Curriculum Vitae

Decided to have a change of pace. Working as a Freelance Contractor with various agencies mainly on WordPress sites but other project types considered. All contracts arranged through Linkedin.

Working as an Always Evolving™ WordPress Web Developer. Part of the Atomic Smash team who are a ‘WordPress Silver Agency Partner VIP’ and ‘Certified Platinum WooExpert’. Liaising with clients like Blooloop, Forrest Brown, Oxygen Freejumping, The Career Portal and many others.

Worked as a WordPress and WooCommerce Web Developer. Various tools I worked with: Cloudflare / Digital Ocean / SpinupWP / Nginx / MariaDB / Roots Bedrock / Composer / Bitbucket / Git / PHP, HTML, CSS/Sass, Node, Gulp, & JS.

Worked at WordPress Website Building & Management (WordPress / Genesis Framework). Also helped clients with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Social Media & Online Marketing. We offered Technical & Content Maintenance (WordPress Care Packages) as well as eCommerce Setup & Maintenance (Easy Digital Downloads, WooCommerce.)

Maintained 150+ computers and peripherals with various operating systems on 2 extensive campus networks. Continually researched, tested then implemented innovative options for robust file-sharing, backups, firewalls, routing and remote assistance. Had the great privilege of also being part of the Findhorn LIVE streaming crew. Worked as technician and cameraman on projects including conferences in the Universal Hall and TEDx Findhorn talks.

R&D Manager relating to web and associated services required for the day to day smooth running of the company and it’s worldwide associates. Highlights included (for various projects) Wiki linked with MindMaps and required cross subdomain SSO (Single Sign On). It was during 2010 that I researched the current CMS’s of the day and found, then fully embraced MODX. All work during this period was based on and utilised the modular nature of that software.

Business consulting with a large number of skill sets required for positions in Mpumalanga, principally in the Nelspruit district. Covering database management, computer networking, web design, eCommerce solutions and technical support for various operating systems and hardware. During this time I also volunteered with the Esperado Children’s Haven run by Sophia Jardim near Kaapmuiden.

Using the Open Source package Interchange I created a mall of online shops for the company and their affiliates. Rewrote the entire back-end in perl to enhance the User Experience for both customers and managers. This included creating fail-safe input methods for customers and managers with server side fallback capability (Javascript availability was not assumed). This was my second project working with eCommerce expert Hillary Corney and the website (now ESPNCricinfo) remains today: http://shop.espncricinfo.com — (formerly, shop.cricinfo.com)

Working with Hillary Corney we created the first real time eCommerce pay and download digital software solution in Europe. Built upon the Interchange eCommerce engine (then called MiniVend) we directly called Barclays Bank mainframe for credit card authorisation (which at the time was another first). This allowed customers worldwide instant access/download to ~15k digitised fonts from every major (and lesser known) vendor of the day. The website and company are still running: http://www.type.co.uk

FontWorks was the UK branch of the world renowned FontShop franchise. I managed the technical support team during this period to provide first class response to any and all typographic font sales and associated software licensing and technical issues. It was my great pleasure to build close ties with all the leading font foundries of the day including Adobe, Agfa, Bitstream, FontFont, Linotype, Monotype and many others.