I've been building for the web since 2006. In that time I've worked for Netengine, Orange Digital, Brand New Media, Coronis and bwired along with my own clients through Exposé Creative. I currently work at AIME.
I host Byron Web, a monthly meetup for web professionals in the Byron Shire. Byron Bay is a special part of the Northern Rivers region of NSW, Australia which I'm lucky enough to call home along with my wife and two great little kids.
As a Front-End Developer the work I do in teams lies at the crossroads between design and development. I pride myself on my ability to work collaboratively with designers to bring designs to life in the browser and engineers to apply those designs to the underlying functionality and logic that makes websites and apps do what they do. I've done a bunch of work with WordPress, Drupal, Ruby on Rails and I'm currently working with Craft CMS a lot.
The time I've spent building for the web has given me a diverse set of skills that enable me to help small business owners. Through my business, Exposé Creative, I help businesses interact and transact with their customers by providing knowledge and simple tools to make the web work for them. I pride myself on delivering simple solutions where people come before technology.
I'm very passionate about the web work I do but I also have a life and interests outside of the web. I have a young daughter and son and love spending time with them and their mum and our network of friends and family. I love to Travel and I have a passion for Education, Technology and the Creative Arts. Starting a family has brought a lot of my youthful desires for making the world a better place to the surface. Those desires have found a real home at AIME. I believe strongly in the enabling power of the web, that being what drew me to it in the first place.
I spent 11 months at Brand New Media working as the Front-End Developer on this Ruby on Rails project and 3 other related web properties. My focus was on responsive design, performance and authoring modular interfaces with Haml, Sass and CoffeeScript. This was a remote position on a distributed team requiring collaboration via Git, self direction and a proactive approach to task completion.
Byron Web is a monthly social gathering for web designers and developers in the Byron Bay area to meet and share knowledge with like-minded people.
Exploring people and movements striving to make this world a better place. Focused on positive stories and real solutions, not just the problems.