Tom Chadwin Email & Phone Number

Technical development and client liaison for premier open-source geospatial UK company

Temporary operational lead of product development team, overseeing upgrade to high-traffic cloud basemapping service and final stages of major update to core Astun GIS/mapping product iShare.

Remote

Development and client liaison for cloud-based geospatial services, with a focus on products for public-sector clients.

Hexham

• Promoted to manage ICT team with full responsibility for all systems and related legal areas:
• manage team of three
• responsible for £150k budgets
• sole representative on strategic IT partnership group between all UK National Parks
• Freedom of Information Officer for the Authority

• Given permanent role with responsibility for large technical infrastructure developments:
• built and maintained ADSL-based load-balanced VPN WAN across Northumberland
• built and maintained converged VoIP/ISDN/analogue embedded open-source phone network
• responsible for organization’s DNS, including DNS-based load-balancing
• redesigned corporate website and assisted migration to Squiz Matrix

• Fixed-term technical and creative role including:
• Implemented XHTML 1.0 Strict compliant elastic design for new corporate website in Livelink
• created AJAX-based online mapping site in PHP using MapGuide Open Source
• assisted in Actionscript 2 coding for online games
• built ASP/SQL Server-based planning application site and.NET online mapping/GIS site
• built e-commerce facility

Hexham, Northumberland

• Manager of UK National Park websites, and coordinator of joint National Park web and ICT projects:
• system administrator and developer of UK National Park websites
• liaise with UK National Park officers
• implemented www.broads-authority.gov.uk in Squiz Matrix
• chair national conferences
• open-source GIS development (qgis2leaf plugin)

• Project manager for all internet and web systems:
• responsible for all web projects including internet, intranet, and extranet
• assisted in upgrade of hosting and connectivity
• developed an XHTML, standards-compliant Content Management System from scratch
• responsible for liaison with all internal staff and external contractors on web-related issues

• Responsible for full lifecycle of projects, from initial specification, through construction and testing, to launch and ongoing maintenance, development, and promotion:
• technical project manager for Newcastle Airport
• technical project manager for North Yorkshire Police
• worked on content delivery system for Miramax

• Supervisory and technical role, with overall responsibility for the production of a wide range of multimedia projects:
• project managed multilingual Flash-based multimedia CD-ROM for LEGO Media
• worked on educational site for Glaxo SmithKline

• Overall responsibility for large web site (www.csp.org.uk) of London-based organization of over 30,000 members:
• undertook all coding (HTML, Javascript, Flash, Perl)
• introduced e-commerce
• implemented data-driven job advertising
• increased traffic to site from 75,000 hits/month to 125,000
• fully specified personnel requirements and technical specification of new data-driven site

• Front-end web design for wide range of clients:
• Produced a range of sites for Typhoo, including full-screen Flash-only site
• Flash animation for Newcastle Falcons and Durham County Cricket Club
• 3D animation for Procter and Gamble

• Sole trader, specializing in low-volume, high-quality bespoke design and print; responsible for all aspects of running a small business, together with all technical aspects of design and print work, moving into web.
• English Heritage
• Oxfam
• Canada Life Assurance

Master Of Philosophy (M.Phil.), Anglo-Saxon, Norse, And Celtic

Activities and Societies: Graphic design and print for Emmanuel College music society Medieval Irish and Welsh language and literature

Ma, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, And Celtic, First

Activities and Societies: Graphic design and print for the Troubadours medieval music society Medieval Irish and Welsh, Anglo-Saxon, and.