Rick began building web sites and web applications in 1996 with HTML and Perl. Since then, he worked with many open source PHP/MySQL platforms until finding WordPress in 2008.
Rick is the founder and lead developer/designer at R-Cubed Design Forge (R3DF). At R3DF, he develops custom WordPress plugins, themes, and multilingual websites for a diverse range of clients.
He is active in the WordPress community as a core contributor, a WordCamp organizer, a WordCamp speaker. Rick is the founding organizer of the Ottawa WordPress Group (Meetup), and was lead organizer of the first 2 Ottawa WordCamps in 2013 and 2014. Rick often presents at the Ottawa WordPress Meetup, and has spoken frequently at WordCamps in Ottawa, Toronto, and Montreal.