Portfolio

I worked as a full-time Web Developer for Premier Media Group from September 4, 2007, until August 6, 2008. During this time I worked on a variety of projects culminating in the coordination of the Mind & Soul project.

I formed a significant part of the development team and created the majority of the XSLT, XHTML and CSS behind the Premier Media Group websites. I also coded a large number of C# pages and had an influence on the design decisions. Roald Sinissaar was the lead designer on these projects.

A sophisticated artist-portfolio, Deborah Jane is the homepage for a talented young artist living in Aberystwyth, Wales. It contains all of the elements of an artist's portfolio including the Artists Statement and example work from three different artistic mediums. The page was enjoyable to design as it was an opportunity to explore typographic techniques and combine these with delightfully unique source images.

On the technical side: I used my small PHP class QuickSite in conjunction with mod_rewrite to create a clean http interface that makes sense to search engines. The simple PHP inclusion system caches dynamically generated HTML pages to generate a static website on-the-fly (processing internal links and images). This all happens incredibly fast and produces an efficient user interface.

The Newnham College JCR website acts as a portal to every undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge. Ben Blume and I designed and developed the Drupal-based system that allows the JCR committee members to edit pages using their CRSid.

One World Week 2009 aimed to burst the Cambridge bubble with an array of activities. I designed a simple homepage to inform people about One World Week and allow them to contact the event organisers.

The Strength Level Calculator is an interesting attempt to form a continuous distribution that represents the majority of individuals on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being untrained and 5 elite.

My central idea is that as your bodyweight affects your health, your strength level should be consistently high across all the main compound exercises. For a normal body type, a strength level of three indicates that you are strong and athletic. If the levels vary across the exercises it is a bad indicator: young lifters often overdevelop their chests without thought to their back or legs.