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Photo MATT COOPER FOUNDER,
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

About

Direct Line 01799 544020

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

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Photo JIM RAYFIELD FOUNDER,
CREATIVE DIRECTOR

About

Direct Line 01799 544025

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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Photo BEN AULD WEB DEVELOPER

About

Direct Line 01799 544023

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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Photo ALEX CHAMBERS WEB DEVELOPER

About

Direct Line 01799 544023

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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Photo CATHERINE FOX ACCOUNTS/OFFICE MANAGER

About

Direct Line 01799 544021

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.