Greg McDonald

Senior front-end specialist

location: Sydney

Experienced and self-motivated with client-facing communication skills and a designer’s eye for detail. Passionate for learning new technologies and building great user experiences. Ability to work on projects independently or within a team, and quickly adapt to new challenges.

I am always looking for opportunities to enhance projects with a creative approach, utilising my skills across design, web and animation.

Previous work includes realising rich media interactives for TV shows such as the Walking Dead and Wayward Pines. Previous clients include Penguin Random House Australia (as front-end lead), Hyundai Australia (as front-end lead), Ferrero, Lego, Foxtel, IKEA, and the BBC.

Experience

Switch
Senior Front-end Developer
2024
Orchard
Senior Front-end Developer
2022
Wattwatchers
Web Application Developer
2021
Domain
Senior Engineer
2020
Chook Digital Agency
Senior Interactive Developer
2010 (10 years)
WebDaemon
Web Designer / Flash Developer
2008

Reference

Mark Wiseman
Switch Tech Team Lead
e: mark.wiseman@switchit.com
ph: 0409 229 931

Education

Bachelor of Design, Western Sydney University

Technical Proficiencies

JS ES6 / Typescript
SCSS / BEM / CSS
Vue / Nuxt / React / Next
HTML5 animation / GSAP
ThreeJS / canvas / SVG / jQuery / Handlebars
Git
Build tooling - npm, vite, gulp, webpack, linters
e2e with Cypress
Browser performance debugging and optimisation
Accessibility testing and auditing
Ionic / Cordova / Titanium SDK mobile app development and store publishing
HTML email via Mailchimp, Campaign Monitor and MJML templating

Some Previous Work

Hyundai STARIA-Load accessories 3D interactive

threejs glTF vue aem

front-end lead on Hyundai Australia.

penguin.com.au

gulp algolia

front-end lead for Penguin Random House Australia. A long term client that came to expect pixel perfection.

Standards Australia glossary

vue nuxt algolia

A searchable glossary of Australian building standards.

ARIA Music Awards nomination form

vue ant-design-vue

A long and complicated, syncing, multi-step with progress checking, single page form built with Vue and ant-design-vue. Embedded within ARIA site. Demo with dummy data.

Kelloggs AR colouring-in promotion

threejs arglTF gulp

Cereal box colouring-in augmented reality promotion.
Please view on your phone:

Follow the instructions and point your phone camera at this AR marker (greg-mcdonald-resume.pages.dev/kellogs/marker) on another screen.

BBC Tourism

static gulp handlebars

Created a slew of static sites for the BBC while at Chook Digital. One of these required a larger number of pages to be created. I used Gulp task to build out each page using a JSON feed and handlebars templating.

BBC India, BBC Dubai, BBC Mauritius.