Christopher Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Oxford, GB

Hinxton And Oxford

As an ARISE fellow, I will be developing research infrastructure for immunologists. This will comprise tools and datasets.

Remote And Oxford

I've been self-employed for over a decade, working as a freelance consultant with work which ranged from helping to set up and run developer programmes, to digital change strategies, to making products. I did things as diverse as making social games for festivals, helping Martha Lane Fox and the UK government understand how to make better public services.

Remote

CAST helps realise the opportunities and implications of technology, so charities can continue to champion and support the most vulnerable and so funders can build stronger tech for good programmes and support grantees with practical training in user-centred, digital service design. We've just launched The Catalyst, a new initiative to scale up the work of.

Oxford, United Kingdom

Oxford Nanoimaging is a spin out from Oxford University with an incredibly interesting high resolution microscope.

Oxford

I was looking after the very smart, talented technical teams at White October and developing a technical strategy which will help them deliver the very best solutions for their clients. - Moving 80% of clients into the cloud in first 9 months- Empowering a restructured technical team leading to productivity gains- Working on a talent development programme.

Oxford

I Can Make was a startup education company, aimed at helping teacher and students learn using 3D printers in the classroom. - Finalist in Pitch to Rich 2014 (Virgin) and Pitch at Palace 2015- Created an award winning STEM/coding learning programme with the education team at Tower Bridge, where children use 3D printed model bridge parts and electronics to.

London

DACS is the preeminent artists’ rights organisation in the UK. Working directly with the Chief Executive and sitting on the management team, I helped DACS become a digital first organisation with a culture of internal research and development.- Created a Digital Strategy and transformation plan for the organisation- Facilitated workshops between DACS and.

London

I helped at the inception of the Government Digital Service, prior in fact to its naming, to form collaboratively the vision, operating principles and operating model for the service. Working closely with Mike Bracken, Executive Director, Digital at Cabinet Office, I was responsible for pulling together the views and thoughts of the staff of DirectGov, the.

Artfinder was a technology startup hoping to create a social experience of art. It had an ambitious scale, encompassing a curated encyclopedia, an image recognition phone application and a platform for creating “coffee table book” style iPad applications. - Architected and managed the platform for creating iPad applications- Managed the publication over 20.

For 15 years I was a volunteer for the groundbreaking Cass Sculpture Foundation (formerly Sculpture at Goodwood). My involvement included:- Building their first website in 1996 - Building their digital archive of images online- Delivering the digital part of the public consultation exercise which led to contemporary sculpture being placed on the Fourth.

London

Whilst at The Guardian I helped to set up the Open Platform project and the Activate Summit and set up and ran the Guardian Developer Network. It was an exciting time for newspaper publishing in general, with a declining revenue base and an increase in traffic from social sharing. I was responsible for creating and delivering a set of presentations which.

London, United Kingdom

I helped on the launch of the developer preview of data.gov.uk. I worked closely with the team in the Cabinet Office on making sure that the launch was fit for purpose for developers and that the right data, license and messaging was in place.It was one of my proudest professional moments to be working in a team which included Sir Tim Berners Lee.

I ran the UK and European arm of the MySpace Developer Platform, working closely with local partners, the ad sales team, creative agencies, clients, developers, the two head offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco and with other parts of the Open Social partnership in Google and beyond.My role encompassed involving MySpace in the UK tech scene which they.

Mind Candy is a games/entertainment company, best known for Moshi Monsters. I joined the company after they had closed their Series A round in 2006 and the board felt they needed an experienced technical leader. My role included:- Leading and reforming the existing technical team to fix scalability problems on their first product Perplex City- Hiring and.

The Scientist was the third best read life-sciences magazine, coming in just behind Nature and Science. As CTO, I was responsible for the switch to digital first publication including:- Architecting new editorial and content workflows and content types- Creating a continuous publishing environment for the web including blogging, video, audio and news.

London, United Kingdom

The Science Navigation Group (formerly Current Science Group) is a group of science publishing ventures created by its chairman Vitek Tracz. For just under 7 years I worked closely with Vitek on projects which either created new business models and content types within publishing, or which led to the rejuvenation of existing businesses. The group had over.

PeoplesArchive was an online video on-demand solution of Nobel prize winning scientists and renowned film-makers and artists talking about their lives. My work on the product included:- Developing a simple to use authoring system based on iMovie to bring on board editors who'd never edited video before- Architecting and developing an in-house distributed.

London

BioMedCentral was one of the first Open Access science publishers in the world. My role encompassed: - Acting as the conduit between the editorial and technical teams- Defining content formats, information hierarchies, search query and datastore architecture, and navigation structures- Working closely with editorial and marketing to define the new business.

London

Working with the editorial team and from a standing start we developed one of the first Open Access science journals and the first which was a hybrid of peer review content and commissioned review content. My role involved developing the initial code prototype, running the team which built the production site, developing the information structures and look.

Worked with the core IT team at Taylor and Francis and the Marketing team to look at digital opportunities within the group.

I worked with the author teams of the bestselling Molecular Biology of the Cell and Essential Cell Biology to develop a novel CD-ROM accompaniment for the textbooks designed as an annual addition to help reduce the impact of the used book market. The project was deemed to be a success with an approximate 10% increase in the sales of new books.Also worked.

Worked on a variety of client projects including the web presence for UK and Europe for Tomorrow Never Dies (Bond 18), a corporate communications intranet for Unilever and web shows for MSN.

London, United Kingdom

Project managed the subscriber area of Which? Online up until launch and also coded systems for building the HTML for the editorial content. Also worked on parts of the projects to build the first web presences for Lufthansa, Alliance and Leicester and Jean Michel Jarre

Phd, Computational And Molecular Immunology

Part way through my PhD, my supervisor and I set up the first webserver in London at a time when the NCSA's Sites of the Day had so few.

Bsc, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Served on entertainments committee. Graduation ball chairman in final year.