RyanHellyer.net

“One man. One hockey stick. Many WordPress challenges.”

About

This website isn’t so much a blog, but somewhere for me to store all my photos, videos and stories rather than email stuff to everyone all the time. If you would like to contact me regarding paid web development, please use the contact form at PixoPoint.com. Check out my links page for information about stuff I’m interested in and my friends websites.

I’m currently living in Oslo, Norway for Metronet. I also maintain various open source projects at my site PixoPoint.com. When I’m not working on the computer (ie: surfing YouTube and FaceBook) I can usually be found playing ice hockey, badminton or generally chilling out (which I don’t do as often as I should).

As you will be able to tell from surfing around my site, I am addicted to ice skating/hockey. This photo is from one of my favourite teams of all time, the Bears. We had a stunning ability to lose every game by a massive margin, but we had lots of fun in the process. Thanks to Joe Sales for the awesome photo!

Curriculum Vitae

WP Paintbrush
PixoPoint web development
  • Owner operator (2008-present)
  • Created custom WordPress themes for a broad range of clients
  • Provided technical support for WordPress theme issues.
  • Provided technical support for multi-level menus such as dropdown menus
  • Currently developing a new WordPress Mu compatible, fully Ajax’d template generator for WordPress multi-sites
  • All themes and plugins released are GPL licensed
  • Created the PixoPoint Template Generator, including development of a “theme framework” backend
  • http://pixopoint.com/
SitePoint staff
  • Forum mentor (2005-2009)
  • Helped extensively on the support forums
  • Performed paid custom web development work for other forum members particularly in the area of WordPress theming and HTML/CSS work
DeveloperTutorials staff
  • Employed to help forum users with technical questions relating to WordPress and HTML/CSS (2008)
  • Resigned due to the owner employing spammers/sploggers to help drive traffic to the site
ChemTutorials business
  • Owner/manager (2006-2007)
  • Organised large scale tutorials (50+ students) with multiple tutors
Chemistry Research, 2003-2009
  • Inorganic chemistry (Chemistry Department, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)
  • Natural products chemistry (Chemistry Department, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, 2004)
  • Developed three new pharmaceuticals for the potential treatment and prevention of oxidative damage to cells.
  • Published research in the following research journals: European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry, Acta Crystallographic Section C, Canadian Journal of Chemistry and Inorganica Chimica Acta.
  • Synthesised a variety of new and previously unknown chemicals
  • Presented research at the 38th International Conference of Coordination Chemistry in Jerusalem, Israel, Inorganic Chemistry 2008 conference in Hobart, Australia and the Supramolecular Symposium 2007 in Dunedin, New Zealand

Yours truly on my way up the Matukituki valley in Mt Aspiring National Park. Thanks to Chris Laing for the photo.