About

At the risk of sounding repetitive with my profile to the right, I am a Senior Solutions Consultant at Ignia in Perth, Western Australia. I’ve specialised in SharePoint for the last 4 years, working on both public facing internet sites and company intranets in WSS, MOSS, SPF and SPS.

Prior to my introduction to SharePoint I worked in government, specialising initially in Coldfusion, but more prominently in VB.NET for Winforms applications and later ASP.NET.  I’ve since made the switch to C# for SharePoint development.

I studied a double degree at Curtin University in Western Australia which included a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) and Bachelor of Business Administration. I’ve achieved a number of Microsoft based certifications including Windows-based Client Development, WSS Configuring and Application Development, MOSS Configuring and Designing and Developing Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Applications.

My current interests lie in creating public facing internet sites on the SharePoint platform, leveraging client-side technologies such as jQuery and Knockout to provide rich interactive user experiences. I have a strong interest in SharePoint best practices from both an administrative and development perspective and a personal interest in both search and search engine optimisation.

Recent sites worked on include the Migration Portal and the Career Centre Portal – both launched by the Minister for Training and Workforce Development in 2011. I’ve also previously been involved in new development and maintenance of one of SharePoint’s initial showcase sites – westernaustralia.com.