2021

• Five months contract supplying character animations for e-learning content for Kallidus / Engage in Learning
• Technical explainer animations for Virgin Media Business, CompEx and New Wave.
• Animated children’s songs and nursery rhymes  for Charanga (Music Education).

2020

Ongoing work with Walkgrove creating e-Learning course material for UN-DOS and the Food and Agriculture Organisation for the United Nations. This has involved creating numerous screen layouts, UI elements, animations and defining the overall graphics style for the projects. Now registered as a trainer for Adobe Creative Cloud titles (Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro) with Knowledge Academy and recently delivered training over Zoom. Explainer animations for Thames Water and New Wave.

2019

Ongoing work with DMC (now TVT) to create updated branding for their graphics templates used in broadcasting TV channels such as History, H2, AMC, Sundance and FOX. Producing illustrated design, layout design and animations for Walkgrove (eLearning) whose end clients for these projects include: FAO (UN) , AGE UK and NHS. Released a new version of my Tablalab App for iPhone.

2018

Working freelance and through my limited company, providing graphic assets for Acoustiic, a medical tech start up in LA, generating templates for web creatives for Wonderful Content in Shoreditch, London and continuing to work for DMC in Amsterdam but providing templates and support remotely.

2017

Working onsite for DMC in Amsterdam for 5 months creating channel ident dynamic graphics (IPPs, Menus, etc) for a number of TV channels such as History, AMC, FOX, Shorts, Film1 and Sundance whilst they migrated their entire operation location-wise and software-wise. The migration was on time and their clients were happy with the switch over to the new dynamic graphics templates I created for the Pebble Beach software which DMC had adopted. I have on going work with DMC working remotely, having developed a tool which allows me to test the title content without having access to their ‘playout’ software.

June 2016 – April 2017

A role designing the interfaces for various new products under development by Me Learning Ltd, Shoreham. Some of these products had an enormous level of detail and involved designing with a viewpoint of super admin, admin and learner level. The main work was creating the new face for an existing LMS which was getting a fresh make over and an arsenal of extended functionality. Other work involved prototyping the UI for a new authoring tool. Prototyped UIs were made in Adobe XD and Flash / Animate and both worked well, with the more complex UI elements working better in the latter.

I also shoot, produce and edit video elements for Me Learning’s course content (on-going).

Jan 2016 – Feb 2016

A short contract with Zoe Mode in Brighton to maintain and update the front end menu system in the latest versions of Guitar Hero. The menus were made in Scaleform and used a codebase in AS3. The AS3 interfaced to the C++ game code.

2014 – 2015

Building e-learning content in Javascript / HTML5 / CSS for Volume Global – 8 month contract. This was for corporate training within Virgin Media, Plantronics, Dell and OKI.

Creation of animated advertising for MTG-VIASAT, MTG World, John Lewis, Oakley. Creation of iPad animated storybook app, currently in development.

From 2013 to 2015,I produced monthly animated ad campaigns for the Scandinavian TV channel, Viasat.

2012 – 2013

By April2013I released two educational iPad apps ‘TablaLab Riyaz‘ and ‘TablaLab TalaClass‘– these apps are for indian tabla players or musicians using the Indian rhythm system. Both are on the App Store. I am working on a third currently. The TablaLab apps have demos at tablalab.com.

Charanga specialise in online educational music training. I have worked with them on a contract basis since 2010 creating various content including presentations, interactive lessons and online tools.

2011

I worked at Epic for a seven month contract (2011) as an AS2 / AS3 developer on various projects including PWC e-learning / training courses. The main project at this time was for HMRC / Business Link and I was the lead developer creating a course of interactive Flash content to help the understanding of tax and employment scenarios. Previous to this, contracts at Brightwave involved creating e-learning courses for Sky, Carillion, Colt and Canon amongst others.

2003 – 2010

I worked for The Guardian (2006-2008) doing ‘white label’ Flash development for various clients. Much of the work was interactive content for e-learning or websites. The biggest client was probably EDF, for whom we made a vast interactive website for kids called ‘Join The Pod.’

This period involved many e-learning projects involving Flash games and apps, Flash website projects, animated cartoons for TV, animated concepts for new brands, desktop toys and an interactive DVD for learning a musical instrument.

When I started out as a freelancer, I began as a Flash animator and during this time I worked with Jim Wells on several projects, the most successful being a series of cartoons for Nick Jr / Nickelodeon.

August 2000 – December 2003

Flash animator / Programmer / Sound designer for the Doki project @ Eazyspeak Ltd, BrightonDoki is an e-learning product which aims to teach a foreign language through immersion in an entertaining cartoon environment.

Jan 1997 – Sep 1998

Graphic Artist for Pure Entertainment Games Ltd, responsible for all in-game graphics (not character animations) for Respect Inc. Responsibilities included maintaining a huge volume of artwork on top of the core of creative processes. The game, Respect Inc, was released in the first half of 1999.

Oct 1995 – Oct 1996

MSc in Computer Aided Graphical Technology Applications at Teesside University. I achieved first place in a year of around seventy students with distinction. Animation and graphical skills were developed alongside software skills whilst the course encouraged much technical and practical learning in order to be able to break into one of several specialist industries, primarily those of television/film special effects and computer games.

Oct 1991 – July 1994

BEng in Microelectronics and Software Engineering at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Attained an honours degree second class division II.

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