REA Group (2021-Present)

Senior UI Engineer (REAx)

Developing Property.com.au: a resilient React + GraphQL front-end application supported by a GraphQL Node.js experience API.

As one of the founding developers in the REAx team, I played a pivotal role in shaping the codebase and development practices, enabling us to launch to market just eight months after forming. This included defining the project structure, accessibility direction, and establishing templates and workflows in Git and Jira.

I've led several major initiatives, including the design and deployment of a new Search Experience - a project with the critical requirement of maintaining and improving SEO rankings.

I'm a regular contributor to team knowledge-sharing sessions and actively mentor and support other developers.

Beyond my immediate team, I serve as a co-admin for the UI Guild, lead workshops at our annual Tech Kickoff, and participate in recruitment through the Grad Open Home program. I'm also part of the Hackdays crew, responsible for organising and running company-wide hackathons.

Senior UI Engineer / Lead Developer Secondment (Construct Kit)

Seconded to the Construct Kit platform team in late 2024 - REA's design system and component library powering over 100 applications.

Key responsibilities included mentoring and supporting less-senior developers to deliver work efficiently and to standard.

I enabled and supported the Privacy Kit team by creating space within Construct Kit for their living docs and establishing maintenance processes.

Led an npm package renaming initiative across Construct Kit, coordinating with more than 10 teams and federating code changes into over five critical codebases.

Alinta Energy (2021)

Senior Front End Developer

Contributed to the enCORE project, Alinta Energy's core system transformation program.

As part of this team, my primary responsibility was upgrading a legacy AngularJS application to Angular 10+, improving maintainability and aligning with modern front-end standards.

carsales (2017-2021)

Senior Front End Developer

Initially part of the Inchcape team, responsible for building Subaru's Build and Buy online product in React and later developing the replatform of subaru.com.au.

Transitioned to the Dealer team to work on Autogate - carsales' prospect and inventory management system - focusing on developing Angular applications and enhancing our internal front-end framework and component library, Seamless.

Co-authored multiple cross-team initiatives, including the Hackathon Portal (used to run carsales Hackathon events), the carsales careers website, and an internal Tech Radar. Served as co-organiser of the Front End Developer Guild, a monthly internal forum featuring presentations and talks to share front-end knowledge.

Tribal Worldwide Melbourne (2014-2017)

Senior Front End Developer

Over the course of my role as Senior Front End Developer I created countless landing pages and websites. My major contribution however, was the complete overhaul and implementation of modern front end development workflows. This enabled greater automation and rapid development leveraging reusable components across the client base.

Major clients included Porsche, Maxwell & Williams, Momentum Energy, DefenceCare and Westpac.

Examples of work:

• momentumenergy.com.au
• maxwellandwilliams.com.au
• defencecare.org.au/fightingnewenemies/

JWT Melbourne (2013-2014)

Front End Developer

I began at JWT Melbourne in March 2013. My first project was for Miele - a heavily customised WordPress website using every feature under the sun. It had an events manager and payment gateway with single page checkout process, which I later upgraded to enable shopping cart functionality.

During my time at JWT I've performed quite a few internal projects for the digital team. I came onboard as a front end developer but also performed wireframing, user journey mapping, WordPress development, server administration, and tech validation.

I have worked on a number of projects for larger clients such as Melbourne Writers Festival, TAC, Miele, RAC, Shape Up Australia, Vegemite and Ford.

Examples of work:

• mwf.com.au
• saferpplaters.com.au
• Monster-fy iOS App
• Monster-fy Android App

tkm9 (2012)

Web Developer

My time at tkm9 began with a WordPress build. This project was for Greenbank Environmental and was a custom WordPress website making use of custom posts, taxonomy, navigation and two custom calculators.

The majority of work was backend development geared towards capturing user data, logic for drawing prizes, uptime management and receiving data from experientials and then sending results as EDMs or posting to facebook etc. Most of this development was custom built using the CodeIgniter MVC framework.

My role at tkm9 allowed me to work alongside other developers to interact with and implement a range of technologies such as augmented reality applications, iPad applications and also a deep dive into the Facebook Graph Api.

tkm9 enabled me to to work with some major clients such including TAC, Collingwood Football Club, Sportsgirl, GPT, Kia and Fanta.

Intrepid Travel (2011)

Front End Developer

I was contracted as a Front End Developer to Intrepid Travel for 6 months.

Intrepid were in the process of a massive redesign and were looking to migrate their entire website across to the open source content management system Drupal. I was responsive for developing the front end and also supported the marketing team with some design.

Web Force Five (2010)

Front End Developer

I worked for 3 months at Web Force Five in the closing quarter of 2010.

I came on board to design the administrative area for their propriety content management system and to design client websites. I was responsible for meeting with clients to gather requirements and write the brief for upcoming projects.

ROI.com.au (2008 - 2010)

Senior Web Designer

I began at ROI.com.au as a Junior Web Designer in 2008. At first I was updating content and providing fixes for existing websites, but I quickly began designing and developing websites from the concept through to their implementation.

In my time at ROI.com.au I completed in excess of 30 websites and Landing Pages. For most of these projects I was responsible for the Design, Development, Project Management and served as the direct contact with the client, often meeting with them to best plan a solution for their business. Typically these sites would be built using Joomla or WordPress.

As well as developing client specific websites, I helped conceptualise, design and solely developed a new Real Estate marketing approach. Initially starting with the selling of 'Feature Properties' - a series small single page websites aimed to promote an individual property by usage of clean, concise information and high quality photos. For one client in particular, this quickly grew into a website which showcased all of these properties placed on a satellite view of the Mornington Peninsula.

The next phase was a project called 'Lifestyle Property.' A real estate website where properties were categorised by their 'lifestyle' type, eg: Rural, Coastal and Wineries. This website was again solely designed and developed by myself and aimed to further push the simple idea of the Feature Properties.

I continually progressed at ROI.com.au until I eventually was promoted to a Senior Web Designer and was responsible for managing a small team of 3 designers/devlopers. During my time at ROI.com.au we had more than doubled in size and had been listed in the BRW Fast Starters (2009) and SmartCompany (2009).