Dorian Mcfarland Email & Phone Number

Stavanger, Rogaland, NO

Making things that work for us work even better for others

Paris, France, FR

Figs of London is a small independent record label primarily responsible for releasing the work of Marseille Figs & MOLE. Danger Island, our Kickstarter funded double LP, is released on 17th August 2018.

London, GB

I joined ROLI 6 months before they launched their consumer-oriented BLOCKS. The last two years saw rapid growth for the company, partnering with both Apple and Google, and I had to adapt and expand to meet those challenges. My initial role of Senior Web Developer grew into Solutions Architect, DevOps, SRE and Senior Javascript Developer. After April 2018 I.

London, GB

Developing cutting-edge online interactive entertainment formats for ourselves and clients including BBC, NHS, Saga and Pokerstars.Alongside steering our product development and running the technical team, I have responsibility for system design, setup, build and administration of all server-side components. Extensive use of AWS, PostgreSQL & MongoDB.

After our initial consultancy work, Studio Ex Nihilo was acquired by multi-tiered UK agency VCCP as in in-house invention agency. I was responsible for defining and building digital prototypes, products and services for clients including: Telefonica, Sony, o2, Easyjet, The AA, Saga, Nesta, Acromas & Zapp.Most notably, I led the development of o2 Travel.

Whilst at Oil I fulfilled the roles of both Lead developer and CTO, leading a small development team building web and mobile apps with supporting backend services. I worked on technical specifications, IA, built a bespoke cross-domain CMS in Ruby on Rails and a number of smaller bespoke solutions for online projects.Clients included: The Conran Group.

Through a number of short and ongoing contracts, we built a range of hand-crafted website solutions and online tools to suit artists' needs.Alongside these bespoke sites we developed a Ruby on Rails template system for visual artists to easily manage their online presence: http://greatwhitewall.com.

Primarily developing for the TUC's worksmart.org.uk, I managed their development environment and their server, built online tools for people to better understand their rights at work, and had general oversight for the code quality and the day-to-day running of the site.

Whilst at HHB Dialogue, I was responsible for the technical development of an innovative market research tool called The White Room. This was a suite of tools for distributing questions to groups of users; collecting, transcribing and evaluating their videoed responses, and generating comparative charts for derived QUAL and QUANT data.The backend was built.

I built: - RESTful API in PHP to an event management tool called EVENT. - Twitter/Flickr aggregator that collected and packaged resources up for FTP collection and eventual inclusion in a daily print magazine.

Web development as part of a team, maintaining standards compliance and accessibility for web and digital TV. Lead front-end developer for UMS Conversations, an experiment in social software that created a virtual space to facilitate unbounded, extremely localized threaded discussion (See presentation here: http://www.plasticbag.org/files/misc/etech.ppt).

Bad Homburg Vor Der Höhe, Hessen, DE

Lots of tables. HTML tables. Tables in tables in tables. Those were the days.

Mfa, Fine Art Media

Ba Hons, Fine Art Sculpture