Hi there, thanks for stop­ping by!

I’m a geek who loves Jesus and desires him to be first in all things, includ­ing About pages. He is the rea­son for being, the rea­son we con­tinue to exist, and the only hope of sal­va­tion in a world rav­aged by sin. Every­thing I owe to him: there’s noth­ing I can do alone, nor should there be any rea­son to with­out every­thing God accom­plished through his life. If you’d like to know more about what it means to fol­low Jesus Christ, take a look at this really short expla­na­tion, then get in touch if you’d like to learn more!

Long-time Syd­ney res­i­dent, I go to church in Padding­ton, uni in Dar­ling­ton, and live in Rand­wick. I’m dat­ing the beau­ti­ful Tori, on account of whom I ven­tured to China last year, twice. I’m also attempt­ing to study Chi­nese with a medium-term goal of liv­ing in China, whilst keep­ing up all sorts of technology-related shenani­gans (see what kind of shenani­gans below, in my pro­fes­sional bio), lead­ing a bunch of year 7 – 8 high school kids in a youth group called “Jam” @ St. Matthias, and help­ing out at FOCUS, a Chris­t­ian group for inter­na­tional students.

Pro­fes­sional bio follows:

For over 5 years, Josh Street has worked on a wide range of web and tech­nol­ogy projects for clients big and small. Par­tic­i­pa­tion in a vari­ety of tech­nol­ogy com­mu­ni­ties such as the 4,000-strong Web Stan­dards Group since 2003 has served to fur­ther exper­tise, par­tic­u­larly in front-end web devel­op­ment (XHTML/CSS/JavaScript) and web standards/best prac­tices (acces­si­bil­ity, usable design, and SEO). This pas­sion for tech­nol­ogy is com­ple­mented by a fas­ci­na­tion with lit­er­a­ture and lan­guages, and he is cur­rently com­plet­ing a fourth year of stud­ies at the Uni­ver­sity of Syd­ney major­ing in Eng­lish, and, more recently, attempt­ing to learn Chinese (普通话).

Whether work­ing to crush that last ren­der­ing bug in the lat­est web browser, to direct­ing mul­ti­ple cam­eras sit­ting behind a vision switcher, he rel­ishes a chal­lenge and oppor­tu­ni­ties to develop new skills and har­ness estab­lished and proven ones. With a back­ground in front-end web devel­op­ment and acces­si­bil­ity best prac­tices proven on some of Australia’s most demand­ing web projects for a diverse range of clients, Josh brings a wealth of expe­ri­ence in standards-based design prac­tices. Spe­cial­is­ing in the devel­op­ment of usable web­sites, he imple­ments designs for uni­ver­sal access includ­ing mobile devices and search engines (SEO) to improve the reach and effec­tive­ness of web properties.

Cur­rently involved with Tal­ent Gen­er­a­tion in an advi­sory capacity, Josh acts in a prod­uct devel­op­ment role and has pro­vided tech­ni­cal exper­tise in client nego­ti­a­tions since mid-2008. A start-up tar­get­ing sec­ondary and ter­tiary edu­ca­tion sec­tors with technology-rich solu­tions, TG are worth keep­ing an eye on.

Past projects include:

TiVo.com.au web, e-commerce, com­pe­ti­tions, CMS; 7 Net­work — “Sun­rise Fam­ily” loy­alty pro­gramme web & email cam­paigns, “The Night Cap” live stream­ing, “Sun­day Night” live streaming/streaming por­tal web­site; Yahoo! “Sun­day Night” live, “Yahoo! Music” inte­gra­tion, Flickr inte­gra­tion; Nextgen Learn­ing — web, email cam­paigns; Step to the Future Forum — web­site, event direc­tion, CMS; St Andrew’s Cathe­dral School — web­site, e-commerce, CMS; Bec­ton Invest­ment Man­age­ment — web­site, CMS, email; Angli­can Youth­works — web, email, SMS, CMS for youth por­tal; Tel­stra - “Tel­stra Road to Tam­worth” stream­ing, “Tel­stra Strate­gic Mar­ket­ing” tech­nol­ogy inc. Win­dows Vista secu­rity & main­te­nance, event web­site, MMS/SMS inte­gra­tion, photo pro­cess­ing, WYD’08 video wall, video pro­cess­ing; Bei­jing Media Cen­tre — email cam­paigns; Aus­tralian Cham­ber of Com­merce and Indus­try Australia-Japan Busi­ness Co-operation Com­mit­tee — website; and more.