I love the possibilities of tech — used well, used creatively, used for good, it can be amazing. I do much of my digital development through We Could Even the creative agency I co-founded (see site for more case studies), but I also take on freelance projects.

I am a full stack developer working in Javascript/Typescript, Svelte JS, React JS and Tailwind/SCSS/CSS creating web apps, dashboards, data visualisations, maps, animations and more.

With experience beyond coding and having worked with a wide range of organisations, I’m good at communicating and collaborating with others, seeing the bigger picture and contributing ideas. Colleagues say I’m a very positive, friendly and supportive team mate.

UCL Partners

Working in partnership with The Bureau, I created a series of web-based visualisations and animations to help leading health innovation partnership UCL Partners tell the story of their new strategy and the impact they were having.

Often animated web content can be hard for non-technical team members to edit later, meaning inflexibility and ongoing costs. Instead, I built engaging, attractive and – fundamentally – reusable WordPress content blocks the team could edit and repurpose, using appropriate animations to bring content to life for people visiting their website. These continue to be used over multiple years in new pages.

Year in Review

Inspired by Spotify ‘Wrapped’ — the rundown of everything you’ve listened to and the most popular tracks over the past year — I conceived and built an equivalent for charities to show supporters the difference they have made in a year. In 2021 it was used by Refugee Action and I hope it will be expanded to other non-profits.

I created an editor tool for charity staff to design different animated screens, responsive to different devices, that would only show for certain supporters (e.g. people who have donated different amounts would see different content). Behind the scenes I built serverless cloud functions to process the data of tens of thousands of supporters to filter and customise unique content for each supporter.

You can read a full case study of the project here, including more screenshots and the great results for Refugee Action in increasing online engagement and donations.

Job Cuts Tracker

As covid struck around the world in 2020, trade unions and newspapers were reporting that thousands of workers were losing their jobs and livelihoods every day because of the economic crisis.

ITUC — the world’s largest group of trade unions — wanted to be able to monitor these large-scale job losses, in as close to real-time as possible, and feed information into their lobbying efforts with governments to provide better support for workers.

I built a custom private dashboard tool that integrated with a number of Google News RSS feeds to constantly monitor media headlines from all G20 countries, in a number of different languages.

When results came in they were translated, by integrating with an AWS translation service, checked for duplicates using a custom algorithm I built (as multiple news sources might report the same company layoff announcement), and were then fed through to the team at ITUC who would review results daily and make manual adjustments where needed, filter, search and download results.

Find out more about this project.

Ask Amy

In the lead-up to the 2015 General Election, with a group trying to increase political engagement amongst people in their 20s and 30s, I created a chat-based AI assistant called Ask Amy that engaged thousands of young people — giving them an easy, unthreatening, fun way to ask questions about politics if you didn’t know where to start.

It was funded by telecoms company TalkTalk and a crowdfunding campaign, we launched in the UK Parliament with MPs including a former Government Minister, and it was covered by media including BBC TV and the Metro newspaper.

Pod Point

I was a full-stack developer at electric car charging company Pod Point​ where we won awards for tech innovation, including the Evening Standard’s Tech Start-Up of the Year and a European award for Hottest Green-Tech Start-Up of the Year.

My work included creating new features for web apps including purchasing and ordering systems and creating a dynamic map for their relaunched website.

Tate Art Detective

Although a small team at the time — I was one of just two web designer/developers — we won two Interactive BAFTA Awards for the Tate’s digital creations.

This included the Art Detective, a web-based learning game I devised the idea for, designed and built for children to explore a Henry Moore sculpture, which was used for over 15 years.

Other great causes

I enjoy working with different people to collaborate on great ideas.  Other projects I’ve worked on include…

…I’ve volunteered to help build the Scottish Tech Army’s mobile app for volunteers and supporting other upcoming developers

…A campaign for a new kind of diabetes monitoring technology that avoids the daily unpleasantness of people having to prick their finger for blood.  People with diabetes could personalise the ask by calculating online how many thousands of fingerpricks they’ve had to do in their lifetime – and the campaign has already had results, with more local health authorities adopting the new technology.

Want to work together?  Or explore an idea?  Get in touch