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Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Opencast is a digital agency specialising in enterprise-level solutions.Projects:HM Revenue and Customs - Accessibility specialist (Feb 2020 - March 2024)HM Revenue and Customs - Front-end developer (Sept 2016 - March 2020)Financial investment bank - UX rolePlanning out a international banking application based on business requirements.Wind Energy.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Working with service teams to improve the accessibility of live and in-development services.

Worked on the Accessibility Team to ensure HMRC's services are accessible to everyone. This involved working with all aspects of digital delivery from training teams, advising on the design system, conducting accessibility audits and helping services comply with accessibility legislation.In this time I ran accessibility audits on around 60 services.

Worked on many government services as well as helping grow the processes and technical knowledge of the teams.I sat on the HMRC Design Patterns Working Group which reviews new and current patterns and ensures they meet the needs of users, business and developers.I worked as a member of the HMRC Accessibility Team which ensures services are accessible.

Newcastle-upon-Tyne

During this period I worked on a wide range of sites from small, short deadline sites to large international sites; from banks to books to cult tv shows. Cients included Warner Bros, Pottermore, Channel4, Britvic, and Atom Bank.Projects:Atom Bank - lead client-side developerhttps://www.atombank.co.uk/Building the public website of one of the first UK.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

During this period, amongst other projects, I worked on two international sites (Sony and Blackberry/RIM). These involved both internationalisation and localisation across multiple languages and locales.Projects:RIM/Blackberry (EMEA sites)Multiple small and large projects and minor works around the huge Blackberry property in Europe, the Middle East and.

Pivotal role in the planning, strategy and development of the North Tyneside Learning Platform. Worked as the sole developer in a tight team to bring the site from inception to 30,000 registered users and recognition as a council mission-critical asset. The site won North East Digital Award for Best Advanced Online Learning 2008.

Ran a small team of developers through a college merger and managed the rationalisation of two college digital environments into one.

Created the college's intranet and website, providing online learning support for courses and an online course catalogue for the first time. The intranet was successfully sold to other colleges and was also placed in the Nielsen Norman Group Ten Best Intranets 2003

Managed the company's web presence including e-commerce.

Ma Module, User-Centered Interaction Design And Evaluation

Ba (Hons), History