Category: Consumer Electronics

Native Design :: Lead Creative Technologist

Dec 21, 2013

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Native Design is a leading integrated experience design company that delivers both industrial and interaction design solutions to many of the worlds’ leading brands including Apple, Samsung, Microsoft, HP, Audi, Mercedes, Bentley and the BBC. They are based in London, San Francisco and Amsterdam. I was employed as their lead creative technologist, helping them create…
SFR – Next Gen Media Technology and Cloud Services

Nov 14, 2013

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ricmax

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SFR is Frances leading telephone, mobile and broadband provider with over 1000 shops and millions of customers based all around France, it is part of the vivendi group. Native Design was employed by SFR on a range of projects ranging from the building of their next generation set-top box to evaluating and improving their range…
Hewlett Packard :: Next Generation Home PC

Nov 14, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, CV, Highlights, Work

One of the most interesting projects i worked on whilst at Native Design, the leading Integrated Product designs, was to completely redesign and attempt to reinvent the concept of a traditional home-based pc for their client, HP. The work done is under strict NDA but the product is due to be released at CES 2014.…
Hewlett Packard Android

Nov 14, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Debugging, Design, Development, Highlights, Leadership, Mobile, Native, Open Source, Work

Whilst lead Creative Technologist at Native Design, the integrated design agency, I was required to oversee the technical and development aspects of three new Nexus devices for HP – a 7, 8 and 10 inch tablet. The majority of the project was the modification of the Android platform to make it more aligned with the…
Bowers and Wilkins

Nov 14, 2013

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ricmax

in Client facing, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Contract, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Highlights, Mobile, Music, Native, Software, Work

Whilst working as the lead Creative Technologists at Native Design I was involved in numerous projects for and client meetings with their client Bowers and Wilkins (B&W) the leading speaker and headphone manufacturer. My work is under a very strict NDA and the products will not be out for another year or so. I am…
Philips :: Remote Training Platform Prototype

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

in Client of Perm Employer, Consumer Electronics, CV, Leadership, Open Source, Technical Director, Work

Whilst Technical Director at Closer, the experiential marketing arm of the Billington Cartmell Group, I was required to prototype a Remote Training Platform for their lead client, the Electronics giant, Philips. The web-based application enabled Philips marketeers to login and create content in the form of video sales promotion training tutorials and related questionnaires in order to access the quality of the users understanding of the training…
Panasonic :: European Roll-out for Community Platform

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

in Client of Perm Employer, Consumer Electronics, CV, Leadership, Open Source, Technical Director, WordPress, Work

Whilst Technical Director at Brave, part of the Billington Cartmell group of companies, I was involved with a few significant projects for their lead client, Panasonic. The Panasonic Lumix G is their top selling prosumer camera and Brave had been running there very successful ‘Lumix Lifestyle’ UK community site based in WordPress that enabled professionals and amateurs alike to share images,…
Dyson :: AirBlade Facebook Campaign

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

in Advertising, Client of Perm Employer, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Debugging, Development, Facebook, Flash, HTML, Leadership, Open Source, Php, Technical Director, WordPress, Work

Whilst Technical Director at Brave (part of the Billington Cartmell Group of companies) I oversaw their client, Dyson’s Facebook Campaign to nominate public restrooms in America for an AirBlade sponsored makeover! Users could self nominate a restroom by adding it to a searchable database then leave comments and votes on it. The leader-board mechanic dictate which restrooms needed making over and the winners received a full refurb including Dysons revolutionary AirBlade hand driers. My…
Sennheiser :: Labyrinth Collaboration Event and Facebook App

Nov 17, 2012

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ricmax

in Client of Perm Employer, Consumer Electronics, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Highlights, Leadership, Technical Director, Work

Billington Cartmell had a very successful music and performance arm, developed to marry brands and celebrities in a complementary marketing synergy. Artists like Plan B, Kylie Minogue and Dynamo teamed up with brands like Lucozade and Lexus for some award winning collaborative campaigns. One of these collaborations involved Sennheiser, a client, and Labyrinth teaming up to target the booming teenage headphone market that was increasingly dominated by brands…
Panasonic :: ‘Flag Tags’ Facebook and Mobile App

Nov 9, 2012

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ricmax

in Advertising, Client of Perm Employer, Consultancy, Consumer Electronics, Creative Technologist, Creativity, CV, Facebook, Flash, Highlights, HTML, Leadership, Open Source, Php, Technical Director, Work

Panasonic is the official worldwide Olympic partner in the Audio Video Equipment Category, and whilst working as Technical Director of Brave I was responsible for technically overseeing their 2012 Olympics campaign, Flag Tags. Flag Tags allowed people around the world to show support for their country in the London 2012 Games by projecting a map…