Chris Anderson

About HMU

Chris Anderson MSc (comp sci) Bsc

Hi there! Thanks for stopping by ...

I'm a Profit Growth and Website Marketing Specialist from Auckland New Zealand.

I started out in multimedia and I've been involved with it forever ... starting as a student in the late 80s and then as a world wide web user & developer since its creation in 1993, with the release of the Mosaic browser.

I was a founding member of the HyperMedia Unit at The University of Auckland's Computer Science Department in the same year. While with Auckland University I taught design and user testing in a graduate level paper on Multimedia & Hypermedia Systems for over a decade.

My first outing into marketing was in 1996 and I've found the synergy between my multimedia experience and marketing work was excellent.

Along with user interface & user testing, design, media and, of course, marketing, I've built or supervised well over 100 web/multimedia projects - although I'm am rarely hands-on now. I'm also a multimedia whizz, so if it's media, I know how to make it work: text, images, audio, video, etc. You name it!

I'm a founding member of WDANZ, the Web Developers Association of NZ, who do great work at improving knowledge both within the web industry and for the public.

I know that the words CDs and DVDs are never spelt with an apostrophe, why floppy disk is spelled with a 'k' and compact disc is spelled with a 'c' ... but can't spell very well anyway. Hooray for spelling checkers.

I frequently write for Tone magazine and much less recently for MacGuide magazine as it's purely online now. I'm a published illustrator and keen cartoonist.

In my spare time, I occasionally perform Improv (improvised) theatre and comedy at the Covert Theatre, and standup comedy at the Classic comedy bar ... but I'm married and have a child now ... so I have no spare time anyway.

Isn't is funny how it's web convention is to call the call the information page "About Us", even when I've just talking about myself. Of course I could start talking in the third person ...


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