Richard began his professional career in media as a newspaper journalist before moving into communications for a number of federal government departments and agencies.
His first website, in the mid-1990s, was hand coded, but for more than 10 years he’s used WordPress as his CMS of choice to design websites for community and not-for-profit groups. He has also had on-air and governance roles in Canberra community radio station, ArtSoundFM.
He has attended three previous Wordcamps (Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Sydney) and found all of them to be of great value.
In mid-2018 he co-founded livingartscanberra.com.au, a not-for-profit website, which podcasts and webcasts interviews with arts practitioners. His most recent paid job is as a project writer with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority in Canberra.