About us

Mat Connolley - career history

Director, Iteracy
2007 - present
I work as a developer, designer and client liaison to take pressure off web companies who need experienced, reliable staff at short notice, and designing and building websites for small business. My main areas of expertise are content management systems and e-learning using ASP and SQL Server, PHP and MySQL, ColdFusion, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and XML. My favourite colour is orange.

Freelance web developer
2005 - 2007
I have worked for a variety of clients in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and USA building a number of web sites and e-learning systems mainly using ASP and PHP. The experience of working remotely has given me excellent project management and time planning skills, and I've gained a broader outlook on business practices in different countries.

Epic, Brighton
2001-2002, 2003-2004
Epic is Europe's largest e-learning consultancy and developer of bespoke e-learning programmes. I worked on projects for clients such as Deloitte Touche Tomatsu, PwC, NTL, Barclays, B&Q, Inland Revenue and Chichester District Council. In addition I was responsible for the development of the company's internal toolkit, Construct, and managed several new releases of the software to a production staff of over 150 people, conducting training and writing documentation.

Cube Works, Brighton
2002-2003
Cube Works is a new media agency specialising in content management and internet marketing. I worked on the company's enterprise-level Content Management System, WebAttaché, and built sites for a number of key clients including the University of Southampton and London College of Print.

Aventis Behring, Haywards Heath
1998-2001
Aventis is a multi-national pharmaceutical company, specialising in plasma proteins. My role was varied and included development and maintenance of the corporate web site; construction of web sites for customers and overseas affiliates; design and implementation of intranet systems; graphic design for marketing department; database design and support.

Kathryn Smith - career history

Director, Iteracy
2007 - present
My focus at Iteracy is in building development partnerships with web agencies who need high quality technical resources. My areas of expertise include content management systems like Joomla!, database design, PHP and MySQL, ASP and SQL Server, XHTML, XML and CSS. My favourite colour is green.

Freelance web developer
2005 – 2007
I have worked on many diverse projects for clients in New Zealand, Australia and the UK. These have ranged from small sites with bespoke Content Management Systems to online booking systems, award sites and competition sites. Most recently I have been concentrating on implementing Joomla! on behalf of clients.

Xplore, New Zealand
2005
Xplore is a highly successful web design company based in Napier. Their development team used a bespoke content management tool to build websites. I built and customised websites and HTML emails in PHP and mySQL using this bespoke system.

Digitise, New Zealand
2005
Digitise is a long-running internet solution company based in Christchurch. I built a template website with an administration system and developed a new booking system for a hotel management web application using ASP and SQL Server 2000.

Viccari Wheele Ltd, Brighton
2002 - 2004
As senior programmer at this design studio my responsibilities included liaising with clients; drafting project briefs; building websites, online shops and web applications; project managing. I maintained email and web hosting servers and provided web statistics for clients. The company specialised in web applications using SMS notification.

MGM Assurance, Worthing
1998 – 2002
I joined the graduate scheme of this savings and investment company to train as a mainframe programmer, then transferred to PC programming in 2000 where I developed VB programs and web applications for their intranet and extranet.