
Creative Developer
Canberra Area, Australia

Creative Developer
Canberra Area, Australia
I have 18 years experience in digital media production, publishing (online and print), website development, online advertising, hosting and online presence/brand building.
Very close working relationship with Adobe (Macromedia/Allaire) that has spanned over a decade. Open Source advocate and evangelist.
Roles cover - web developer, online advertising, technical writer, journalist, photo-journalist, picture-desk editor, brand design, designer, desktop publishing, photographic sub-editor, virtual world builder, music producer, content producer, pre-press production, hi-resolution scanning and digital manipulation for print-media.
Have contributed photographs and digital images, designs, artwork and/or editorial content to - Reuters, AP, AFP, News Interactive, The Fairfax Group, International Herald Tribune, Canberra Times, .net magazine, Internet & Comms Today, Internet Works, Future Publishing, FutureNet, Grey Worldwide, Computer Arts magazine, Edge magazine, Country Life to name but a few.
Over 2000+ published photographs - several in newspapers and magazines around the world. Multiple front-page appearances and winner of 2 national photographic awards.
Some of the amazing people I have photographed whilst on the job include Micheal Palin, Joey Ramone, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Nicholas Negroponte, John Gage, Gordon Brown, Arthur Scargill, Kylie Minouge, The Bee Gees, Cyndi Lauper, Perry Farrell, Peter Garrett, Nelson Mandela.
Born in Liverpool, England - currently living in Australia's capital, Canberra.
Adobe UI/Tools specialist, Photoshop Master, Certified Flex developer, Graphic design (CS4), LAMP, PHP, Usability Centered Design skills, UCD facilitator, micro-architectures, frameworks, SAAS
Technology and technical exposure: J2EE, RPC, Offline apps, Mobile apps, OO, MXML, XML, JSON, PHP, CSS, XHTML, JAVASCRIPT, SPARQL, RDF, FXG, SWF, AMFphp, AMF, streaming video/audio, online collaboration