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Except for the fixed price website fitness plan I charge projects in half days of 4 hours.

Contact me to discuss your project for an estimate or quote.

Hiring a consultant through an agency with my same level of experience, expect to be changed at least another extra 50%

Benefits of working with a New Zealand freelancer

  • 100% dedication to your project
    With an agency you may find yourself prioritised against other clients and deadlines. Working with me, I schedule work so that I can dedicate 100% focus to your project.
  • Less expensive
    Agencies have a lot of overhead with administrative staff and infrastructure. I've been employed by New Zealand's largest and smallest IT providers, but now you can work direct with me and get great prices. If you're based overseas, you also get exchange rate benefits from the weak New Zealand Dollar.
  • Magic happens while you sleep
    New Zealand is 12 hours ahead of GMT. If you're based overseas you can have deliverables waiting fresh for you at the start of the business day.
  • New Zealanders are... innovative
    Is it because we're the first to see the sun rise each day? Who knows ;-) But considering our tiny population, we've made a huge impact on the world already.

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23 examples of New Zealand innovation

Some people say it's something in the water, other people attribute the pragmatic attitude that comes from a history of being so geologically isolated, but New Zealanders are responsible for some pretty amazing achievements.

  • 1893 Thanks to pioneering work by Kate Sheppard New Zealand becomes the first country to introduce universal suffrage, recognising the right for woman to vote
  • 1900 Ernest Godward invents the eggbeater — mmm cakes are good
  • 1903 Richard Pearse successfully flies and lands a powered heavier-than-air machine — apparently 9 month before the Wright brothers
  • 1917 Ernest Rutherford splits the atom
  • 1917 Harold Gillies pioneers modern plastic surgery
  • 1926 Probably helped by the recent invention of eggbeaters, New Zealanders invent the Pavlova — a cake made primarily from egg whites and sugar
  • 1928 Leslie Comrie is the first to use punch card equipment to perform scientific calculations
  • 1934 Jean Batton makes the first of many record breaking flights by flying solo from England to Australia
  • 1950s Bill Hamilton invents the modern jet engine
  • 1953 Edmund Hillary reaches the summit of Mount Everest
  • 1954 William Hayward Pickering starts his 22 year term as director of JPL — contributing to exploration of space
  • 1958 Brian Barratt-Boyes performs the first cardiopulmonary bypass surgery
  • 1960s Arthur Lydiard 'invents' jogging (who would have guessed?!)
  • 1962 Maurice Wilkins joint awarded the Nobel Prize for discovering the structure of DNA
  • 1967 Burt Munroe sets the (stil standing) under-1000cc world speed record for a motorcycle
  • 1975 John Walker sets a new world record for running a mile in 3:49.4 — a feat that Doctors claimed at the time was impossible
  • 1988 A. J. Hackett brings bungy jumping to the world
  • 1994 11 year old Anna Paquin wins an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
  • 1995 Lucy Lawless storms the world as Xena:Warier Princess (ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!)
  • 1999 Georgina Beyer becomes the worlds first transexual member of parliament
  • 2000 Alan MacDiarmid receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry on the development of conductive plastics
  • 2003 Peter Jackson's The Return of The King wins eleven Academy Awards
  • 2007 Jim Salinger's work on climate change received The Nobel Peace Prize

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