Wayne Smallman

Current

• Owner at Octane Interactive Limited

Past

• Multimedia Designer at Siren Creative

Education

• Barnsley College
• Barnsley College
• Barnsley College

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Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Websites

• Octane Interactive
• Blah, Blah! Technology
• My RSS feed

Wayne Smallman’s Summary

Octane Interactive came into being on the 14th of June 1999. So I've been around for over 7 years, which in this industry means that I'm among the elder statesmen. I've witnessed a lot of change.

Octane is a new media design agency. That means I work with you to find innovative, professional, engaging and cost-effective ways of making things like websites, web-based applications, interactive tools like cd roms & dvd's and on-line presentations help sell and market what it is that you do.

I'm based in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, making Octane quite central to a number of major towns & cities, such as Sheffield, Doncaster, Huddersfield, Rotherham, Wakefield and Leeds.

I provide my services to the education, healthcare and manufacturing sectors among others, and I also partner with design agencies to help them extend the range of services they offer to their client base.

Wayne Smallman’s Specialties:

Taking complex ideas and turning them into simple products and services.

Making technology invisible, unobtrusive and simple.

Giving marketeers and sales people the tools to extend their reach.

The specifics of my trade include: PHP development, MySQL, SEO, SEM, accessibility & disabilities usability, web-based applications, business software, consultancy, CSS, HTML, content management systems, bespoke design, Flash development, ecommerce.

Wayne Smallman’s Experience

• Owner

  Octane Interactive Limited

  (Privately Held; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  June 1999 — Present (9 years)

  Octane is whatever you want it to be - support your own in-house design team, end-to-end web design & development, create web-based applications and tools, or for us to just be there to add that little something extra, to give your company that essential competative edge.
  
  But most important of all, after more than 7 years serving the Yorkshire region and beyond by putting quality front & centre, we're reliable, professional, honest and very, very good at what we do...

• Multimedia Designer

  Siren Creative

  (Privately Held; Online Media industry)

  1996 — 1999 (3 years)

  My role was that of discovering, identifying, designing, developing and deploying a variety of new media, including web design & development, interactive media, 3D visuals and animation among other things.

Wayne Smallman’s Education

• Barnsley College

  BA (Hons), Product Design & Electronic Media, 1994 — 1996

• Barnsley College

  HND, Product Design, 1992 — 1994

• Barnsley College

  ND, Industrial Design, 1990 — 1992

Additional Information

Wayne Smallman’s Websites:

• Octane Interactive
• Blah, Blah! Technology
• My RSS feed

Wayne Smallman’s Interests:

Learning foreign languages, health & fitness, jogging, food, drink, fun, laughing, learning, web development, web design, php, mysql, internet, web, design, database, SEO, SEM, accessibility, disabilities, usability, interactive, web-based applications, business software, consultancy, presentations, programming, graphic design, CMS, XML, CSS, HTML, content management systems, bespoke design, Flash development, ecommerce

Wayne Smallman’s Groups:

UK Web Design Association, Federation of Small Businesses, Ecademy, OpenBC, Club UK Online, I think we met via MyBlogLog, Pownce, StumbleUpon

Wayne Smallman’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• job inquiries
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• reference requests
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