I’d like to give you a quick breakdown of my life so far so that you get to know a little bit more about me and give you something to take away.
About me
I’m Jamie Huskisson, a 25 year old Freelance PHP, Magento, WordPress developer from Nottingham. I have a never ending work ethic and passion for what I do, with a big drive for success in both my client’s sites and my own business. I live and breath website development.
My work
Since the first moment I touched PHP I’ve been employed in a website development role. Starting out as Lead Developer at the largest tutorial index on the internet, Pixel2life. It was just version 1 and looking for a developer to take it forward at the time. A posting appeared for a re-development of their forum and website integration – and I said “pfft, I can do that!”. Off to blagging I went, and secured a dream opportunity working away on an endless amount of challenges for what was to turn from a few hundred visitors to tens of thousands by the time I left.
This led to numerous freelance opportunities working for various companies online. When it happened that my University course was cancelled two years into the three year course, I decided to take myself freelance full-time. This meant going from 40 hours a week (which I consider part-time) to 60+ hours a week. This also meant being so successful that I took on several employees and founded what was to become my first company.
After less than a year in running this company was to be bought out by another local company in Nottingham. This led to me spending eighteen months assisting in the re-building of a company that was previously in tatters following a founding partner split.
After eighteen months I decided that ultimately being part of this company wasn’t for me. It wasn’t the way I wanted to work and I knew it. I wanted to return to freelancing and in early August of 2009 after my twenty-third birthday I started working full-time again as a freelance developer. Since then I haven’t looked back with a single regret.
I’ve been lucky enough to work with clients like the NHS, Nike, Sony and Volkswagen over my career so far. With a personal rule that I don’t take on any job I know I won’t enjoy, I keep my client’s happy through my enthusiasm for my work.