olson

An accelerator for positive change, Olson is a creative consultancy using digital, design & marketing for good — to help purpose-led businesses reach more customers, to raise awareness for progressive & transformative community causes, or to create apps & interfaces for socially-&-environmentally-conscious services.

Co-Founder

Here Design

Digital Sustainability Consultant

Leading Here's use of digital to help deliver their mission of making good choices desirable. Notably working with charities to make their causes more findable & sharable, and using motion & interaction to improve visibility & storytelling for good initiatives — such as circular startup Reweave and Here's own BCorp impact report.

Head of Digital

EverythingInBetween

Digital Director

Director

Ekobai.com

Ekobai is a database of green, environmentally friendly and certified companies & products. My role was managing development iterations for UX, DevOps and creating an API for data partnerships

Development Manager

Multipower.com

Online fitness and bodybuilding website with e-commerce facility

- Implemented search engine strategies for content, markup and site architecture
- Implemented affiliate marketing schemes & tracking
- Developed custom user engagement algorithms for product reminders and suggestions
- Programmed custom abandoned basket & other UX/user engagement features
- Worked to tight deadlines
- Created user engagement systems (email communications etc) from custom content management system
- Built flexible e-commerce management tools
- PayPoint gateway integration

Lead Developer

Race of Champions

Lead developer for high traffic motorsport event site

- Managed digital delivery from China internationally
- Solved technical problems under pressure
- Delivered solutions to remedy mission critical outages under load at an application level
- Dealt with high traffic spikes
- Implemented caching rules to improve performance
- Designed custom content management system for multi-lingual content

Direct Design

Senior developer at Direct Design (DDA) involved design and build of corporate sites, plus developing a custom in-house content management system with codeigniter which is now deployed with any DDA site.

- Managed Team of Developers & Web Designers
- Introduced internal development workflow
- Managed version control of core in house system shared across all deployments as SVN external
- Established new business & client relationships
- Programmed interactive flash games & applications
- Developed custom content management system and database schema for document management
- Animated flash & video content
- Created visual themes & art direction for international campaigns online & in print

Senior Web Developer

Apprenticeship Training Limited

In house digital designer for ATL covering 3 sub brands

- Animated promotional video & flash content
- Designed printed collateral
- Introduced fresh graphic approach
- Developed custom Flash CMS
- Redesigned & redeveloped corporate website

Digital Designer & Developer

I'm an interdisciplinary designer & technologist, working across brand & service design, user experience, motion and interaction. I'm currently motivated by using design as a force for good, and want to collaborate with organisations who want to make the world a better place, and need digital tools, apps or interfaces to do that.

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