Bula Vinaka! Greetings as we say it in FIJI!

I’m from Fiji.
I am a UI/UX
and Web Designer.
I have experience in Front-end and
Web Development.

Catch me on dribbble!

Portfolio

  • Kahukugrill.com

    WEB

    What I did

    Kahuku Grill is a restaurant on the North Shore of 'Oahu, Hawaii. I took on the project because of it creativeness and and the lifestyle around their business culture. I assisted in the branding of their restaurant and Designed overall look and feel of their website, implemented light weight HTML 5 markup, CSS3 & custom jquery plugin. The site is fully responsive as well.

    Tools Utilized

    Fireworks Jquery HTML5/CSS3

    Launch Project

    Kahukugrill.com

  • Kansas City Blues Rugby Club Mag Cover

    BRD

    What I did

    Took the photos and setup the posing for the cover. Super-imposed the players into a fabricated background and setting.

    Tools Utilized

    Nikon D90 Photoshop Illustrator

  • Garden City Warriors Rugby

    BRD

    What I did

    A logo/branding identity for a rugby club based out of Singapore. The client requested that the logo be a mix of tribal and modern. I tailored the logo to best fit the multi asian culture in Singapore and gave the warrior a traditional asian warrior physique. I sketched it out freehand at first then imported it to illustrator and made the necessary modifications and touch ups

    Tools Utilized

    Illustrator Freehand Sketch

  • Career Explorer

    WEB

    What I did

    This is an education and career based online resource that I redesigned. On redesign and relaunch I was in charge of the overall look and feel and theming of this site in to both Drupal and Wordpress platforms. I also redesigned the logo and implemented main navigation with css and Jquery. I also headed the user experience of the site implementing useful functionality on site where it was deemed necessary.

    Tools Utilized

    Wordpress Drupal

    Launch Project

    CareerExplorer.net

  • My Social Beauty

    WEB

    What I did

    This is a Social Network specifically for the beauty education industry. Primary responsibilities consisted of overall look and feel and front-end development. Designed the logo and also collaborated the color scheme with project leaders. I was in charge of the overall theming of the site and the implementation of various functionalities on the site.

    Tools Utilized

    Drupal

    Launch Project

    MySocialBeauty.com

  • Elcreative Designs

    WEB

    What I did

    An online portfolio for a local designer/artist in the Kansas City Metro area. This project was a collaboration of both my ideas and the artist's. The overall design was inspired by the artists work. The implementation of the overall functionality was my contribution along with the build and launching of the site.

    Tools Utilized

    HTML JQuery

    Launch Project

    ElCreativeDesigns.com

  • Courtney Jean Photography

    WEB

    What I did

    Custom Wordpress Photography portfolio and Blog for a local Kansas City photographer. Designed the overall look and feel of the site and implemented all functionality. Also designed the business logo.

    Tools Utilized

    Wordpress

    Launch Project

    CourtneyJeanPhotography.com

  • Vincent Property Inspections

    WEB

    What I did

    This is website that I redesigned and built with regular html for a property inspector in California. I implemented the overall look and feel along with functionality and a redesign and rebrand of the company logo.

    Tools Utilized

    Photoshop HTML & CSS JQuery

    Launch Project

    VPInspections.com

  • Sivas Homecare

    WEB

    What I did

    Designed the overall look and feel for this homecare service based in the San Francisco bay area. Did the UI development and developed content as well.

    Tools Utilized

    Photoshop JQuery HTML 5
    CSS3

    Launch Project

    Sivashomecare.com

  • Liahona - Saineha Alumni

    WEB

    What I did

    Designed and developed the overall site for the Liahona Saineha Alumni Association based out of the South Pacific Island Kingdom of Tonga. I also am responibile for frequent maintenance of this site and is the primary admin for it as well.

    Tools Utilized

    Wordpress

    Launch Project

    LiahonaAlumni.to

  • Massage Register

    WEB

    What I did

    Redesigned the home page of this Massage directory to increase interactivity and user experience on the homepage. This way users that land on the home page are best informed on what they can benefit from from the site and its plentiful resources

    Tools Utilized

    Drupal

    Launch Project

    MassageRegister.com

  • MedVance Institute

    WEB

    What I did

    Designed the overall look and feel and user experience of this site. Also designed and built out the homepage flash banner. Designed and built out the interactive contact form as well.

    Tools Utilized

    DrupalFlashJquery

    Launch Project

    Medvance.edu

Bula Vinaka!

About

What better way to greet you than in my native tongue. My name is Ratu William Chesser Rasari Racule but you can call me Billy or if I’m in trouble ... William.

My passion for design and technology runs as deep as my passion for my culture and life. I migrated from the depths of the South Pacific to the Heartland of America. My motivation is my family. An energetic little boy and precious little girl and a beautiful, awesome, supportive amazing wife.

I bring with me diversity and an original way of approaching design. I have 6 years of experience in the design industry, many more in fine arts. I am fortunate to be able to do what I love as work. My passion for technology and its ever changing ways keeps me on my toes in finding new and efficient avenues to approach design. Ilove to design and also to dabble in the development of projects whether it may be a simple UI/UX front-end development or a colaboration of ideas with developers.

If I am not designing or working on a project, I am either playing Rugby or spending my most precious time with my greatest achievement and creation of all time, my little family. I am always looking for opportunities to better myself and my work and mesh with those who share the same values and passion as I do. Check out my portfolio to see some of my most recent projects and doodlings.

Vinaka Vakalevu (Thank you very much)

  • Experienced
    |     Expert
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  • CSS
  • HTML
  • Photoshop
  • Illustrator
  • Indesign
  • Flash
  • Java Script
  • JQuery
  • Photography
  • PC Systems
  • Mac OSX
  • PHP
  • ASP
  • Action Script

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