About Las Niñas Web Development

What does Las Niñas mean?

"Las Niñas" is spanish for "the girls". The choice was inspired by Marcos and Simone's two little daughters.

Las Niñas Web Development is a boutique web development company which focuses on building useful, usable custom-made sites rather than churning out cheap templated sites which don't perform.

Our web design business was formed in 2008 by husband and wife team Marcos and Simone Carot Collins, who each have have worked in the IT / web development industry in a variety roles for over years.

Las Niñas Web Development operates from the Perth suburb of Canning Vale in Western Australia. Our development partners are situated locally and in Marcos' home town in Argentina.

Simone Carot Collins - Partner / Senior Information Architect

Simone Carot Collins

Previous Positions:

  • Information Architect
    (University of Western Australia)
  • Multimedia Programmer
    (DUIT Multimedia)
  • Quality Assurance Analyst
    (Hartley Poynton / JDV)

IT Qualifications

Bachelor of Computer & Mathematical Sciences (University of Western Australia)

Programming Capabilities

XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, SQL

With 13 years in the IT industry and 11 years of commercial experience in web development and ecommerce, Simone has a strong range of skills including information architecture, accessibility, usability, search engine optimisation, database design, front-end / client-side programming (XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP) as well as quality assurance, user acceptance testing and customer service.

Simone is acknowledged as a leading expert in building online communities, having founded in 2003 the largest active Rotaract network, which is today a vibrant hub with over 3,500 Rotaract Club members from 119 countries with multiple languages in use. She has created, moderated and advised many other groups, presented a 2.5 day workshop on utilising the internet for conducting and collaborating on projects in Munich, Germany in 2005, and was the first Rotaract member appointed to the board of Rotarians on the Internet, from 2005-2009.

Simone founded the Rotarians on Social Networks Fellowship, approved by Rotary International in June 2010, of which she was the inaugural Chair and currently serves as the Training Committee Chair. Simone regularly travels to Sydney to provide training on social networking, and has been a panelist in all the basic and advanced webinars about social media organised by Rotary International to date.

Simone is a keen devotee of web standards and enjoys hand-coding web sites (though she has become a fan of Word Press as well!). Her previous industry experience includes nearly 9 years in the higher education industry, 13 years in community organizations such as Rotaract and Rotary and both government and private enterprise.

Simone has won multiple "Best of the Rotary Web" Awards (last run in 2003).

Marcos Carot Collins - Partner / Senior Analyst Programmer

Marcos Carot Collins

Related Positions:

  • IT Service Solutions
    (Murdoch University)

Programming Capabilities

XHTML, CSS, PHP, SQL

Computers have always been Marcos' passion, and that passion is still very evident after 11 years in the web development industry.

Marcos specialises in database development, and also undertakes graphic design, front-end and server-side programming, and system administration.

Marcos too has substantial online community building experience, having created and moderated a wide variety of groups.

Marcos' sites have won "Best of the Rotary Web" Awards (last run in 2003).