Multimedia Specialist ANZSCO 261211

Alternative Title :

• Multimedia Developer
• Multimedia Programmer

Skill Level: 1

Major Group 2 Professionals 
SUB-MAJOR GROUP 26 ICT Professionals 
MINOR GROUP 261 Business and Systems Analysts, and Programmers 
UNIT GROUP 2612 Multimedia Specialists and Web Developers

Creates and manipulates computer animation, audio, video and graphic image files into multimedia programs to produce data and content for CD-ROMs, information kiosks, multimedia presentations, websites, mobile telephone resources, electronic gaming environments, e-commerce and e-security solutions, and entertainment and education products.

Description of Employment Duties:

• analyzing, designing and developing Internet sites applying a mixture of artistry and creativity with software
  programming and scripting languages and interfacing with operating environments
• designing and developing digital animations, imaging, presentations, games, audio and video clips, and
  Internet applications using multimedia software, tools and utilities, interactive graphics and programming
  languages
• communicating with network specialists regarding web-related issues, such as security and hosting websites,
  to control and enforce Internet and web server security, space allocation, user access, business continuity,
  website backup and disaster recovery planning
• designing, developing and integrating computer code with other specialized inputs, such as image files, audio
  files and scripting languages, to produce, maintain and support websites
• assisting in analyzing, specifying and developing Internet strategies, web-based methodologies and
  development plans

Description of Closely Related Core ICT Units:

• Computer Graphics & Animation – (2D Computer graphics, 3D Computer graphics, 2D Animation, 3D Animation)
• Human Computer Interaction – (Interface Design)
• Image and media data manipulation – (Developing Interactive Media, Multimedia Authoring, Games Design)
• Operating Systems (e.g. iOS, Android, Linux, Unix)
• Programming (e.g. Internet Programming, C++, Java, Objective C, AS3, Games Programming)
• Software Engineering
• Web Systems Design – (Interactive System Design)
• WWW and the Internet – (Web Technologies, Web Engineering, XML and Web Services, Web Authoring, Web Applications Development, Multimedia & the Internet)

Description of Additional Closely Related ICT Units:

• Algorithm design and development
• Client/Server technologies
• Information Security
• Introduction to ICT – (Introduction to Computer Science, Computer Theory, Introduction to Business Computing, Computer Science I)
• Introduction to Multimedia
• Mobile Devices
• Multimedia Technologies
• Object Oriented Systems Analysis and Design
• Object oriented technologies
• Project – (if the project is a Multimedia / Web project)
• Requirements gathering
• Systems Analysis
• Systems Design
• Testing strategies and methods