React/Next.js web application for Evidence for Learning, market leaders in educational software for SEND learners, supporting their inquiry-based approach to SEND education.

React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind AG Grid HeroUI REST APIs Laravel/PHP

• Designed and built a custom visual query interface for searching students' performance records inspired by visual programming languages
• Implemented a timeline-based filtering and comparison UI, drawing on UX patterns from DAWs and video editing packages
• Innovate UK–funded greenfield project, meeting and exceeding key milestones and requirements throughout the project
• From prototype to product in under 12 months
• Used by 1,200+ schools and colleges and 75,000+ practitioners

Evidence for Learning

A responsive social media dashboard for Dua Lipa’s UK team at Warner Music, enabling them to track the performance of their TikTok campaign creators.

React Next.js TypeScript Tailwind REST APIs

• Added real-time insights through data visualisation and charts
• Led discovery of requirements and user journeys to align the dashboard with Warner’s strategic goals
• Delivered a key internal win, enabling Warner UK to compete favourably with an alternative tool from Warner US

Jim is a safe pair of hands - strong on application planning and sharp-end coding. He integrated quickly, delivered under pressure, and made a real impact on our React dashboard project. Josh Saunders, Warner Music Group

Suite of editable HTML5 educational games for Cambridge University Press, deployed on their global learning platform.

React JavaScript PixiJS Laravel/PHP

• Architected and developed five educational game templates for Cambridge University Press, doubling the number of games available to their course designers
• Reached millions of users in over 100 countries via their digital learning platform, Cambridge One
• Collaborated with existing team to integrate new games with existing codebase, then led refactoring from class-based to functional React components
• Influenced game design, maintained database, co-managed deployment and testing

Jim threw himself into the project and integrated well into the wider team. I hope to work with him again when the right project comes along. Neil Thompson, AVS

Cambridge University Press portfolio at Alternative View Studios

An Arts Council–funded public installation promoting Brighton and Hove Libraries' Everyone's Library campaign.

React Google Firebase

• Led the technical development of a successful public installation for Brighton and Hove Libraries' Everyone's Library campaign, delivering on time and within budget
• Mentored client with technical skills through project, improving original specification to guarantee an accessible, secure, and compelling experience for visitors
• Achieved significant community impact and reach, with the installation attracting 2,000 contributions at Brighton's central Jubilee Library and other locations throughout 2024

Jim delivered our Arts Council–funded library installation on time and to brief, translating a complex idea into a working public-facing React application. I’d happily work with him again.. Jake Smith, Digital Manager, Brighton & Hove City Council

With design partners Boyle & Perks