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Jason Mayes

www.jasonmayes.com
technicallyCreative@gmail.com

Membership Type: Freelancer

Key Skills

web applications, social media, creative, Usability and User Experience, advertising, PHP, Drupal, Graphic Design, Digital Marketing

Key Clients

Google, XMOS

My background is based in Computer Science. It was here I discovered I fitted in to a rare breed of \"hybrid developers\" who equally enjoy being both creative and technical all at the same time.

To me, it did not make sense to have a beautifully designed, efficient, modular back end, if it was not complemented with a front end that had just as much thought go in to it. Usability is just as important - otherwise it will only ever be used by the person who created it. Both components should be elegant and complement each other.

I soon discovered web/mobile technologies allowed me to combine both sides of my personality. My final year MEng thesis was in \"Reality mining using mobile devices and pseudonymous social networks\" where I thoroughly enjoyed combining my creativity with my technical knowledge. For this I won the Innovative Web Applications Prize and was nominated for the national SET awards in the \"Best IT Student\" category. I was delighted to make it to the final 3 candidates in the UK for this, which was judged by the IET.

Currently I work for Google helping to develop technical solutions for clients in the EMEA region. I am part of a team known as Innovation Services who provide solutions that have never been made / standardized before for the leading large brand advertisers in EMEA (e.g. HP, Canal+, McDonalds, Coca Cola, Unilever, Renault etc) to the leading web properties (e.g. YouTube, MSN, Yahoo, MySpace, RCS, etc.)

Previously I was a Senior Web Development Engineer at XMOS. I also acted as a technical evangelist for XMOS within robotics and education communities worldwide.

Whilst at XMOS I was actively involved in web programming, digital marketing, web design, bespoke LAMP based web systems / applications, Drupal, PHPbb, website optimisation, user interface design, user experience, email and mobile marketing research and integration, graphic design using various Adobe products, professional digital SLR photography, 3D modelling using Autodesk Maya, hardware testing and evaluation, multimedia production, CDN research / integration (Akamai), social network utilisation and integration (Facebook/LinkedIn/YouTube/Twitter), online advertising / brand promotion (increased web traffic by over 300%), research and strategy.

I am also co-founder of Pure42 - my own web design company, which I set up with similarly minded individuals who share my quest for digital perfection. http://www.pure42.com/

Feel free to get in touch, I don't bite, and it would be great to hear from similar minded people.