Andrew Ford Lyons

UPDATE: I’m working with the Leeds-based Twentyfourten web design house and Tangible Response of Cheltenham  on a micro-site for Teacher Support Network called Great Teachers Remembered. Here’s the advert text for the site builder position tha’ts now closed:

Website builder sought for Great Teachers Remembered

Overview

Teacher Support Network seeks a builder for a website to be located at greatteachers.org.uk, which will be a companion to its main site at teachersupport.info. Design and content have already been assembled and we are looking for a quick, independent and solid website builder to bring it online on deadline and to design specification.

About us

Teacher Support Network consists of a group of independent charities and a social enterprise in the United Kingdom that provide practical and emotional support to staff in the education sector and their families. You can find out more about us at teachersupport.info. Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: Great Teachers Remembered, Tangible Response, Teacher Support Network, Twentyfourten

The Top 5ive Project is something that’s been simmering for a while in the conceptual stage and now’s the time to make it real. It’s a social experiment, a multi-revenue stream venture, a collaborative tool, a date finder, a friend finder, a group finder, a shopping outlet and a piece of cultural and social commentary. Multiple revenue streams and multiple uses. As much of an art installation as a business venture and online social tool. The Top 5ive Project questions how we use the internet to relate to one another even as it is a social tool itself that pushes the envelope over what 2.0 web tools provide.

This is a collaborative project. Partners required. Share the work and the rewards equally. Needed:

• Programmer
• Social Networks application specialist
• Graphic designer
• Marketing Director

Contact me through this form, using “The Top 5ive Project” as the subject. Let me know what you’ve worked on in the past and give me a link to it if it’s active somewhere online. If you look to be a good match, I’ll send you the access key for this background document.

Tags: The Top 5ive Project

I spent last summer with my Movement Studio web designers cap on, giving the Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice website a makeover from the traditional blog that it had been, to something approaching a full news site that better represents the diverse projects that the foundation has going on.

Keeping with the colors and motifs that now gives RCF its brand was a challenge, and two complete sites were built from scratch. I’m hoping to actually give it an upgrade and another build later this year, similar to what’s there, but based on a Wordpress theme I’ve currently got under construction, that will turn it into yet still more of a news site. Over at the blog I detailed the some of the work involved. Here, I’m just posting both theme designs, the one that didn’t make it (image at right) and the one that did.

Tags: movement studio, Rachel Corrie Foundation

I’ve been digital media manager for Teacher Support Network since the start of the year and currently we’re in the midst of a major website redesign. I’m working with Ken Harper of Iron Clad Images and web designer Nigel Parry. The image attached here is of the current website, a Drupal installation. Teacher Support Network consists of a collection of ambitious charities and social enterprises aimed at helpingover-worked, under-paid and under-appreciated teachers in the UK reach a more healthy balance between work and life.

Being a part of this project has given me a far better look at and greater appreciation of educators here and in the U.S., and a lot more empathy for those teachers who put up with me from primary school on.

We’re switching off of Drupal to a customised, independent cms, integrating the site with the RightNow crm and giving it an all-together different look and architecture. Transitioning from the current brochure-site look to something that approaches an actual online service-oriented tool has been a great case study in site usability dos and don’ts which I hope to illustrate here once the project is complete.

Tags: Iron Clad Images, Nigel Parry, Teacher Support Network

I’m now on the advisory board for ITTP and am truly humbled by the company I’m in. ITTP trains practitioners to treat complex trauma inflicted by torture, war, and natural disasters. The goal of the International Trauma Treatment Program is to undermine the use of torture through establishing an international network of practitioners who fight torture by transforming torture victims into survivors.

From the website:

“Practitioners from war zones who participate in our program become prepared to treat, and to train other practitioners to treat, trauma survivors in their home countries. We thereby seek to leverage our resources by creating a snowball effect that greatly increases the number of practitioners worldwide that fight torture.”

Handling the web technology for this group and consulting on tech issues with the many great people associated with it puts me pretty far off from the experiences that others on the advisory board have, as I sit safely behind a computer screen here in London. Other advisory board members, many of them practicioners themselves, are working in medical facilities, refugee camps and trauma treatment centers in Zimbabwe, the occupied Palestinian territories, Sri Lanka, Uganda and other places where people face first hand the human capacity for brutality and also for assistance in healing.

Tags: International Trauma Treatment Program

Welcome to my CV site. Suffice to say, if you’re looking at this site around the time I’m writing this post, there’s not much here that’s of use. I’m not promising that there will be much here of use to you later, either, but hopefully there will be something here sooner or later that will be of interest.  My more-updated site can be found here.

I created this website to accomplish a couple of things: To be a place to maintain an updated resumé and advertise projects in need of people out there with specialized skills.

Over the course of the next few days I’m planning to populate this site projects past, present and future, turn it into a portal for collaborative opportunities.

Contact me by clicking here.

Tags: Curriculum Vitae