About Me

Self-motivated and goal-oriented creative professional with over 8 years experience as a UI Web Developer/Designer. Skilled in web page development in HTML using Dreamweaver and Frontpage. Worked with several professional designers to build websites for several companies in India, UK and USA. Exceptional interpersonal skills with team members and subordinates. Accomplished at incorporating the desires of the client with a superior design solution. My objective is to produce quality work in a creative environment.

I am hearing impaired and I communicate with my colleagues by lip-reading and through writing (Notepad). The absence of my hearing and speaking abilities does not discourage me from being an independent and self-sustained man. I am a career-oriented person with an eye for perfection and believe in giving my 100% to my work.

If given an opportunity, I can prove my worth in a very short period of time.

Professional Experience

Grey Matter India Technologies, Idhasoft Ltd (April 2007 - Dec 2012)

Pulse Solutions Ltd (1 year, 7 months - Sept 2005 to April 2007)

Interactive Realities International Pvt. Ltd. (1 year, 7 months - Feb 2004 to Aug 2005)

Free Lancer (Web Designing) (1 year, 4 months - Oct 2002 to Jan 2004)

V4Web (1 year, 11 months - Nov 2000 to Oct 2002)

Responsibilities

  • Creating Cascaded Style Sheets for the Web pages.
  • Creating table less HTML for the Web pages.
  • Effectively managed multiple tasks without compromising on quality.
  • Knowledgeable with TITLE & META tags and page content for search engine optimization
  • Understanding of screen resolutions and how to design for them
  • Testing with multiple browsers and operating systems to ensure the best compatibility possible
  • HTML of e-mail newsletters and press releases
  • Web standards compliance and basic accessibility issues (as they pertain to XHTML)
  • Creating Wordpress Theme
  • SEO friendly HTML structure / W3C Compliance Websites
  • Magento

Education

August 2000 - Successfully completed a hands-on training course on HTML, Java Scripting, Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver & 3Dmax from Cat Computer Education, Mumbai.

March 2000 - Secondary School Examination (equivalent to SSC) from Sanskardham Vidyalaya for the Hearing Impaired School, Mumbai with 69.73%.

Extracurricular Activities

Secured 3rd position in the Mens-Singles category in Badminton in the 5th Maharashtra State Games for the Deaf held in
Dec ’98.

Secured 3rd position in the Mens-Doubles category in Badminton in the XVII National Games for the Deaf held in Dec ‘98.

Mentioned below are the recommendations offered by my colleagues

Nikunj Wani (Ph. 9867364007), Sr. UI Developer, Grey Matter India, Idhasoft Ltd

I know Gautam for the last 5 years. He is smart and hardworking. He has excellent knowlege in wordpress. He is passionate about his work and gives timely delivery of work assigned to him. Even though he can't listen, we can communicate with him very easily. He knows what to do and how to do. He is a good UI developer any company can hope an asset of.


Pratik Parekh, Sr. Software Engineer, IdhaSoft Ltd

Working with Gautam was fun and much easy to communicate in work In spite of hearing disability we have never felt his disability in any way. His observations skills are great and can rely on his ideas. I am working with him since last 2 years and he has imparted very good knowledge on layout designing of websites to me and has really helpful to me. It was pleasure working with him. Wish him a very good luck for future projects.


Gaurang Srivastava, Project Coordinator, Pulse Solutions

I worked with Gautam for more than 2 years and he is a good person to work with. He kept learning with us at a constant rate and became a good friend very soon. He likes to solve complex problems in tasks and is dedicated to doing quality work. Even though we couldn’t communicate with him verbally he was very easy to explain the requirements as he is an intelligent person and takes work seriously.


Inderjit Singh Matharu, Project Coordinator, Pulse Solutions

Gautam has worked with us for 2 years and during his tenure we found him hard working and dedicated resource.
Some of his positive qualities:
1.   Good team member
2.   Willingness to learn and sharing new things that he has learned with others
3.   Honest & Hard Working
4.   Knows what he is working on
5.   Good Human being
6.   By writing on notepad, chatting on chat software and making screens on pages for Communication.


Jadvinder Singh, Sr. Web Developer (Fropper.com), People Interactive (I) Pvt. Ltd.

I worked with Gautam Ahuja during my stint with Pulse Solution (November 2006 - May 2007) & would like to share my experience of working with him.
I found working with Gautam Ahuja a great learning experience. He is extremely talented at his work and a great team player. In spite of his physical limitations, he excelled at his work and managed to easily communicate with all the team members. Personally, I learnt a lot from him and would surely recommend him in any firm.


Shalaka, Sr. Web Designer, IRIPL

I found it very easy to communicate with Gautam even though I don't know any sign language. No need of any sign language to co-ordinate with Gautam. He can read your lip movements. Only little bit hand movements and prominent leap movement will be enough to co-ordinate with him. Trust me. I found it very easy to work with him.
Your work was good and accurate. Its accurate and on time. Once I explained you any task I never found errors in that. Your work is speedy and accurate.


Shweta, Sr. Web Designer, IRIPL

Working with you is good experience for me. Best part is you understand our lip movements. And you can express yourself to me. Your software knowledge is superb!