Team
Web-head is very people-focussed and we place a premium on talent, knowledge capital, know-how, creativity and collaboration. Our major asset is our team and the networks we have mean we can respond rapidly to your needs. We can bring in expert, insightful and professional people who will empower you and your organisation and increase your strategic, operating and value creation capacities.
Alex Barclay
Alex is Web-head’s Director. He founded Web-head because he wanted to create a business that stresses the importance of creative vision and technical know-how. He designed Web-head to be low on infrastructure but networked to expert, insightful and professional people who as a team, deliver real value to you and your business.
Alex combines his research, business and marketing expertise with the role of media producer. As he’s a specialist in strategy formation, he can help you conceptualize and develop your plans for growth. He’s also very results-focussed so will ensure that any strategy arc, aims and objectives for your plan fit you and are realistic.
Alex has 22 years of experience of working in the film/ digital media, visual arts and music sectors, including working in the finance team of a major music concern, as well as designing and managing a multi-million pound business support and creative talent development programme. He has also written, directed and produced many film and digital media projects, including ‘Shooting From the Hip’.
Organisations he’s worked with include the Shanghai Creative Industries Group, NESTA, Walt Disney, the Arts Council of England, CIDA, the Screens, B3 Media, informal.org and Futurelab. He also mentors many individuals both inside the media and arts-based sectors.
Alex is a member of the Institute of Management Consultancy and of the Forum on the Creative Industries (FOCI). He also has a few but well chosen pastimes: cloud watching, scoffing cakes and pastries, writing screenplays, swimming and cycling.
Adam Hoyle
Adam is a technical guru and has been working on digital projects for over 10 years and has received a D&AD award and two BAFTAs from 3 nominations along the way.
His work has spanned the commercial, education and arts sectors producing innovative online and offline projects for clients such as British Airways, Vodafone, British Heart Foundation, BBC, Tate Gallery (Modern & Britain), culture online, NESTA.
Until recently he was a head technologist for the BBC’s online curriculum, leading development of User Generated Learning projects.
Alec East
Alec has 12 years experience in digital design working across film and digital media. He was head of web design at Getty Images establishing a web design department in Seattle before becoming creative director at Tomorrow London Creative Agency.
Alec’s film work includes motion graphics for feature film, including two James Bond films. He has also directed video for corporate and broadcast and created innovative digital solutions for 007.com, Davina McCall, Corbis, Cisco, Prudential and digital strategy and consultancy for Getty Images, Prada, Paul Costelloe, Xerox and the British Council.
He has design and photography awards and his work is reproduced in design reference books.
Alec is a regular contributing author to trade and national press and edits the thrice-weekly bulletin for independent filmmaker’s network Shooting People.
Sarah Bucknall
Sarah specialises in designing and delivering projects to develop creative businesses. She is especially effective at analyzing, scoping and implementing systems that support the whole product or service creation process, through the conception, inception, knowledge transfer and marketing stages.
Sarah is also an information architect with technical knowledge and design experience and has designed websites for a range of clients for the last four years. She focuses on creating sites that are user-led-content friendly and which are flexible enough for clients to be able to develop their online presence themselves.
This mix of skills and competencies bring substantial value, especially as she can bridge sectoral divides and communicate in the language of creatives, of business, of support providers and investors.
One of Sarah’s main drivers is the desire to develop sustainable creative businesses. In the past she managed a portfolio of clients for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) as part of its Creative Pioneer Programme team (CPP). Recently Sarah has been working on establishing the ‘Start’ initiative at Artworks-mk. Her role there has been multi-faceted: business advisor, project manager, information architecture designer and constructor, business trainer and marketor.
Other projects include the Keynote Project at Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol, where she researched and designed a programme of digital media-based activity focusing on the representation of young people.
Sarah is passionate about her work and believes that to understand the issues facing creative businesses it helps to be creative too, so outside of Web-head she makes he own art. She also lives in London with her husband, David (a mad-cap cyclist), their cat Charlie and four axolotls.
Patrick Lock
Patrick has been a Web Developer for over 10 years. After training up on European funded web course at the Hoxton Bibliotech, he started out from a studio warehouse in Hoxton, building sites for local businesses. Fearlessly riding the dot com wave he worked at trendy web company called Okupi on Rivington Street in Shoreditch, London.
After a year at Okupi, Patrick moved on to e-commerce solutions company Citria, where he stayed for two years. At Okupi he led a team of developers creating sites for dot com start-ups and banking organisations.
When the dot com bubble burst, Patrick spent 6 years at the BBC where he built many ground breaking sites for the Factual and Learning division and won many awards, including a BAFTA.
Patrick now works as an independent web developer and is based at a studio also in Shoreditch. This gives him the flexibility to collaborate with other freelancers in the same studio on a project by project basis and it’s on this basis that he forms part of the team at Web-head.
Patrick’s a natural: during his time working for a wide range of clients he’s built up a vast array of creative, technical and programming skills including: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, XML, XSLT, PHP and MySql. Currently he specialises in building bespoke content management and shopping basket systems.
Brian Holmes
Brian is an accomplished film director, producer and editor.
Clients Brian has worked for include the BBC, Walt Disney, RedR, Deadline Games, Dorling Kindersley, Atari, Sony and many others.
Tools he uses include Avid Liquid Chrome, Avid Media Composer, Combustion and After Effects. For imaging he uses Photoshop and for authoring and sound Encore and Nuendo fit the bill.
Brian’s also comfortable handling a range of camera equipment including the Sony HVR Z1E, the Sony PD150 and Sony DVW 790 wsp.
Jean-Philippe Altier
Jean-Philippe Altier (JP) is a deeply experienced Interactive multimedia designer, developer, sound designer and musician.
JP started out as technologist designing hardware solutions, then swiftly became an accomplished new media designer and developer creating innovative marketing and added-value content for the music industry before spending 3 years with the BBC as a senior developer.
JP is very experienced in online & offline digital media and developed the landmark AshVideoMixer, recognised as the first application to enable users to make their own music video from a selection of clips and to share them online.
He has produced work for Sony Music, Warner, BMG, Ministry of Sound, Prudential and many more, holds an MSc in Interactive and a BSc in technology and is part of the audio-visual performance group “Burn Brothers”.