Biog
Darren Mothersele is an experienced web developer and Drupal specialist, with a background in computer science research and digital music. With a B.Sc. in Computer Science (1st class honours) Darren was awarded the Douglas Lewin Memorial Prize for computer science. Darren then went on to do four years post-graduate research in computer science, and a BRICS post-graduate course in Logical Methods. Later, Darren ran the New Media department for the record label Cooking Vinyl where he set up innovative licensing deals with early Digital Music Service providers including Napster, eMusic and iTunes. He sat on the New Media Committee at the Association for Independent Music (AIM). In 2005 he was a founding member and director of digital musical distributor Uploader, designing and building bespoke systems for digital asset management and audio encoding. Uploader quickly became a leading distributor of digital music in Europe before its acquisition by IODA in 2007. Since then he has used Drupal to bring social web technologies to communities as wide ranging as music video film-makers (with RadarMusicVideos), publishers (with Fortune 500 listed Reed Elsevier), manufacturing industry professionals (with the British Plastics Federation), and museums (with the V&A).
Drupal
Recent builds: Music Filmmaker network, Student music distribution, Digital Music Aggregation and distribution systems. Royalty accounting web app built on Drupal platform.
I'm currently working on a couple of Drupal projects in the music industry, in particular developing modules, enterprise integration and AJAX functionality.
Music
I've been working in the music industry in some capacity for over ten years. This has included DJing, producing and remixing, running club nights, managing crew at live events, graphic design, running the New Media department at an independent record label, through to founding a digital music distribution company.
Drop me a line via the contact page, if you'd like to know more.
