Meet the Tyxan Team

Will Evans

Managing Director

Job role:

50% talking to clients, evaluating their requirements, advising on the best way to achieve their goals using the web
30% working with the team, project planning, evaluating solutions, quality checking
20% keeping up with technology in the development space and how it can help our customers

Unusual facts:

As a child, I appeared in a Disney movie (no, not an animated one!)

Phrase most likely to say:

"If you look at it like this...."

Indie

Paragliding

Chinese

Man Bites Dog

Cats

Celery

Simon Taylor

Lead Developer

Job role:

40% keeping the team on track with current projects and keeping clients up to date with progress
30% project planning, business operations & process management
30% coding, maintaining & optimising websites

Unusual facts:

My childhood rock band once appeared on TV

Phrase most likely to say:

"Have you got everything you need?"

Indie

Hiking

Burritos

K-PAX

Dogs

Odd Socks

Chris Evans

Senior Developer

Job role:

80% Planning and building new websites along with maintaining existing ones, including identifying and troubleshooting issues
15% Assisting with other ongoing projects
5% Ensuring that clients are satisfied with the current targets of the project/discussing any issues and/or fixes that need to be dealt with

Unusual facts:

I share a flat with 3 chinchillas

Phrase most likely to say:

"Will do!"

Rock

Boardgaming

Swedish Meatballs

Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Video Gaming with friends

U2 (The Band)

Shaquille Mayers

Web Developer

Job role:

70% Planning, building, and maintaining websites

20% Assisting different projects

10% Learning and keeping up with new technologies

Unusual facts:

I was in Argos catalogues as a child model and I was also in an Asda advert

Phrase most likely to say:

"No probs"

R&B

Gaming

Pizza

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

Sports

Cooking

Alan Evans

SEO and Content Manager

Job role:

70% Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) and Analytics

20% Development/content

5% Photoshop/image manipulation

5% Constant learning/research

Unusual facts:

I held a 2nd dan Black Belt in Karate in my younger years

Phrase most likely to say:

"Sounds good to me"

Dance and Old School Garage

Watching Football

Indian

Pulp Fiction

My Kids

Cold Callers

Rafal Wilinski

Web Developer

Job role:

40% Turn the design into visual elements that users see
30% Identify and troubleshoot various website issues and coding problems
30% Site maintenance

Unusual facts:

I was a Policeman for a year

Phrase most likely to say:

"sorted, ready to review"

Rock

Martial Arts

Ribs & Beetroot Soup

The Expendables

Being a dad

Being Photographed

Dave Thomas

Web Developer

Job role:

80% mainly work on WordPress and Ecommerce customisations, builds and operational support.
10% Setting up / maintaining new Servers / Cloud web servers and web sites. Server side performance monitoring, troubleshooting and tuning.
10% Doing new quotes for Clients including the technical feasibility of new solutions. Planning, monitoring and implementation of web site projects.

Unusual facts:

I was born in Germany

Phrase most likely to say:

"I'll release that to Live now!"

Pop

Fishing

Indian

The Green Mile

Eating

Washing Up

Heather McInnes

Graphic Designer

Job role:

30% User research and gaining a better understanding of our clients and industry
40% Designing aesthetically pleasing and fully functional websites
30% Managing and developing Tyxan’s social media platforms