About
David Reekie
Digital Lead with print, web (UX,UI), app developer experience
My educational background is in digital design but have also always worked on web development, App and IT systems, with a strong interest and focus on digital solutions and integrations. I found over the years I’ve been very involved in the bigger picture projects building platforms and systems and gained a lot of experience across a wide range of digital solutions.
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Web
cxsymposium.com
Website for the CX Symposium events, it takes registrations displays programmes and event information, can take payments and linked with internal databases for customer management, designed and maintained by a mix of myself and with occasional external developers project managed by me
BIBAEVENTS.COM
Bespoke events platform created at the end of 2020 during the COVID pandemic when we had to pivot to virtual events and after some experiments with using off the shelf platforms I decided to build our own platform, using JW Player as the streaming provider and on-demand replay, AWS scalable services, MongoDB, pusher, sli.do, and a lot of bespoke built features, allowed us to host multiple live stream channels, on-demand library, partner channels with content from our event, with an area for their own content such as videos documents company branding colours and logos, delegate chat, sli.do integration, entire development and hosting which can be used for multiple events was cheaper than cost of one event on existing service. I project managed this with the help of our external developers in around 4-5 months
cx2021online.com
First event run in April 2021 for 4 days of Livestreaming over 2 channels on the BIBA Events platform, which had 1730 attendees from 76 countries, spending on average 45mins in live stream a day, with hundreds of hours viewing on-demand content, all trackable
cxaortic2021.com
Second event run in October 2021 for 3 days of Livestreaming on BIBA Events platform, which we can can reskin for each event and select what features to include, some improvements from the previous event were added such unterlising MongoDB to push the usage tracking data through to handle the amount of integrations during an event better with greater accuracy
bibapublishing.com
One of BIBA Medicals divisions sites, used to take and manage subscriptions of all the newspapers digital and print, all Publishing sites are WordPress Multi sites and are sub sites of this site allowing for quick sharing of resources and setup of new newspapers site
bibamedtech.com
Another division within BIBA Medical, used for advertising market research capabilities, delivering of reports and gathering of research participants
cardiacrhythmnews.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to cardiac rhythm news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
cardiovascularnews.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to cardiovascular news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
interventionalnews.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to Interventional Radiology news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
iwoundsnews.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to endo wounds news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
neuronewsinternational.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to neurological news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
renalinterventions.net
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to neurological news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors site layout designed and maintained by myself, Logo and branding by Terry Hawes
spinalnewsinternational.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to spinal news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
vascularnews.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to vascular news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
vascularspecialistonline.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to vascular specialist interest (Official newspaper of SVS) with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
venousnews.com
BIBA Publishing site covering news related to vein specialist news with adverting and tracking run and maintained by google ad manager and google analytics, updated by BIBA’s editors designed and maintained by myself
Screen
A selection of Graphic animations, some used as idents for and intro animations for events and website, some just some experiments for my own content, all made with a mix of Adobe Illustrator, After Effects, Premier and Blender.
IT
Virtual events platform
As the event we usually hold at Olympia London in April most years, was unable to take place due to the COVID lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, we like many companies had to turn to running virtual events, after running 2 events using established platforms reasonably successfully I felt as a company with very specific requirements I could build our own platform, so with the help of a great team of developers from Rishabhsoft we built our own events platform using a mix of React, Laravel, on scalable AWS hosted environment, using JW Player as the streaming service, that can scale to our events needs, for less than the cost of using an established event platform for just one event and with the benfit of a bespoke build tailored to our needs.
It was a lot of work and a little fraught when we went live for the first time but it performed well and was well received with over 3500 users over the 4 days of the virtual event and after to watch the on-demand video library.
The platform could also report on site usage tracking 100,000+ interactions as well as having a notification feature and an internal chat messaging system, break out zoom meeting inputs, exhibitor/sponsors channel where they could display video, documents , company descriptions.
We continue to use and develop it as our needs change and will be looking at how we can continue to use it as our events return to a more hybrid approach with a hopeful return to physical events but keep the new customer base who maybe unable to travel or prefer to attend virtually.
Database for customer management and events management
Streamlining and enhancing contact, sales, product, and event management processes across all the business units by developing a customised MS Access frontend database with a tailored SQL based backend platform which monitors, records, and collates interactions.