Summary
I work on the Web Platform, building rich web applications and mobile apps with JavaScript. I enjoy teaching others and working collaboratively with talented people. Having worked with many small to medium sized teams over the years I'm comfortable working across the full stack of multiple platforms(Rails, Django, NodeJS, .NET MVC, PHP and Java), my areas of expertise are front-end engineering, graphics programming and NodeJS.
I was based in London for two years and worked with the agile consultancy Equal Experts. There I helped the John Lewis team develop a component library and design system in React. With O2 Priority I helped build a high performance Node app that scaled up to support 20k concurrent users as well as optimising the mobile-web experience. I helped build an analytics platform for Informa clients to explore and visualise agricultural data. Another interesting piece of work I picked up was developing a tool for tagging and annotating traffic images for lvl5 for application in self-driving cars.
In Melbourne, Australia I worked for Inspire9 Development, a development agency that worked with early-stage startups and helped them develop Tribes - an app for managing co-working spaces. I also worked with Adioso for two years and PageUp People for four years - the leading Australian talent management software provider. I have now been working on the web professionally for over years.
I'm also an author of Sitepoint's JavaScript channel.
I build working software with readable code that's well tested.
Personal Attributes
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
- Highly self motivated requiring very little supervision.
- Always learning and loves being challenged.
- Regularly shares at community events.
Technical skills
High level of competency and experience in:
- HTML, CSS & JavaScript: The three pillars of the web
- Full stack development with Ruby on Rails & Node.js
- Thorough knowledge of important JavaScript libraries including:
- Backbone, Angular, React, Vue
- jQuery, Lodash, D3
- Git
- Unit and integration testing with JavaScript and Ruby
- Accessibility & browser compatibility
- Responsive mobile web apps, hybrid and native approaches
- Static site generators
- Build tools and module bundlers
- Canvas & SVG
I also have professional experience working with:
- Continuous Integration tools
- Heroku, AWS, Google Cloud Platform
- Docker
- Django & Python
- .NET
- PHP
- Java
- SQL
- Photoshop, Illustrator & Sketch
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
2016 - now |
Front-End Engineer with Equal ExpertsThe team at John Lewis were busy breaking up a big online store into many, I helped them develop their component library and design system so all teams could build on the same base. With O2 Priority I built a high performance Node app and CMS in React. I also optimised their mobile experience and built a component library to help keep things maintainable. For Informa Agribusiness Intelligence I worked on an Aurelia app, adding search & filter capabilities and data visualisations for agricultural insights. lvl5.ai based in San Francisco asked me to develop an image tagging and annotation tool in React. I was also involved with interviewing and bringing new engineers into the fold at Equal Experts. Tooling: NodeJS, AWS, Nginx, MongoDB, React, Vue, ES6, Aurelia, D3, Sass, Mocha, Enzyme & Sinon |
2015 - 2016 |
Front-end developer at Inspire9Inspire9 development make web apps for startups. Tribes, Tribes Kiosk, Tribes Bookings, Ritualize, YourGrocer, LaunchVic, and PWC's Open Innovation Platform. Tooling: Rails, Heroku, AWS, Docker, CoffeeScript / ES6, Cordova, Angular, React, React Native, Mocha & Chai, jQuery |
2013 - 2015 |
Front-end developer at AdiosoAdioso is a flight search engine born and bred in Melbourne, it's the best way to find cheap flights for flexible travellers who don't have fixed dates in mind. Adioso, Volantio, Fly to your friends Tooling: Python, Django, Middleman, CoffeeScript, Backbone, jQuery |
2013 |
Web developer at Culture AmpI built out a self-service platform where clients could configure their accounts for Murmur, an employee engagement surveying tool with analytics. Tooling: Rails, MongoDB, AWS, Heroku, CoffeeScript, Backbone, jQuery |
2012 - 2013 |
Front end developer at Inspire9Building Rails applications with a small super-talented team & learning lots. Inspire9 Community, Inspire9 Development, Hello Sunday Morning, and Obsurfation. Tooling: Rails, Sass, Cordova, Backbone |
2012 - Now |
Freelance Web developer and author at YellowshoeWeb applications & games as well as contracting to Melbourne based web development agencies. Clients include SitePoint, CSIRO, Love and Money, Mr Pony and IE |
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. Tooling: .NET, C#, Rails, Sass, Prototype / jQuery |
2007 |
Teaching at Swinburne UniversityTutored classes of 120-140 students per semester
I also developed teaching material for Internet Technologies. |
2007 |
Web developer at 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, yoga, vector graphics, handstands and bike riding.