Contact Details

Marcus Clements

Marcus Clements

Profile

A multi-skilled project manager and engineer with experience of leading teams developing major international projects.  An effective and confident communicator responsible for delivering complex large scale projects on time within budget in high pressure environments.

Key Skills and Experience

Web programming and design (Drupal, Joomla!, PHP, MySQL, ASP, VBS, HTML, Javascript)
Software development and technical architecture (C, C++, Visual Studio)
Entertainment and technology project management
International event management (www.rocketfestival.com)
Multimedia authoring and interactive installation design
Sound engineering and system design (www.innerfield.co.uk)
Course design and implementation of media based educational projects
Conversational Spanish and basic French

Projects

October 2007 to Present

Production Director for the annual Rocket Festival in Spain. In 2008 the Rocket Festival website was rebuilt in English and Spanish using the Drupal CMS. Translation and edit workflow and stability under heavy yield and custom modules were requirements of the development. Rocketfestival.com is a state-of-the-art web application in a demanding industry. www.rocketfestival.com

Project manager for Net Music 01, a 2-year European Comission funded Leonardo project designed to transfer the development of E-Musicnet (see below) into a practical environment.

June 2006 to October 2007

Web Developer Brighton Ltd. PHP/MySQL/XHTML projects with custom CMS: www.vividaudio.com, www.evolutions.tv, www.bravo.co.uk/adultswim, www.livingtv.co.uk/biggestloser, www.bravo.co.uk/lifeonmars, www.airstreamfacilities.com, www.maderavivateller.com

January 2005 to May 2006

Production Director for the Rocket Festival in Spain. Responsible for overseeing all aspects of the event including budget, publicity, programming, logistics and website technical design and implementation. www.rocketfestival.com

October 2005 to present

Project Manager for European Commission funded educational projects PRAXIS (http://212.67.202.173/~praxis/) and MODEM (http://ccdev18.dreamhosters.com/ ) at Brightonart Ltd. Responsible for planning, design and implementation, budget control and communications. MODEM is a music collaboration community developed using open-source PHP/MySQL CMS Cchost. PRAXIS is a community for educators developed using Joomla!

August 2004 to
December 2004

Online Project Manager and developer for www.VJs.net developing www.channel4.com/pixnmix.

June 2001 to present

Director of technology at Brightonart Ltd. www.brightonart.co.uk
Technical design and implementation of a number of websites for various clients including www.notonlybutalso.net as freelance senior developer on web projects.

Jan 1994 to
present

General Manager and chief sound engineer for Innerfield Soundsystem (www.innerfield.co.uk) at numerous events across Europe.

April 2002 to
April 2004

Special Projects Manager at Ninja Tune Records, London, developing ‘E-Musicnet’ with several European partners, an online vocational training project for young people sponsored by the Leonardo project of the European Commission. http://www.e-musicnet.net/index_uk.asp

Summer 2000 to present

Member of audio-visual performance group The Vjamm Allstars (www.vjammallstars.com) composing and performing music.

Autumn 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006

Delivered practical course in Interactive Installation Design at the FH Johanneum University in Graz, Austria. Guided students through the process of developing and implementing an interactive video art installation. This course is now an annual feature of the curriculum.

November 2002
to Present

Design and implementation of major open source software project Freeframe (www.freeframe.org). FreeFrame is an open-source cross-platform real-time video effects plugin API supported by major VJ software applications with hundreds of plugins now available.

Autumn 2002 to
May 2002

Facilitator and course leader for Plug in to Music an audio visual education project for young people in the South East of England.

Autumn 2002

Design and implementation of audio effects plugin Coldcutter.

Jan 2002 to
Oct 2003

Development of Gridio 1.0 an interactive video installation as part of Sonic Process, an audio-visual arts exhibition commissioned for the Pompidou Centre in Paris and the MACBA (Modern Art Museum) in Barcelona and the ‘Mountain of Memories’, a major exhibition in Graz, Austria, funded by the European City of Culture 2003.  www.gridio.com

June 2001 to
Jan 2002

Contract web programmer for User Advocacy Group (UAG) developing websites on CD-Rom for presentations

Sept 1999 to
June 2001

Senior Developer at Victoria Real (www.victoriareal.com) leading teams developing major web and interactive TV applications for Norwich Union, Iceland, William Hill, BBC and Channel 4.

Aug 1998 to Sept 1999

Senior Programmer at Computer Experts Limited. Developed Anti-Millenium bug software in C/C++ on Windows and Linux

July 1998

HNC Software Engineering at Brighton passed with Distinction

Other Interests

Snowboarding, windsurfing, hill walking, mountain biking, live music.