I've spent most of my lifetime creating on the web. The last 15 years or so has mostly been working with WordPress in agency environments. I'm also a designer and a teacher.

WordPress has been my primary tool for creating client sites. I've also made contributions back to the community here and there through plugin & theme development.

Beyond that I'm a generalist and problem solver, adept at getting developers unblocked.

• Web Developer (Jan 2026 - Present)
  Freelance · Remote
• Senior Developer & WordPress Team Lead at Plank (Jul 2018 - Oct 2025)
  Full-time · Hybrid

  Lead WordPress practice at Plank. Introduced coding standards, ci/cd & hybrid rest-api/block themes. Contributed to RFPs and client pitches.

• Web Developer at Objective Subject (Apr 2011 - Feb 2018)
  Contract · Remote

  Highlights: Katie Couric Show, Viacom Blog, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont Colleges Library, WorldStrides

• Web Engineer at 10up (Feb 2014 - Aug 2014)
  Full-time · Remote

  Hired to work on the Maine Today Media project, a suite of interconnected sites including the Portland Press Herald.

• Mathematics Teacher at The Sele School (Jan 2010 - Dec 2010)
  Full-time · On-site

  Mathematics Year 7-Year 11 + supply teaching

• Web Designer (Sep 1999 - Dec 2009)
  Freelance
• Book Designer at Appletree Press (Aug 2008 - Nov 2008)
  Internship · On-site

  Part-time designing books

Technical

• CI/CD
• CSS
• Git
• HTML
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• PHP
• PHPCS
• React
• REST APIs
• System Integration
• Web Development
• Webpack
• WordPress

Business

• Blogging

Creative

• Adobe InDesign
• Adobe Photoshop
• Graphic Design

Interpersonal

• Teaching
• Technical Leadership

Other

• Grunt
• Gulp

• Ontario SPCA (Sep 2024 - Oct 2025)

  Highlight: Implemented custom rest api endpoints powered by two separate JSON and SOAP APIs for adoption listings.

• American Rivers (Nov 2022 - Oct 2025)
• Ford's Theatre (Apr 2022 - Oct 2025)

  Redevelopment of Ford's Website. Highlights: block/component driven layouts, custom Tessitura REST API integration for calendar & ticketing.

• The Canadian National Exhibition (Feb 2022 - Oct 2025)
• Blabbermouth (Feb 2020 - Feb 2022)

  Hybrid Laravel/WordPress site deployed on serverless infrastructure to scale based on traffic

• WDN Connect (Jul 2018 - Dec 2021)

  BuddyPress powered site for Women Donor's Network. Included integrated Guidestar API connections.

• Cineflix (Nov 2018 - Jan 2020)
• Claremont Graduate University (Mar 2015 - Feb 2018)

  Rearchitected CGU web presence, combining all schools under one umbrella. Custom API endpoints that could serve Angular apps and campus kiosks. Created modular layout system that allowed client customization via shortcodes. Design by Objective Subject.

• Claremont Colleges Library (2017 - 2018)
• Meredith Vieria Show website (Aug 2015 - Sep 2016)

  Second season, hosted on WordPress VIP. Design by Objective Subject, original season 1 code by 10up based on my work previously for KC Show.

• WorldStrides website (Jan 2015 - Jan 2016)

  Created WordPress website for the educational travel company. Included custom api endpoints powering mini Angular apps.

• Katie Couric Show website (Jun 2012 - Sep 2014)

  WordPress theme, html, css, javascript and devops (1st season Rackspace Managed, 2nd season WordPress VIP). Design by Objective Subject.

• Portland Press Herald (Feb 2014 - Aug 2014)

  Worked with a team at 10up to migrate the Portland Press Herald and additional properties to WordPress. Was one of the first WP projects hosted on Pantheon.

• Viacom Blog (Nov 2011 - Mar 2014)

  WordPress theme, html, css. Design by Objective Subject.

• Publication Nunavik website (Apr 2011 - Apr 2012)

  Multi-lingual (English, French, Inuktitut) WordPress site

• Objective Subject website (Feb 2012 - Mar 2012)

  Helping Objective Subject launch a new design for the website.

• Watson Adventures (Nov 2011 - Jan 2012)

  WordPress theme, html, css. Design by Objective Subject. Webby award winning.

• Nested Interest website (Oct 2011 - Dec 2011)

  WordPress theme, html, css (not including financial analysis tool). Design by Objective Subject.

• Hogan Lovells US Careers website (May 2011 - Sep 2011)

  WordPress theme, html, css. Design by Objective Subject.

• People Make Parks (Apr 2011 - Sep 2011)

  WordPress theme, html and css. Design by Objective Subject.

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Other publications

• Certificate of Qualification — Ontario College of Teachers (Jul 2006)

• The University of Reading — Master of Arts (M.A.), Book Design (Oct 2006 - Sep 2007)

  Thesis: The Changing Online Newspaper

• Queen's University — Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.), Intermediate-Senior (Sep 2004 - Jun 2005)

  Computer Science, Mathematics

• Queen's University — Bachelor of Computing (BCmpH), Computer Science (Sep 2000 - May 2004)
  Activities & Societies: Golden Words (Co-Editor, Staff Writer, Web Monkey, Contributor)

• English (native)
• French (professional working)