PreviousNext has a team of twenty Drupal developers, designers and project managers in our Sydney studios and in key locations around Australia. The calibre of our clients means we attract the best Drupal talent in Australia, and our hiring policy means the team averages 10 years experience, enabling us to leverage our combined knowledge and ensure quality on each new project.
The best Drupal talent doesn't necessarily live in Sydney or Melbourne, so we also have a highly tuned distributed teaming approach that allows some key team members to work with us despite living in regional areas. This structure means that the core team on any project can be comprised of specialist designers and developers who have experience relevant to the project, guaranteeing our clients have top-tier experts in every role.
We've provided brief bios for some of our core team below:
Kim Pepper - Technical Director / Founder
Kim leads our Drupal development and open source technology services. With his formal background in Computer Science, Kim has worked as a Tech Lead developing mission-critical Java applications with medical technology company iSoft, high scalability systems for contextual content analysis company Mooter Media, and web development with leading digital agencies Spike, Oven Digital, Nethead and MassMedia. Kim's skill-set covers the gamut of web technologies, with a pedigree in Java development, Ruby on Rails, ASP.NET, Python and PHP. He also manages the deployment of high-throughput, scalable system architectures using cloud computing services and virtual hosting environments.
Kim's full career history and client references are available at http://au.linkedin.com/in/kimpepper
Owen Lansbury - User Experience Director / Founder
An international award-winning designer and usability expert, Owen has studied and worked in interactive design since 1992, leading teams for a range of prominent web development firms including Spike, Oven Digital, IBM Innovation Centre and One Digital/Isobar in Australia and the USA before branching out independently in 2005. Prior to co-founding PreviousNext, Owen was a user experience and interface design consultant for top-tier clients including Yahoo!7, News Limited, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Telstra/BigPond, Fox Sports, Quiksilver, Fremantle Media and the Commonwealth Government.
Owen's full career history and client references are available at http://au.linkedin.com/in/owenlansbury
Steve Cook - Operations Manager
Steve first became involved in the new media industry in 1996, and since then has worked at each level of production through to head of department in high profile companies such as Spike, OneDigital and Amnesia Razorfish. This has afforded him a comprehensive understanding of the myriad aspects of web development, most importantly the technologies, skills and people involved with them. His close work with PreviousNext founders Kim & Owen over more than a decade has led to him overseeing the firm's project management team and processes.
Will McRae - Lead Drupal Developer
Will worked closely with Kim Pepper at Mooter Media as a Java Developer and has been a constant fixture with PreviousNext since its inception in 2009. Will's recent successes include leading the hugely complex API integration between Drupal and the Vividwireless backend account management and financial systems, and developing custom Drupal modules for the Australian Law Reform Commission.
James Gollan - Drupal Consultant & Lead Drupal Developer
James has been a Drupal developer for the past five years, working on ABC's Radio National and Pool websites, and is a leading member of the Sydney Drupal community. Prior to his Drupal career, James worked extensively as a web design and development tutor at the Sydney Institute of Techology (TAFE), and now applies this experience to PreviousNext's Drupal training services.
David Peterson - Drupal Consultant & Lead Drupal Developer
Through his work on projects for the ABC's Digital Radio and Hungry Beast, David has earned a reputation as one of Australia's most prominent Drupal developers and a leader in RDFa (Semantic Web) development. He’s worked closely with PreviousNext on complex projects such as the Vividwireless online store, the Apache Solr search system for the State Library of Victoria, and consulting to DEEWR and the National Library.
Christian Biggins - Senior Drupal Developer
Since January 2011 Christian has applied his programmatical expertise to projects for Vividwireless, Global CCS Institute, NSW Government and other PreviousNext clients. He has spent more than a decade developing web-based applications, bespoke search engines, high availability data strategies and advanced SEO methodologies.
Jack Taranto - Drupal Themer and User Interface Designer
Jack is a Drupal theming expert and works alongside the Senior Drupal Developers to translate visual designs into an HTML/CSS-based Drupal 'Theme' on any given project. Jack is one of our original team members and has led the Drupal theming on myriad projects including NSW Government, Australian Conservation Foundation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Australian Law Reform Commission. Jack has an extensive background in front-end development and has worked on large scale Drupal projects for the past six years.
Lee Olsen - User Interface Designer
Lee has worked with PreviousNext as a Senior Designer and HTML/CSS Developer since our inception in 2009. A graphic design heavyweight, he has taken the User Interface Design lead on many high profile projects including Vividwireless, Australian Law Reform Commission, Shine Australia, Coastalwatch and NSW Government.