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London, Gb

London, United Kingdom

Ownership of the user experience at PeerJ, the disruptive open access scientific journal. The 300 year old scientific publishing process is ready to evolve; with a beautiful enjoyable user experience, a rigorous and open peer review process, and the fastest possible submission to decision time (currently at 27 days). Check our blog to see where we are: http://blog.peerj.com.

London

UX and UI design and front-end dev contractor. Worked on a number of high profile sites (over 25, details on request), from Battersea Power Station to the new One World Trade Center.

London, United Kingdom

A number of contracting roles on a range of projects. A summary of projects worked on here and in the following Projects section.Dagensbedste.dk, Amine.dk, Musiknyt.dkUX, Visual & Product Design, Project & Team ManagementWorking on a number of high-profile Danish websites through conception, UX, design, off-shore dev team management (single contact for a 4 person design & dev team), hands-on frontend coding (JQuery, Flash), promotional video production. Lead product, UX, visual design and project management of a high profile content site, developed by an external agency, specialists in a required CMS. Managed moving of dev capability (knowledge, tools & processes) in-house for post-launch development.SkypeVideo Editing, Visual DesignEdit of a series of videos for a Skype promotional campaign in Barcelona. Footage uploaded via satellite.Magnum Press EventVideo Editing & Tech LeadEditing a scene from an interactive press event to promote the Magnum Gold product launch. Met and shook hands with Benecio del Toro (aka. Che)!Nokia Ovi LaunchVideo Editing & Tech LeadOn-site editing of a series of online videos for the Nokia Ovi store launch.Barcelona Mobile TV CongressPresentation Visual Design & UXDeveloped a number of presentation materials for a leading mobile phone manufacturer.Auditorium EventVideo EditingOne of 2 editors on a 2-day on-site video edit. Editing the feeds from 10 auditorium cameras, vox-pop and out-and-about footage into a 5 minute summary montage displayed on a 30 foot screen to over 23k people.

London

Worked with the Founder in a small team on the UX and UI/Rebranding of the mobile App and website for a great low-cost London event funding app Frugl (@frugl).Implemented and iterated Lean Business Model Canvas. Carried out user-interviews, funnelling learning from qualitative data into ux documentation and feature development for the first MVP iteration of the app. Developed personnas, user stories, wireframes, paper and interactive prototypes.

London

Product managed, front-end coding, design, content development, client liasing on a number of high profile websites in an agency contractor role. Highlights include being lead front-end dev the HTML5 iPad app for the One Riverside Park property development in Manhattan, released on the Apple app store.

Brighton

Developing a range of high-profile digital properties for third-sector organisations. Key role as ux design and ui design lead and company director. Central role in pitching and pitch documentation.

Brighton

Contract role working on UX and UI design and Front end dev of a number of sites.

Brighton

In-house lead UX, visual and product design, competitor analysis, marketing strategy.

Nexuslive was an exciting and original series of live online tv broadcasts, originating from 2 webtv studios in Edinburgh. It was presenter driven (think TFI Friday), music focussed, and 30 minutes long. A typical show included band performances, band interviews, reports filmed throughout Scotland, viewer generated clips and interactive games and competitions. It was the definitive Scottish music video magazineOne of the UK's first regular webTV shows, Nexuslive was an award winning enterprise that gained extensive media coverage (BBC Reporting Scotland, BBC Radio, NPR in the US, The Scotsman/Daily Record/Metro) and awards.It won the Ideasmart creative business development award in 2006 and the PRSFoundation award, underlining it's importance and unique positioning in the UK's music industry.

The founder and managing director at the company. Critical in securing and fulfulling contracts with a number of large clients. Effective as a creative director, project manager, and hands on production. There is no better education that the day-to-day running of a start-up!Operations: filming, editing, producing, live tv show direction, design (web & print), encoding, IT systems managementProject and team/crew managementProduct Development, R&DPitch Development and Delivery Networking and Partner Development Business Management & Strategy BudgetingClient List:Channel 4 TelevisionXFM RadioScottish GovernmentNational Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA)Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA)Adelaide Fringe FestivalRotary InternationalScottish Institute for Enterprise (SIE)Stoneridge ElectronicsThe Electoral Reform SocietyCity Design ArchitectsCircular Records

Management of live broadcastsEncoder operation, troubleshooting and qos service provisionAudio/Video systems managementLive interactive systems operation

Production of a number of professional music and creative video commissions for a client base ranging from record labels to architectual firms. Cameraopp, editing, audio mastering, video encoding, dvd authoring, compositing

Small-scale web developer: html, css, flash and streaming media development.

Beng, Multimedia Systems

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