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Summary |
Availability Update
Dave is presently tied up on project work until
July 2009. He is however available for
on-site consultancy on an adhoc basis |
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Services - Summary
Dave Clarke is a freelance IT consultant
and director of his own company Visualize Systems Ltd (based in
Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, UK). He can provide a number of design/development
services, with emphasis on developing usable intranet and internet
solutions, predominantly using Microsoft technologies. Services
and technologies include:
- Dynamic Internet, Extranet and Intranet
database connectivity work, utilising HTML, ASP.Net, Visual Studio.Net,
C#, XML/XSL/RDF, Web Services, content syndication/RSS, Javascript,
VBScript, CGI, REXX (!), DB2, SQL Server 2005, Oracle 10g and
MS Access. He has experience in various web server technologies
including Microsoft's IIS4/5/6/7 and Netscape Enterprise Server
(NES) 3.6+
- Design and implementation of interactive
systems, based on a variety of platforms and development tools.
Agile methods often adopted (Scrum).
- User interface analysis/design and usability
testing
- Web Accessibility - producing sites to
meet W3C WAI/WCAG standards
- Short training courses, seminars and
single day consultancy sessions.
Contracts may be on a short or long term
basis, to suit the client as necessary. In addition, he is available
for on-site consultancy and fixed price work on an adhoc basis.
Please contact Dave for further information.
Internet Hosting
Hosting includes the following:
- Windows 2000 and 2003 Servers, with ASP, ASP.Net and CGI-BIN
- Popular third party components installed and ready for use including:
ASPImage, ImageSize, ASPPop3, ASPMail, ASPUpload, ASPSock
- Database support: MS Access (suitable for low hit rate sites
only) or SQL Server
- Daily, off-site backups
- Maintenance via FTP or Frontpage extensions
- Pop3 Email facilities. IMAP also available.
- On-line web statistics
- 24x7 site monitoring, with restarts (only if really necessary).
Note: if a site is causing a stability problem on a box, we reserve
the right to remove the site until the problem is rectified.
See Hosting and Prices
for more information
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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 I've worked
with...
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University of Western Australia - Designed and implemented a Lipoprotein Kinetics Network web site. Allows analysis and reporting on kinetics information.
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University of Reading - Designed and implemented a postprandial study tool. Allows analysis and reporting on postprandial study information.
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Queen Mary, University of London and HCI 2006 - Build and host the HCI 2006 conference delegate and paper systems.
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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.
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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. |
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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. |
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IBM in the UK. In particular, recently I worked with them on the UsabilityNews web accessibility project.
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University of Bath - I was on the committee of the HCI 2003 conference, leading the web site design, build and maintenance |
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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. |
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npower - Providing over 7 million
customers with essential services for home & business. |
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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. |
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GPU Power - Formerly Midlands
Electricity, owned by Aquila Networks. |
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Kenning Car/Van Rental - Large
rental company, owned by e-Sixt |
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Staffordshire University - An
establishment renowned for its Computing facilities and courses. |
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University of Wolverhampton -
A large Midlands-based University |
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