Dare Digital

Lead Developer (April 2007 to Oct 2007)

Dare Digital, an award winning interactive marketing agency based in central London.

I was the Technical Lead (front end). 50% of my time was allocated to development work. The other 50% was for managing the Front End Team (5 full time devs and a regular pool of daily freelance devs).
Take the lead on interactive work for clients such as Barclays, Vodafone, Unilever, Woolworths, Sony and Sony Ericsson.
Championed web standards and was primary front end contact to the rest of the business.
Author and sanity check technical docs (technical/functional specs, database schemas etc).
Manage and quality control all code output from permanent and contract front end staff.

Examples of Dare Digital work

Vodafone 1 A typical example of a simple microsite for one of our clients.
Vodafone 2 This is an example of a "pop under" advertisement.
Vodafone 3 A static build which would later be incorporated into a CM system..
Sony Bravia I had to take the code from an old blog, turn it into a standalone website and update it.
Walls 1 An example of finishing off a piece of work which may have had multiple people working on it previously (usually freelancers).
Walls 2 Another Walls project, another multi-developer effort. The baton was usually passed depending on resourcing issues.
Magnum 1 This is a competition microsite, another small typical project of about 20 odd HTML pages.
Woolworths BRB a 2 day live streaming extravaganza which involved a large catapult, a field and an interactive audience winning a ton of prizes.
SE Facebook Part of my job was to co-ordinate and manage a team to develop new skills, such as creating this Facebook application.
Barclays 1 This is an example of a corporate website project which was developed in-house and then completed at the clients location for quality control of handover.
Barclays 2 A simple microsite. Another type of project which we offered as part of the overall package to our customers.
Barclays 3 Another example of a microsite.
HTML email 1 HTML emails hark back to the old days of front end development but were very much part of our workload.
HTML email 2 Often, the hardest part about html emails was making sure they rendered properly in a variety of mail applications.
HTML email 3 Often, freelancers would have trouble creating html emails, so I'd often have to go in and fix a lot of them.