Dave Nicoll

Current

Senior Technical Consultant at SSL International
Co-Founder at Kensei Media

Past

Career Break at Traveling
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

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Education

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 Media, where we've built the worlds finest media publishing and delivery platform.

Dave Nicoll’s Specialties:

I've participated in, and led, great teams who've produced some of the hottest web technology today.

Dave Nicoll’s Experience

Senior Technical Consultant

SSL International

(Public Company; Consumer Goods industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Responsibilities include -
+ Architecting and delivering a new media platform
+ Delivery of a high-profile project using social networks and digital media for a household name brand
+ Technical delivery of social media applications (i.e. Facebook and iPhone apps)
+ Promoting and growing the web team
+ Recommending new technologies and applications to the business
+ Creative steering for social marketing

Technologies I'm using -
+ ASP.NET C#
+ ASP.NET MVC
+ .NET 3.5
+ IIS6/IIS7.5
+ XHTML/CSS
+ jQuery
+ SQL 2005/2008
+ ISA Server
+ VMware ESX
+ Photoshop
+ Premiere Pro
+ Objective C
+ FBML
Co-Founder

Kensei Media

(Internet industry)

March 2007 — Present (2 years 9 months)

Kensei Media specilises in developing and integrating immersive and engaging digital media solutions 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.

While working at Kensei, I've overseen two major releases of the Kensei Media Platform and the integration of the platform with several large web applications. Nowadays my role is mainly business-related; strategy, networking and the odd bit of creative here and there.

The platform consists of -

+ White-label web front-end (developed using ASP.NET C#, XHTML, CSS, jQuery) to build new web applications from scratch

+ Javascript integration kit to quickly add the platform to existing web applications, regardless of the language they were created in

+ Dashboard to control every aspect of the platform (ASP.NET C# and jQuery to create a rich, easy-to-use, interface)

+ Encoding services to convert videos, audio, images and documents into other formats, on-demand

+ A handful of APIs (.NET webservices) to support the web front-end, back-office applications, iPhone apps, etc.

+ Multiple MS SQL 2005 databases

There's a ton more information at http://www.kenseimedia.com/platform if you're interested.
Career Break

Traveling

(Internet industry)

July 2006 — March 2007 (9 months)

Traveled round the world visiting friends and seeing new places in France, Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Russia, Thailand, Malaysia, Australia and America.
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).
Web Developer

BAE SYSTEMS

(Public Company; BA.L; Defense & Space industry)

October 2002 — August 2003 (11 months)

Details on request.
Development Team Leader

East Midlands Network Ltd

(Internet industry)

September 2000 — April 2002 (1 year 8 months)

Held sole responsibility for the full development and implementation life cycle of web-based solutions. Role was 40% developer, 40% network technician, and 20% management and consultancy. Managed a team of 6 staff (4 developers, 2 designers).
Over 1 year designed, co-developed and delivered a modular content management system (CMS) using ASP, SQL, TSQL, ADO, COM/COM+ and ActiveX. The system allows highly configurable e-commerce (using Worldpay)/portal/intranet style web sites to be constructed within 2-3 days. See http://www.aspsonic.com for more information.
Daily tasks included maintaining the network of several Windows NT4/2000 development servers, MS SQL Server 7/2000, Microsoft SBS, Active Directory, Exchange 2000, 8 client PCs, roaming profiles, NTFS security, IIS configurations, security and secure certificates, DNS configurations, PC build and peripheral installation, and installing and configuring software.

Dave Nicoll’s Education

Nottingham Trent University

BSc (Hons) , Computer Science , 1996 — 2001
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
Birkenhead School

GCSE , Art, English Lit, English Lang, Mathematics, History, Chemistry, Physics, Biology, French , 1989 — 1994

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On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
Linked.NET Users Group (LIDNUG)
ThoseinMedia
MediaCityUK BBC North Salford Quays Peels MediaCityUK BBC ITV QVC University of Salford NWDA BOVIS
Senior .NET Developers
Media & Entertainment Professionals
Manchester Digital
Manchester Creative Industry
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