Russ Weakley

Current

• Organiser at FullCodePress
• Web Designer at Australian Museum
• Chair at Web Standards Group

• Manager at Max Design

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Past

• Web Manager - Australian Museum at Australian Museum
• Design Studio Manager - Australian Museum at Australian Museum
• Exhibition and Graphic Designer - Australian Museum at Australian Museum

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Education

• University of Western Sydney
• University of Western Sydney
• Turramurra High School

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Russ Weakley’s Summary

A Sydney-based web designer and web developer with over 12 years experience in the industry who specialises in fresh, dynamic sites with a strong focus on Cascading Style Sheets, usability, accessibility and web standards. Also offers customised CSS, Web Standards and accessibility training.

Russ Weakley’s Specialties:

- Web design
- Information architecture, user interface and user experience
- Web standards development (semantically correct (X)HTML and CSS)
- Accessible web design and development including groups with special needs such as users with learning difficulty and cognitive impairment

Russ Weakley’s Experience

• Organiser

  FullCodePress

  (Internet industry)

  2007 — Present (2 years )

• Web Designer

  Australian Museum

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1998 — Present (12 years )

  Responsible for the design and development of all Australian Museum websites as well as the Intranet site.

• Chair

  Web Standards Group

  (Internet industry)

  1994 — Present (15 years )

  The Web Standards Group is for web designers & developers who are interested in web standards (HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSLT etc.) and best practices (accessible sites using valid and semantically correct code).

• Manager

  Max Design

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  January 1990 — Present (20 years )

  Manager of Max Design, a Sydney web design and web development business that specialises in fresh, dynamic sites with a strong focus on Cascading Style Sheets, usability, accessibility and web standards. Also conducts customised CSS and Web Standards training workshops for individuals and inhouse teams.
  
  Clients have included Sensis (White Pages and Yellow Pages), Microsoft Australia, Sydney Morning Herald, Amnesty International Australia, Reed Publishing and many more.

• Web Manager - Australian Museum

  Australian Museum

  (Government Agency; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  March 2005 — January 2006 (11 months)

  Responsible for the management of all Australian Museum website projects including the supervision of 3 full-time staff and severall full-time contractors.

• Design Studio Manager - Australian Museum

  Australian Museum

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

  January 1993 — January 1997 (4 years 1 month)

  Responsible for the management of all graphic and exhibition design material for the Australian Museum. Managed 4 full time design staff.

• Exhibition and Graphic Designer - Australian Museum

  Australian Museum

  (Government Agency; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

  January 1985 — January 1992 (7 years 1 month)

  Responsible for the design and development of graphic material associated with the Museum including brochures, flyers, posters, tickets, annual reports, education material, marketing material, kits etc. Also responsible for the development of exhibition material including billboards, banners, signage, exhibition graphics, labelling, floor plans, information structure etc.

Russ Weakley’s Education

• University of Western Sydney

  Associate Diploma , Graphic Design , 1984 — 1985

• University of Western Sydney

  Associate Diploma , Visual Arts , 1983 — 1984

• Turramurra High School

  Higher School certificate , 1977 — 1982

Additional Information

Russ Weakley’s Interests:

XHTML, CSS, web standards, information architecture, usability, accessibility, communities, online communities

Russ Weakley’s Groups:

Web Standards Group, FullCodePress

•    WSG
•    Web Standards Design + Development
•    @STUB
•    WSG ads

Russ Weakley’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch