WORK EXPERIENCE @PUBLICIS

Permanent Freelance Senior Lead Developer I have been freelancing at Publicis UK continuously since 2009 working independently between the different agencies within the company itself, having had constant work between Publicis London, Publicis Chemistry, Publicis Blueprint, Publicis Modem, Publicis Ideas to Market, Publicis Poke and Vividbrand.

Publicis has and continues to prove to be a fast changing competitive player in the advertising industry. Over the years I have seen many divisions of the company disband and new collaborations formed through mergers and acquisitions constantly changing the work environment, acquiring new clients, and employees, while bringing a change in structure and strategies. This presented incredible opportunities to work on a vast range of diverse projects with new teams and technologies always arising. Additionally, I was the Lead developer for Publics London for two years as well as the lead developer for Ideas to Market for over a year.

The work at Publicis

The work at Publicis has been very varied between the agencies over time, however the majority of the work includes responsive HTML5 (and previously Flash/AS3), websites and landing pages, Rich Media dynamic banners and advertising campaigns (DoubleClick, Sizmek, Adform), Responsive HTML emails, perfected responsive HTML EDM templates for all Litmus clients, dynamic systems for advertising Rich Media Banners, Kiosk adverts, billboard digital OOH screens, multi platform advert development and After Effects Videos. A few significant projects can be found below with many more examples coming soon and available upon request.

Renault HTML5 Dynamic Banners System
Template system with DoubleClick Studio

Renault and Dacia have been a long standing client of Publicis since I joined the company. Over the years (since 2010 with Publicis Modem) I have built thousands of Rich Media Banners (Flash & HTML5), Responsive Emails and templates for Renault and Dacia. The turnover for their advertising campaigns has always been fast and constant and required many developers to hand code each creative, which was not ideal, as it was time consuming when challenged with high volumes of work and therefore limited productivity.

This presented an opportunity to develop a system which produced a high volume of rich media dynamic banners on the go, without the need for developers or coding. I was the lead and sole developer on this project which turned out to be very successful and then later developed as a standard between the Renault Group for 34 countries in the Europe ‘G9’ region.

I developed a fully customizable, adjustable, HTML5 dynamic template system, using HTML5, JavaScript and CSS, while hosted on DoubleClick Studio and accessed via Google Sheets. The system itself allowed for the fast creation, yet fully customizable advert at any size, for any style or purpose with virtually no limits. This increased productivity immensely and it was possible to produce, traffic, and publish live, hundreds of banners easily per day.

I was also requested to create a set of video and documented tutorials for trafficking and media agencies to use (see video example). After the success and presentation in Europe, this system was requested to be made standard throughout Europe and therefore I then developed further tutorials, videos and documentation to guide other agencies in Europe, on how to implement similar advertising systems.

Augmented Reality (AR), Branding Development, Animated Particle Engine, Responsive HTML5 Websites, Rich Media HTML5 / Flash Banners and Responsive Emails - 2012-2017

Publicis Chemistry were tasked with creating the full development of the new EE campaign that was launched in October 2012 to introduce the new Brand EE. I was part of a small team that developed everything digital for this campaign, which included developing the master code of the main branded EE animated particle engine which has been used to create, and can be seen, on nearly all EE animations till today on websites, adverts, banners, videos and more.

One of the most challenging projects was the development of a new emerging Augmented Reality (AR) experience, that was used to interact with customers in over 200 EE stores in the UK . The interactive application was developed using C++, Cinder, and the Microsoft Kinect SDK and Sensors to detect sensory motion capture from the user. The application is intended to capture the body movement of a customer and map that on to the screen with the person's body drawn as dynamic moving particles/bubbles which follows the new EE design campaign. The person could then interact with all the new banding symbols and be responsive on screen while the user interacts with the application.

Since the launch we have continued to work on multiple EE ad campaigns, including responsive website landing pages, dynamic banners, responsive emails, digital OOH screens and AE videos.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed various advertising campaigns and rich media HTML5 banners for Heineken, constantly over time since they became a client of Publicis.

I have only added a few MPU examples from different campaigns, however many more are available upon request.

International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Senior Lead Developer / Designer

I managed and developed the entire advertising campaign for the 2018 Winter Olympics. This involved the design and development of various HTML5 Banners and adverts for the participating countries of The International Olympic Committee (IOC), the controlling body for the National Olympic Committees (NOCs), which are the national constituents of the worldwide Olympic Movement. The campaign included the following countries; Australia, Canada-English, Canada-French, China, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland-French, Switzerland-German, Switzerland-Italian, UK, US.

