Endemol

This is the registration site for the hit TV show, The Million Pound Drop. A simple enough website from the front end, running on an advanced infrastructure designed to handle spontaneous high load of hundreds of thousands of users based on both cloud and traditional hosting systems.

This is the main (non-BBC) website for Total Wipeout in the UK. It's a custom WordPress deployment making use of various advanced features and plugins.

This is the contestant application website for the hit reality TV show, Big Brother. A simple enough website from the front end, running on an advanced infrastructure designed to handle spontaneous high load of hundreds of thousands of users based on both cloud and traditional hosting systems.

The National Lottery's on line TV channel, showing programmes on how to play lotto games, stories from national lottery winners and some great music performances. My involvement with this site has been the ongoing enhancement and maintenance of the website and facilitating the move from Ooyala our original streaming media partner for this project to Brightcove.

Endemol produces the total rugby radio podcast on behalf of the International Rugby Board. My involvement with this project was the delivery of a simple solution which allowed the show producers to manage and deliver new podcast material and syndicate this out to the Amazon Cloud Front CDN for fast worldwide delivery on demand.

This is the website for the popular CBBC TV show Me and My Monsters. My role with this site was to define the hosting and development standards the site needed to be built to; deployment of the site (and its updates) to Endemol's hosting estate; and occasionally debugging deployment issues alongside the main developers Complete Control.

When Darlow Smithson Productions was acquired by Endemol previous contracts for its website CMS and hosting came up for review, and it was noted that significant cost savings could be made by porting the website to Endemol's in-house CMS framework based on Kohana. As such an interim static copy of the website was taken on contract expiry and hosted as a standalone proposition until a full port of the website to the Kohana based system could be made.

My main involvement with this site has been maintenance of the WordPress based blog, phpBB based forum and newsletter software as well as the delivery of secure high performance solutions for high load online contestant application processes.

This site was already established on my arrival at Endemol. Work to date has involved the addition of and deployment of new functionality and other ongoing maintenance.

This the main corporate website for Endemol UK. Though intended as a B2B website, elements of B2C are evident within the site for the general public wishing to know more about Endemol. The site itself was mostly built on my arrival at Endemol however I was responsible for a number of enhancements and bug fixes since, as well as deployment and tailoring for other markets. This site framework has since been deployed in South Africa and the USA

This site is an adaptation of the base CMS and site and created for Endemol UK. please see the Endemol UK entry for further information.

This site is an adaptation of the base CMS and site and created for Endemol UK.

This is the Scottish Parliament's live streaming website, this is largely managed by other people. My main role on this website is ensuring contacts are maintained and that streaming charges are made appropriately.

A resources and sales website for independent short film producers int he UK

This site is an adaptation of the base CMS and site and created for Endemol UK. please see the Endemol UK entry for further information.

This site was pre-built on my arrival at Endemol and hasn't been drastically altered. My main involvement with this site (aside from managing hosting) has been to perform some basic SEO improvements to the underlying html to ensure correct representation in Google for key searches.

Originally a Symfony based website this legacy project ceased to function after a server upgrade. As a legacy project with no ongoing development or content management planned, a decision was made to convert the website to a flat html site until such a time where its would warrant a rebuild of the CMS.

Originally a Symfony based website this legacy project ceased to function after a server upgrade. As a legacy project with no ongoing development or content management planned a decision was made to convert the website to a flat html site until such a time where its use would warrant a rebuild of the content management system.