Creodocs

In Progress

The idea for Creodocs came about as a natural extension of LaTeX Templates and LaTeX Typesetting. Over the years, I became very familiar with the document quality and flexibility that LaTeX affords, but I regularly had clients wishing to utilize this power for automating the production of business documents. LaTeX is highly amenable to automation, given its plain-text based format. I added a service category to LaTeX Typesetting to help clients interested in document automation using LaTeX. I spent a lot of time answering the same questions about how to automate document production and which tools are available for the task, until I finally decided to write a free public resource on the topic, with clean simple examples for different requirements.

Seave Variant Filtration Platform

Launched 2015, Published 2018

During my employment at the Garvan Institute, I took it upon myself to develop a variant filtration platform for use in clinical genomics. This platform came to be called Seave and was in use by researchers, clinicians, within clinical trials and for commercial diagnostics. It was initially available only to internal staff and collaborators between 2015 and 2018, then it was open sourced and published in 2018.

LaTeX Typesetting

Launched September 2013

I created, own and operate LaTeXTypesetting.com, which is the service counterpart to LaTeXTemplates.com.

Many users do not have the advanced skills in LaTeX required to successfully modify a template to suit their unique requirements. Some users have an existing document in another format that they need converted to LaTeX, but lack the skills or time to do it themselves. The purpose of LaTeX Typesetting is to provide a fast, knowledgeable and friendly service for anyone wishing to utilize the power of LaTeX.

LaTeX Templates

Launched April 2012

I created, own and operate LaTeXTemplates.com, which provides easy to use templates for use in the document preparation system LaTeX.

I became interested in LaTeX during the start of my graduate degree, but was frustrated that there was no central resource for templates that I could use to learn LaTeX in a hands-on way and get quick results. This prompted me to create a LaTeX Templates page on the original vel.bio website, which was around for several years and gained a steady flow of visitors. Eventually I decided that this area deserved better treatment, so I created the website in its current form.

The website was been created with two main principles in mind: design and ease of use. I have long been interested in design and aesthetics, but this website was my first exercise in design. I learned a great deal from creating it, which I have applied in other aspects of my personal and professional life - such as in the presentations I give. Ease of use was an important driver in the design choices I made, I believe that the website needs to be simple, clean and efficient with providing templates. No one wants to spend a long time navigating a complex website which is invariably designed to maximize advertising revenue. Similarly, the templates themselves are significantly modified to make them easy for users to edit.