Summary
I'm passionate about designing and building high quality web sites & applications using open standards. I enjoy teaching others and working collaboratively with talented people.
In 2012 I began freelance work at Inspire9 where I joined the amazingly talented bunch at Inspire9's development agency and built Rails applications for a year becoming a much better developer, it was the most satisfying work of my career.
Before that, I was designing and building things at PageUp People, the leading Australian talent management software provider. I have been working on the web professionally for over 7 years.
Personal Attributes
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Highly self motivated requiring very little supervision.
- Always willing to learn and loves being challenged.
Technical skills
High level of competency and experience in:
- HTML
- CSS
- Javascript
- Ruby on Rails
- Browser compatibility
- HAML, SASS & CoffeeScript
- Good knowledge of important Javascript libraries
- Designing user interfaces
- Mobile web apps
I also have professional experience developing with:
- Canvas & SVG
- PHP
- .NET
- SQL
- Photoshop & Illustrator
Education
| 2004 – 2007 |
Swinburne University, Hawthorn Bachelor of Multimedia - Multimedia Software Development Achieved a distinction average |
| 1998 – 2003 |
VCE, Billanook College, Mooroolbark Maths Methods / Physics / English / Media Studies / VET Multimedia / Information Processing and Management Achieved an ENTER of 83.55 |
Academic awards
| 2006 | Golden Key International Honour Society Membership |
| 2003 | Subject award: Academic excellence – VET Multimedia |
| 2003 | Certificate II in Arts (Interactive Multimedia) |
Employment History
| 2013 - Now |
Web developer at Culture Amp3 month contract building out a self-service platform where clients can configure their accounts for Murmur, an employee engagement surveying tool with analytics. |
| 2012 - 2013 |
Front end developer at Inspire9Building Rails applications with a small super-talented team & learning lots. Highlights are building the Inspire9 Community and Inspire9 Development sites, Hello Sunday Morning and Obsurfation. |
| 2012 - Now |
Freelance Web developer at yellowshoeVarious client work on web applications & games as well as contracting to Melbourne based web development agencies. |
| 2007 - 2012 |
Web developer & designer at PageUp PeopleSpecialised in design and front end development but also developed .NET and Rails applications. Mentored other developers in front-end development and produced front end standards. Was the lead designer & developer working on a re-design of the recruitment product for the global market. |
| 2007 |
Teaching at Swinburne UniversityTutored classes of 120-140 students per semester
I also developed teaching material for Internet Technologies. |
| 2007 |
Web developer at Web Managers Department, Swinburne UniversityDuring my final year of study I worked with Andrew Normand and Caroline Rojas in the Web Managers Department at Swinburne. I rewrote the Administration Area (a CMS that enables publishers to update their individual sites) using object oriented PHP & MySQL. I also made global semantic markup changes to the site including making all navigational menus lists. |
| 2006-2007 |
Web developer at yellowshoeMy own business mostly in CSS development, I received work from my contributions on the CSS forum at Sitepoint, where I actively participated. |
| 2006 |
Web developer at Faculty of ICT, Swinburne UniversityI worked full time during 2006 as a web developer producing content for the site & developing a faculty intranet. |
Personal Skills
Working as a tutor in web development subjects at Swinburne University has developed my listening and teaching skills.
I'm creative, a good problem solver and a life long learner.
Interests and hobbies
Guitar, singing, cooking, vector graphics, handstands and bike riding.