MEET OUR PEOPLE
HERE'S WHO WILL BE LOOKING AFTER YOU
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MATT COOPER FOUNDER, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
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About
Direct Line 01799 544020
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Disciplines
The dark arts that are found in the LAMP stack
Special Skills
Object-oriented app development, Wing Chun
Favourite Bands
Slayer, Maiden, Led Zep, Queen, Placebo.
Background
Matt has been developing for many years and is at his happiest when seated in front of his array of monitors staring into the scary depths of the command line interface. When not in developer mode, Matt is often blatting about the Essex countriside on Bertha, his big yellow motorbike, or reading and supping cider in one of his local watering holes.
Recent Tweets
RT @decodefilm: @h18_ci Z-Ah Scan App is looking seriously cool guys. Nice one! - Yesterday, 12:08pm
Friends! We've finally finished stage #1 of a 2 stage deploy of Z-Ah, and you can now go and request an invite to... http://t.co/q8He8C55 - 5 days ago
@popcorn_web Yep, we at H18 really enjoyed designing that one for you! Nice e-commerce features from you chaps, good work :-) - 7 days ago
Current Top Albums
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JIM RAYFIELD FOUNDER, CREATIVE DIRECTOR
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About
Direct Line 01799 544025
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Disciplines
Design nerd and professional dreamer
Special Skills
Contemporary design and an eagle eye for detail
Favourite Bands
Motorhead, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Beatles
Background
Jim is a classically trained designer, picking up a BA in Electronic Media Design at the University of Sunderland and has been in the industry for 5 years. Lateral thinker, problem solver and detail obsessive, Jim can found in front on his Mac nose pressed against the screen checking each pixel is where it needs to be. Enjoys going to art galleries, film and gigs that make his ears hurt.
Recent Tweets
Helloooo http://t.co/zBSBLrYb - 2 days ago
Inception Park: Hovering Roller Coasters Fly Above the Streets of Buenos Aires | Colossal http://t.co/17bbqVxd - 6 days ago
Dying in bed due to consuming an off pork pie #winning #winner - 9 days ago
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BEN AULD WEB DEVELOPER–
About
Direct Line 01799 544023
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Disciplines
Creating top notch web apps
Special Skills
PHP, HTML5, CSS and Big Car Audio
Favourite Bands
Pendulum, Chase & Status, Deadmau5, Prodigy
Background
Ben was originally mentored in the arts of object-oriented PHP a few years ago by Matt, and he's now a fearsome CakePHP developer as well as being a dab hand at coding cross-browser compatible HTML/CSS websites, including HTML5 and CSS3 - all cutting edge. Ben is happy to take on a challenge and is currently developing his skills with the Joomla and Magento platforms.
Recent Tweets
Some thing to keep an eye on over the coming months is Google's BigQuery service: http://t.co/rszcoXCP useful for crunching lots of data - 100 days ago
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ALEX CHAMBERS WEB DEVELOPER–
About
Direct Line 01799 544023
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Disciplines
Front-end wizard and sys admin
Special Skills
HTML5, CSS, jQuery, PHP, Perl, Linux
Favourite Bands
Rush, Beach House, Opeth, Weezer, Smiths
Background
Alex is our in-house User Interface expert; he also has a very strong e-commerce background with enormous payment solution experience. This helps our business to create online shops that work really well for both customer and business owner. Alex is also on the cutting edge of producing mobile friendly interfaces, which he is also responsible for building.
Recent Tweets
90 hours spent in Skyrim since November. 100 hours spent in Terraria since December. #nolife - 2 days ago
Looking forward to implementing some delicious graphs with http://t.co/ctIAyw2M *nerd* - 86 days ago
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CATHERINE FOX ACCOUNTS/OFFICE MANAGER–
About
Direct Line 01799 544021
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Background
Catherine joined H18 to help us keep organised, and she's doing a cracking job! As well as managing the day-to-day running of the office she is responsible for looking after H18's financial relationship with its clients and is the person you will be speaking to about quotations and billing.
