Services - Summary

Background/Experience

With over 20 years of experience in Information Technology, Dave had his first web site up and running back in the early 1990's, in the days when Mosaic and Netscape dominated the browser market! He holds a first class honours degree in Computing Science, a Masters in Advanced Computing (specialist topic user interface design and development), is a Chartered Engineer and a member of the British Computer Society (MBCS). As well as having lectured in the past at two British universities, he has extensive practical experience in developing dynamic internet, intranet and extranet applications in industry, using a variety of web technologies. Dave is a Certified Scrum Master, with Scrum being his preferred Agile method for most projects.

In addition, he has a strong background in human-computer interaction and user interface design, is a practitioner member of the executive committee of the British HCI Group and has co-chaired two one-day web conferences to date, Time and the Web and The Active Web, and is also guest editor for two special issues of the journal Interacting with Computers, entitled Interfaces for the Active Web. Also founder of UsabilityNews.com. See full publications list.

He is currently Managing Director of Visualize Systems Ltd, a company specialising in the design and development of dynamic web-based interactive systems.

A full CV can also be viewed on-line.

Finally, here are a few of the Companies and institutions we've worked with...

	University of Western Australia - Designed and implemented a Lipoprotein Kinetics Network web site. Allows analysis and reporting on kinetics information.
	University of Reading - Designed and implemented a postprandial study tool. Allows analysis and reporting on postprandial study information.
	Queen Mary, University of London and HCI 2006 - Build and host the HCI 2006 conference delegate and paper systems.
	Napier University and HCI 2005 - Visualize worked with Napier University, Edinburgh to design, implement and host the HCI 2005 conference web site. The system includes delegate registration and paper session timetabling.
	Diamond Bottlenecks Guitar Slides - We (Ian Parry and myself) recently did the web site for www.diamondbottlenecks.com. They sell [probably] the most comprehensive range of glass bottleneck guitar slides, lead crystal glass guitar slides, lap & pedal steel glass guitar slides and custom glass guitar slides available anywhere in the world.
	Leeds Metropolitan University - Leeds will be hosting the HCI 2004 usability conference. I was responsible for web design, templates, conference registration and session timetable systems.
	IBM in the UK. In particular, recently I worked with them on the UsabilityNews web accessibility project.
	University of Bath - I was on the committee of the HCI 2003 conference, leading the web site design, build and maintenance
	Unilever PLC (inc. companies and brands such as Faberge, Birds Eye Walls, Lipton Tea and Calvin Klein). Numerous projects to date including hot desking, surveys, hotel reservation, diaries, news and syndication, contacts and whereabouts systems. Also lead .Net standards and accessibility initiative.
	npower - Providing over 7 million customers with essential services for home & business.
	British HCI Group - a specialist group of the British Computer Society. Promotes the take-up of sound usability practices in business and industry, and supports companies and individuals in building awareness of Human-Computer Interaction and good practice.
	GPU Power - Formerly Midlands Electricity, owned by Aquila Networks.
	Kenning Car/Van Rental - Large rental company, owned by e-Sixt
	Staffordshire University - An establishment renowned for its Computing facilities and courses.
	University of Wolverhampton - A large Midlands-based University