I’d like to introduce you to the three things you’ll see on every page of this website: myself, my work and the site itself.
About me
I’m Jamie Huskisson, a 23 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.
My work
Since roughly the first month I first touched PHP I’ve worked at the very least part-time online. Starting out as Lead Developer at the largest tutorial index on the internet, Pixel2life, when it was just version 1 and looking for a developer to take it forward. I chucked myself in at the deep end and worked my ass of to ensure I didn’t make an idiot out of myself in boasting that I could do it.
This led to numerous freelance opportunities and once my University course was cancelled two years into the three year course, I decided to take myself freelance full-time. This ended up 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 I wanted to return to freelancing and in August of 2009 after my twenty-third birthday 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.
The site
The origin of the JHuskisson.com site you see today began with a site named Twod.co.uk back in 2003. This spawned the name ‘Twodder’ which I use as my Xbox Live gamertag today. It originally featured jokes, basic articles that I wrote as I was learning development and spawned the Twod Bug which became a branding of the site.
In 2005-2006 this Bug became a customisable mascot to which you could download the PSD and submit your own customisation to be put into rotation at the top of the site. Prior to the retirement of Twod.co.uk in January 2007 these mascots came to equal over 180 submissions rotating in the header of the website.
To start out 2007 I decided to remove the mask that was ‘Twod’ and ‘Twodder’ as a name and branding online and become more of my myself. This was the launch of JHuskisson.com, a more personalised blog full of more opinions and a self branding.
This led to me freelancing full-time and pursuing a career of freelance development.