I have a degree in computing, and I made my first website waaay back in the day. I had an Apple Mac Plus when I was 6 years old (when I say I it was my dad’s but I spent countless hours playing Lode Runner!). My point is that I know computers and user interfaces.

I’ve had a few jobs, some crappy ones, some good ones, but all taught me something. Let’s have a look at the ones that matter.

Singletrack Magazine – mountain bike magazine and website.

I joined these guys in 2008 and worked there for just over 3 years. In that time I revamped the whole website from an ancient CMS and moved to WordPress. In that time the site went from around 10,000 visits a day to over 50,000 visits a day (and rising).

I also wrote a paywall system to allow enhanced site access to magazine subscribers and many times solved “can you just” problems – problems that were far greater than the sentence that described it suggested.

Of course I didn’t work alone in all this. I worked in a team, with many different ideas floating around; Office politics and everything that happens when more than one person has a stake in something. You learn a lot from this environment.

I left in June 2011. I could have stayed, but I fancied something different. So I moved on.

jimmyteens.tv – cancer support website.

I’ve been working on jimmyteens.tv (JTV) since 2005. It’s a cancer support website for young people and a non profit. I had cancer (I’m fine now) and during treatment I got involved with the project. I’ve been with them ever since, even while I was at Singletrack.

Since 2011 I’m working for JTV 3 days a week. It’s a great project, provides plenty of challenges and plenty of opportunities; including speaking at various conferences (Find Your Sense of Tumour, eyeforpharma SFE & Commercial Excellence Europe 2012).

JTV has a bright future, and I love working with the team at JTV.

Freelance

I’m also a freelance web designer and developer. I’ve worked on various sites and given plenty of advice.The web is a very quickly changing medium – new ideas, new code, new techniques fly by at a million miles per hour – I stay on top of it by constantly reading about it and experimenting with code and techniques, basically the web is my passion.

That’s me in a nutshell. Of course there’s so much more to me than that so get in touch, we’ll have a chat. (the site footer contains my contact info, it’s down there look).