Work

I have had two long-term roles since entering the world of work in 2000. Since 2005, alongside those role I have freelanced for a variety of different organisations. From 2012 I ran my own company for two and a half years before going to work for one of my clients in November 2014.

Key timeline and examples of work, most recent first.

November 2014 - Present: Saentys

I am currently the lead, Senior Web Developer at Saentys – a design agency in Shoreditch, London, UK. As well as working on many website projects for clients, I develop and maintain our in-house applications and CMS (largely built on Laravel or Symfony). I also manage our domain and hosting instances which house sites for us and our clients. These sites are built with Craft, Statamic, WordPress and static sites.

June 2012 - November 2014: Own company

Full-time running my own business, carrying out web design and development projects for clients.

• Tossed - customer email template for Tossed Salad and Sandwich Shops. Subsequently retained to make content and template updates to their website.
• CABS CAD - Updated ExpressionEngine website for Computer Aided Design software and training consultants.
• Fly Research - email newsletter template for an event series they were running.
• MailSend app - internal project for marketing of my email marketing platform
• UKOM - ExpressionEngine website for the United Kingdom Online Measurement Company.
• InsightCube Research & Insight - PerchCMS website build for new research consultancy
• TNS-BMRB - new ExpressionEngine website for the newly branded social research department within the TNS Group.
• Chroma - worked on several ExpressionEngine website projects for them in a freelance capacity (Pitch International, Pitch Brasil, Racecouse Data Company).
• Sama Kitchen - pre-launch page for restaurant.
• urBod - ExpressionEngine website for food, nutritionist, and employee wellbeing consultant.
• Sparkloop - long-term freelance contract working on Redbull's marketing and retail campaign delivery system, based on ExpressionEngine
• Bounce Theatre - redesign of and build of ExpressionEngine website for this youth theatre company.
• ViMedia - ExpressiongEngine website build.
• Megan's Restaurant - rebuild and update of the website for this new and expanding restaurant and deli business.
• Saentys - freelance work on several website projects, and then they offered me a full-time role as Senior Web Developer! And we all lived happily ever after... :)

February 2005 - June 2012: Various freelance projects

Various freelance projects for clients.

• Mariachis (band) - Fan website and HTML newsletter
• Paul Milsom Photography - Flash website and banner ads
• BMG Stone - marketing website
• The Lucky (band)
• The London Collie Club
• Share Equity UK
• The Login Cabin - print and email version of a newsletter keeping supporters and users up to date with what was going on with this charity. Followed up later in the year with a design for a printed and emailable Christmas card.
• South Design - Campaign Monitor email template for this design agency to send to its clients. The subsequently commissioned further email templates for their own clients.
• Equality Focus - marketing website for this equality consultancy
• MyKidsTime.ie - Email newsletter template. Then subsequently the redesign and rebuild of their main website.
• Snapdragon Recruitment - branding (logo, business cards, letter heads), the design and building of a marketing/listings website and banner ads for this recruiment consultancy.
• BW Consulting - email newsletter for a commercial facilitator and business development consulatant.
• Steve Cooke Consulting - email newsletter and marketing website for this marketing consultant.
• Seventh Sphere Research - email newsletter and website for this research company.
• Gina Cannon Garden Design - new ExpressionEngine website design and build for this garden designer.

September 2000 - June 2012: British Market Research Bureau

Digital Marketing Executive, then Senior Digital Marketing Executive for this long established and respected market research agency. During my time here I:

• managed the websites of around 12 seperate business units
• designed and produced an internal company newsletter
• helped manage the company's training courses for clients
• created an event booking app to manage the bookings for the company's training centre for clients
• managed the design of the company's intranet
• tried to work out what Google was when it launched