With more than 30 years of experience creating website and database solutions, I have witnessed the incredible growth of the web and evolved alongside it. I am a full-stack developer, possessing the skills and experience to deliver end-to-end web solutions.
I am a detail-oriented individual with a passion for people and information management. My longevity in the web development space stems from an insatiable curiosity and desire to learn. In this ever-evolving field, there's always a new opportunity to broaden my knowledge.
My diverse interests and experience in photography, audio, and video work are assets in web development. Websites today are multimedia endeavours, and my additional skills allow me to see beyond just the text on a screen.
In recent years, I've focused on creating and providing custom content management systems. Yet, I have extensive experience with various CMS solutions and web publishing platforms such as WordPress, Drupal, Shopify, and Squarespace. I easily adapt to new technologies, using whatever tools are available to deliver effective solutions.
I pride myself on my ability to work well with individuals from all backgrounds and across multiple business units. I excel at gathering information from and managing expectations of stakeholders at all stages of a project. I believe in creating simple, intuitive systems that assist rather than confuse the end user.
At Programmable Soda we create custom content management systems using PHP, Laravel, MySQL, TailwindCSS, Livewire, and AlpineJS.
The creation of our custom CMS means our clients only need see what they require for each section or content type for their site. We also provide methods allowing site administrators to grant their staff permissions-based access to maintain sections of their sites.
Because of the ease of administration, once launched, most of our sites are fully maintained by the clients; many of whom we don't hear from until updates or new features are required.
We work across many sites, however, below are examples where I have personally completed over 90% of the work on the sites:
Inglis is Australia's largest thoroughbred auction house. I have worked with them for over 15 years across the build and management of their site and servers hosted with AWS. The site sees large volumes of visitors during auctions and has also had to deal with the occasional attempts by third parties to hack and hinder its operations.
The site consists of two base server instances, the public-facing web server and a secondary private data-crunching server. The "web processor" instance ingests data and where appropriate creates a static file cache for many of the pages which rely on large database queries. This model allows us to reduce processing time and to rapidly scale the public server as increased capacity is required.
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Feel Good Ink is a digital greeting card company addtionally allowing purchases to include prepaid gift cards and physical gifts, with the added bonus of donating a portion of your purchase to a charity of your choice.
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The AFL Coaches Association manages the interests of senior coaches with regard to their involvement and interaction with the Australian Football League. They also present their own set of annual awards such as AFLCA Player of the Year and AFLCA Coach of the Year.
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AustralianFootball.com is a passion project started by Adam Cardosi while I was at Slattery Media. Adam came in over 10 years ago with a massive single spreadsheet and I have taken that data and created a data-warehouse which has continued to grow exponentially as Adam scoops up more historical and current data with the help of a community of like-minded individuals.
Australian Football prides itself on being the most complete history of the sport, including National, State, and local codes.
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St Kilda Ferry is a commuter and event-based travel service in Melbourne. Members of the public can pre-book online.
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Initially joined Optus as a Call Centre Operator with the full intention of moving to a web team when Optus began internet operations.
Marsh Monster Mash was a community-run event providing a Halloween event to the people of Bacchus Marsh, Victoria. Money raised through the event was donated to a charity selected by the community.
Heartfelt is a volunteer organisation of professional photographers from all over Australia dedicated to giving the gift of photographic memories to families that have experienced stillbirths, premature births, or have children with serious and terminal illnesses.