Isaac Rowntree

8/44 Elphin Grove, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 3122

Phone: +61428338474 isaac@zackdesign.biz

Objective: To continue to use creativity to generate wealth and increase market share for any and
all enterprises which I am a part of. Functional areas I am interested in include management and IT
consulting.

Core Expertise: Visualising problems and coming up with solutions using an inventive streak to
overcome any and all obstacles. Computers, media, accounting, marketing, and management are all
tools I used daily for this purpose.

Professional Experience
Zack Design, Victoria, Australia

I have run this business for seven years to support myself while studying through both TAFE and
University. It is a web design and computer retail company servicing both Victoria (Australia) and
the rest of the world.

Sole Proprietor 2002 - 2009

● Managed all aspects of my business, such as research, marketing, finance, sub-contracting,

and technological resources
● Increased market share in California (US), Great Britain, the Netherlands, Australia,
Norway, and Germany.
● Supervised and managed several sub-contractors in completing highly complex and lengthy
projects
● Identified several growth areas of technological improvement in web design and added them
to my arsenal of skills (AJAX, Web 2.0, CSS, Ruby on Rails, Drupal, Wordpress, Magento)
● Successfully interacted with many clients, locally and worldwide, resulting in many
recurring business deals
● Had several lucrative system administration contracts with local Geelong businesses (Ocean
Grove Neighborhood Centre, DAANet)
● Tutored many clients and created documentation for Content Management Systems, basic
computer skills, and highly complex IT solutions
● Often called upon to fix non-job-description problems including:
● Trouble-shooting a solar system sensor wiring array
● Marketing and Djing a blues and swing dance night

Gordon Institute of TAFE, Victoria, Australia 2008 - 2009

As part of the Gordon TAFE I successfully completed Certificate IV in Training and Assessment
and was a sessional teacher for two years. I taught a wide range of areas including:

● One-on-one Disability Support

● Fashion (Illustrator)
● Multimedia (Adobe Suite including Illustrator and Photoshop, CSS/HTML, Audio, OH & S,
Video, Animation)
● Business (Marketing, Microsoft Office – including Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Publisher)
 ● Finance (Spreadsheets, OH & S, Computer Technology)
● General Education (Powerpoint, Animation, Digital Story Telling)

Education
Bachelor of Applied Science (Information Technology), Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,
Melbourne

Certificate IV in Training and Assessment

Technical Skills
● Web design: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Java, Ruby, Perl, PHP, SQL
● Computer Networks (e.g. Ethernet-based LANs WANs,or VANs, Web Servers)
● Computer Hardware (e.g. building systems, upgrading, etc.)
● Computer Software (e.g. MS Office, Photoshop, Linux, Mac, Windows)
● Software design: C, C++, Assembly, Java, Python
● Decision Support Systems
● Electrical troubleshooting
● Wireless network setup and troubleshooting