
Owner, Octane Interactive Limited and Online Media Consultant
Sheffield, United Kingdom

Owner, Octane Interactive Limited and Online Media Consultant
Sheffield, United Kingdom
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.
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.
(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...
(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.
BA (Hons), Product Design & Electronic Media, 1994 — 1996
HND, Product Design, 1992 — 1994
ND, Industrial Design, 1990 — 1992
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
UK Web Design Association, Federation of Small Businesses, Ecademy, OpenBC, Club UK Online, I think we met via MyBlogLog, Pownce, StumbleUpon