Wirral, England, United Kingdom
I build interfaces people remember: fast, fluid, and obsessively detailed. With 28 years of front-end craft behind me, I've spent the last decade sitting at the intersection of design and engineering: turning concepts into high-fidelity prototypes and production-grade UI at Channel 4, MoneySuperMarket, and beyond. I've shipped experiences for streaming platforms, Fire TV, web, and immersive 3D environments using React, Next.js, Svelte, VueJS, Three.js and WebGL. What I care about is the felt quality of an interface; the timing of an animation, the weight of a transition, the thing that makes a user trust what they're looking at and feel delight that flat pages do not deliver. I'm as comfortable with CSS keyframes as I am with shader code. I understand WCAG inside out, not as a checklist but because universally designed, accessible UI is a better UI. I'm not a build-pipeline person or a test-coverage-percentage person. I'm the person you bring in when the thing on screen has to be genuinely good. My passion lies in the creation of accessible, compliant, lightweight code to an exceptional standard in the tightest timeframes as well as passing on my experience through team building, line-management and mentoring.
Built high-fidelity React/Next.js prototypes and production UI components for web and Fire TV platforms. Worked directly with Product and UX to translate concepts into pixel-perfect, interactive experiences — often at a level of finish that blurred the line between prototype and production. Led technical accessibility practice becoming the recognised cross-team authority on WCAG 2.1/2.2 compliance. Key work included: Bitmovin player integration with custom audio overlays, TV remote navigation systems, performance-optimised UI for low-powered Fire Stick hardware, and immersive UI exploration using Three.js and WebGL.
Led a team of four Accessibility Consultants. Provided A11Y consultancy for key clients like HSBC and Barclays Bank including audits, improved code samples, and training. Designed and delivered multiple seminars and workshops on accessibility for a wide range of large companies in groups of 5 - 400
Front-End Technical lead responsible for improving handoff processes between UX/UI and development.
Prototype creation within design sprint framework solving business and customer problems through A/B customer testing. Multi-variant test creation on live estate. Creation and maintenance of front-end styleguide. Team management.
Rapid creation of working prototypes ranging in complexity from simple form interactions to full end-to-end journeys.
Contractor services, HTML, CSS, JQuery, MooTools, Drupal, WordPress, Accessibility consultancy