Tom Rowlands

Experience

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  The Faversham, Hifi Club, Wire

  Oct 2005 - May 2007

  Live Sound Engineer
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  Mando Group

  Jan 2009 - Aug 2010

  Project Coordinator

  Coordinating web development activities, project management, information architecture, CMS configuration, and software testing. Later in tenure started to work more closely with resource management and helped develop internal resource and capacity planning tool.

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  Reading Room

  Jul 2010 - Oct 2011

  Project Manager

  Defined process and oversaw delivery of 1000+ automotive dealer websites for Trader Media Group (Autotrader).

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  Amaze

  Oct 2011 - Jan 2014

  Campaign Manager

  Researching, planning and executing digital marketing campaigns in line with objectives set by an array of blue chip organisations.

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  FutureEverything

  Nov 2013 - Nov 2016

  Oversees a growing portfolio of innovation, art and design projects. Ensuring a cohesive programme and project delivery team using their skills in capacity planning, resource management and project management. Working closely with project partners and the broader sector, to advance the company programme. Their knowledge of debates in design, art and digital innovation will help shape the programme, whilst working with design, research and curatorial staff to continue excellence in FutureEverything outputs. Using best practice in project and programme management, the programme manager will deliver high quality projects on time and budget, they will foresee and mitigate project risks before they have an impact on programme delivery. Show less

  • General Manager (Interim)

    May 2016 - Nov 2016

  • Programme Manager

    Oct 2014 - May 2016

  • Innovation Projects Officer

    Nov 2013 - Oct 2014
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  Heart of Glass

  May 2016 - Nov 2021

  Trustee
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  Data Campfire

  Mar 2017 - Jun 2017

  Freelance Consultant

  Data Campfire has been created by Natalie Foo (@natfoo) and Chloe Kim (@wisewormm). Their vision is to make data more accessible to people. Data Campfire aims to cultivate data literacy and increase open data quality so that people can benefit, by understanding data better and in developing their skills in handling it.

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  Uncle Pablo & Co.

  Jul 2017 - now

  Associate Programme Manager

  Working with raft of blue-chip firms on all manner of digital delivery, including product and project work on consumer facing IT platforms and internal networks. The role involves collaboration with a range of agencies and company stakeholders across various technical platforms and ways of working

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  FACT

  Aug 2017 - May 2018

  Health and Wellbeing Hub Creative Producer

  This work forms part of a scoping exercise supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to test the potential for a large-scale Health and Wellbeing Hub in the Creative Economy. The project will mobilise core learning and collective expertise from the AHRC’s Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy developed between 2012 and 2016, a UK-wide programme that revealed the enormous potential for arts-and-humanities-led collaborative work in the creative economy. At the end of that programme, our understanding of how creative Hubs can undertake innovative R&D, support co-design, unlock cross-sectorpotential, drive culture change, and curate lasting partnerships was significantly advanced. Show less

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  FutureEverything

  Jan 2019 - Mar 2020

  Production Manager

  Urban data, digital poetry and our place in future citiesEvery Thing Every Time is an artwork by artist Naho Matsuda. This large-scale public realm artwork transforms city data streams into poetic narratives, presented on a custom-built split flap display. The work debuted at SXSW (Austin, Texas), and has since toured to Bristol and Qatar British Festival.Every Thing Every Time lends a physical presence to the otherwise invisible data that is generated and collected in our cities each day. The work processes this data (typically captured by ‘smart city’ technologies, consumer devices, private companies and public institutions), strips it of its original purpose or value, and turns it into poetic writing presented on a large mechanical split-flap display. Show less

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  Raskl. Art + Architectural Production

  Apr 2019 - Jul 2019

  Production Manager

  Working as Production Manager with Rask, commissioned as fabrication partner and principal contractor for the development and delivery of the Dulwich Colour Palace, the winning submission by Pricegore Architects and artist Yinka Illory, for the 2019 Dulwich Picture Gallery’s Summer Pavilion. The competition is co-created by the Gallery and the London Festival of Architecture.

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  Supersum

  Aug 2019 - now

  Founder

  At supersum we tackle wicked problems. These are problems that speak to different fields of expertise and so resist single, easy solutions. Asking how we might communicate, work, and live better together, we – and the people we work with – recognise how wicked problems disclose some of our most pressing shared needs. By working together, we can address wicked problems more completely.

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  Bill Posters

  Jan 2020 - Mar 2020

  Co Producer

  A project by Bill Posters & Dr. Daniel Howe.Interactive, immersive installationNamed after the online persona of Dr. Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist that sold 87 million Facebook profiles to Cambridge Analytica, Spectre is an immersive new media installation that detournes many of the technologies and methods used by the Digital Influence Industry to influence people’s behaviours and decision making both online and in the voting booth. Users of Spectre’s system tear the lid off the ‘black box’ technologies revealing in the process how our personal data is used to influence us all in ways we are not aware. The installation is micro-curated by algorithms and powered by visitor’s personal data.Spectre gamifies – and simulates – new forms of computational propaganda including OCEAN (Psychometric) profiling; gamification; algorithmic bias; personalisation; ‘dark design’; ‘deep fake’ technologies; and micro-targeted advertising via a ‘dark ad’ generator Show less

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  Safe Steps Ltd

  Dec 2022 - now

  Product Manager

  Leveraging technology to enhance the lives of care-users and reduce the risk of falls in the aging population. Managing the end-to-end product development process, collaborating closely with and technical teams and stakeholders in the care system, to define and prioritize product features, ensuring timely delivery of solutions that empower seniors to live independently and confidently.