Portfolio

Contacting me

If you’d like to know more about any of the information below, or would like to get in touch with me about working with you, please email me and I’ll respond as soon as I can. I’m available for small freelance projects, speaking and writing at the moment.

At various times, I’ve received nuisance cold-calls from recruiters (I don’t publish a phone number because I prefer email communications first and foremost), and my patience has finally faltered, so I no longer deal with agencies.

Current employment

At the moment, I’m a front-end developer for Nature Publishing Group.

Glow logo Until recently, I worked full-time for the BBC as a developer on the open-source JavaScript library Glow. In the past, I’ve worked on reusable image galleries and uploader projects, as well as programme support sites.

Before working at the BBC, I was a new media developer at Volume; a creative agency in Wokingham. I was able to work on a range of interactive websites, CD-ROMs and B2B campaigns for a range of large clients, such as BOC, Zebra, Sage and Dell. I was also Volume’s accessibility specialist, and regularly produced audit reports and consulted on how to create more usable web applications. (Please note that if you visit Volume’s website and it consists of a confusing, unusable, inaccessible, un-deep-linkable, 3D environment – I promise that it wasn’t like that when I left in 2007 and I would never condone such an awful website.)

I have also previously been an editor for Digital Web Magazine, and continue to be an administrator for microformats.org.

My full CV and previous experience can be found on my LinkedIn profile, along with recommendations from past colleagues.

Freelance

Although I am currently employed full-time, I can still offer some web development services. I offer client-side development (HTML/CSS/JS) and consultation on accessibility. I am particularly interested in working with designers who need an expert to collaborate with for their front-end implementation.

Latest project: Visual design for jQuery QUnit project. I redesigned and implemented the CSS for their test results output page to have a more effective layout and design for our own work on Glow, but contributed the designs back to the project via GitHub which were accepted and now used as the default design for all QUnit result pages.

Articles

As well as being an editor for Digital Web Magazine, I also enjoy writing my own pieces. Here’s a selection of popular posts:

Further articles on my blog, featuring a selection of topics including microformats, women in technology and web development in general.

Speaking and events

Below are details of events I’ve spoken at and those that I’ve organised.

  • Speaker: Pro bun-fighting – London Web Standards, London, UK – March 2010
  • Speaker: Microformats: The State of Play – Semantic Camp, London, UK – February 2008
  • Speaker: Microformats panel (The Growth and Evolution of Microformats) – SXSWi, Austin, Texas – March 2007
  • Speaker: Introduction to microformats – BarCamp, London – September 2007
  • Speaker: 20×2 (Where am I?) – Madame Jojo’s, London, UK – November 2006
  • Organiser: Microformats vEvent – Paid-for event with speakers Tom Morris and Dan Brickley – May 2008
  • Organiser: Microformats vEvent – free social event – September 2006
  • Invited member of advisory panel: d.Construct 2007