Navigating the Bigger Picture
2011
The Government Digital Service was formed in April to implement the ‘Digital by Default’ strategy proposed by a report produced for the Cabinet Office in 2010 called ‘Directgov 2010 and beyond: revolution not evolution’
2010
British Standard 8878 launched 7th December – a Web Accessibility Code of Practice for creating and embedding web accessibility strategy within an organisation – my masters report contributed to this.
2010
A contract working with Capita and YPLA producing DirectGov prototypes for UK Government Learner Assessment and Payment Systems (desktop and online)
2010
The Business Case for Accessible ICT (my dissertation) produced with the Business Disability Forum, AbilityNet and a 20 strong business taskforce was launched by Stephen Timms (Digital Minister) and the Barclay’s CEO
2009
Gained my Masters Degree in Human Centred Systems (First Class)
2007
Committed to specialising in User Experience, Trinity agreed to sponsorship for a P/T Masters in Human Centred Systems at City University London, whilst working F/T with them
2005
A full-time position with Trinity Expert Systems Ltd (a Microsoft Gold Partner) representing all aspects of UX for External Client and Microsoft Projects in the public, private and third sectors
2005
A brief freelance spell at QinetiQ to help design a product for satellite insurance
2003
A contract designing, developing and testing Government ICT products for British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta) – usability, accessibility, use of wireframes and site statistics were now more prevalent
2001
Gained my BA Degree (First Class) and set up a partnership with two university colleagues in association with City College – a LearnDirect centre aimed at bringing IT (Hardware | Networks | Websites | Education) into the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter
2000
… Continued placement as my first contract with DialNet – an education Internet Service Provider in Birmingham – working as a graphic/web designer and HTML/CSS coder
1999
The Internet of Things, as a concept, is officially named by Kevin Ashton – the Executive Director of Auto-ID Labs at MIT
1999
A placement ‘year’ for a .com boom company building basic business websites (as most businesses still didn’t have one) – fifty or so websites in, I needed a new challenge…
1997
Started a BA in Interactive Multimedia Communication – along with Human Computer Interaction principles we learnt to build websites – HTML2/3 | CSS1 | Flash | Director | Video
1995
Working for Cap Gemini – Project Assistant to the Project Manager in a 50+ team at the Wesleyan, Birmingham – great insight into software development prior to my first degree
1994
By mid-1994 there were 2,738 websites, by the end more than 10,000 (Gray)
1993
By the end of 1993 there were 623 websites – according to MIT Researcher Matthew Gray
1992
The first image appeared in a web browser
1990
Tim Berners-Lee ‘invented’ the World Wide Web
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