Creative technologist & Director of Digital at
The Chancery Lane Project.
Making things on the internet since 1999, I'm currently based in Margate, Kent.
25 years of online work gives me technical experience; a decade running bars and restaurants gives me commercial instincts and operational nous and hospitality. I like simple systems, happy teams and maintainable solutions.
In 2005 I started out as Director of Technology for openDemocracy.net, then spent several years as a Technical Consultant with Headshift, working at the edge of mid-late 2000’s digital content, social media and online community design.
During the giddy 2010’s I was freelance; I helped a bunch of folk work out what they were building, whether it was serving their end users, and what was getting in the way. As someone who started out in a world of webmasters, I went on to be called a UX developer, full stack developer, information architect and creative technologist. Now I probably fit in a product or digital strategy shaped hole.
AI tools have made me the developer I never quite studied to be, but decades of experience mean I can architect and plan well and avoid vibe-coded technical debt. I’m not a visual designer, but I love working alongside them, and I like collaborating with people who care about getting it right, maintaining it, and leaving it like they’d want to find it.
I’m currently full-time Director of Digital at The Chancery Lane Project.
Alongside the digital work, I spent a decade building things in the physical world — a critically acclaimed London bar, then a restaurant and cocktail bar by the sea and, currently, a small mail-order and wholesale cocktail business.
I opened Every Cloud in Hackney in 2016 and ran it until 2019. A neighbourhood bar ranking 322 in the World’s Top 500 Bars, with countless 5* reviews, a roster of national cocktail competition winning drinks and a surprising industry legacy. Following that, I launched the Manhattans Project as a cocktails-by-post business, delivering over 18,000 cocktails across the UK between 2020 and 2022. Daisy opened in Margate in 2021 — a cocktail bar and restaurant overlooking the sea. It ran until September 2025, when I closed it to focus on my health and on TCLP. I’m still selling those RTD cans over at Daisy Drinks and plan some pop-ups in future.
I’m keeping the side-hustle small for now, but I’m always open to some menu consulting or martini conversations.
Director of Digital at TCLP, leading a four-person team — ML engineer, user researcher and intern. Responsible for the organisation’s full digital estate.
Currently deploying a climate contracts knowledge graph, MCP server and public API; building digital products for legal engineers working with TCLP’s clause library and maintaining internal digital tooling across the organisation.
Redevelopment of an enormous static site to support fast paced acquisition and reimplement functionality from proprietary CMS — including extensive SEO requirements, content and asset migration and freelance team management. Heavily involved in stakeholder management and requirement gathering throughout.
Development and ongoing support of new public site including extensive custom-built integrations with Salesforce API as editorial workflow into WordPress, requirement gathering and implementation.
Opened Daisy, a cocktail bar and restaurant in Cliftonville, Margate — serving modern cocktails and bar food overlooking the sea. Ran until September 2025.
Architecting and developing the main public-facing sites across all global regions for this large charity; including devops, responsive and accessible design implementation, internationalisation, complex content migration, infrastructure consulting and integration with their activism platforms. Extensive data analysis and microsite/project development over the COVID-19 period.
Launched a ‘Cocktails By Post’ brand over the period of lockdowns, delivering over 18,000 cocktails across the UK.
Feature development in Rails and React including payment processing and authentication user flows for an active online learning platform. Scope significantly extended due to the COVID lockdown period.
Rebuilt the website and handled the infrastructure migration project for the noted digital ethics and trust consultancy.
Development and retained maintenance of projects and main site for doteveryone, a charity focussing on digital literacy, ethics and policy.
Opened and ran Every Cloud, a neighbourhood bar in Hackney. Ranked 322 in the World’s Top 500 Bars. Profitable, well-reviewed, and the first date location for several now-married couples.
UX and development for a bespoke Rails application for a public sector organisation working with safeguarding data for housing associations.
User experience strategy and design pattern consulting for a large technology company launching a new product category. Experience design for a competition using the new product with content creators.
Extensive Rails and Ruby work across a number of client sites, ranging from copy updates to functionality rebuilds, and managing infrastructure using Heroku.
UX design and implementation of the Lloyd’s of London Annual Report 2014. Working closely with Pentagram on visual design direction.
Experience design and UX for a large luxury brand exhibition and accompanying iOS app — extensive user journeys, wireframes and prototypes, mapping visitor flow in the physical space, and UX for interactive exhibits.
Invited to join as Creative Technologist. Our group built a prototype for Sutton House in Hackney, using Raspberry Pi and small FM transmitters to create the experience of being a ghost, eavesdropping on conversations from across the house’s history.
Teaching front-end development at General Assembly London — courses ranging from the 10-week evening programme through to Programming for Non-Programmers and UX Immersive, with a focus on HTML/CSS for prototyping and wireframing.
Worked with Hide & Seek and Yahoo to develop a game for the launch of World War Z. Over half a million players across six regional Yahoo sites over a two week campaign.
A separate engagement for the Gaîté Lyrique in Paris: building the final game in a series, which generated an artefact for each visitor, integrating with multiple other games and APIs.
CTO for this food community startup, working on product concept and success metrics, then managing an offshore development team to build iOS and Android apps integrating with a Ruby on Rails application and API I developed.
As CTO, I migrated an initial MVP platform to a more mature Rails-based system — better user understanding, more effective content testing, and significantly improved content management.
A thread running through most of the above — pitches, projects and product work with agencies ranging from boutique creative shops to names you’d recognise. Some of it I can talk about. Most of it I can’t.