Crippled Magazine

June 07-Today: User interface design, Google

Research, design, information architecture and interface development, including:

• User Experience Lead for YouTube monetization: Managing teams on both the Ad formats side - improving the ad viewing experience for YouTube viewers - and on the buying side for both reservation and performance based advertising - designing products that allow advertisers to easily create and optimise the most effective video ads
• YouTube Monetization: Designer, AdWords for video
• YouTube Annotations: Improving author experience and visual design of interacitive annotations on YouTube videos
• Video virality: Understanding how viral videos spread across the web and providing tools to uploaders to better understand the process. Our paper on the subject Catching a Viral Video, was selected for the Special Issue of the journal of Intelligent Information Systems at the Social Interactions Analysis and Services Providers Conference at IEEE ICDM 2010
• YouTube Insight: Design and architecture of statistics tool for video uploaders
• Google Maps: HTML/CSS for transit information bubbles
• Google Base: redesign for the Feeds Dashboard of Google's Base product

June 03-May 07: Web & interface design & usability consultancy

Information architecture, design and construction of websites and web applications. Clients include Cambridge and Watford councils for Magpie; Travelocity for Dare Digital and McNab Snowboarding & Mountaineering.

• Magpie
• McNab Snowboarding
• Chalet Lounge

May 00-June 03: Creative Director, UpMyStreet.com Ltd

Management of creative team for highly usable web, digital TV and information design complying with best practice, UK government and accessibility guidelines.

• UpMyStreet

February 98-October 99: Designer/Developer, BBC News Online

Illustration, design and HTML/CSS, for News Online and BBC World Cup websites. WebScript & Objective-C coding for WebObjects templates. GUI development for BBC News OnLine Content Production System.

• BBC News Online

December 96-December 97: Web-design contractor, Auckland, New Zealand

Main employer ISP Telecom-XTRA. Production, illustration, photography and client management for their subscriber-oriented site. Several large projects for special clients of Telecom-XTRA: the official website for the America's Cup 2000; an online bookstore for Whitcoulls using the 'Intershop' e-commerce product.

• Xtra.co.nz

October 95-December 96: Graphic design & production, The Ian Logan Design Company

Packaging design, illustration and artwork (photographic and digital). Clients included Fortnum and Mason, Waitrose, Halfords, Boots the Chemist and Whittard of Chelsea.

August 95-October 95: Web Designer, Friends of the Earth

Design and HTML, for 'The Chemical Release Inventory', an indexed, searchable database of all emissions from factories in England and Wales.

• Factory watch

Website design; information architecture; semantic, cross-browser, standards compliant & accessible web development; HTML, CSS & JavaScript; PHP; MySQL; XML/XSLT; WML; WebObjects/Objective-C; print-ready artwork; Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign.