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Wellington, New Zealand

● Conducting accessibility assessments against WCAG and best practice, across responsive web and native mobile products. Clearly describing issues. Supplying detailed solutions.● Supporting design and development teams with practical, relevant, help.● Embedding remotely in customer teams, reviewing and providing feedback on accessibility across the software development lifecycle.● Working with organisations to improve their accessibility maturity and capability.● Developing and facilitating training, workshops, and talks on accessibility and inclusive design.● Championing digital accessibility and being an advocate for inclusion.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Part of a team providing expertise across the Ministry of Social Development (MSD) and wider public sector to ensure digital accessibility for all New Zealanders. Providing quality analysis and advice to enable the accessibility of information using accessible digital channels by:● ensuring the use of standardised compliance coding;● following best practice guidance;● using inclusive language;● implementing User Experience (UX) design;● doing usability testing;● completing Web Standards audits;● supporting alternate formats.Undertaking analysis and audits to ensure accessibility standards are integrated across technology solutions. Providing advice and guidance to MSD technology teams to integrate Accessibility by Design principles and approaches into the development of technology assets.Supporting the development of capability through the development and delivery of education and training initiatives across MSD that ensure accessibility goals are met and the Ministry continues to be an accessibility exemplar.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Helping drive accessibility of Xero’s customer-facing and internal domains.Supporting the Accessibility program across Xero’s product experiences, including: ● Collaborating with the engineering team and enabling them to take on responsibility for accessible builds● Completing Digital Accessibility testing and audits to determine compliance with the latest WCAG criteria across platforms and devices● Providing detailed accessibility recommendations to Product Owners, Product Designers, Front End Developers, Testers and Content writers● Triaging and solving front end development and production accessibility issues, and quickly tracking down the root cause. Communicating the impact of the problem to stakeholders in terms of business value, helping to set a priority for the resolution. Actively participating in incident responses.● Maintaining knowledge of Xero’s current and emerging accessibility engineering standards and practices. Supporting development and deployment of sftware that meets those standards.● Maintaining knowledge of current and emerging development technologies and methodologies, as they relate to digital accessibility.● Setting up and guiding teams through external accessibility audits from briefing through to re-test and full remediation● Testing and recommending systems, services and tools that allow us to automate the testing of accessibility in our digital experiences● Providing expertise and guidance to Xero employees and customers around accessibility

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Specialising in accessibility across design, development, and testing. ● Doing accessibility reviews of designs and marking up accessibility features.● Improving the accessibility of the product by writing code (Vue.JS and legacy PHP / Mustache), reviewing Pull Requests, and testing UI (with browser-based tools like Axe, ARC toolkit, and Accessibility Insights, as well as functional testing with screen readers)● Increasing the WCAG 2.1 AA conformance of the product while bringing an Inclusive Design approach and mindset.Part-time Scrum Master duties.● Facilitating stand ups, planning and running retrospectives.● Facilitating sprint planning, estimation, and backlog grooming sessions.● Spotting impediments and helping the team remove or mitigate them.Wider front-end developer tasks and responsibilities.● Implementing effective, usable, accessible user interfaces and experiences from UX design outputs such as wireframes, prototypes and specifications.● Ensuring code follows the agreed best practices for front end development and code in general.● Collaborating within the team in a productive, constructive and positive manner. ● Identifying areas for growth and improvement within the team and our products.● Preparing technical documentation on the status, operation and maintenance of new features.● Peer-reviewing and testing code developed by the team, collaborators and contributors.● Analysing and resolving technical and application problems.● Estimating effort and reporting on progress to provide visibility on expected delivery to other parts of the business.● Participating in technical discussions, providing insight and sharing knowledge.● Helping the front end team to define and maintain best practices and code standards.● Mentoring junior staff and supporting their learning.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Moved back to full-time consulting from October 2016 after spending a few years part-time consulting for a range of companies.Working with many clients (software houses, product teams, design agencies) over many tech stacks (.NET, Rails, Node, Laravel, Django) as part of cross-functional, cross-time-zone, teams.● Helping people become more T-shaped​ by bridging the gap between design and development, switching between FED and UX roles as needed. Coaching; running focused, skill-up, workshops. Speeding up workflow and improving consistency of implementation by finding compromises between desirable and feasible.● Improving front-end code quality, performance, and maintainability​. Refactoring legacy HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Making legacy sites responsive. Building style guides.● Increasing speed and accuracy of sign-up flows and order placements by conducting UXreviews, then pairing with devs to implement suggested improvements.● Finding UX improvements by running usability tests.​ Using frameworks like Effort/Impact to find quick wins. Making and using personas, journey maps, and UX checklists to help devs make more user-centered choices. Designing new feature wireframes in Balsamiq.FED and UX clients include: Prodigy Finance, Code Collective, SnapScan, Isoflow, Electric Book Works, WorldAware, MDA Property Systems, Vulcan Labs, Jumping Fox Software, Siyavula.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Developed and taught the “Evaluating Design with User Testing” module of the BA in Interaction Design. Covered User Experience, Agile and business, and learning and neuroscience topics. Gathered regular student feedback to continuously improve.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Researching and planning the selection of devices for the lab to offer a broad range to test on, with a bias towards South African trends.Organising lab sessions, hosts, keeping device selection up to date. Giving hands-on help to lab attendees, suggesting improvements or alternative approaches.http://devicelab.co.za/

