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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles: - Consulting- Web Design / Development (Figma, PHP, React.js, Next.js)- App Design / Development (Figma, PHP, React.js, Next.js)Highlights- Developed the refresh of the IGTO (Inspector-General of Taxation Ombudsman) website (Figma, PHP)- Designed and developed the front-end of the Practicum Exchange web app for the Department of Education (Figma, React.js, Next.js, SASS, Bootstrap)

Melbourne, Australia

Roles:- Consulting- Web Design / Development- Interactive Design / Development- Software Design / Development- Creative Direction- Art Direction- Technical DirectionHighlights:- Returned to WISE Employment twice in freelance capacity since leaving, assisting in design and helping them catch up to outstanding work.- On one occasion, 1 was outstanding by 1 and a half month with a third left, I was asked to complete asap and completed it in a day… Show more Roles:- Consulting- Web Design / Development- Interactive Design / Development- Software Design / Development- Creative Direction- Art Direction- Technical DirectionHighlights:- Returned to WISE Employment twice in freelance capacity since leaving, assisting in design and helping them catch up to outstanding work.- On one occasion, 1 was outstanding by 1 and a half month with a third left, I was asked to complete asap and completed it in a day - I’m a preferred vendor (Software) for Australian War Museum- Built the interactives for the last 3 travelling exhibits for National Archives Australia- Consulted on the last exhibit and in talks to consult and build their next exhibit- I’ve maintained relationships with past clients, companies and designers, giving them advice or consulting for them- Designers would sometimes send me their designs which their developers have said it’s not possible to gain a second opinion, I would either explain how to make the design possible or write it for them to share with their developers Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles:- Consulting- Web Design / Development- Interactive Design / Development- Software Design / Development- Creative Direction- Art Direction- Technical DirectionHighlights:- I’ve maintained a strong relationship with The Pod, switching to freelancing for them after I left, with The Pod still counting me as an employee- I consult on all their technical projects and assist in coming up with solutions to writing briefs and proposals- In the past… Show more Roles:- Consulting- Web Design / Development- Interactive Design / Development- Software Design / Development- Creative Direction- Art Direction- Technical DirectionHighlights:- I’ve maintained a strong relationship with The Pod, switching to freelancing for them after I left, with The Pod still counting me as an employee- I consult on all their technical projects and assist in coming up with solutions to writing briefs and proposals- In the past several years, I’ve been building all their interactives Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles:- Lead Developer- Lead 3D Artist- Video Editing- 2D / 3D Animation- Design- Project Management- Creative / Art / Technical DirectionHighlights- Became the lead developer and lead 3D artist within 6 months of working at The Pod- Managed projects and worked / communicated with clients- Whilst working there, I made several major changes, I moved them from Lightwave to Cinema 4D as it was more suitable for their type of work and workflow, I… Show more Roles:- Lead Developer- Lead 3D Artist- Video Editing- 2D / 3D Animation- Design- Project Management- Creative / Art / Technical DirectionHighlights- Became the lead developer and lead 3D artist within 6 months of working at The Pod- Managed projects and worked / communicated with clients- Whilst working there, I made several major changes, I moved them from Lightwave to Cinema 4D as it was more suitable for their type of work and workflow, I transitioned them from Final Cut Pro 7 to Adobe Premiere, I also moved them to using AS3 (Flash) from AS2 (Flash) but also made them more agnostic by introducing C++ and C# as part of their projects.- A major change I implement to their interactive work, was the introduction of dynamic content, by keeping all content externally and having text and media paths stored in external files (txt, xml, json) which improved our ability to maintain and edit, such as fixing a spelling mistake once installed, but also made updating easier as we no longer needed to transport the full package Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles:- Principal Front-End Developer (Vue.js)- Principal UI Developer (Vue.js)- Back-end Developer (Express.js)- E2E testing (Selenium)- CMS Management (Directus)- GraphQL integration- Email templates (HTML/CSS and Springboot)- UI / UX Design (Figma, Miro)- UX researcher (Zoom, Qualtrics, Dovetail)- Codifying research data (Dovetail)- Transcribing Interviews (Dovetail)- UX Report Writing (Dovetail)- Generating recommendations based on… Show more Roles:- Principal Front-End Developer (Vue.js)- Principal UI Developer (Vue.js)- Back-end Developer (Express.js)- E2E testing (Selenium)- CMS Management (Directus)- GraphQL integration- Email templates (HTML/CSS and Springboot)- UI / UX Design (Figma, Miro)- UX researcher (Zoom, Qualtrics, Dovetail)- Codifying research data (Dovetail)- Transcribing Interviews (Dovetail)- UX Report Writing (Dovetail)- Generating recommendations based on data- Negotiating between designers and developers- Creative DirectionHighlights:- Principal Front-End Engineer for a customer self-servicing platform- Focused on technical aspects of design (Layout, Flow, Interactions)- Introduced the usage of a CMS to move away from hardcoding text in applications.- Tailored Directus to better suite the copywriters need, including the creation of whitelist/blacklist capabilities, to enable the copywriter to create personalised recommendations that can be displayed on the site- Enabled the ability to control designs through Directus for content, such as the layout of pages, to styling of buttons- Developed a back-end to allows promotion of CMS content from dev instance to prod instance of Directus Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Roles:- Principal Front-End Developer (Vue.js)- Principal UI Developer (Vue.js)- Back-end Developer (Express.js)- UI / UX Design (Adobe XD)- UX Research- Creative DirectionHighlights:- Principal Front-End Engineer for SERP an internal job assignments, scheduling, timesheet and payroll system- Principal Front-End Engineer for MIA an identity and access management software- Solo designed both applications - Conducted the research, design and… Show more Roles:- Principal Front-End Developer (Vue.js)- Principal UI Developer (Vue.js)- Back-end Developer (Express.js)- UI / UX Design (Adobe XD)- UX Research- Creative DirectionHighlights:- Principal Front-End Engineer for SERP an internal job assignments, scheduling, timesheet and payroll system- Principal Front-End Engineer for MIA an identity and access management software- Solo designed both applications - Conducted the research, design and front-end development of MIA by myself and completed it from start to finish within 1 month- Introduced modularisation and reusable components within the 1st month of working at WISE- Introduced utilities and modules, to streamline repetitive tasks to shrink coding overhead, such as creating a module for fetch to reduce it to a simple function rather than build the url- Introduced building their own UI within the 1st month of working at WISE, this included pulling them away from using UI and component libraries- Introduced and taught to better utilise CSS, including design tokens, CSS variables, flexbox, grid system and SASS variables and functions- Introduced the start of creating a design system, but never came to full fruition- Developed a mock back-end in Express.js and PostgreSQL for MIA to enable testing and completion of Front-end Show less

Classes taught:- Intro to HTML and CSS | Web design/development- Advanced Technologies | Game design/development- New Technologies | Game design/development- Interaction Design for the Web | UI/UX design/development

Pseudo Ape is a design inspiration blog that I originally created in July 2010 but we went on hiatus. In July 2011 we brought it back with a new design, and a better system.

Collaboration Group

Bachelor Of Design (Honours), Digital Media Design, First Class Honours

Bachelor Of Design, Digital Media Design

Was exempted from the first two years of the Bachelor, and only needed to do the third year to complete it

Advanced Diploma, Multimedia

Cert Iv, Multimedia

Vcal - Arts, Multimedia

Gained a Cert II in Multimedia, a Cert I in Visual Arts and partial credits in the Diploma for Theatre Arts