I've been making high quality digital products for 15+ years, entertaining and educating millions of users, learners and players. As cofounder of three companies I've worked on award winning projects with some big organisations, including BBC Learning, BBC Drama & Entertainment, Amazon and Cambridge Dictionaries. In all my projects I put my skills diligently to work, aiming to create some positive change in the world and have a bit of fun trying.My focus right now is on our mobile app Readable. Our mission: to make the world’s best stories easy to read and free for every English learner. We're dead pleased with the results so far: 1M+ users and a Google Play rating of 4.8 stars globally (5 stars in Germany and Argentina). And the encouraging reviews on Google Play genuinely cheer us up every day.Career highlight so far – a series of educational interactives we made for the BBC which gained the highest Net Promoter score on bbc.co.uk for 18 consecutive months!For a quick overview of my skills and experience you can find my CV/résumé on my portfolio site at https://mike.readable.app
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Technology Lead And Co-FounderReadableEdinburgh, Gb
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Ceo / Technology Lead / Co-FounderReadable Sep 2019 - PresentEdinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomTechnology lead on the team creating Readable – a fun, social & fast language-learning app. Readable enables everyone to learn English for free by reading for pleasure. It's a small team so we wear all the hats going. As tech lead, I spend most of my time working on...• UI and business logic dev – Javascript, React Native• Database design – MongoDB, SQLite, CouchDB• Building content creation tools – Node.js, react-admin, Symfony• Building analytics tools – Firebase, BigQuery, Data Studio• Computational linguistics – Python, Docker...and constant research! I'll also be pulled in to collaborate with the team on UX design, product design, marketing, business strategy.★ Readable was a finalist in the ELTons (2020), the preeminent international English language teaching awards.★ Readable is a member of the Educate accelerator at the world’s #1 educational research institution, UCL’s Institute of Education
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Technology Lead / Co-FounderCoob 2005 - PresentLondon & EdinburghFounder and technology lead at digital agency Coob, developing software for...• BBC Learning, BBC Drama & Entertainment – Many successful projects, including BIMA nominated BBC Webwise which gained the BBC’s highest Net Promoter score on bbc.co.uk for 18 consecutive months.• Amazon – We developed the prototype of Amazon's video-on-demand Fire TV interface.• Arika – Media archive website for Turner Prize winning (2020) arts organisation.• National Museums Scotland – Series of playful historical interactives.• Bòcan – Website for leading Gaelic language learning resource.• City of Edinburgh Council – General election live-results service, as featured in The Guardian.
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Ceo / Technology Lead / Co-FounderPlaylingo 2013 - Sep 2019EdinburghTechnology lead of a team creating fun, social & fast language-learning apps in partnership with Cambridge University Press... • Wordable – A competitive multiplayer language-learning game for Android and iOS. Finalist in the 2018 ELTon Awards (Innovation in Learner Resources category). Currently on 100K+ installs (all platforms) and 4.7 stars on Android Play.• Lingopolis – An innovative browser-based isometric city-building game for learning vocabulary. Finalist in the 2016 ELTon Awards (Digital Innovation category).• Playlingo were winners of Innovate UK's Innovation in Education contest. -
DeveloperFreelance Developer 2000 - 2004LondonBack at the turn of the century I was living in London and finding my feet in digital. I was juggling projects at lots of agencies / companies, e.g. Virgin Media, Glue London, Londonbuzz.My favourite was an endearingly basic game called Chip Grabber, for McCains (the ovenchip company). You can still play it to this day! https://www.flashgamesplayer.com/free/chip-grabber/play.html
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