Cape Town Area, South Africa

● Helped students learn how to learn and work in an agile way with short feedback loops. Demonstrated the importance of asking questions over getting answers.● Made and updated learning exercises on a wide variety of topics, such as: CRUD web applications; pros and cons of various frameworks; TDD; the importance of READMEs.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Working mainly on Vumi Go, but also on other Praekelt Group projects.● Developed a Mobile First, Responsive, front-end for a suite of sites running on Jinja templates in Django. Focused on Performance and Progressive Enhancement to support as many devices as possible, as far down as feature phones.● Created UX Personas and Journey Maps and ran usability tests to bring more User-Centered Design into decision-making across teams of Project Managers, Python Developers, and Product Managers. Created clickable prototypes using Bootstrap.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

● Built a component-based front-end style guide in PHP, following a Mobile First, Progressive Enhancement, Responsive approach, from Style Tiles and Axure prototypes.● Collaborated with UX researchers, UI designers, and Product Managers during the concept and design phases. Worked with UX Designers to prepare and run usability tests.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Cape Town Area, South Africa

● Learned to work as part of an agile web development team of Back-End Developers, Front-End Developers, Testers, Scrum Masters, and overseas Product Owners.● Maintained and updated customer-facing and staff-facing sides of a legacy Ruby on Rails project, including making it Responsive.

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Independent web developer, mostly working with small businesses to establish or improve their web presence. Hand-coded, lean, well-structured, standards-based web pages in HTML and CSS. Microformats used to improve Search Engine performance and data portability. JavaScript used to add behaviours, using the principles of Progressive Enhancement.Content management, applying new design to existing code base, implementing WordPress to enable content updates.WordPress installation, configuration, training, support. Sourcing or authoring of Themes and Plugins as appropriate.Production of templates for email marketing. Management of lists and distribution of campaigns using Mailchimp.http://naga.co.za/

Cape Town Area, South Africa

Retailer specialising in South East Asian jewellery, accessories, and decor. First independent venture. Ran the day to day business of the shop, including management of part-time staff, branding, marketing, design and development of web site.Conducted buying trips to Thailand and Laos and import of goods to South Africa.

London, United Kingdom

Conducted Pension Scheme Valuations for Defined Contribution Schemes and Asset / Liability modelling using Excel, Word, and Visual Basic.

London, United Kingdom

Conducted Pension Scheme Valuations for Defined Benefit schemes using Excel, Word, and Visual Basic (for calculations and automation of processes).