After Effects Developer

I created and developed a large set of Digital Out of Home (DOOH) Screens for EE. I used Adobe After Effects CC to create all of the videos and was tasked with around 50 videos to create.

Senior Lead Developer

I have developed an assorted collection of HTML5 responsive landing pages for the Royal Mail website while they have been a client for Publicis. This was ongoing work throughout the year with Publicis Chemistry.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed various rich media HTML5 banners for Fairy, on numerous occasions since they became a client of Publicis.

I have only added a few examples, however many more are available upon request.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed a HTML5 responsive website for Publicis Chemistry, with a small animated intro. This was an internal quick job and I did regular updates when needed.

Senior Lead Developer

I have developed various advertising campaigns for Tourism Ireland over the years. This involved developing and sometimes designing large sets of HTML5 Rich Media and Standard Banners (and previously Flash) for Tourism Ireland.

I have added a few examples from different banner campaigns I created.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed various campaigns and rich media HTML5 banners for Yopa, on numerous occasions since they became a client of Publicis.

I have added a set of examples from a campaign preview, however many more are available upon request.

Senior Lead Developer
Jacobs Cracker Crisps Website and Banner Campaign

I developed a HTML5 responsive website for Jacobs Snacks, introducing their new Jacobs Cracker Crisps range. I also previously developed the entire advertising campaign for Jacobs Cracker Crisps and Jacobs Lunchtime, which included HTML5 and Flash Rich Media and standard banners, as well as home page takeovers (HPTO). These were hand coded however we were asked to produce some responsive rich media banners with Celtra. I also developed a set of Digital Out of Home Video Screens (DOOH).

Senior Lead Developer

I developed the VapoEase Patch advertising campaign for Vicks, which involved creating a set of HTML5 Rich Media and Standard Banners.

I have added an example of the 300x250 MPU banner.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed the master HTML responsive email template for the Publicis Worldwide Newsletter. This was created to be used as a Campaign Monitor Template, so that managers within the agency could easily create a Newsletter when needed themselves.

Senior Lead Developer

Since I joined the company, I have been developing banners for Airbus with Publicis Ideas to Market, Publicis Modem and Publicis London. I have developed a large amount of HTML5 (and previously Flash) rich media and standard banners and entire advertising campaigns for Airbus. The work for Airbus has been constant and ongoing with high banner productions per campaign.

There are too many examples and variations to display, so I have added a few examples of different types of banners.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed variouos sets of HTML5 Standard Banners Garnier.

I have added a few examples of the MPU banners from each set.

Senior Lead Developer

Over the years at Publicis, I have developed a multitude of HTML5 (and previously Flash) rich media and standard banners and entire advertising campaigns for UBS. The work for UBS has been constant and ongoing with very high banner productions on a weekly basis. Most of the time these were developed to be served via ADFORM. Each campaign involved the development of a large set of standard and rich media banners in almost every possible size as well as bespoke dimensions.

There are too many examples and variations to display, so I have added a few examples of different types of banners.

Senior Lead Developer

There are too many examples and variations to display, so I have added a few examples of different types of banners.

Senior Lead Developer

This was ongoing work every quarter with Publicis Blueprint. I would develop the entire Flash Animated Website for the online Orange Exchange Magazine every quarter. Each edition would be unique in terms of development as it was like creating a mini website for each section of the magazine. This was a very creative and enjoyable job to work on as I got to develop new techniques and skills and had to find new ways to make the magazine more creative and enjoyable with each edition.

Senior Lead Developer

I developed the entire Dynamic Flash Website for Cushelle. I also created the animated videos used on the website using Adobe After Effects. I continued to work on regular updates when needed.

Orange Swapables
Lead 3D Flash Developer

I developed many banners over the years at Publicis for Orange. One Campaign in particular called Orange Swapables was allot of fun to create and a good 3D learning experience at that time. I developed the master source code files for a large set of 3D interactive rich media banners in Flash CS5, using Away3D, Jiglib physics and AS3 to be used with DoubleClick Studio. These were developed in many different versions including; MSN IM Expandable, YouTube Masthead, Yahoo Takeover, and many more popular formats as well as standard banners with challenging file size constraints.