About Me

I'm an artistic, imaginative, entrepreneurial & passionate person.

For as long as I can remember, drawing & sketching has been my greatest pleasure. My parents tell me I was communicating through drawing before I could talk properly.

As a very visual person, art has always captivated me, and by extension, design has been a huge part of my perception of the world.

Growing up around technologists, and during a time when computing was evolving rapidly, I quickly become interested in computers, software and in particular, user interface.

When I was 17, I could never have imagined that reading 'Learn HTML in 21 Days' would lead me to a career in Front End Web Development. But when I started to learn HTML in 2002, at the suggestion of a friend, I found an amazing world where art and technology intersected.

Web development allowed me to create artistic designs with a purpose; user interface and user experience is all about making things that work well, and look beautiful - and so, a new passion was born.

Shortly after that, I found the need for JavaScript - and I realised almost immediately; I'm gonna be a programmer and a designer.

Artwork

Art is a huge part of my life.

I post most of my artwork via Instagram.

The Manga

My aspiration in life has been to write, draw and publish my own manga. I started writing the story in 2003, since then it's been through many starts and stops, revisions, rewrites and frankly... excuses for me not to get it done.

When I realised it is approaching 20 years, I picked myself up and resolved to make it happen.

I am now actively drawing this project; Legends of Daaryssia.

Professional Profile

A highly imaginative, passionate and creative front end developer with design, project management and leadership experience. Innovative and artistic, with in-depth understanding of design concepts. A professional as well as an enthusiast. Commercially astute, with over a decade of combined commercial and non-commercial experience in designing, building and maintaining websites, taking pride in delivering high performance, responsive, semantically sound, SEO friendly and valid websites, with innovative features and intuitive user interfaces, using well written HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

Over the years I have honed my skills to become a specialist in Front End Performance and Responsive Web Design.

Dev Skills

I've been coding for 20 years; professionally for 11.

Additional Skills