Work Experience & Education

Built multiple single-page applications using jQuery

• jQuery
• JavaScript

Built a Quality Checking site for HTML emails, reducing quality control from 15 minutes to 30 seconds, while increasing what is checked from several elements in some parts of the code to 29 elements in every part of the code.

• Checks 29 different parts for compliance, via a mixture of jQuery and regex
• Represents the view of the email as it would look without images downloaded (with stylised alt text)
• Represents the view of the email as it would look on mobiles (automatically linking found dates and phone numbers) including basic testing for responsiveness
• Tests accessibility, including colour contrast, table roles, meta information, alt image tags

Built a Text Editor for HTML emails (WYSIWYG)

• Edits any HTML email without stuffing up the code (as is achieved by Web-focused editors)
• Automatically highlights hidden characters like non-breaking spaces, tabs, spaces, and special characters (via toggle button)
• Automatically fixes unstylised dates, phone numbers and ABNs (that can be misconstrued as phone numbers)
• Fully WYSIWYG so non-technical people can edit emails

Created a way to build responsive datatables in emails, and re-form them as much higher quality cards

Learned the best policies are those pursued with the head AND the heart, and thus the secret to most satisfying human experiences/communities. Also learned how the elite use psychology - on 'both' sides of politics - to push policies through!

• EQ (Emotional Intelligence)
• Psychology

Engineered the migration of their 100,000+ record database to a system that is poised to save $50,000/yr in productivity Problem Solving

Redesigned a 22 step process to discover party responses to a single 1-step, 1 page overview, with basic informal user research.

• Problem Solving
• I went through some lo-fi wireframes with my boss before building it in Joomla Prototyping
• Needed a responsive jQuery table, and custom jQuery jQuery
• We each collectively asked a few people we knew about what type of election resources they wanted User Research

Designed an 'Action' platform prototype where users could email their state's members of parliament. This was my first informal taste of Agile development.

• Prototyping
• Joomla CMS
• Agile project management

Project managed the development of the 'Action' site into a more capable system, using Postmark for email, Google Maps API for ease of address finding, and easy campaign building in the back-end. Developed a backlog in Excel, and slowly iterated (without even a permanent part-timer, this was slow!)

• Agile project management
• I advised and updated the UI directly UI

People started asking me to do websites for them; I obliged

• 15+ Joomla websites Joomla CMS
• Developed bespoke website for Red Cup Cafe; Photoshop, UI, PHP —see graphic design portfolio
• Entreprenuership

I started looking for other work when I found I wasn't great at sales & networking

Apart from administration and tech support, I redeveloped their website of several hundred articles across about a dozen issues

• Joomla CMS
• Information Architecture

Organised a week-long 100+ strong conference at La Trobe Uni; Event Management