Gareth Shapiro | London Based Flex / Air / Actionscript Freelance Developer & Trainer

As a web developer who is interested in mobile phone development I thought the first part of my journey into learning what the new wonderful world of mobile is like would be to get this website, my portfolio, to render well on my phone.

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.

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.

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.