for Scotiabank Canada and 24 Eastern Caribbean Regional International multi language websites using Vignette and Agility CMS platforms.General site maintenance involved hourly, daily and weekly updates, responses to local request changes, as well as monthly weekly and quarterly interactive campaign management.• Updating and maintaining all 24 sites using Vignette CMS system• Additions/changes via online ticketing system from each country as per daily requests and adhere to strict daily deadlines• Create online weekly web campaigns as per requests from each country• Create and update quarterly campaigns using Agility CMS system• Daily and weekly product and rates updates• Communication with each country representative via telephone or email• Promotion of pages from development to staging to live status• Effective use of time management on multiple projects and requests• Working in tandem with project manager on all deliverables• QA experience within the global and International teamsAlso assisted in web content updates for the main Scotiabank.ca and global websites

Toronto, Canada Area

Lead developer and site build architect on large financial institution multi country website, using Vignette CMS.

The overall mandate for this position was to work within a production team environment, responsible for the programming of interactive web sites, and intranet/extranet applications for Grey clients. I built and developed the front end interface of each website using HTML/CSS/DHTML/Javascript also with a knowledge of ASP and .NET programming language used by application developers. During my time I worked both as part of a team and as lone programmer. I worked my way from first being hired as a Junior HTML developer to senior interface web developer. I have trained many team members and been the senior lead of a small interface development team on many large website projects. Grey is a worldwide renowned advertising agency with a client base that included: Proctor & Gamble, Playtex, Cialis, Mars Inc, S&M NuTec, Research in Motion, AIM Trimark, Wyeth Consumer Healthcare, Guiness, M&M’s, Ontario Craft Brewers, Prince Edward Island Tourism, E*Trade, Elections Ontario, Royal Blank Canada, Sunlife Financial, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Dairy Queen, Invesco Trimark, Invesco Aim, Diageo, Salvation Army Canada, Cadillac Fairview, Tourism Prince Edward Island, Cadillac Fairview, Scotiabank International, Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and Research In Motion (BlackBerry).

Manchester, United Kingdom

Duties included:• Creating and maintaining computer records for new and existing taxpayers, using the national computer records system.• Extensive use of Microsoft Word, Excel and Windows o/s.• Daily filing, linking, faxing, photocopying, mailing and sorting duties.• Basic knowledge of British tax system in order to handle telephone inquiries.• Operating a large switchboard system and manning it frequently.• Being part of a small team to ensure tasks were executed on time.• Postroom duties for over 12 tax departments in a busy Manchester office.