Captovate
About us
We have an exceptionally talented team with broad capabilities, boundless enthusiasm and a love for their specialist fields.
Captovate builds long-term customer relationships, where we understand your business, and leverage from opportunities presented by digital platforms within the current marketing landscape.
Our number one goal is to help you generate more leads and more revenue.
We surround ourselves
with great people
Karen Hawkes
Director
Karen is Captovate’s Projects Director, supporting clients to identify their needs, coordinating information flow and managing project milestones and deadlines to ensure completion is stress free and within designated timelines. Karen is Captovate’s social media expert.
- Stakeholder & Client Liaison
- Content Planning
- Information Design
- Information Architecture
- Web Usability
- Social Media Marketing
- Workshop Facilitation
- Project Management
- Business & Website Analysis
Michael Hawkes
Managing Director
Michael has over 15 years’ experience in digital communications. He has extensive experience in managing large complex web projects, specialising in web usability and information architecture. As a creative thinker, he thrives on providing customers with unique innovative solutions.
- ICT Account Management
- Content Planning
- Information Design
- Information Architecture
- Web Usability
- Web Marketing
- Social Media Marketing
- Website Analysis
- Workshop Facilitation
- Business Analysis
- Project Management
- Stakeholder and Client Liaison
Peta Alderson
Client Support Manager
Peta has been with Captovate for over 7 years and has a solid relationship with our long-term clients. Her main role is to coordinate the maintenance and support of our live websites. This means that she looks after the hosting and back-end upgrades but also works with clients to ensure their sites are always up-to-date, accommodating any additional functional requirements they may need, or supporting them in updating items themselves.
- Project Management
- Resource Allocation
- Information Architecture
- Website Analysis
- Benchmarking
- Drupal Editing
- Client Relationship Management
Lyndall Warton
Digital Content Specialist
Lyndall is a client focused information specialist with a passion for information dissemination and retrieval in the digital environment. Her experience as an editor and proofreader for academics, schools and research institutions has developed to a high standard over the past eight years. More recently she has been involved in writing and editing eLearning modules, tenders, digital marketing content and web content. Lyndall is Darwin-based and is interested in social media, writing, research, health and education.
- Content Planning
- Information Architect
- Digital Accessibility
- Metadata Professional
- Information Retrieval Expert
- Project Management
- Copy Writing and Editing
- eLearning
Carlos Gonzalez Campos
Digital Customer Specialist
Carlos is a results-driven leader with a diverse professional career and skill set with experience working in the public and private sector.
He is passionate about delivering results through the leadership and engagement of people.He has the ability to communicate complex messages for different audiences and media channels. Some of his main strengths are the ability to maintain good working relations and effective communication.
- ICT Project Management
- Digital Marketing
- Social Media
- Relationship Management
- System Implementations
- E-learning
Matthew Heffernan
Digital Customer Specialist
Matthew (aka Heff) is recognised as an effective team player, of proud Irish and Pintupi-Luritja (Indigenous Australian) ancestry, his success is underpinned by values of self-reflective practice, collaboration, and communication. He is a creative thinker with the ability to anticipate customer needs. Matthew is currently an IT undergraduate student at Charles Darwin University, and has a varied work background, with previous experience with Local and Territory Governments, and Non-Government Organisations.
- Project management
- Customer relations
- Social Media
- Relationship management
- System implementations
- Web developments
Matt Shigang
Developer
Shigang Xing (Matt) is a versatile and enthusiastic developer, with skills in site installation, maintenance, updating, troubleshooting, theme development and installation profiles.
- Drupal 7, 8
- Hyper V / VMware
- PHP / SASS / ASP / SQL
- HTML / CSS / SASS
- JavaScript / JQuery
- Server Management – IIS
- Search Engine Optimisation
Tom Buck
Junior Developer
Tom is a recent graduate, honing his skills in content management, eLearn production, support and maintenance services. He is also developing expertise in theme development, installation profiles, Drupal coding standards and training.
- Drupal 7, 8
- SASS / CSS / JavaScript
- Multimedia Production
Ramon Vincent
Digital Strategist
Ramon’s approach brings together a unique combination of big picture thinking with nuts and bolts implementation to create successful digital strategies for small and medium business clients. Beginning at brand level and the company’s overall business strategy, Ramon helps to define how digital marketing and productivity tools can be used most effectively.
- Web Strategy
- Workshops & Focus Groups
- User Journeys
- Information Architecture
- UX Design
- Marketing Strategy
- Stakeholder & Client Liaison
- Analytics
Romain Le Polh
Developer
Romain is proficient in site installation, maintenance, updating, troubleshooting, custom module and theme development, installation profiles, Drupal coding standards and training.
- Symfony / Laravel
- NodeJS / VueJS
- PHP / Python
- Drupal 7, 8
- Drupal Console
- HTML / CSS / SASS
- JS / jQuery
- Server Management
- Versioning (Git, Svn)
- Accessibility
- Usability
- Search Engine Optimisation
Emeline Laurent
Designer
Emeline brings significant user experience design expertise to our company. Before Captovate, Emeline worked at a web design agency in France. One of her major projects was working on the famous round-the-world yacht race “Vendee Globe”.
- User Experience Design
- Web Design
- Usability
- Accessibility
- Print and Graphic Design