Emyr Thomas Email & Phone Number

Llandudno, Gb

Working on Tour Amigo

Gaerwen, Wales, United Kingdom

Designed, developed and brought to market one of the company's core products offerings - a web based 3D home configurator - used by a number of the UK's leading homebuilders, allowing them to showcase their homes in exceptional detail online and enable their customers to fully configure every part of their future home's interior.Produced fully interactive web based 3D site plans of housing developments for major UK homebuilders using WebGLDeveloped numerous in-house tools to automate processes and streamline intensive digital asset workflows within the company.

Abergele, Wales, United Kingdom

Development and support of a proprietary in-house iOS app for Shell UK, allowing company owned and franchise service station staff to track various types of information regarding deliveries, daily health and safety checklists, stock-taking, incident reports and other day-to-day activities. Data was collected via REST API to a Django back-end system. A web based dashboard built using Svelte allowed service station managers of various levels to access historic and real-time information regarding any of the UK-wide service stations under their control.As an event agency, I helped the company build and develop conference booking/ticketing systems for a number of global member-driven associations and professional societies.

Bangor, Wales, United Kingdom

Old Colwyn, Conwy, United Kingdom

Specialising in delivering easy-to-use Multilingual WordPress based web solutions, including Multilingual eCommerce and Social Media integration. Custom WordPress theme and plugin development, plus ongoing support & maintenance contracts.

Caernarfon, Wales, United Kingdom

Virtual Office

Web services developer, writing code to connect and integrate various company services.Integrations with SalesForce.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Managed the development and delivery of the Content Management system to support the Ubiquity Developer Network – a self-service portal providing relevant content (documentation, downloads, message boards, blogs) to developers of the Ubiquity SIP Application Server platform. Comparable in purpose to Microsoft’s MSDN or BEA’s dev2dev.Migrated the company’s corporate web site onto the same CM system as the UDN portal.Integrating the Salesforce.com web-services based CRM system with the above-mentioned sites using XML-based SOAP protocol.Rapid web application development using Python based web application frameworks.Responsible for managing out-sourced projects, making sure work is delivered on time and to specification.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

As part of the web services team, my core responsibility was to enable, maintain and improve a high quality user experience (encompassing usability, visual elements and content design) across numerous Cardiff University web sites and services. Manage processes and protocols to maintain quality and usability of content produced by large numbers of devolved web publishers within the University.Responsible for design aspects of key University web services, including development, maintenance and promotion.Responsible for production and maintenance of user experience standards documentation, including online style guide.Producing written specification and requirements documentation for new website areas and applications, and managing the quality of the required service through internal and external suppliers.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Senior member of a team of 3 Internet developers creating web applications and content for set top box & WebTV platforms using a combination of HTML/XHTML, CSS, DHTML, JavaScript, PHP, JSP, SQL & XML/XSL.Designing and producing front-end user interfaces for web based Video-on-Demand services.Worked on customised VoD solutions for numerous high-profile clients including Blockbuster, Travelodge, NEC, BT, BBC, Verizon, Disney, Marriott International, Peninsula Hotels, Playboy and Television X.Designed & developed the company’s corporate website.Configuration of Apache HTTP server and associated modules on various UNIX platforms.

Bracknell, United Kingdom

Originating and designing graphics, HTML and XML/XSL content for EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) web sites.Responsible for developing Dell’s Online Style Guidelines and maintaining site quality in accordance with said guidelines.Re-branded Dell site with a consistent global design.Special duties involved introducing multimedia content into their site, in the form of Macromedia Flash, QuickTime VR and interactive 3D VRML models.

Caenarfon, United Kingdom

Recruited as head of the new Multimedia Design Unit after a period of industrial work experience from university.Designed & developed company website.Designed sleeves for CDs, cassettes, videos and books released by SAIN, HTV and S4C.Jointly developed first ever Welsh language educational CD-ROM with Mindscape, used in primary schools throughout Wales.Created promotional posters, magazine and newspaper advertisements.Digital video editing for clients such as the Environment Agency.Laying out Welsh versions of well-known children's books by Harper Collins Publishers.

Blaenau Ffestiniog, United Kingdom

Administrator of a newly opened New Media Technology Centre in the rural town of Blaenau Ffestiniog.Day-to-day running of centre, including maintaining a small MS Windows network.Provided one-to-one tuition on multimedia authoring using Macromedia Director and non-linear digital video editing.Lectured on various aspects of multimedia to classes of non-I.T. literate teachers, lecturers and business people.

Llandudno, United Kingdom

Commissioned to work for company following a week of work experience while at school.Illustrated a series of four tourist maps of locations in North Wales.Maps were on sale at a number of locations around North Wales, and from various high-street stores including W.H.Smith.

Ma, Advanced Digital Design

Bsc, Electronic Imaging And Media Communications

Education record