Resume
I specialise in designing, developing, and supporting clean, easy-to-use websites, eNewsletters, and online interfaces.
My focus is always on good usability, solid design principles, and thinking about the everyday person at the end of the line who'll be using what I've built.
I code my design concepts with care in W3C standards-compliant HTML & CSS, make them sparkle with jQuery, HTML5 and CSS3, and wrap them up in Client and SEO-friendly systems like MODx Revo* and Campaign Monitor.
* If you're wondering why I use MODx over WordPress and Expression Engine check out WordPress vs. MODx and Why MODx.
expert
- Website & online interface design
- HTML / XHTML & CSS (hand-coded)
- MODx Revolution CMS
- Mobile / responsive stylesheets
- Wireframes / Prototyping
- Web Usability & Accessibility
- eNewsletter design & development
- Campaign Monitor
advanced
- CSS3
- Usability testing
- jQuery implementation
- Social Media implementation
- Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
- Web analytics
- Web content writing
intermediate
- HTML5
- jQuery programming
- eCommerce implementation
software I use every day
- Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 *
- MODx Revolution CMS
- Firefox & Firebug
- Chrome, Safari, IE9, IETester
- FileZilla
- cPanel
* I just use Dreamweaver like a glorified version of Notepad because it's intellitext, pretty code formatting, and live view help me work much faster. I still code all my HTML and CSS by hand, no wysiwyg shenanigans here thank you very much.
I'm a Web Designer and Front-end
Web Developer with over 12 years industry experience.
In that time I've worked for a range of organisations including Queensland State Government, TAFE, Suncorp Metway, GBST, IGA, various Councils and a number of fun, fast-paced Design Studios.
My speciality is in producing clean, easy-to-use website designs which I build in standards-compliant HTML & CSS and then port to the awesome designer-and-client-friendly MODx Revolution Content Management System (CMS).
I take a people-driven approach to my work which means I'm always thinking in terms of how user-friendly a website can be made for everyone involved; from my clients and their customers to the next web designer to take over the work. I also test with real data to make sure what I've built won't break once it leaves my care.
My sub-specialities include eNewsletter design and development, website usability and accessibility, HTML & paper prototyping, search engine optimisation (SEO), social media integration, and simple web content writing.
I'm absolutely hopeless at programming of any kind (PHP, Java, JavaScript, ASP.NET), setting up email and web servers, or troubleshooting eCommerce systems. These are proper back-end web developer skills and I leave them to the experts.
While MODx Revolution is my content management system of choice, I've dabbled with WordPress, Unify, and a handful of other systems. I can't stand Joomla or Drupal; there I've said it (sorry).
I enjoy working in a team environment, I'm very organised (some say freakishly so!), can provide accurate estimates for how long things will take, and I take responsibility for my own deadlines and projects.
After many years of working in the middle between pure designers and hard-core developers I've developed a knack for translating complex technical info into plain English, e.g. from programmer-speak to designer / client-speak :)
My complete resume, work history, and references are available on request.
- View my Web Design Portfolio
- View my Web Development Portfolio
- View my Web Content Writing
