About Us
Your Partner for
Software and Digital Design
Techniciti and its consultants have been the go-to partner for some of the world's most successful enterprises, SMEs and tech disruptors. We take businesses to the next level with our tailor-made software development, digital design and consulting solutions.
Our focus is to help you deliver your products or services to your clients most effectively and engagingly possible. Let us help you unlock the true potential of your business!What We Do
We approach each project as a true collaboration in conception. We offer our expertise and guidance whenever needed to ensure that the entire process is as smooth and error-free as possible. Our commitment to quality is with you from concept through to post-implementation support, so you can be assured both during and after the development process.
We believe the creation process begins the moment we connect with our clients. Our goal is to provide strategies and solutions that go beyond the expected. To make sure we deliver, we embrace the creation and conception process. Through this process, we ensure that we listen thoroughly to our clients' expectations and needs.
Our approach to all our web and software production involves the six staged agile life cycle of development: Analyse, Design, Implement, Test, Deploy & Maintain.
We approach each client engagement using a defined set of policies, processes, and procedures. Each client is assigned a project manager who is to be heavily involved in either the technical or creative side of the build – ensuring that the project management isn’t left to someone who simply fills out timesheets and acts as nothing more than a bridge. They are involved hands-on and will have full knowledge and understanding of the project, the creation, implementation and design.
This person acts as the primary point of contact for your organisation. They will guide any other members of the team through the development process to ensure timely and high-quality completion. Our team use a comprehensive set of checklists, tasks and procedures that are tailored to each client. Daily project status meetings are held between the team, that focus on answering three questions:
- “What have you done since yesterday?”
- “What are you planning to do today?”
- “Do you have any problems preventing you from accomplishing your goal?”
This transparency and daily review of progress mitigates risk and ensures that close management of the project occurs at every stage. We utilise many technologies to manage projects, including GitHub, Slack, Trello etc as required. These systems allow us to systematically manage complex projects.
We guide you through the following discovery, planning, design and production process. Adhering to this process will ensure a successful outcome. Our goal in this analytical phase is to define features concretely, determine technology integration specifics, and prioritise features so that investment is made in those areas that will provide the greatest return on investment for our clients.
Analyse
- Strategic Analysis and Planning
- Information Architecture
Design
- Wireframes
- Technical System Design
- Graphic and User Interface Design
Implement
- Content Creation/Collation
- Development Environment
- Programming, Customisation and Templating
- Search Engine Optimisation
Test
- Testing components, navigation, browsers and modules
Deploy
- Training and Documentation
- Hosting
- Launch
Maintain
- Post Launch Support and Maintenance
Our team and network of consultants are the reason our clients return time after time.
While we work with dozens of consultants on a per-project basis, our core team are here on hand for our clients.
Creative Director
Paul Burgess
Paul is a multi-disciplined, creative designer adding excellence across campaigns, branding and communications. With 20 years experience in the creative industry, having worked with some of the world’s largest brands, as well as some of the smallest. His clients have included: Hitachi, Diageo, BT, Eurostar, Golden Virginia, Fujitsu, Oxford University, Unipart, IBM, the RFU, British Red Cross, Bloomsbury, Ineos, and Airbus.
Specialties: Logos and brand identity, advertising, brochures, websites, direct mail, magazines and book design.
Email:paul@techniciti.eu
Senior Illustrator
Jaya Francis
Jaya is currently studying at Leed Arts as a conceptual artist and character designer. She delivers the hand-drawn illustrative capabilities in Techniciti's design offering.
Email:jaya@techniciti.eu
Founder/CEO
Benedict Francis
With repeated success guiding IT strategy, I have maximised the use of established and emerging technologies to achieve maximum operational impact with minimum resource expenditure. I have a natural talent for launching programmes related to digital software development and the creation of mobile app solutions for a range of clients, including SMEs and blue-chip global corporations.
During my career, I have been exemplary in leading start-up organisations, building and motivating full-stack teams, encompassing creative and technically proficient project managers and designers. This includes collaboratively delivering various applications, shaping functional strategies and delivering BAU support for processes.
I am independently versed in forming solutions to create a sustainable advantage, whilst adapting quickly to change and driving operational excellence in competitive markets. Solutions include interactive web services and tools, mobile and desktop applications, eCommerce/mCommerce, automated purchasing, social platforms and augmented reality services.
Email:benedict@techniciti.eu
Senior Technologist
Damian Stafford
Damian is a senior technologist who has worked on a variety of projects including technology due diligence studies, architecture specification, and writing and implementing software. He has a background working in and managing technology strategy and teams in various sectors, and has worked with web-facing, large-scale software applications since the early nineties when he worked in electronic publishing, adopting very early many of the web-based tools that businesses take for granted across the enterprise today.
Between 2000 and 2005 Damian worked at Yell as Head of Technical Development for yell.com, yellmobile.com and yelldirect.com. At Yell, Damian was responsible for implementing and continuously improving a sustainable, resilient and scalable technology strategy and architecture that served over 80 million page impressions per month. Subsequently, he joined vielife as CTO specifically both to refresh the technology platform that provides their product portfolio, and to represent the company’s technology to clients and to potential investors. After he implemented the necessary technological changes and helped take the company through an intensive investment round that lasted for much of the year, vielife was bought by CIGNA, a large, US-based healthcare provider, at the end of 2006.
Roles since 2007 include: interim Head of Web Technology, TSL Education (Times Educational Supplement and Times Higher); Group Technology Director for agencies Five By Five and Headstream; Consultant Architect, Mobile Money Network; Consultant Architect, Rhinegold Publishing; IT Due Diligence Consultant, Intuitus; co-founder, Mobileweb Company; Enterprise Architecture Consultant, Chelsea Apps Factory; CTO, TalisLife; independent software developer and consultant. Damian holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in history from the University of Leeds.
Email:damian@techniciti.eu
Creative Director
David Marshall
Experienced Creative Director with a demonstrated history of working in the graphic design industry. Skilled inTypography, Web Design, Art Direction, Page Layout, and Adobe Photoshop. Strong arts and design professionalgraduated from Southampton Solent University.
He delivers creative, cutting edge solutions that invariably exceed the expectations of our clients. Enabling them to deliver a message that resonates with their target audience, whether that’s achieved through a website design, an effective advertising campaign or the rebranding of the company.
Email:david@techniciti.eu