Simon Madine

Address:
2F2 18 Warrender Park Road, EDINBURGH, EH9 1JG, UK
Telephone:
+44 (0) 7734 530 886
Skype:
thingsinjars
E-mail:
Portfolio:
The Angry Robot Zombie Factory

Professional profile

In an industry with uncertain job titles I'm either a Digital Media Manager, Web Producer, Technical Evangelist, Senior Developer, Designer or any combination of the above. Most likely all of them at once. What I definitely am, though, is enthusiastic, passionate and experienced. I have built sites, planned campaigns, written specs, designed, developed and launched many different kinds of projects over the last 10 years. I've also lead successful and productive teams to do the same across the public and private sectors.

Key technical skills

Expert

  • PHP
  • SQL
  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • ECMAScript/JavaScript

Advanced

  • XML
  • XSL
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe Flash
  • Linux System Management (E-mail, web and database servers on RedHat and Debian)

Other technical skills used professionally

  • Objective-C
  • .NET and C#
  • Perl
  • Java
  • JSP

Other Skills

  • Team management
  • Long and short term task scheduling and prioritising
  • Time management of myself and a Digital Media team
  • In-depth knowledge of the design, implementation and use of enterprise-scale content-management systems
  • Accounting and budget managing
  • Strong design background with particular emphasis on illustration.

Career summary

Position
Digital Media Technical Manager
Company
National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh
Period
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  • Providing technical knowledge and expertise for all public-facing digital media projects undertaken by National Museums Scotland
  • Managing contracts with and being the main contact point for external suppliers
  • Working with internal departments to ensure awareness and understanding of any relevant developments in digital media
  • Being the contact point between technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Position
Digital Media Studio Manager
Company
Whitespace (Scotland) Ltd, Edinburgh
Period
–
  • Being the contact point between technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Scheduling and prioritising work for the Digital Media Team
  • Defining standards for production and ensuring standards are met
  • Writing functional specifications for enterprise level or complex projects.
Position
Digital Media Developer
Company
Whitespace (Scotland) Ltd, Edinburgh
Period
–
  • Developing fully accessible, standards-compliant websites to match Web Designer's briefs
  • Responsible for both front and back-end development on a variety of platforms and languages
  • Some of the sites I worked on won national awards in a variety of areas including accessibility
  • Designing, building and maintaining medium-sized network split between office and data centre connected via Metro Ethernet
  • Regular maintenance of all servers and desktop computers
  • Between September 2007 and August 2008, I was based in Tokyo investigating the Japanese web design industry for Whitespace and evaluating it as a potential market.
Position
Web and Print Designer/Web Developer
Company
Visitor Studies Group
Period
–
  • Responsible for the initial design and build of the relaunched Visitor Studies Group website
  • Design of promotional print material
  • Ongoing maintenance ensuring the site remains consistent with the focus of the organisation and continues to be a useful and engaging resource for visitors.
Position
Director
Company
Baby Tiger Promotions Ltd
Period
–
  • Director of a music promotions company organising regular gigs and a yearly festival.
  • Particularly responsible for the website, online shop, business accounting & budgeting and publicity, both online and in print.
Position
Web Developer
Company
Freelance
Period
–
  • Developing a variety of fully accessible, standards-compliant websites for a variety of clients.
Position
Game Designer/Java Programmer
Company
Hi2 Ltd
Period
–
  • Responsible for the design and development of a multi-player online game including character design and concept art.
  • Designed and implemented many games for use on Java-enabled mobile devices.

Selected professional portfolio

Education and qualifications

Degree
BSc (hons) Mathematics & Computer Science
University
University of St Andrews
Period of Study
–

Personal details

Nationality
British
Driving Licence
Full and clean
Languages spoken
Native English, conversational Japanese. Keen to learn other languages as required.

Other information

I created an Objective-C plugin for the OS X notification system Growl called GrowlBird which sends notifications to a designated Twitter account.

I developed the website and Twitter tool Wwwitter which is a combined forum, chat-room and bookmarking site that lets you discuss and leave comments on any page on the internet using your twitter account without having to navigate away.

I designed and developed a bilingual website for the German-speaking Congregation in Edinburgh and provided training on the content-management system.