Work History

Published at: 03:08 pm - Tuesday August 10 2010

Background.

I have a strong background in design, I’ve been using Photoshop since age 12 and Illustrator since age 16, under the mentoring of my Dad, who runs Xuba.

I’ve always had an insatiable desire to make a difference, and it was this desire that prompted me to learn several programming languages from the age of 17, starting with ActionScript and Java. I built many hobby applications and flash widgets for websites during this time.

I graduated from St. Luke’s Grammar High in 2002. My eagerness prevented me from spending any more time in education, and I immediately got a job working on the e-commerce site for a Point-of-Sale system named WinStore, which I continued for 18 months (2003 – 2004).

The White Agency. 2005 – 2007

After spending six months overseas, I returned to Sydney and in 2005 began at the White Agency. Here I got the opportunity to do some great work on really interesting clients like Jaguar, Coke & BigPond (amongst others).

The Farm Digital. 2007 – 2010

In mid 2007, I moved to the Farm Digital, where I was leading a team of three front-end developers under technical director Shannon Deminick. Here I had some great opportunities to develop my skills and work with interesting new technologies. I also got to build some pretty cutting edge sites for clients like The Glue Society, The NRL, Sunbeam, The Wiggles and Bonds, to name a few.

Freelance. 2010 – 2011

Trying my hand at contract work, I got to work with a bunch of great people for the last year. Working with a group of freelancers at JWT I built the physics into a campaign site for Nokia.
There’s also the ambitious DVD touch-screen software I’ve been building which will be deployed for Android phones, the Web and on Kiosks in-store for Sydney based DVD Lounge.
And currently I’m developing solar panel planning technology for Sungevity with the fine people of Extro.

What next?

After freelancing in Sydney for a year, I’ve just completed a three month road trip across the US and am heading back to Sydney.

Check out the Portfolio category for more jobs I’ve done

Capabilities

Whilst I’m always completely open to new languages and paradigms, I think it’s worth noting the technologies I have had experience with in the past.

  • ActionScript 1,2 & 3
  • JavaScript (jQuery, Mootools & AJAX)
  • The Google Widget Toolkit (i.e. publishing Java to Javascript)
  • ANT / NANT Tasks & Scripts
  • Java
  • MXML & FXG
  • HTML & CSS
  • C#
  • Very Capable with Regular Expressions
  • XSLT

In my main line of work, this is the software I use constantly and am very fluent in.

  • Flash 5 – CS5
  • Eclipse 1 – 3
  • Flex 1 – 4
  • Photoshop 4 – CS5
  • Illustrator 9 – CS5

As a curious chap, I’ve also spent a lot of time playing around in related computer fields, here’s the software I’ve spent a decent amount of time in.

  • Unity 3D 3
  • Maya 2009 – 2010
  • Cinema 4D
  • Mudbox 2010
  • Premiere Pro 6 – CS5
  • After Effects 6 – CS5