Mark Hawker

Current

• Consultant at Consulting Leeds
• Author at Pearson
• Research Assistant at University of Leeds

• Owner at thebubblejungle.com

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Past

• Junior Cost Accountant at Ecolab GmbH
• Internet Store Administrator at Toyworld Group Plc.
• ICT Technical Support Staff at Oakbank Sports College

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Education

• University of Leeds
• University of Leeds

Recommended

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Connections

196 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

• My Blog

Mark Hawker’s Summary

First-class Informatics (Hons) Graduate from the University of Leeds. Social applications developer and consultant with an interest in developing for social platforms including Facebook and Twitter. Primarily involved in health care informatics research and innovation with a research interest in the applications of social media in health care.

Mark Hawker’s Specialties:

Facebook Connect, Facebook Platform, Google Friend Connect, OpenSocial, Twitter

Mark Hawker’s Experience

• Consultant

  Consulting Leeds

  (Management Consulting industry)

  October 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Working on a consultancy project with Leeds City Council developing a digital circle of support for older people in the local area using online social networking tools.

• Author

  Pearson

  (Public Company; PSON; Publishing industry)

  May 2009 — Present (11 months)

  Authoring a book provisionally entitled: "The Developer's Guide to Social Programming: Building Social Context using Facebook Connect, Google Friend Connect, and the Twitter API" for Pearson/Addison-Wesley Professional.

• Research Assistant

  University of Leeds

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

  Researching Health Informatics and eHealth at the Yorkshire Centre for Health Informatics. Creating, gathering, organising and delivering content and presentations for their MSc Health Informatics programme and working on a joint-funded project on the effective use of clinical databases in research.

• Owner

  thebubblejungle.com

  (Computer Software industry)

  March 2006 — Present (4 years 1 month)

  Specialising in the research and development of social media applications using Facebook and Twitter.

• Junior Cost Accountant

  Ecolab GmbH

  (Public Company; ECL; Chemicals industry)

  March 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  Systems development, creating databases to support the organisation. Setting up new product codes and completing month-end procedures.

• Internet Store Administrator

  Toyworld Group Plc.

  (Retail industry)

  September 2004 — February 2005 (6 months)

  Administering Internet store, customer service and ensuring products are supplied and distributed. Updating old systems and maintaining accounts.

• ICT Technical Support Staff

  Oakbank Sports College

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  December 2003 — January 2004 (2 months)

  Responsible for network maintenance, fault diagnosis and error reporting.

Mark Hawker’s Education

• University of Leeds

  PGCert , Health Research , 2010 — 2010 (expected)

• University of Leeds

  BSc (Hons) , Informatics , 2005 — 2008

  Graduated with a First-class degree in Informatics and made the Faculty of Engineering Dean's List for Academic Excellence 2006/2007.

  Activities and Societies:

  CompSoc

Additional Information

Mark Hawker’s Websites:

• My Blog

Mark Hawker’s Interests:

programming, social media, social networking, technology, training

Mark Hawker’s Groups:

Member of the British Computer Society, Affiliate Member of the Communications Management Association, Member of the Yorkshire Extreme Programming and Agile Methods Club, Member of the UK Faculty of Health Informatics

•    BCS Young Professionals Group
•    Google Group
•    Health Informatics Technology (HIT)
•    Facebook
•    Twitter
•    WSG
•    Health 2.0
•    BCS Membership Group
•    VentureLinx
•    Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
•    The Crumple It Up Innovation Network
•    STweM
•    HealthCamp
•    Twitter Book Authors
•    Computing.co.uk
•    ASSIST - Association for Informatics Professionals

Mark Hawker’s Honors:

University of Leeds Faculty of Engineering Dean's List for Academic Excellence 2006/2007.
Badminton England Coach Level 2, 2005.
ASDAN Universities Award, 2004.
Outstanding Contribution to the Local or Wider Community, 2002.

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