Adrian Howard

Current

Senior Developer at Chillifish

Past

Developer at Intunet
Senior Developer at ts.com
Partner at Quietstars

Technical Director at Victoria Real
Technical Director at OneWorld Internet
Teaching Software Development Officer at University of Sussex
Developer at Poplog Development Group

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Education

University of Sussex

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

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Adrian Howard’s Summary

Passionate about creating great software. User Experience advocate. Agile fanatic. Testing bigot.

Adrian spends most of his time creating web applications - helping with everything from user experience work to writing code. Unsurprisingly he's a huge fan of cross-disciplinary agile teams. Adrian spends too much time on the agile-usability and IxDA mailing lists, as well as moderating the STC's Usability and User Experience SIG list.

He's been working on the cusp between development and UX work in the commercial web world since 1996. Before that he was a member of the Socio-Cognitive Technology Research Group at Sussex University and helped out with the Human Centred Computing Systems MSc.

Adrian Howard’s Specialties:

Agile Software Development, User Experience, Usability, Information Architecture, Development, Testing

Adrian Howard’s Experience

Senior Developer

Chillifish

(Computer Software industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Helping a new agile team make boutique e-commerce sites with a great user experience.
Developer

Intunet

(Public Company; Internet industry)

January 2007 — October 2009 (2 years 10 months)

Developing new and interesting web applications
Senior Developer

ts.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

September 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 5 months)

Senior developer on the web development team. Little bit of perl programming here, little bit of usability work there. Same old same old.
Partner

Quietstars

(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1999 — September 2005 (6 years 1 month)

Web application development and usability/accessibility consultancy.
Technical Director

Victoria Real

(Computer Software industry)

June 1996 — August 1999 (3 years 3 months)

Management and development of web, multimedia and iTV projects.
Technical Director

OneWorld Internet

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 1996 — May 1996 (5 months)

Internet startup. Stopped quite quickly.
Teaching Software Development Officer

University of Sussex

(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)

December 1993 — December 1995 (2 years 1 month)

Investigated visual environments for teaching programming, developed multimedia software and helped develop and teach a module of the Human Centred Computing Systems MSc. Member of the Socio-Cognitive Technology Research Group.
Developer

Poplog Development Group

(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)

July 1991 — July 1993 (2 years 1 month)

Integrated the X windowing system into Poplog, developed high-level tools for creating GUIs and authored documentation for developers and users.

Adrian Howard’s Education

University of Sussex

1st BA (Hons) , Computing and Artificial Intelligence , 1988 — 1991

The degree covered AI technologies (expert systems, genetic algorithms, neural networks, etc.) and traditional computing (software engineering, object oriented development, etc.)