April 2013 - September 2013, Remote working
Firef.ly tracks your location to create a journal of your travels (whether holiday or daily), adding in images, videos and checkins to create context. In order to provide intelligent recommendations when you're out and about, the app contains a city guide for a number of cities (including London, Paris, New York, Singapore, Amsterdam, Rome).
My roles as CTO were (among others):-
April 2013 - September 2013, Remote working
Working with the Glasgow based Simple Audio to develop a control application for their networked home audio hardware products. The project involved working with APIs from multiple online music providers along with their internal API for the hardware platform. There were many challenges with this project, not least the need to get heavily involved in threaded code for improving performance.
January 2013 – March 2013, Remote working
Working as sole developer, with Somewhat_ to create an app for LS:N Global; an online trend forecasting and consumer insight network. A members-only portal, it looks at what is new, next and influencing markets across 14 key lifestyle sectors.
November 2012 - January 2013, Remote working
Steamshift Ltd won the contract to develop the iOS, Android and web apps for Epilepsy Action; a charity who help epilepsy sufferers manage their condition. With the introduction of HealthKit on iOS, the app was retired in 2016.
December 2012, Remote working
An iPad app for a Sainsbury’s event built in conjuction with Physical Pixels.
The app used the iPad camera to recognise the labels on 3 different Sainsbury’s products, then shows information about those products, and allows users to provide their details for further information.
June 2012 – September 2012, Remote working
A project for the New Era Cap Company for the European market. Delivered in French, German and English, the app demonstrated their history and product range along with feeds from their Street Style Tumblr site, and Facebook and Twitter social feeds.
The app also included 4 mini games – 2 American football games and 2 baseball games, these are behind an Augmented Reality based lock screen which can only be unlocked by pointing your iOS device at New Era logos in their stores.
The 2 American football games are in 3d, and the baseball games in 2d; although they all share a simple custom physics engine, and behaviour engines for the 2 team based games.
We worked on the development of this app with the excellent team at Somewhat_; I worked as the sole developer on the app, with the exception of the games, where the development duties were shared between myself and another developer (Owen Bennett – my brother and business partner).
May 2012 – June 2012, London, UK
As part of a major redesign of Barclays web presence, I worked as dev team lead on frontend development working with the designers to translate photoshop designs to working templates for sure with the Barclays CMS.
April 2012 – May 2012, Remote working
West End Studios came to me with an idea for an application for allowing companies to demonstrate their web content offline without needing to create a specific app for it. I took an existing open-source library (SESpringboard) and used it as the basis for the application; although I found that it did some of what I wanted to achieve (an iOS springboard-like interface), it didn't support orientation changes or iPad - I extended it to support those elements and pushed it back to GitHub. Once the primary interface was in place I added the functionality for downloading and unarchiving the webclips and displaying them.
The app was delivered to clients as an enterprise deployment.
April 2012 – May 2012, Remote working
I worked with web hack-star Syd Lawrence as iOS developer on this music application for ShareMyPlaylists.com. Primary responsibilities involved integration of 3rd party cocoa libraries (cocoaspotifylib, sharekit) and wrapping that functionality in PhoneGap plugins. In the case of ShareKit we needed to make some in depth changes in order to support the 'Open in Spotify …' functionality.
December 2011 – April 2012, Remote working & London, UK
Working on an HTML5 based mobile application, for a major food brand, for delivery using the PhoneGap framework, I worked primarily on the bridge areas between the PhoneGap CocoaTouch and the javascript. I created several plugins and debugged and integrated several third party ones to provide functionality that extended the built-in capabilities of PhoneGap on the iOS platform.
November 2011 – December 2011, Remote working
Working with the client to develop a technical and design/UX proof of concept application using web technologies to create a UI in the banking marketplace. Apart from the creation of a front-end application (built using jQuery, Knockout.js), this involved understanding the lower level systems to in order to integrate the UI with the hardware platform.
July 2010 – October 2010, Remote working & London, UK
My primary role at Tribal was to create a marketing microsite for the Volkswagen Passat CC, with an accompanying touchscreen application and a matching iPhone app. The touchscreen application was deployed on large screens in exhibition stands at 4 major shopping centres across the UK. The iPhone app was originally developed in JavaScript inside the PhoneGap framework as proof of concept and for demonstration to the client. On sign-off from the client, I rewrote the application in Cocoa & Objective-C primarily for performance reasons.
November 2011 – November 2011, Remote working & London, UK
A short term contract, working with the client to resolve front and backend issues on 2 different web projects; primarily reworking one website into a responsive design, and adding Powerpoint and PDF export functions the other.
August 2011 – August 2011, Remote working
Brought in to work with the other IOS developers, I created a surveys section for a conference application, which was configured fully from the server-side, and included both static and interactive surveys.
November 2010 – September 2011, Remote working & Reading, UK
I worked at Yell to create a user friendly front-end and user management layer for an open-source web analytics platform, available to over 25,000 Yell customers. The application featured an extensive API which was used by both the application itself internally, but also in an iOS dashboard. In addition I created a client-side UI layer for an internal toolkit application, and set up project management software and a continuous integration server using Jenkins.
May 2008 – July 2010, Remote working
For JP Creative, I acted as the lead developer and development team manager, working with my own team of developers, on a series of websites. I was involved in all aspects of taking site from design to completed, live website. Utilising skills in PHP (primarily using the Kohana PHP framework), MySQL, Javascript, XML, XSL, HTML, CSS and Linux server administration.
June 2006 – May 2012, UK
During the period 2006-2012 I worked as a contract web developer working on websites and intranet sites for Lotus, BAA, Mazda, Fiat, Panduit and Microsoft among many others. In many cases I was the lead or sole developer, and used a variety of technologies such as HTML5, CSS, XML, PHP, XSL and Javascript.
February 2004 – June 2006, Romsey, UK
In this role I lead the successful installation and maintenance of the physical networking and internal mail and file servers, and web servers in data centers, including backup solutions. In addition as lead developer, I created a ontent management system to ease the creation of a suite of sales and directory web sites. I managed a small team transitioning some of the company’s flat html sites into a database driven format.
September 2002 – February 2004, Remote working & London, UK
For GBTV, I designed and developed all the websites and highlights CD-ROMs for live streamed B2B TV shows in a number of different fields from IT, financial advisors to health care professionals.
January 1997 – January 2001, UK
Before joining GBTV I spent 3 years contracting, as the sole developer on projects for diverse clients such as …
1997 - 1999, Winchester, UK
Developed websites and online games for a variety of clients including Raytheon Marine, Cadbury Schweppes, Kronenbourg 1664 and Kelloggs.