Feb 2023 – Aug 2023 · 6 mos · Remote

Apr 2021 – Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Aug 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Oct 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

Aug 2018 – Aug 2020 · 2 yrs

Aug 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 8 mos

Apr 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 11 mos

• Alongside my long-running tech interview and news podcast: Tech Lounge (formerly Chinchilla Squeaks) and popular YouTube channel covering technical and creative topics I have written for several outlets, including:
• Cult of Mac
• DZone
• The Next Web
• Ieee Spectrum

Apr 2014 – Present · 11 yrs 11 mos · Global

• Freelance technical writing, blogging, video making, and developer relations.
• Most recent clients:
• Aspect, EKLine, Docu, adoc Studio, Bacalhau.
• See current client list here - https://chrischinchilla.com/clients/

Aug 2016 – Mar 2017 · 7 mos · Berlin Metropolitan Area

• Contentful is a content management developer platform with an API at its core and I was responsible for documenting how people can use the platform in their projects.

Feb 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos · Berlin Metropolitan Area

• As Crate.io's Developer Advocate based in Europe I promoted a public presence for the Crate Open Source Software and interacted with the developer community and partners who have integrated with it.
• This included organising meetups and events, documentation, helping developers with implementation and much more.

Apr 2014 – Sep 2016 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• In this part-time role I was responsible for SitePoint's mobile channel. SitePoint is a global resource site for Developers and Designers that ranks highly on Alexis and has weekly traffic of about 1.5 million page views. My role involved commissioning and editing articles, engaging our community and creating strategy based on trends in our readership. As part of editing articles I have to understand, test and streamline code in a variety of languages such as Swift, Java and JavaScript.

Mar 2014 – Jul 2014 · 4 mos · Greater Melbourne Area

• This was a short term contract role for Sydney based Drupal consultants, This Little Duck. My responsibility during the contract was managing the maintenance and redevelopment of the Australian Broadcasting Corporations 'Triple JJJ Unearthed' website. The website is a very popular site for bands create profile pages, upload music and to take part in competitions. During the project I liaised with the ABC project manager, gathering requirements and undertaking coding and testing.

Dec 2013 – Mar 2014 · 3 mos · Melbourne Area, Australia

• During this short term contract I helped this popular Australian Publisher during the launch of their new weekly newspaper. This involved migrating their current sites from Drupal 6 to 7 and integrating their customised CiviCRM installation that handled subscriptions and deliveries.

Jul 2013 – Oct 2013 · 3 mos · Greater Melbourne Area

• (Moat Media merged with Go1, so this was one and the same role as below.)
• Founded in Brisbane, GO1 is one of Australia's premier Drupal web design and development agencies.
• My role involves implementation, training, promotion and advocacy of our products and services as well as within the wider Drupal community.
• Our services include Drupal development and support, CRM (CiviCRM and Salesforce) Implementations and eLearning solutions.
• I have a particular focus in the NFP, Community and Education sectors and am the CRM business development manager for these sectors as well as the state of Victoria.

Apr 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 3 mos · Abbotsford

• Moat Media was a small web development business that specialises in Drupal development. My role includes discussing projects with clients, analysing their requirements, helping create business and user scope and criteria for the project. I organise tasks, timelines, testing and internal operations for our development team and keep our clients up to date with progress.
• In July 2013, Moat Media merged with Go1. So, moved to a new role above.

Feb 2011 – Jul 2011 · 5 mos · Melbourne, Australia

• This was a contract position taking the place of someone on long term service leave. The role involved online / social media strategy and policy, managing the online team and budget. I managed and consulting on internal and external online projects, including migrating the current site into a Drupal installation.

Dec 2009 – Apr 2012 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• I acquired this small Melbourne publisher that had been established for four years. It produced books based around Vegetarianism, Veganism, travel and politics. As well as producing the books I handled marketing, supply chain concerns, the web site and more. After a couple of years running it as a part time job when we were one of the first Australian publishers to create eBooks and mobile apps, I decided to largely fold the business.

Sep 2008 – Nov 2013 · 5 yrs 2 mos · Greater Melbourne Area

• Green Renters is a small but internationally recognised non-profit that provides sustainability education and advocacy for people living in rental properties, we do this through workshops, special projects and a busy website. My role includes handling marketing, volunteer management, our business systems (including website, CRM and Project management tools), board and governance issues, accounting and budgeting and project management.

Jul 2008 – Dec 2009 · 1 yr 5 mos

• My role with this large Environmental park was to maintain the current website, responding to update requests. A long-term aim of the role was to redevelop the old (messy and archaic) site, migrating it to a dynamic CMS (Drupal) based system with an open source CRM bolted on. I also helped the site achieve several other aims including online payments and registrations, social network integration and community forums.

Apr 2008 – Nov 2008 · 7 mos

• My role with this small not for profit technology organisation involved being highly flexible and taking on many projects and tasks including : Administering and maintain a Moodle eLearning system, Maintaining the department’s Wiki, Delivering a talk on the future of Technology in learning to a conference in Brisbane, creating and maintaining the departmental website and online resources, Creating and editing course materials, research into birding the gap into Indigenous eLearning, delivering training sessions in Industry standard software packages (Microsoft, Adobe, Apple and Open Source), visiting clients, consulting, quote writing and departmental admin.

Nov 2007 – Apr 2010 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• My role with this organisation involved developing multimedia rich ecommerce sites as part of a development team, researching and utilising the latest cutting edge technologies and development frameworks. Using collaborative processes and systems such as SVN, Wireframes, ticketing, software lifecycles, regular meetings, scoping and liaising with clients, I was lead developer on several projects.

May 2003 – Jul 2006 · 3 yrs 2 mos

• Guitarist,songwriter,part time manager, tour manager and crazy stage antics.

Jan 2001 – Jan 2003 · 2 yrs

• Setting up and maintaining Mac network, software installation, budgeting, advice and support.