Broadcast · since 2020
Live election, sports and sustaining-services graphics
Freelance developer on on-air data-driven graphics for the BBC: election results, sports results, and the news, weather and schedule graphics shown between live programmes.
The problem: Results graphics go out live to a national audience, on deadline, with no second chance on the night.
- Development of data-driven on-air graphics
- Election results and sports results graphics
- Always-on sustaining-services graphics: news, weather and schedules
- Support through live election and sports events
Freelance developer · 2020 to present
Own SaaS product
My House Move Plan
A personalised week-by-week house-move plan for UK households, with ready-made change-of-address letters and PDF export.
The problem: Moving house involves dozens of deadlines and organisations to notify, and generic checklists miss most of them.
- A personalised 12-week plan generated from each household's situation
- 13 pre-filled change-of-address letters
- PDF generation and export
- One-off online payments
Designed, built, hosted and run end to end
Visit myhousemoveplan.co.uk
Own SaaS product
StoryPrompt
A year of weekly memoir prompts by email. Answers are collected without a login and typeset into a finished PDF book.
The problem: Families want to capture a parent's or grandparent's life story, but a blank page is daunting.
- Scheduled email delivery of a weekly prompt over 52 weeks
- Secure no-login answer forms
- Automated typesetting of the answers into a finished book
- Gift purchase and payment flow
Designed, built, hosted and run end to end
Visit storyprompt.co.uk
Own SaaS product
AccessDrop
Digital-download delivery for Etsy sellers: checks Google Drive, Dropbox and Canva links and produces branded PDFs with QR codes.
The problem: Etsy sellers lose sales and get bad reviews when download links break or buyers can't find their files.
- Link checks against Google Drive, Dropbox and Canva
- Branded PDF generation with QR codes
- Subscription billing
- Self-service dashboard for sellers
Designed, built, hosted and run end to end
Visit accessdrop.app
Public sector
Employee absence management for a Scottish council
A complete online employee and HR absence management system for Inverclyde Council.
The problem: Absence was tracked across paper forms and spreadsheets, with no reliable reporting.
- Absence recording, approval workflows and HR case management
- Reporting for managers and HR
- Secure cloud hosting on Azure
Angular · ASP.NET Web API · Entity Framework · Azure SQL
Small business
Inventory and customer management system
A secure office management system for an engineering repair business.
The problem: Stock, jobs, purchase orders and invoicing lived in separate tools, which caused errors and slow billing.
- Stock control and purchase orders
- Job booking and workflow tracking
- Invoicing and account reporting
ASP.NET MVC · Entity Framework · SQL Server
Retail
Art gallery management and e-commerce
Online sales and gallery management for one of Britain's largest collections of original artworks.
The problem: Thousands of unique artworks needed cataloguing, selling online and managing across galleries.
- Catalogue and stock management across galleries
- E-commerce storefront
- Cloud hosting and administration tools
ASP.NET MVC · Entity Framework · Azure SQL