Software Developer in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

I'm a Co-founder and sole developer of The Club HQ, which aims to support grassroots sports clubs by providing a cheap, easy way for them to create a modern website to manage and engage with their members. The site will soon support multiple sports and localizations.

While I worked at Metail, the primary product was a JavaScript plugin for the clothing retailer's sites. This was a helper that followed the user around the retailer's site and allowed them to create a 3D version of themselves so that they could see what clothes looked like on their body and receive recommendations on which size to buy.

I defined the architecture and led the front and middle-tier development for this plugin. It was designed to allow us to use a single codebase to support retailer localisations, style, and branding customizations, and work across their desktop, mobile, and native platforms.

While at Metail, I led the front-end development for a collaboration with ITV's This Morning, where the standalone virtual fitting room we created was used live on the show each month to find an outfit for a guest for a special occasion.

The fitting room was used on a touchscreen by one of the hosts, and viewers were invited to try it themselves at home to submit outfits as suggestions for the guest. At the peak, the fitting room supported over 5000 concurrent users.

For this work, we were nominated for the 2014 BAFTA for Digital Creativity.

CrystalEye was a tool I created while doing my Ph.D. to help me gather crystallographic data that had been published in peer-reviewed journals. It started as a web crawler that automatically scraped this data from the journals as it was published before republishing them in a single collection on its own website.

Later, I further expanded the tool to convert the data to XML for easier processing, added RSS/Atom feeds to allow other researchers easy access to the data, and 3D visualizations and graphs.