Drew Foster Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Melbourne And Brisbane, Australia

Undertaking various technology/process/integration consultant activities as well as freelance design and development duties as they come up.

Melbourne, Australia

Lead FED on the Tennis Australia Social Shack for the Australian Open 2014. Integrated up-to-the-minute social data on tweets, likes and Instagram photos about competing players with dynamic animated non-interactive websites that were linked via web sockets and displayed on multiple HD televisions.Also involved with implementing work processes across development teams, helping to create an internal system of reusable code fragments and frameworks, and mentoring junior FEDs within the company.

Melbourne, Australia

Part of the nissan.com.au team, primarily responsible for the mammoth Vehicles section of the site, including the Build Your Own, Compare, and Accessories area functionality using an extensive amount of Ember.js code and integrating with the Sitecore CMS back end.Acted as the Reactive Team Lead while embedded at Coles Australia for flybuys.com.au. Responsible for setting up and running a multi-company agile team of developers, project management (including prioritising and road mapping development goals), instituting new processes and technology systems for the company, and digging in with code, primarily building the complicated Rewards portion of the site.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for updating, extending, and creating new front end Javascript widgets for the Movideo video platform.

Vancouver, Canada

Provided technical expertise on overall design strategy, information architecture, and preliminary site wireframes before building the front end facing portions of the resulting websites, often integrating with a PHP backend CMS such as CakePHP or Wordpress.

Brisbane, Australia

Worked on projects either independently, reporting to a project manager, or as part of a larger team including up to three back end developers, a graphics designer, and two project managers. Created complete front end websites using CMS systems such as Wordpress, in addition to designing and building user interfaces for back end technical systems such as document management and inventory control software.

Conducted exhaustive user research, design, and testing of user interface prototypes. Heavily involved with creating and testing designs for intranet and internet websites as well as project managed testing and evaluation projects ranging from small scale information architecture redesigns to iteratively testing large scale systems over several months of development, including liaising with clients from initial face to face meetings to final report presentations.

Bachelor, Multimedia Design

Specialised in interactive physical and digital media projects.

Bachelor, Information Technology

Majored in Interaction Design