Projects

Selected projects that I have worked on over the last few years. These range from big website projects where I was part of a team of up to 30 people, to small boutique projects that I have been solely responsible for.

Project: Social voting with Chopsumi

Chopsumi.com is a new online tool for easily organising your friends and improving your social life. The problem that Chopsumi solves is pinning down as many of your friends as possible to a specific date and location for your event. Previously this was achieved via long email discussions and a lot of work on by [...]

Also posted in 2012, Featured, product management, UX/Design | | Leave a comment

Project: MyCareer.com.au 1024px redesign

The MyCareer.com.au web site was originally built when 800×600 was the most common browser size. By December 2006, an expansion of the site to a wider aspect was needed. The business case was predominantly to cater for standardised ad sizes, specifically a Leaderboard in the header area and 300px columns to suit medium-rectangle sizes. However [...]

Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites | | Leave a comment

House swap travel sites

The client brief for this House Swap Holidays was for it to feel Australian but not overly ‘ocker’ or stereotypical/cringeworthy. Virgin Blue was cited as a good starting point – a little bit cheeky but ‘modern’.

Also posted in 2009, Code, Featured, web sites | | Leave a comment

Environmental NGO online strategy

CRACYP is an Ecuadorean Environmental NGO that acts as an umbrella organisation for many community development projects. Their most successful venture so far in is landing a contract with BodyShop to supply organic industrial alcohol for perfume production. I originally answered a call to help CRACYP out with their SEO strategy, however it soon became [...]

Also posted in 2009, consulting | | Leave a comment

smh.com.au redesign 2007

The revamp of the smh.com.au was a task that the Fairfax Media Creative Services Unit was asked to undertake in mid 2007.

Also posted in 2007, CSS, web sites | | Leave a comment

Growing an executive employment site by 10x

The Big Chair is was an executive employment site that was launched in April 2007, it’s launch was leveraged of the existing generalist jobs site MyCareer.com.au.

Also posted in 2007, 2008, product management | | Leave a comment

Website partnership relationship management or trying to be upbeat when you have to say ‘no’

As Product Manager forĀ  jobsinretail.com.au I was the key Fairfax Media representative in this partnership with Westfield.

Also posted in 2007, 2008, product management | | Leave a comment

The perils and pitfalls of an employment classified locations structure

In late 2007 Fairfax Media merged with Rural Press, creating a much more national footprint for Fairfax’s offerings. As Product Manager on the MyCareer locations project, I needed to negotiate a re-categorisation of the location search criteria on mycareer.com.au and liaise with the Rural Press team to create a well integrated job search solution for [...]

Also posted in 2007, product management | | Leave a comment

Merging print and online businesses

In June 2008, I was appointed to a difficult and fast paced project which had been given the personal go ahead by the Fairfax Media CEO. The project was a merging of the online and print employment classifieds offering in NSW. This necessary step in managing the transition of the customer base from print to [...]

Also posted in 2008, product management | | Leave a comment

Good Food Guides 2011

The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age Good Food Guides are the Michelin Guides of Australia. If you are into food then you have these on your shelf and consult them regularly. If you work in the restaurant industry then you await their publication each year with a sense of foreboding or giddy hope that [...]

Also posted in 2010, Code, CSS, Featured, web sites | | Leave a comment