Debbie Kim Norton Portfolio

Debbie Kim Norton

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About Me

Welcome, I am so excited to share my portfolio, as an Indie Game Development Graduate, a published Children's Book Author and Illustrator, and most recently a Full Stack Developer!

I have always experimented with different Adobe Creative Cloud software, to create illustrations. However when studying for a Masters in Indie Game Development, I developed my understanding on different 3D modelling packages, and gaming platforms, by using Unreal Engines Visual scripting. After graduation, I approached IT Career Switch, and enroled on there coding traineeship, to become a full stack developer. It has enabled me to hone my skills, with different coding languages, libraries and frameworks. To demonstrate my coding ability at present, I have completed two real-world projects, which both focus on front-end and back-end programming languages.

Full Stack Developer & Indie Game Developer.

Coding Languages and Tools

Coding Libraries

Coding Frameworks

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Statement

Debbie Kim Norton

An enthusiastic and positive Masters Graduate for Indie Game Development.

Education

Full Stack Developer: Coding Traineeship

May 2023 - January 2025

IT Career Switch

Coding Traineeship - Full Stack Developer, included but not limited to;

Testing/ practicing to build splash pages for website designs

Used many libraries, tools, techniques and frame works.

Gained a better understanding about front-end/back-end development.

Worked on two practical real-world projects, to showcase skills.

Master of Arts: Indie Game Development

January 2021 - January 2023

Falmouth University

I have gained valuable transferable skills from the masters, understanding the process for different applications, and learning new engines and tools, which allowed my artistic ability to grow. Confident in crafting 2D and 3D designs.

Diploma: Graphic Design - Distinction

2017 - 2019

Pitman Training Limited

A course that was required to study and pass all the key aspects, that builds a foundation for many transferable/ employability skills including:

WordPress for Business - Distinction - 2017
Adobe Illustrator CC - Completed - 2018
Adobe InDesign CC - Completed - 2019
Adobe Photoshop CC - Completed - 2019
Adobe Animate CC - Completed - 2019
Web Design for Business Award/ Social-Media for Strategy - Distinction - 2019

Diploma: Digital Illustration - Distinction

2017

London Art College

The course encouraged you to develop your drawing skills using a graphics tablet, focusing on black and white line drawings, to more complex, colourful detailed paintings, pushing your imagination, whilst following a brief specification along the way. This helped to build a portfolio of artwork.

Work Experience

Volunteer - Big Wave Media

I got the chance to practice, with Adobe Illustrator for the first time and worked on some real live projects, amending text and images. Creating memes and learning more about typography.