Mark Rochefort

Current

Head Of Technology at Harvest Digital
Owner at Playlab

Past

Consultant Developer at chellomedia
Consultant Developer at Yoomedia
Senior Developer at Victoria Real (Endemol UK)

Technical Producer and Developer at Seven Interactive
Interactive Developer at 422 South

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Education

University of Bristol
University of Bristol

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Mark Rochefort’s Summary

In my current role, I look after a small team of developers and oversee a range of technical projects at Harvest Digital, a full service digital marketing agency in London.

In this multi-faceted role, I am responsible for all technology concerns within this successful and rapidly growing digital marketing agency - working alongside the creative and media departments to offer technical insight, expertise and strategic thought at all levels.

The nature of our work is extremely varied - I enjoy working with such a wide range of technologies and with all sorts of people to help solve interesting problems - creatively applying interactive media and new technologies.

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Mark Rochefort’s Experience

Head Of Technology

Harvest Digital

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 7 months)

At Harvest, our team of freelance and full-time developers work across a range of technologies - principally with HTML/CSS/Javascript/AJAX for the user-interface and LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) for the back-end - including Rich Internet Application development, integration with existing systems, creating bespoke solutions or tailoring open source applications.

I am responsible for the delivery of technical projects as well as new business development and the leading of the technical team - ensuring all development work is appropriately resourced and delivered on time, to acceptable levels of quality and productivity. I oversee resource planning, liaise with account/project managers, and assist in sizing work, reviewing functional specifications, costing and regularly meet with and present to clients.

Clients have included 3M, Auto Trader / Trader Media Group, Tesco, Plan UK, Norwich Union, Holiday Extras, NAVTEQ, uSwitch, Gumtree, Thomas Cook, RSPB, Zopa, Shelter, Natwest...
Owner

Playlab

(Internet industry)

2004 — Present (6 years )

Consultancy and production work - offering technical insight and expertise for the interactive media, advertising, marketing and design industries.

Clients and projects have included Pru Health, Sky Sports, Channel 4, Tesco Personal Finance, Yoomedia and Chello.
Consultant Developer

chellomedia

(Public Company; Broadcast Media industry)

February 2005 — May 2005 (4 months)

Contract to develop Chello Mistral application for deploying "red button" interactive TV i-ADs
Consultant Developer

Yoomedia

(Public Company; MIRA.L; Broadcast Media industry)

April 2004 — October 2004 (7 months)

Contract to develop Yoochat interactive TV application for ntl and Telewest using Liberate API integrated with J2EE system
Senior Developer

Victoria Real (Endemol UK)

(Internet industry)

2002 — 2004 (2 years )

Working on gaming, media, broadcast and digital marketing projects, I led or worked within a project's technical team for a variety of high profile clients and projects, such as Ladbrokes, Tesco Personal Finance, Norwich Union, BBC, ITV, Channel 4 (Big Brother etc), Camelot (National Lottery)...
Technical Producer and Developer

Seven Interactive

(Internet industry)

1999 — 2002 (3 years )

As technical producer, I would work with the client and the account managers to co-ordinate and support the ongoing work of the development teams. This included hands-on coding, site and database maintenance, producing technical project documentation and setting and achieving production milestones whilst mentoring junior team members.

I also worked as part of a team and as lead developer on a range of creative and interactive solutions - for clients such as BP, Mitsubishi Motors, Royal Mail, Head Sports and Hewlett-Packard.
Interactive Developer

422 South

(Online Media industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Clients and projects included BBC, Hewlett-Packard, Canon, Kodak...