Experience

2008-2011

Started working with White Hat Media in brighton as their Lead Drupal Developer. I've worked on some great projects for large organisations like Toshiba and Cartoon Network.

2008

Moved back to Brighton UK, working as freelancer and looking to get back into full time work so I can sink my teeth into some big challenging projects and work in a team again.

2006-2007

I lived in Melbourne and various places around New Zealands' beautiful South Island. Worked on several websites and traveled extensively.

2005-2006

I made my first film, called ‘Sphercular Vision’. It’s a self invested solo project which aims to document some of the worlds finest poi and staff spinners. I filmed, edited and produced it all myself, and also managed the year long project. In this time I learnt a great deal about film production.

2005

I worked as a freelance Flash coder, mainly on banners and one large site for a well respected global advertising agency.

2003-now

I have created and managed spherculism.net. It’s a cutting edge community site which aims to accelerate learning and fuel understanding of Poi and other related art forms.

2002-2005

I worked as a graphic designer for a massive body jewellery company called ‘The Wildcat Collection’ in Brighton, UK. I made graphics everyday, including a 196 page full color A4 catalogue, which was a year long project for two of us. I also designed full page magazine adverts for print all over the world. We designed many postcards, in several languages, to send out to promote our new product ranges. I also designed the graphics for two ranges of body jewellery called Ikon Plugs and Picturebells. Both ranges are very successful. I did a
lot of photography using a Nikon D100 and image manipulation using Photoshop. I also helped manage a large webshop and community site and made flash advertising pages.

1997-2001

I studied Industrial Design BSc at Brunel University in West London. It was a 4 year ‘thin sandwich’ course which included 2 semesters working in design companies. The course was hugely varied, including: Product Design, Graphics, Web Design, Metalwork, Woodworking, Electronics, Mechanical Engineering,
Maths, Physics and Material Science. Brunel is a very well respected Design School.

2000

I moved to San Francisco and spent my second placement semester living at SFSU university. It was the first time I had lived outside the UK and I did a lot of growing up. After my semester finished I worked down town as a Model Maker, making very precise foam models of computer peripherals. I love this type of model making ‘sculpture’ and have a fine eye for aesthetic three dimensional form.

1997

I did my A-levels in Maths, Physics and Design at a good school in the UK.