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London, United Kingdom

Created company to develop cutting edge applications and to provide frontend expertise to external companies.- Miners Walk - Interactive documentary: Built large interactive documentary as a single page javascript application featuring multiple pages, animations and interactive videos. I collaborated closely with the designer and film maker throughout the 18 month project to design and build every aspect of this application. Created a bespoke video player to allow the user to interact with the main video. Winner of prestigious Lovie award for Video Documentary 2017 beating entries from major organisations such as The Guardian and BBC. - Merapi Stories - Interactive documentary: Converted previous interactive documentary from vanilla javascript to the latest React and NextJs frameworks to take advantage of React Server Components and the new App Router resulting in a better, faster user experience. Built component for embedding YouTube videos inside NextJS applications, this is currently being converted to an open-source npm package to allow external companies to easily add video.

London Area, United Kingdom

- React CMS application: Provided frontend expertise to a team of 8 full-stack developers who were a year into building a React CMS application. Made immediate impact by identifying development bottlenecks and rewrote several components to improve application performance and allow new design features to be quickly added. Worked closely with the designer to build an advanced filter and search UI for displaying complex data. This component added a major new feature to the CMS and was quickly integrated into several further projects.- React UI component library: Joined a team of frontend developers and designers on a 2 year project to build a mono-repo of UI components. Promoted the importance of building accessible components and provided guidance and mentorship to the team to achieve this goal. Maintained constant communication between all product teams to identify and produce new features for each UI component. The final library of 70+ components created consistent branding and reduced the development time across every product team.

London, United Kingdom

- News Central: Led a team of frontend developers building a major internal application that allowed 5000 journalists to collaborate on breaking news feeds and organise running orders for TV and radio. Resulted in reducing the £5 million annual bill the BBC paid for external software. Later used as the backbone to the BBC’s Journalist Toolkit.- US Election 2012: Developed the BBC’s first joint mobile and desktop project. Created the initial template to allow several developers to work on individual features. Built the data visualisation that displayed live updated results to almost 18 million viewers on election night. This project was later the catalyst to BBC News moving to a fully responsive site in 2014.- Interactive thematic data maps: Built Flash library that reduced development time from weeks to hours allowing BBC News to add interactive maps to breaking news stories. These were used regularly for several years until the move to a responsive mobile site.- Embedded Media Player: Built javascript library for embedding video used on every BBC news page. I updated this for Beijing Olympics 2008 to create the first embedded live video.- Deaths on the road: Developed an interactive map using javascript and Microsoft Bing maps to allow the user to filter, search and view information and locations of over 36,000 recorded fatalities in the UK from the previous decade.

London, United Kingdom

British Airways: Developed and designed every aspect of a 3D flight simulator promotional game.Nokia / Fjord: Working at Fjord during its start-up year, I built the prototype for Nokia’s Lifeblog application that automatically created a digital diary from messages and photos captured on first generation camera phones. This was one of the first major projects at Fjord which helped expand it from a handful of people to the major international design studio it became.HSBC: Designed the first 3D game for Sky TV set-top boxes for an HSBC interactive advert. The ground-breaking game made waves in the advertising industry and was a D&AD award winner.Hasbro / BMP DBB: Designed the gameplay at BMP DBB’s start-up digital division and built the prototypes for Hasbro’s Trivial Pursuit and Battleships games for interactive Sky TV. The launch of Trivial Pursuit was extremely successful generating £500,000 in its first 2 weeksPlayJam: Built enhanced web versions of every platform and racing game created for the PlayJam platform.Vodafone / Identica: Worked with the designers at major design agency Identica to create 7 promotional Flash animations that ran on large screens in every Vodafone store for a year.

Master'S Degree, Multimedia

C, C++, 3D graphic programming, graphic design, Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor'S Degree, Physics And Computer Science