Back in 2004 while I was in the process of moving apartments, someone drove off
with my moving van which I had spent all day packing tightly with all my possessions.
This included some 3D geometric polyhedral puzzles I had spent several months designing and
building. So in a homage of sorts, I modelled the logos for this site and
About me
Hi! My name's Ben, I'm a Web Developer working out of Vancouver, BC. Generally all my spare time is spent working on my open source projects (see Form Tools and generatedata.com for a couple of the larger ones), going to conferences, and nerding out on web technologies. Some day I hope someone will find a way to make instant clones of people, so I could duplicate myself 5 times and finally do all the things I don't have time for - like finally cope with the laundry.
A little history. I was born in Hamilton, Ontario, but grew up in England, living in Coventry, Oxfordshire and Yorkshire (amongst other places). In 1992 I moved to Prince George, BC, and spent two years in the International Baccalaureate program, which gave me transferable credit for first year university courses in addition to grades 11 and 12. After spending a year at UNBC doing general courses (Math, English Literature), I moved to Victoria where I completed Bachelor degrees in Music (Composition and Theory) and Philosophy, and two years of a CSc degree at the University of Victoria. During my philosophy degree I became more and more interested in web technologies and UI design and just sort of fell into it as a career.
Since then, I've moved to Vancouver and have worked for several companies in the role of programmer / developer using such languages as PHP, ColdFusion, JSP, JavaScript and Perl. Currently I'm self-employed, working with Encore Web Studios and focusing on Form Tools.
Résumé
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Click any of the images to the right to view my online résumé. You may also want to view my work experience list below for some of the companies I've had the pleasure of working with in the past. Some I worked with directly, others I worked for through intermediate sources. In addition to those listed below, my Form Tools script has been used on literally thousands of websites including universities, governments, credit unions, real estate companies, online magazines, NGOs and non-profits of all shapes and sizes.
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BC Athletics Society BC Film Black Tusk Realty Boston Pizza Cackleberries Entertainment, Inc. Cadbury-Schweppes CityXpress Corp. Clothworks of Vancouver Encore Web Studios GearJammer |
Goodwin Studios The Hartford Financial Group Interactivetools.com Jeremedia Nigel Parry OnTrackMedia Pacific Alpine Institute PGI Interactive Probono Law of BC |
Salvation Army Squamish Triathlon Squamish Titans Test of Metal United Palestinian Appeal, Inc. University of British Columbia University of Victoria Vancouver Natural History Society Vancouver Pro Musica |
