Chris Thomas

Chris Thomas - 0771 2529557 - email

Chris Thomas is a technical consultant whose expertise lies in envisaging, designing, developing and testing web based applications. Chris has managed large scale level applications for the private and public sector projects.

Information Architecture

Planning the way the pages of a website will be structured within sitemaps and the elements that will exist on each page in wireframes.

Functional and Technical Specification

Writing client facing specifications understandable by a non-technical person. Writing technical specifications for developers to build from.

Accessibility

Advising on accessibility legality and best practice during information architecture, design, build and quality assurance.

Usability

Advising on usability best practice, creating user testing questionnaires, planning user testing sessions, analysis of user testing results and advising on usability improvements for user centric websites.

System Architecture

Designing modular, robust and scalable structures for systems to run from.

Database design and SQL programming

Normalised and efficient database design and (T)SQL programming in SQL Server 2005/2000 and mySQL.

Server-side programming

.NET, ColdFusion, ASP, PHP and XML following best programming practices for both reuse and efficiency.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

An unrivalled experience of designing and building Content Management Systems.

Quality Assurance (QA)

Creation of test scripts and use cases. Testing of the functionality, accessibility and usability of sites/

Search Engine Marketing (SEM)

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

A thorough understanding of Search Engine ranking algorithms and advising on changes to increase Search Engine ranking.

Pay Per Click (PPC)

A good knowledge of Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns.

Artificial Intelligence

Semantics

Many are talking about the semantic web or semantics. Semantics are is a field born out of Aritifical Intelligence and it is only now the need for accurate search of information has it come into the mainstream.

Chris Thomas am one of the few Internet consultants that has a honours degree in Artificial Intelligence. Search, semantics, neural networks, cellular automata.

Professional Associations

Chris Thomas is a member of: