Mike Lowndes

Current

• Online Architect at Which?

Past

• Interactive Media Manager at The Natural History Museum
• Web Manager at The Natural History Museum
• Departmental Lecturer at Human Anatomy Department, University of Oxford

• Lecturer in Neuroscience, St Catherine's College. at University of Oxford
• Postdoctoral Research Assistant at Human Anatomy Department, Oxford University
• Postdoctoral researcher at St George's Hospital Medical School

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Education

• The Open University
• Bangor University

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• Museum
• My Website

Mike Lowndes’s Summary

Experienced operational website/intranet manager and strategist with considerable development team lead, project, stakeholder and supplier management skills. Strong user focus. I'm moving towards more strategic roles in online business, educational or NFP organisations.
Forward thinking with active interests in content management, web application usability and the practical use of emerging online technologies such as ajax, microformats, and the semantic web.

Mike Lowndes’s Specialties:

Info. architecture, web design, high level solutions architecture, SOA, proj. man., SEO, standards, accessibility/usability, analytics, OS solutions, semantic web, folksonomies /long tail issues, intranet portals, Interwoven, Percussion, Typo3, Drupal, Joomla!, Solaris: Apache, Tomcat, cgi etc, Summary Pro, Google Analytics, Hitbox, Ultraseek.

Sectors: HE and museum sectors, Publishing, ecommerce.

Topics: nature / natural history / neuroscience areas (wide biological knowledge).

Mike Lowndes’s Experience

• Online Architect

  Which?

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Putting together the jigsaw of online services required to make Which? the best site in its sector.

• Interactive Media Manager

  The Natural History Museum

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  November 2003 — April 2007 (3 years 6 months)

  Operational manager of the Museum's website and intranet and technical team leader during a period of expansion from 8 to 20 team members, a major redesign and second generation CMS.
  
  Contributed significantly to the wider community via the Museums Computer Group and Museums and the Web conferences.

• Web Manager

  The Natural History Museum

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

  February 1998 — November 2003 (5 years 10 months)

  Beginning as a singleton Web Manager / webmaster I took the Museum's site through several significant upgrades inlcuding two complete redesigns, its first Content Management System, plus many microsites and web applications. By 2003 I had a team of 3 and we were subsequently integrated with the gallery New Media team to form Interactive Media.

• Departmental Lecturer

  Human Anatomy Department, University of Oxford

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  October 1997 — February 1998 (5 months)

• Lecturer in Neuroscience, St Catherine's College.

  University of Oxford

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  September 1994 — February 1998 (3 years 6 months)

  Carried out tutorials, term exams/marking etc.

• Postdoctoral Research Assistant

  Human Anatomy Department, Oxford University

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  November 1994 — November 1997 (3 years 1 month)

  Voxel-based 3d visualisation of human anatomy (brain, head and neck, hand) for use as research aid, surgery aid and educational reference.

• Postdoctoral researcher

  St George's Hospital Medical School

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Research industry)

  November 1991 — October 1994 (3 years)

  Research into learning and memory and the pathways involved in long term memory and imprinting, plus teaching, tutoring and supervising med. students. Included a memorable month's work in Gabriel Horn's lab in Cambridge. If anyone remembers me from then - Hi!

Mike Lowndes’s Education

• The Open University

  PhD, Learning and Memory - Neuroscience, 1987 — 1991

• Bangor University

  BSc, Biology, 1984 — 1987

Additional Information

Mike Lowndes’s Websites:

• My Company
• Museum
• My Website

Mike Lowndes’s Interests:

Semantic web, electric guitar, blues and rock, conservation and environment, walking, tennis, cycling (like I ever have time...). I sometimes push Drupal as a solution to life's ills. So far, Vince Smith appears to have caught on.

Mike Lowndes’s Groups:

MCG, Celica Club UK

•    Semantic Web member
•    MuseoTech member
•    Tweeple member
•    UK Content Management Group member

Mike Lowndes’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• expertise requests
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