Contract work between Feb 2008 to April 2011

BBC World Service Future Media (Nov 2010 - April 2011)

Work in 'Rapid Delivery' team to migrate older World Service websites to the new global 'GEL' designs and also into the internal 'Topcat2' CM system.
Develop using a mix of SSI's, XML, CSS, jQuery.
Had to learn a lot of internal applications, procedures and terminology unique to the BBC.
Migrated Afrique (French speaking nations), Indonesia and Mundo (Spanish speaking nations).
Worked on re-factoring some of the generic GEL search functionality.

Sole technical resource within the BBC Archive Online team. Build Archive Portal Website according to web standards and to BBC publishing standards.
Use BBC Glow javascript framework technology, Barlesque publishing server and bespoke "Ethel" CM system (built using templating toolkit).
Author technical documents to help external consultancy to build "Ethel" system.
Digitally process all of the images used in the Archive Collections.
Help to evolve sites according to various stages of accessibility and usability testing.