Gareth Shapiro London Based Flex/AS3 Freelance Web Developer

The World in 2009 is the 23rd edition of The Economist's annual collection of predictions for the year ahead—with views from journalists, politicians and business people.

This year's edition has two interactive online pieces looking at Countries and Industries in 2009. I was responsible for all the Actionscript and PHP coding.

I am bound by a non disclosure agreement from disclosing the client this Flex work was produced for and so the agency, Tribeca, is listed here against this item.

The brief was to produce a rich media interface for a section of a content learning system for use by a global pharmaceutical company. Tribeca, the creative agency, came up with a great solution that works so well it has been used by the marketing department when delivering presentations in addition to the main purpose of being an interface to learning material.

In 2001 I begun delivering Actionscript training through a number of London commercial training providers, something that I continue to do to this day.

Polonetworks is a global membership organisation and central agency to the polo industry.

In 2008 they launched a social networking website to enhance the services offered to their worldwide membership base.

The British Heart Foundation ran an anti smoking campaign on UK television that was based on depicting, in graphic detail, what can happen to the arteries of smokers, by showing cigarettes dripping with fat. It was tough viewing but the advert drove record numbers of visitors to the charity's website. In order to continue this message, creative web content was created to engage visitors and provide the final piece of a campaign that begun with posters on the street.

Producing television advertising is a global business. An advertising production company may have their office in London while needing to show a new script to a director who is on location in Hong Kong. It is exactly because of this type of situation that Stink decided to make their current in-house system an online application. Essentially this is business software that is accessed using a web browser and is available to staff wherever they may be, provided they have an Internet connection.

McCann Erickson Worldwide Advertising is a globally experienced worldwide agency network with offices in over 130 countries and more than 75 years of global experience.

Leveraging global resources, and tapping into local expertise, has earned the agency "Global Agency of the Year" honours for 1998, 1999 and 2000 from Adweek magazine.

McCann is a subsidiary of the Interpublic Group of Companies, one of the four holding corporations that make up the advertising industry.

Emco is named derived from the words 'Electrical Mechanical Company' and as such they are an all around Electrical-Mechanical Service Contractor aiming at the Gulf Market with Bahrain as a prime target. Emco specialises in the field of Electrical, Electronic, Refrigeration, Air Conditioning, Plumbing, Drainage, Fire Fighting and Maintenance work.

In 2008 I was asked to be involved in the construction of their new Content Management driven website.

Plan UK distribute teaching resources to educators around the globe. This project's requirements were to provide a space where all of the resources could be uploaded, tagged and stored for download anywhere in the world.

Organisations that undertake many marketing initiatives need to be able to add new content, as well as update existing content, quickly and easily. Depending on outside agencies to change content on their website would place shackles on how effective they are in spreading the word about efficient use of water within in the UK.

I delivered a Content Management Systems (CMS) using a well known open source solution and continue to support Waterwise staff in using it.

ES@T is a web based management tool for gathering, compiling and analysing data associated with self-assessment for the Equality Standard for Local Government (ESLG).

The ESLG was launched in 2001. Ninety per cent of all local authorities have now adopted it. It enables the mainstreaming of age, disability, gender, race, religion or belief and sexual orientation into council policy and practice and is a voluntary best value performance indicator.