Matt Nicholson Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, United Kingdom

An accelerator for positive change, Olson is a creative consultancy using digital, design & marketing for good — to help purpose-led businesses reach more customers, to raise awareness for progressive & transformative community causes, or to create apps & interfaces for socially-&-environmentally-conscious services.

Leading Here's use of digital to help deliver their mission of making good choices desirable. Notably working with charities to make their causes more findable & sharable, and using motion & interaction to improve visibility & storytelling for good initiatives — such as circular startup Reweave and Here's own BCorp impact report.

London, United Kingdom

Archive is a digital studio exploring interaction & innovation through technology and design. As partner & Director, my role was to ensure our work produced distinctive, memorable experiences for our clients to deliver value to their audiences.

London

Ekobai is a database of green, environmentally friendly and certified companies & products. My role was managing development iterations for UX, DevOps and creating an API for data partnerships

London

Online fitness and bodybuilding website with e-commerce facility- Implemented search engine strategies for content, markup and site architecture- Implemented affiliate marketing schemes & tracking- Developed custom user engagement algorithms for product reminders and suggestions- Programmed custom abandoned basket & other UX/user engagement features.

Beijing & London

Lead developer for high traffic motorsport event site- Managed digital delivery from China internationally- Solved technical problems under pressure- Delivered solutions to remedy mission critical outages under load at an application level- Dealt with high traffic spikes- Implemented caching rules to improve performance- Designed custom content management.

Esher

Senior developer at Direct Design (DDA) involved design and build of corporate sites, plus developing a custom in-house content management system with codeigniter which is now deployed with any DDA site.- Managed Team of Developers & Web Designers- Introduced internal development workflow- Managed version control of core in house system shared across all.

Southampton

In house digital designer for ATL covering 3 sub brands- Animated promotional video & flash content- Designed printed collateral- Introduced fresh graphic approach- Developed custom Flash CMS- Redesigned & redeveloped corporate website

Computer Animation, 3D Modelling, Animation, Editing, Digital Media, Scripting, Design

Activities and Societies: Pompey MusicComputer animation including: - Scripted programmatic animations with visual effect - Hand-animated.

A-Level, Computer Science, Art, Business

Activities and Societies: Rugby, Squash, Hockey- Worked conscientiously - Contributed in teams sports for school and house (rugby, hockey.