Work and Education History
What have I worked with before?
Content Management Systems
CMS Made Simple, Drupal, Expression Engine, Joomla!, MediaWiki, Movable Type, Wordpress.
E-commerce systems
Interspire, Magento, osCommerce, PDshop, Viart, VirtueMart, VP-ASP.
Integration with services
Disqus, Facebook, Google Analytics, Google Checkout, Google Translate, PayPal, Twitter, YouTube, search engines, various social media services.
PHP Frameworks
CakePHP, Zend.
Other development experience
AJAX, anti-spam systems, banner ad systems, blogs, calendars, CAPTCHA, comment systems, contact forms, cross-browser compatibility, CSV import/export, data mining, domain search, email newsletter systems and templates, Excel import/export, Facebook app development, FBJS, Flash video (FLV) players, form validation, forums, HTML cutups (e.g. PSD to HTML), IE6 compatibility, image galleries, image slideshows, IIS, jQuery, Lightbox, MP3 players, mod_rewrite (URL rewriting), news systems, payment gateways, PDF generation, PNG fixes, regular expressions, RSS feeds, search algorithms, search engine optization (SEO), SQL injection fixes, transition effects, web scraping, web crawlers.
I have also been the lead programmer involved in building a proprietary CMS from scratch in ASP, including add-ons such as a shopping cart, message forum, and custom email contact forms. The lists above are non-exhaustive, as I've worked with many lesser-known and proprietary systems. I regularly try out new software and can figure out a new system quickly.
Employment History
2008-present
Self-employed. See some of my recent projects.
2007-2008
SEEK Ltd. (http://seek.com.au) as a user interface developer and web programmer. Worked primarily with C# (.NET), JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Obtained enterprise level experience working for the company behind Australia's largest job advertisement website.
2003-2007
Kinetic Digital Group (http://kineticdigital.com.au) as a web developer. Built over 100 websites in classic ASP, provided tech support and bug fixes, and learned essential web development skills.
Education
In 2004, I graduated from ACU with a bachelor's degree in Information Systems.
Personal Info
I was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1984, but spent most of my life in Melbourne, Australia, before moving to Austin, Texas, USA, in 2009. I currently live there with my wife, who is an artist, writer and web designer.