Hello and Welcome. My name's Zayn Ejaz and I'm a
Front-End Email and Web Developer.

I code elegant websites

I develop better experiences

I love html emails

About

Hello, my name is Zayn Ejaz, an HTML Email Developer currently based in Istanbul, Turkey. I have experience with front-end web and email development, as well as email marketing platforms and can handle the process from concept all the way through to final reporting.

  • Citizenship: New Zealand
  • Employment: Available
  • Residence: Istanbul, Turkey
  • Phone: +90 536 995 58 68
  • E-mail: zayn.ejaz@gmail.com
  • Live Chat: Click to Chat
Design Skills
  • Photoshop
    90%
  • Illustrator
    75%
  • Adobe XD
    80%
  • Sketch
    70%
Programming Skills
  • HTML
    90%
    90%
  • CSS 3
    90%
    90%
  • JavaScript
    60%
    55%
  • Git
    70%
    70%
Currently Learning
  • Python
    20%
  • Ruby
    10%
  • mySQL
    20%
  • PHP
    20%
Knowledge
  • Responsive Emails
  • Email Testing
  • Hand-Coded Emails
  • A/B Testing
  • Litmus
  • Template Creation
  • Front-End Development
  • Media-Queries
  • Development from Markup
  • Landing Pages
  • SEO
  • WAI-ARIA
  • A/B Testing
  • Analyzing Metrics
  • Salesforce
  • jQuery
  • Bootstrap
  • SASS
  • MS Office
  • Cross-Browser / Client Compatibility
Production Process
Scope & Strategy Definition
Define the email marketing campaign strategy and its goals in order to align the campaigns direction and accurately measure successes or failures, and learn from them.
Content Creation
Having a message tailored to the target audience coupled with relatable, positive language will ensure a clear, understandable call-to-action be conveyed.
Email Design
Along with Content, an Email's design is what will capture a reader's eye, making this is one of, if not the most important part of the email production process.
Email Development
Developing a memorable and unique user experience is vital. This is achieved with accurate, clean, creative code used to translate designs into a user interface.
Quality Assurance Testing
Testing on a variety of elements is done to ensure the email works as intended over a range of devices, systems and email clients with the use of Litmus or Emails on Acid.
Approvals
Once all checks have been carried out and errors corrected, the email is approved and all relative information/lessons learned is/are recorded and filed accordingly.
Launch
With all the proper quality assurances & approvals in place and carried out correctly, sending the email can be done with full confidence that the campaign will meet the project's strategy.
Post-Send Analysis
Here we will see if and how our goals were met with regard to the email's scope and strategy as per the project's definition to it's metrics (eg. Bounce, Click, Open or Unsubscribe rates, complaints, etc)
Portfolio
Experience
2018 - Present
Front-End Web Developer
Collaborate with creative and development teams as well as businesses on the execution of ideas for the web.

Freelance
2008 - Present
SMB Consultant
Analyse business practices & goals and determine/establish improvements for the business and it's direction.

Not for Profit
Education
2008 - 2011
University of Auckland
Bachelors of Commerce in Operations & Logistics Management and International Business

Auckland, New Zealand
2007 - 2008
Auckland University of Technology
Certificate of Art and Design

Auckland, New Zealand
Interests
Learning
Learning new things allows me to let go of stagnate thoughts and ideas, as well as embrace new perspectives, nourishing my mind.
Teaching
Teaching allows me to inspire and educate others, positively influencing peoples' lives, inspiring and motivating them to achieve their potential, enabling me to be a benefit to society.
Programming
Aside from improving my communication, creativity, math, writing and analytical thinking skills, I enjoy the practice of 'telling' the computer to do something, and if 'told' correctly, the computer does exactly that.
Puzzle Games
I enjoy a challenge, whether it be a jigsaw puzzle or a combination puzzle (Rubik's Cube), knowing there's a combination to solve fascinates and intrigues me, forcing me to think differently.
Yoga
In addition to the physical (aesthetic) health aspects, yoga balances my metabolism, improves my respiration, energy & vitality and allows me to focus on my mental health, giving me an outlet to relax my mind.
Cooking
Cooking at home allows to control what my family and I eat, in addition to providing us a healthier lifestyle, increased savings, mental relaxation and intimate family experiences in the kitchen.
Art/Drawing
Drawing allows me a form of visual thinking, an expression of my emotions and to record a moment in time. For me, this is my form of mental therapy, stress relief and meditation, while being focused and present in the moment.
Personal Statement

From the moment I printed "Hello World" in the console of my web development tutorial, I knew I was hooked into the world of web development. But development the web has never been 'just a job' for me, it's offered an engaging challenge to continually learn and improve my skills in creating high-quality user experiences. What started with a simple "Hello World" has become a fully fledged passion that only gets more exciting as every day goes by.

Prior to discovering the wide world of web development, I was a General Manager and primarily focused on business strategy and expansion. It was a great career and I got to learn and see some amazing things, but over time, a few things happened in my life, and I found that this was not what I truly loved to do. I loved to build, to create and to see what I built and created. A few years went by and when I discovered web development, and that's when I knew I found what I wanted to do.

Please feel free to download / view my CV, or, alternatively you can contact me regarding anything you'd like to chat to me about, I'd love to hear from you, and thank you for viewing my portfolio.

Contact Me
Address
Umraniye, Istanbul, Turkey