Residents
Meet the new coworking residents of met:space…
Imran Ali · Carbon Imagineering
Imran is a founding partner of Carbon Imagineering, a UK-based emerging technologies think tank incubating a number of startup projects - including social TV and Islamic computing - as well as working with various clients in exploring early-stage technologies and social media. Currently, Imran is also a board director for bmedi@ and ensembli, a contributor to Corante’s Mobile Messaging 2.0, Web Worker Daily and O’ReillyGMT as well as being active in organising meetups such as BarCamp Leeds, OpenCoffee Leeds and helping to start Leeds’ coworking community.
Imran was previously Deputy Director of Technology Research at Orange UK and helped to develop various R&D teams and programmes for Wanadoo and Freeserve. Also, Imran has been part of the advisory boards for both editions of O’Reilly’s Emerging Telephony conference and blog, Emerging Communications 2008 and Going Solo, as well as an early contributor to TechCrunch UK.
Deb Bassett · Urbanwide
Deb is a freelance application developer with 9 years experience in large-scale web and applications development using Ruby/Rails, Perl, Java and PHP.
She is the organiser of Leeds GeekUp – a community of web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded folk, which attracts over 40 attendees monthly.
Richard Garside · Garsonix
Richard is a freelance web developer and designer specialising in interactive websites and applications. He completed a foundation course in Fine Art before going on to do a degree in Computer Science. This range of technical and artistic skills is perfectly suited to the world of new media and finding different and effective solutions to web based problems.
Richard spent the first five years of his career working in the marketing department of the Department for Work and Pensions where he was the lead developer of the Internet Team. He led a small team of developers and worked with other marketing professionals to create websites, web applications and other new media to support government campaigns. He left to become a freelancer so he could experience a wider array of challenges.
Richard now specialises mainly in Flash and ASP.NET projects, but also frequently works in PHP and ASP.
Richard Hamer · Blue Sky PR
Blue Sky Public Relations is a highly experienced communications agency founded in 2006 by Richard Hamer, who has previously worked for Britain’s largest independent PR agency, as well as the North’s No 1 full service marketing agency.
He was a journalist for eight years, four of them with the Press Association and its sister company Ananova.com (now part of Orange), where he was a night editor for almost three years before moving into public relations.
If you need professional help to get your company or your products noticed, Blue Sky PR is ready and waiting to lend you a hand, be it breaking stories to go to the media, a newsletter for your clients, photography to create that professional look or an event to help launch your products.
Tarique Naseem · Carbon Imagineering
Tarique is the owner of Pxlspace and partner at Carbon Imagineering, where he is actively involved in creating and incubating numerous technologies and concepts.
He is a veteran of the games industry and specialist in serious games & virtual reality software development. Having graduated from Leeds Met, Tarique has had a varied career spanning military research through to games development, and has been involved in a number of Startups. He also co-founded Maelstrom Virtual Productions Ltd, which specialises in Serious Games development.
He is currently involved in a number of projects ranging from social web applications through to 3D collaborative environments.
Gemma Povey & Paula Temple · Future Arts
Paula and Gemma are the cofounders of Futures Arts, a social enterprise developing opportunities in creative technology for hard to reach people, through an accessible range of projects, outreach activities, training and networking initiatives.
At the heart of Future Arts is offering media and music technology as a learning and creative tool, to assist in methods of inclusion for disenfranchised people, to build skills and to help them gain a foothold in niche markets. Future Arts aims to bridge the digital divide and to increase employability in local areas of recognised deprivation.
Previously Gemma was heavily involved in live sound, studio engineering and music production. Paula spent fouteen years in the music and media industry as a professional DJ, music producer, radio producer, web designer and co-developed the innovative MXF8 midi controller. Paula also has a degree in Business Information Technology and teaches at the Leeds College of Music. Two years ago they both decided to change direction by offering their skills and experience in helping others, where they first met delivering creative music and media projects as part of a European Regional Development Fund initiative.
Future Arts has recently developed Future Youth, an initiative for young people which is led by a forum of young people in Leeds who meet regularly to identify and agree how their (and their peers’) needs and aspirations can be best met and encouraged.
Other Residents…
- Leo & Dave · Kensei Media
- Simon · PureClubs
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