Aug 2023 – Jun 2024 · 10 mos · Remote

Sep 2020 – Dec 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

• Led training strategy so engineers can test their web and React/ React Native components as early as possible in development process.
• Conducted regular user experience and accessibility reviews from design stage to production stage of components, screens and flows.
• Developed automated testing tools for pre-production web properties, and browser plugins for visual testing by less technical staff.
• Mentored and guided less experienced members of the team on technical aspects of digital accessibility
• Worked with colleagues to assist setting up a Champions Network and regular training on Diversity and Inclusion.
• Liaised with stake-holders around the business to boost the profile of the accessibility work and demonstrate its value.

Oct 2018 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

• Clients include Wix, Coil, PrinceXML, 51degrees, Smashing Magazine, and a number of US-based B2B companies.

May 2017 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

• Preparing an open-source project for release (stylable.io): consulting on APIs to ensure compliance with spirit of web standards, preparing documentation and demos; leading soft launch (currently beta status); speaking about it in conference talks; running social media campaign. (See recommendation from Arnon Kehat.)
• Also consulting on growing Wix Engineering as a developer brand. (See recommendation from Maya Alon.)

Jun 2008 – Feb 2016 · 7 yrs 8 mos

• Wrote and presented over 100 conference talks across Asia, USA, Europe, Africa, Australia. (See recommendations from Karin Greve-Isdahl and Henrik Fuller.)
• Worked to improve the Web better by making better browsers and better specifications. Contributed to the HTML5 specification. Invented and agitated for responsive images (<picture>, <img srcset> etc) to be added to the specifications. It's now available in all modern browsers. Co-authored "Introducing HTML5", the first book on the subject (New Riders).

Jan 2008 – Mar 2017 · 9 yrs 2 mos

• Assisted the CTO (who worked 2 days a week) to represent the organisation in key markets such as India, Indonesia, Taiwan, South Africa, USA by presenting at technical conferences, in press conferences and TV interviews. (See recommendation from Lars Boilesen, CEO Opera Software.)
• Represented the company on standards bodies and other industry organisations.
• Brand development and messaging (blogs, press releases, product descriptions)
• Sat on product boards to advise on technical strategy and features.
• Liaised with counterparts in other browsers, and web developers through conferences, personal contacts and social media.

Jan 2007 – May 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Setting up www.sra.org.uk, defining web site's mark-up, joint responsibility for look and feel, editorial policies. Training and co-managing other content editors.

Jun 2004 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Editing content, IA, UX and ensuring as good markup as possible with the world's worst CMS.

Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 · 1 yr · Enschede Area, Netherlands (working remotely)

• Commissioning and editing daily paid-for Web development content. Ensuring a constant pipeline of daily articles. Writing the weekly sales/ news email. Assisting with site conversion from table layout to valid XHTML and CSS.

Jan 2000 – Jan 2003 · 3 yrs · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

• defining strategy for and managing the team commissioning and editing books on Microsoft technologies
• set up 'glasshaus', a new publishing imprint for web professionals.

Jan 1996 – Jan 2000 · 4 yrs · Bangkok, Bangkok City, Thailand

• one of team of two setting up a new English language teching centre in a prestigious old Bangkok school.
• defined and monitored syllabus for kindergarten and primary-aged children, ensuring compliance with Thai Education Ministry's requirements.
• observation and training of new teachers.
• Saturday tutor to Siraphatchara Sophatcharamani, Princess Soamsawali's adopted daughter

Jan 1993 – Jan 1996 · 3 yrs · The world

• Independent travel around Turkey (supporting myself as a tarot card reader and musician), India (including work as a Bollywood movie extra and volunteer pharmacist in Kolkata), Bangladesh, Thailand, Malaysia and Russia.

Jan 1993 – Jan 1993 · 0 mo · Istanbul, Istanbul, Türkiye

• English teacher at Yeni Ufuklar Koleji, a school for gifted children.

Jan 1988 – Jan 1993 · 5 yrs · Redditch, UK

• VAX COBOL, FORTRAN, DCL Programmer for system used nationwide by Austin Rover car dealers to sell vehicles. Gathering customer business requirements, turning them into specifications for programmers, testing, deploying and supporting overnight batch jobs to generate feeds for other systems and BACS tapes for clearing banks.