Alastair Maggs Email & Phone Number

Bristol, United Kingdom

Since setting up Chaos Created in November 2008 (which became Chaos Created Limited in 2013), we've created several acclaimed in-house apps and games, as well as commissioned apps, games, and websites for many high-profile clients, including Carphone Warehouse, Nokia, Tesco, TeenTech and TES. In 2016, we launched Code Created, an initiative offering coding workshops to primary and secondary schools, to inspire the next generation of app and game developers.Through Chaos Created, we have developed software for a variety of platforms. We released two innovative games for the Windows Phone platform. Timedancer combined a sci-fi story (written by film writer Ari Abraham) with 3D exploration, puzzles and live-action video. We developed Zombies Ate My City, an acclaimed location-based game that built a zombie invasion story with arcade gameplay around the player's town. We also released the physics-based Pancake Panic on iOS, Android and Windows. After releasing Langeroo Adventures in 2017, we are now focussed on our first console game, Bad Day for a Balloon Ride, for Xbox and PC.Through our work on Timedancer and Zombies Ate My City, we've given talks at BAFTA and other Transmedia events. Both games were featured on BBC Click.

In this role, I've been responsible for heading up digital transformation, helping TeenTech, with their team spread across the UK, communicate and collaborate online, and helping TeenTech communicate with teachers, students and parents.I've implemented Microsoft 365, including Teams, across the entire organisation and utilised OneDrive for storage, file sharing and coauthoring, helping the TeenTech team (who all work remotely) collaborate and communicate.At the start of the pandemic, I developed a safe and secure live-streaming platform on the TeenTech website, and developed the format for TeenTech's virtual events. I was responsible for producing these events (we've run more than 250!) and wrote custom code on top of open-source software to allow us to produce streams with the desired interactivity whilst prioritising safeguarding. I'm also responsible for the ongoing development work on the TeenTech website. Over the summer of 2021, I built an automated booking system to allow schools to register for our popular virtual and in-person events and receive confirmation emails and reminders. I've also implemented a new TeenTech Account system, allowing teachers, students and parents to make the most of the opportunities TeenTech offers.I manage TeenTech's social media and email communication channels. With the return to in-person events, I have been running live-streams and blogs on these days, bringing the best parts of our virtual events to our in-person Festivals and the TeenTech Awards.

Since 2013, I've been delivering app, games and technology workshops at large scale TeenTech Festival events across the UK. In 2017, in addition to the ongoing TeenTech Festivals, I began delivering TeenTech Create Your Future and TeenTech City of Tomorrow workshops in schools across the UK, with a focus on areas of social and economic deprivation.In 2020, I began presenting and producing live shows online for TeenTech, under the TeenTech Live brand, delivering highly interactive Innovation Days and other sessions to young people. Each virtual event features special guests from the world of science, technology, engineering, gaming, and music. In 2020, we worked with more than 10,000 young people through these virtual events.These sessions have been extremely successful, and we're now running multiple sessions each week in 2022.

Churchill, Somerset

In 2005 I joined the team at Electronic Blackboard, an educational software startup in Bristol. I was responsible for creating several hundred educational games and activities under the iboard brand for reception, year one, and year two pupils. This included the iboard Online Club, a Maths project covering the entire maths curriculum for reception, year one, and year two, and many commissioned projects including a Climate Control project for WMNet. As my time with the company went on, I also helped to lead several projects including Big Day Out as project manager.Electronic Blackboard (and the iboard brand) was sold to TES Global in 2008 and became TES iboard, producing new educational resources for the TES Resources and TES Elements websites. I left the company as a full-time employee in 2008, but I continued creating content for TES iboard until 2017 through my company, Chaos Created.

My company, Befour Films, helped to develop and provided all post-production on three feature films, S'kali (2007), 5:13 (2010) and The Joshua Tapes (2010).Befour also had a commercial arm providing video and film production for companies and events, which went on to become Brand Calibre and is now based in Glasgow.

Bristol, United Kingdom

I was responsible for advertising and promotions for the UK buildings of Holiday Retirement (now known as The Hawthorns group in the UK). I produced all the marketing literature and designed adverts and brochures which were used for the Clevedon and Eastbourne facilities, and are still used to market new buildings as they open. I was also responsible for internal events/activities and special marketing events which included building community relationships and working with local charities and businesses. I was also responsible for building and maintaining the company website.

Time Based Media Ba Hons, Media Production, First Class Honours (1:1)

This course covered animation, multimedia (DVD, Flash, Director), film work (I specialised in editing), radio and sound, and other areas.

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