Chris Ward

The Lean Traveller is a resource for those wanting to live a mobile and flexible existence.

Chip Shop is a board game where you play the head of a fledgling computer company in 80s America striving for a piece of that action. You have a decade to make your mark, will it be for longevity, loyalty, units shifted or strike a balance between them all?

I am co-writer on this handbook for the modern not-for-profit. It is due for release very soon.

Rooming house residents can be some of the most ignored members of the renter community, in mainstream service provision, not to mention in sustainability education. With the support and involvement of women's housing Inc and a grant from the city of Yarra we ran the first green renting expo for rooming house residents. The program for the day contained several speakers and workshops covering topics from healthy meal planning to container gardening and ethical shopping. The day attracted… Show more

Rooming house residents can be some of the most ignored members of the renter community, in mainstream service provision, not to mention in sustainability education. With the support and involvement of women's housing Inc and a grant from the city of Yarra we ran the first green renting expo for rooming house residents. The program for the day contained several speakers and workshops covering topics from healthy meal planning to container gardening and ethical shopping. The day attracted residents as well as service providers from around the country.

My role - I helped organise and coordinate several of the speakers and sessions on the day, I helped manage the projects budget and created, any of the promotional flyers and posters.
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Hurll Nu-Way are a major equipment supplier to various Australian and New Zealand industries. Their existing website had been in existence for nearly six years and the company felt it was time to create a new, more flexible website to serve their two separate Australian and New Zealand branches as well as to allow for future feature expansion into responsive design and ecommerce features for warranty and extras retail. The site was built in Drupal 7 with Domain Access to handle the different… Show more

Hurll Nu-Way are a major equipment supplier to various Australian and New Zealand industries. Their existing website had been in existence for nearly six years and the company felt it was time to create a new, more flexible website to serve their two separate Australian and New Zealand branches as well as to allow for future feature expansion into responsive design and ecommerce features for warranty and extras retail. The site was built in Drupal 7 with Domain Access to handle the different territory sites and some custom code to handle the businesses peculiar product catalogue.

My role - I was involved in initial scoping discussions with the client, assessing their needs and requirements. I wireframed the project and created a technical specification for our development team. During development I managed task allocation, testing and liaising with the client to inform them when features were ready for testing, talking them through training and handling bug reports to pass back to our team. Show less

I first became interested in cross platform mobile development tools when working on the app version of the Australian veg food guide. Discovering phone gap and realising it's potential I wanted to be one of the first in Australia to start uncovering and discussing such tools, so created the Melbourne mobile meet up. In our first year we had talks on phonegap, appcelerator titanium, kendo ui, jquery mobile and more. As we start our second year, we have nearly 200 members and have gained two new… Show more

I first became interested in cross platform mobile development tools when working on the app version of the Australian veg food guide. Discovering phone gap and realising it's potential I wanted to be one of the first in Australia to start uncovering and discussing such tools, so created the Melbourne mobile meet up. In our first year we had talks on phonegap, appcelerator titanium, kendo ui, jquery mobile and more. As we start our second year, we have nearly 200 members and have gained two new organisers. Show less

I have recently become an active member of the Melbourne Drupal community. I help organise our monthly meetup, where we have seen numbers more than double in the past year. I regularly talk about Drupal to meetups, conferences and businesses, including a session for ConnectingUp on Drupal for Non profits.

Worked with Regional Development Australia – Murray on all aspects of the development of the site, including building a custom made Content Management System to assist with the areas of community newspaper, community groups, jobs and community services.

Since discovering this open source CRM tool I have been a passionate advocate, undertaking many paid installations and consultations as well as contributing many hours in a voluntary capacity. I have spoken about CiviCRM at several conferences and meet ups including connectingUp 2012 and drupal downunder. I have contributed several bug reports and extensions, attendeded two civicons in London and San Francisco, started my own Melbourne CiviCRM meetup and was on the organising committee for… Show more

Since discovering this open source CRM tool I have been a passionate advocate, undertaking many paid installations and consultations as well as contributing many hours in a voluntary capacity. I have spoken about CiviCRM at several conferences and meet ups including connectingUp 2012 and drupal downunder. I have contributed several bug reports and extensions, attendeded two civicons in London and San Francisco, started my own Melbourne CiviCRM meetup and was on the organising committee for Australia's first civicon. Show less

Green Renters workshop program has been running since mid 2009 and in that time we have delivered several hundred sessions covering a variety of diverse topics all over Australia.

The program is by far the most successful and active Green Renters undertakes, often with an average of 2-3 sessions a week.

To get a better idea of what we offer and when, visit the workshops page.
During the life of the project, several workshop sub-programs have been funded by the following… Show more

Green Renters workshop program has been running since mid 2009 and in that time we have delivered several hundred sessions covering a variety of diverse topics all over Australia.

The program is by far the most successful and active Green Renters undertakes, often with an average of 2-3 sessions a week.

To get a better idea of what we offer and when, visit the workshops page.
During the life of the project, several workshop sub-programs have been funded by the following organisations: Opportunities for Carlton, Colac Otway shire, City of Frankston, City of Monash, City of Melbourne, City of Yarra.

My role – Initially delivering workshops, more recently, budgeting, setting up a booking and management system, invoicing, promoting and designing presentations. Show less

Portable Shops (formerly Swappler) is an ecommerce platform for fashion labels. The platform has a wide variety of features from an online catalogue and shipping handling to layout and design management. It was built primarily in CakePHP.

My Role - I worked as a developer on the initial version of Swappler (Now portable shops).

Melbourne University's school of psychology were keen to revamp their website from a static HTML site into something that allowed all alumni and staff to create and edit their own content, maintain complex profiles and encourage greater exposure to the work happening in the school. The site was created in Drupal 7 and utilises many modules with some custom code to allow for fairly complex content creation workflow.

My role - I was involved in initial scoping discussions with the client,… Show more

Melbourne University's school of psychology were keen to revamp their website from a static HTML site into something that allowed all alumni and staff to create and edit their own content, maintain complex profiles and encourage greater exposure to the work happening in the school. The site was created in Drupal 7 and utilises many modules with some custom code to allow for fairly complex content creation workflow.

My role - I was involved in initial scoping discussions with the client, assessing their needs and requirements. I helped wireframed the project and create a technical specification for our development team. During development I managed task allocation, testing and liaising with the client to inform them when features were ready for testing, talking them through training and handling bug reports to pass back to our team. Show less

A yearly competition for Australia's Youth to enter creative works.

Green Renters identified a large group of temporary renters who lived in the City of Melbourne who had generally not been targeted for sustainability education. Realising that many international students in the city are looking for social opportunities and that often creating games around education can be a successful model we created a series of challenges for students to participate in and learn about sustainability in the city.

My role - I helped co-create the challenges, managed the… Show more

Green Renters identified a large group of temporary renters who lived in the City of Melbourne who had generally not been targeted for sustainability education. Realising that many international students in the city are looking for social opportunities and that often creating games around education can be a successful model we created a series of challenges for students to participate in and learn about sustainability in the city.

My role - I helped co-create the challenges, managed the projects budget (partly funded by the City of Melbourne), created the online tool participants could register for and use to undertaken their challenges and helped deliver some of the workshop sessions. Show less

I created a small WordPress site representing many groups interested in creating a central and focussed campaign for the Murray darling basin water plan. It featured a customised petition plugin that I was invited to talk about at the Melbourne WordPress meetup.

I created a new ecommerce WordPress site for this popular calendar and photo competition in the activist and NGO community.

I created a WordPress site for this digital agency that incorporated strong graphical elements to represent a 'village' of freelancers and consists.