I've built my career on doing what others said couldn't be done.

Fresh out of journalism school, I spent a few years doing odd jobs while freelancing as a writer and photographer. I then moved from the U.S. to France, where I stumbled into the web industry and learned design and development. It was the early days of the web, when we were all just making it up as we went. Arguably, we still are.

Clients would tell me how some other web developer said that what they wanted couldn’t be done. I built my career on that challenge, and spent 17 years creating innovative websites for businesses of all shapes and sizes. I worked across a variety of industries, including sports, entertainment, and textiles; and had a brief dalliance with e-commerce as a shop owner. If you’d like to hear more about these formative years, check out my talk, Doing it Wrong.

In more recent years I took a deep dive down the Agile rabbit hole, developing a passion for creating fun and sustainable working environments in which remote, cross-disciplinary software development teams can unleash their full potential.  

I’m also a former lead organizer of WordCamp Paris and WordCamp Europe, and have spoken at a number of events on subjects as varied as multilingual publishing and current trends in customizable products.

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