This is me, I work on the Web.

If you’ve lived in Australia in the last 5 years, there’s a reasonably good chance my code has touched your life in some subtle way, but you’d never notice it.  The stuff I do for a living sits quietly in the background and helps to ensure things continue to tick over and make the world just that little bit better.

I started down the path of becoming an IT Geek by simple curiosity. In May/June of 1993 I saw this magazine, with the headline “Intel’s Rocket in a Socket: Pentium 60″ and “We review the 486 DX2/66″, and convinced mum to let me buy it.

My first computer (An Acer 486 DX4/100) I managed to ‘break’ within 20 minutes of having it all plugged in and running, much to the horror of my family. Nevertheless, I quickly learned how to reinstall DOS and Windows.

Access to the ‘net a few years later lead to my first involvement in helping to create the web. A joint project with a friend from School (Hi Phil!), complete with Liberal use of Frames, Animated ‘Under Construction’ images, and even a little Javascript to do mouse-roll-overs for the graphic menu links. It took Macromedia coming out with Dreamweaver Ultradev for me to get into creating data-driven sites, and learning ASP. 

For the past five years I’ve been working for a large company here in Australia and I’ve had some pretty unique opportunities to be part of some fast-paced and exciting things. Things you probably wouldn’t find in too many other companies around the world.

In my own time, I help to run a small collection of community sites and projects under the ‘plebian.net’ banner/domain.

So, what’s your story? Do you work on the web? 

See more people who also work on the web.   (No, I don’t have a flickr account)