Richard is the DEDS Product Owner and has been with Te Papa since February 2017. Prior to this he was at Radio New Zealand, where from 2005 to 2015 he built and ran the RNZ website, including designing the business processes to make it all happen. In late 2015 and 2016 he moved into a more specialised role as RNZ’s digital product lead. He has extensive experience developing internal and public-facing digital products, is an expert in web SEO, web performance and accessibility, and has written both front-end and back-end code. He is currently a board member of Internet NZ, and has been a mentor at several startup weekends