Front end developement of widgets for the May election. Involved building widgets in XHTML, CSS and JavaScript and integrating into the Java content management system.

ZangBeZang required user experience consultancy on a number of conceptual and prototype projects. This involved work on the initial concept and translating requirements into a proposed product implementation, as well as personas and flows and a full XHTML/CSS/PHP prototype build for UI testing, including a web-based iPhone emulator built using jQuery and AJAX calls to a web service.

Example work: ZangBeZang
www.chubbyfish.co.uk/portfolio/zangbezang/

At Hachette Filipacchi I worked on SugarScape, a Drupal-based community website. Drupal is modular and scalable and my role was to extend the base SugarScape build as part of a redesign carried out in March 2008. This involved requirements analysis, translating requirements into specifications, extensive work on the information architecture, user experience analysis and user testing, and finally the site build, carried out along with a team of developers.

Example work: SugarScape
www.chubbyfish.co.uk/portfolio/sugarscape/

My role in the redevelopment of the Sky News website involved analysing the current content hierarchy and information structure and building a new design onto the current content that existed. Considerable user experience work was done to improve the user journey to required content. Primary objectives were to fit the design to the new Sky News branding and improve click-through to deeper content. The client side was build entirely by myself, and consists of semantic mark up with modular CSS and JavaScript, all integrated into the Sky News content management system. The resulting pages were required to validate as XHTML strict, and conform to W3C and WAI AA standards.

Also at Sky I ran a team doing some user experience work to improve the conversion rates on the Sky Products portal. We proposed many improvements to the system including simplification of the UI, cleaner user journeys, and more intuitive navigation.

Sky Money was a brand new site built into the pre-existing Vignette CMS. I was responsible for the client side and integration of the application layer into the CMS.

Example work: Sky News
www.chubbyfish.co.uk/portfolio/sky-news/
Example work: Sky Money
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In addition to the contract at Sky, I have also been involved with web development projects for the BBC. Projects often involved creating dynamic and easily updatable web templates driven by XML with XSL transforms, or small databases. Sites were created using XHTML, CSS, DOM Scripting, CGI applications and dynamically-driven Flash.

As well as design and technical implementation, I have project-managed some jobs including discussing user requirements and creating a project plan, which includes a detailed specification and deliverables, assumptions and requirements from the client, and a project timeline and milestones.

Example work: www.chubbyfish.co.uk/portfolio/bbc-falcon-beach/
Example work: www.chubbyfish.co.uk/portfolio/bbc-sound/

Development of a website with user participation tools using Drupal. The client side consists of semantically marked up code blocks with modular CSS and JavaScript, all integrated into Drupal as a php template to skin the CMS output. The resulting pages validate as XHTML strict, and conform to W3C and WAI AA standards.

My First Class degree was complemented by the Graham Hawkes Award for the best project in the faculty and the Thomas Gerald Gray Award for academic achievement. My thesis was on 3D animation techniques and culminated in me producing a short 3D film and a series of photo quality digital images. Modules for the degree course included Internet Technologies & Web Design, Multimedia Production Management and Databases for Multimedia Applications.