Creative director at Kensei Media.
New South Wales, Australia
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- Creative Director at Kensei Media
- Past
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- ASP.NET C# / SQL Developer & Designer at Nicoll I.T. Ltd (Self-employed)
- Web Applications Developer at Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Entertainment)
- Senior Web Developer at The Data Archive
- Web Developer at BAE SYSTEMS
- Development Team Leader at East Midlands Network Ltd
- Education
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- Nottingham Trent University
- Birkenhead Sixth Form College
- Birkenhead School
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Dave Nicoll’s Summary
I'm the co-founder and creative director at Kensei, where we're building the a fantastic media platform for the web.
Dave Nicoll’s Specialties:
I've participated in, and led, great teams who've produced some of the sexiest web technology today.
Dave Nicoll’s Experience
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Creative Director
Kensei Media
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Kensei is a creative team of designers - developers - photographers and consultants. From our studios in the UK and Australia we provide a range of media services to major European institutions such as Associated New Media, O2, Nokia and Live Nation. Kensei was founded in 2007 by Dave Nicoll and Leo Fowler, who combined have over 20 years of I.T. and Internet experience.
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ASP.NET C# / SQL Developer & Designer
Nicoll I.T. Ltd (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
February 2007 — April 2007 (3 months)
Contract for Live Nation (UK) to enhance existing applications, and provide support to the overworked development and design team.
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Web Applications Developer
Live Nation (formerly Clear Channel Entertainment)
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; LYV; Music industry)
June 2004 — July 2006 (2 years 2 months)
Initially contracted to build a Finnish entertainment web application www.welldone.fi using ASP, XHTML, Javascript, CSS. Once completed, joined the European I.T. department full-time, working on projects across Europe. As part of a 3-man team, built www.livenation.co.uk in ASP.NET C# (several projects in multiple solutions), MS SQL (7 databases) and a content management system used by Live Nation staff all over the world. It was designed for an extremely high volume of visitors (customers purchasing tickets) and subsequently uses caching techniques and an XML publishing engine.
Architected, designed and co-built (team of 4) the Live Nation video platform for our public facing European web sites, allowing customers at festivals and live performances to upload videos (and photos) from their phones or cameras. Project consisted of several Visual Studio solutions (ASP.NET C# web applications, C# web service/API, video processing libraries, C# Windows service). -
Senior Web Developer
The Data Archive
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Photography industry)
August 2003 — June 2004 (11 months)
Contracted to support and enhance an existing image library web application built using ASP, HTML, JavaScript, XML with a SQL Server database (several TSQL stored procedures). Designing and developing for both PC and Mac browsers. The sites manage over 100,000 high resolution images and the CMS allows complete control of all aspects. Integrated in-house e-commerce solution. Also developed dynamic image galleries (ASP.NET based, JavaScript, XHTML, DHTML where possible, custom ActiveX and Java uploader) to allow photographers in the field to deliver high resolution digital photos to clients. Fully documented both systems (functional specification, technical specification, installation guide, ERD schema, source code documentation, etc). Other tasks included sourcing and purchasing hardware and setup of clustered servers (IISLockdown, URLScan, firewall configuration, etc).
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Web Developer
BAE SYSTEMS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)
October 2002 — August 2003 (11 months)
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Development Team Leader
East Midlands Network Ltd
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
1999 — 2001 (2 years)
Dave Nicoll’s Education
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Nottingham Trent University
BSc (Hons), Computer Science, 1996 — 2001
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Birkenhead Sixth Form College
A-Level, Computing, Communication Studies, Biology, 1994 — 1996
- Activities and Societies:
- Core awards for: film appreciation, stage lighting, forrensic science, politics, drums, guitar, basketball
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Birkenhead School
GCSE, Art, English Lit, English Lang, Mathematics, History, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, French, 1989 — 1994
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