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Volunteer Experience

  • Chief Instructor, North Bondi SLSC

    Surf LifeSaving Australia

    - 2 years 1 month

    Disaster and Humanitarian Relief

    Managed the education team for the largest Surf Club membership in Australia, North Bondi.

    Responsibilities included

    Ensuring the proficiency of 500+ active surf lifesavers
    Recruiting new members to the club
    Managing the training of more than a hundred new "Bronze Medallion" life savers each year
    Managing the training of higher awards and certificates

    A team of more than a dozen volunteer educators report to the Chief Instructor

Publications

  • Smashing Book 5: Real-Life Responsive Web Design

    Smashing Magazine

    (Various Authors, I co-wrote the chapter on offline technologies )

    Responsive design is a default these days, but we are all still figuring out just the right process and techniques to better craft responsive websites. That’s why we created a new book — to gather practical techniques and strategies from people who have learned how to get things done right, in actual projects with actual real-world challenges.
    Just like all of our Smashing Books, the book isn’t concerned with trends or…

    (Various Authors, I co-wrote the chapter on offline technologies )

    Responsive design is a default these days, but we are all still figuring out just the right process and techniques to better craft responsive websites. That’s why we created a new book — to gather practical techniques and strategies from people who have learned how to get things done right, in actual projects with actual real-world challenges.
    Just like all of our Smashing Books, the book isn’t concerned with trends or short-lived workarounds. It focuses on the actual design process — the why of the decisions we make as we craft websites. Think of it as a reliable playbook for issues that keep popping up in every responsive project — just the playbook you need to master all the tricky facets and hurdles of responsive design.

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  • Developing with Web Standards

    New Riders

    The companion to Jeffrey Zeldman's Designing with Web Standards, this comprehensive introduction to Web Technology and best practice is used at Schools and Universities around the world, and highly regarded by some of the most experienced in the industry.

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  • Microformats: empowering your markup for Web 2.0

    Apress

    The first book on Microformats, and technology for adding richer semantics to web documents using standard HTML.

    See publication

Honors & Awards

  • NSW Education Officer of the Year

    Surf LifeSaving NSW

    Awarded to one person involved in Education for Surf LifeSaving NSW

  • NSW State Champions - LifeSaving Champion Patrol

    Surf LifeSaving NSW

    Managed, lead and competed in the North Bondi Champion Patrol team.

    Champion Patrol is a competition that assesses knowledge and competence in a broad range of skills associated with Surf LifeSaving.

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