Creative Technologist

WPMotion :: Touch, Swipe, Gesture WordPress

Mar 26, 2014

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I have just completed WPMotion a premium wordpress theme and potentially a web service too. This site is currently running in it. Its designed with portfolio and presentation sites in mind and allows you to navigate with click, touch, swipe and even gesture via leap motion. It utilises Reveal JS and supports all standard wordpress…

BAT :: Android and IOS Social Location App

Mar 13, 2014

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in Advertising, Client facing, Code, Consultancy, Contract, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Design, Development, Highlights, HTML, Leadership, Mobile, Prototyping, Retail, Software, Technical Consultant, UI, UX, WordPress, Work

Whilst at Hogarth I was required to build a multi-language location based app for BAT. It used a wealth of APIs including Gigya for social login, GoogleMaps for Maps, Foursquare for locations and others for age verification etc. The idea was to show users the best places to smoke in specific cities like London, Zurich…

Santander :: Student Mentoring Network

Mar 10, 2014

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ricmax

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Whilst at Hogarth I was responsible for overseeing the UX and Development of a new Student Portal for Santander that allows students to team up with mentors and allows them to gain work experience. The platform I chose was BuddyPress and great care was taken to ensure that the User Journeys and User Experience was…

Native Design :: Lead Creative Technologist

Dec 21, 2013

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Native Design is a leading integrated experience design company that delivers both industrial and interaction design solutions to many of the worlds’ leading brands including Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, HP, Audi, Mercedes, Bentley and the BBC. They are based in London, San Francisco and Amsterdam. I was employed as their lead creative technologist, helping them create…

Pernod Ricards Project Gutenburg :: Lead Creative Technologist

Nov 20, 2013

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As the lead Creative Technologist at Native Design I was responsible for a new intelligent product and platform for one of the worlds largest drink manufacturers, Pernod Ricard whose brands include Absolute Vodka and Beefeater Gin. They have released a press release of the project I was involved with, entitled Project Gutenburg. An NDA prevents me from…

Hewlett Packard :: Android Customisation & Launcher

Nov 19, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Debugging, Design, Development, Highlights, Leadership, Mobile, Native, Open Source, Prototyping, Technical Consultant, UI, UX, Work

Whilst lead Creative Technologist at Native Design, the integrated design agency, I was required to oversee the technical and development aspects of three new Nexus devices for HP – a 7, 8 and 10 inch tablet. The majority of the project was the modification of the Android platform to make it more aligned with the…

Bowers and Wilkins :: UI, UX & Mobile Applications

Nov 17, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Highlights, Mobile, Music, Native, Prototyping, Software, Work

Whilst working as the lead Creative Technologists at Native Design I was involved in numerous projects for and client meetings with their client Bowers and Wilkins (B&W) the leading speaker and headphone manufacturer. My work is under a very strict NDA and the products will not be out for another year or so. I am…

SFR – Set-Top Box UI / UX

Nov 15, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Code, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Highlights, HTML, Native, Prototyping, UI, UX, Work

Whilst Natives Lead Creative Technologist I worked for SFR, Frances leading telephone, mobile and broadband provider (part of Vivendi the group). The projects I was involved in ranged from the research, design and build of their next generation set-top box featuring plenty of ground-breaking entertainment and home-orientated technologies accessed via an advanced HTML5 UI. The majority of my work…

HP Sprout :: Lead Creative Technologist

Nov 14, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, CV, Highlights, Prototyping, UI, UX, Work

Update: The HP Sprout has now been released. I was the lead creative technologist in its development at Native. Please see below. https://youtu.be/IBnf_lHxPdE https://sprout.hp.com/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11408538/HP-Sprout-is-this-the-future-of-desktop-computing.html It also was considered one of the top 10 items launched at CES 2015: One of the most interesting projects i worked on whilst at Native Design, the leading Integrated…

Billington Cartmell, Brave and Closer Live :: Technical Director

Nov 24, 2012

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I was appointed Technical Director of Billington Cartmell (www.bcl.co.uk), their sister adverting agency, Brave (www.brave.co.uk) and their experiential arm, Closer (www.closerlive.co.uk) in January 2012. The group of companies between them represent a phenomenal array of leading clients including Carlsberg, Panasonic, Sennheiser, Philips, Unilever, Kraft, GSK, Lexus, Morrisons and Ernst & Young.

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