Mark Hawker

Current

Consultant at Consulting Leeds
Author at Pearson
Research Assistant at University of Leeds

Owner at thebubblejungle.com

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Past

Junior Cost Accountant at Ecolab GmbH
Internet Store Administrator at Toyworld Group Plc.
ICT Technical Support Staff at Oakbank Sports College

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Education

University of Leeds

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Industry

Information Technology and Services

Mark Hawker’s Summary

First-class Informatics (Hons) Graduate from the University of Leeds. Social applications developer and consultant with an interest in developing for social platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Primarily involved in health care informatics research and innovation working on a joint-funded project on the effective use of clinical databases for research and with a research interest in the applications of social media in health care.

Mark Hawker’s Specialties:

Facebook Connect, Facebook Platform, Google Friend Connect, OpenSocial, Twitter

Mark Hawker’s Experience

Consultant

Consulting Leeds

(Management Consulting industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Working on a consultancy project with Leeds City Council developing a digital circle of support for older people in the local area using online social networking tools.
Author

Pearson

(Public Company; PSON; Publishing industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Authoring a book provisionally entitled: "A Developer's Guide to Social Network Programming: Building Social Context using Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API" for Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional.
Research Assistant

University of Leeds

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

Researching Health Informatics and eHealth at the Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics. Creating, gathering, organising and delivering content and presentations for their MSc Health Informatics programme and working on a joint-funded project on the effective use of clinical databases in research.
Owner

thebubblejungle.com

(Computer Software industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)

Specialising in the research and development of social media applications using Facebook and Twitter.
Junior Cost Accountant

Ecolab GmbH

(Public Company; ECL; Chemicals industry)

March 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Systems development, creating databases to support the organisation. Setting up new product codes and completing month-end procedures.
Internet Store Administrator

Toyworld Group Plc.

(Retail industry)

September 2004 — February 2005 (6 months)

Administering Internet store, customer service and ensuring products are supplied and distributed. Updating old systems and maintaining accounts.
ICT Technical Support Staff

Oakbank Sports College

(Computer & Network Security industry)

December 2003 — January 2004 (2 months)

Responsible for network maintenance, fault diagnosis and error reporting.

Mark Hawker’s Education

University of Leeds

BSc (Hons) Informatics , Computing , 2005 — 2008

Graduated with a First-class degree in Informatics.
Made the Faculty of Engineering's Dean's List 2006/2007 which is only awarded to the top 5% of students from the 1st and 2nd years.

Activities and Societies:

CompSoc

Additional Information

Mark Hawker’s Interests:

programming, social media, social networking, technology, training

Mark Hawker’s Groups:

Member of the British Computer Society, Affiliate Member of the Communications Management Association, Member of the Yorkshire Extreme Programming and Agile Methods Club, Member of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics