Madgex is a world leading supplier of job board products to the media industry. Its clients include The Guardian, The Times, Washington Post and many of the largest European B2B magazine publishers. We currently manage over 150 job boards for our clients. I founded the company with two former co-workers and we have taken it from a kitchen table to a well-respected multi-million pound enterprise.

I still take an active role in the UX design of our products and promote innovation and user research within the company. At the beginning of 2010 I built a prototype system that allowed the automatic syncing of Resumes between sites using OAuth. During the rest of this year I have designed and built iPhone and Android apps and worked on an ontology for a Solr based weighted search.

I designed the intranet from the ground up, directing the information design and the technical architecture. A major part of the project was constructing an environment that encouraged large scale independent contribution. My final focus at Virgin was creating a LDAP based MetaDirectory which provided contact and authentication services for the whole enterprise.

CSS was a design and marketing group specialising in the pharmaceutical sector. My primary role was information architect. I designed and built large multimedia information systems for intranets, kiosks and CD-ROMs. I worked at all levels with clients such as Pfizer, Bayer and Glaxo Wellcome, including providing intranet architecture consultancy at board level.

While at CSS I designed a product called ‘Informer’, a web based pharmaceutical document store which used collaborative tagging to create dynamic navigation. The core of the system design was conceived over a weekend and went on to earn millions of pounds for Parexel.

I was originally hired as a Bureau Manager helping clients to use desktop publishing systems to create their own presentations. I quickly moved into designing AV sequences for conference and events on high quality graphic systems like the Quantel Paintbox. While at TBS I designed and built the interfaces for a number of Philips CD-i’s the precursor to modern CD-ROMs. TBS clients included many blue chip companies such as Ford and The Body Shop.