Nick Ellison
Digital Consultant
Nick Ellison is a technology entrepreneur, consultant, developer, lifehacker and mischiefmaker twenty-something based in London, UK.
Projects
- Director
- Purr Digital
- CTO
- Runagood, Meet My Tutor
Background
- Cofounder
- Choose a Challenge
- Senior Consultant
- Reading Room
- Data Consultant
- Deloitte
Education
MEng Systems Engineering, University of Warwick
Graduate of the Year Awards 2009
Things I do
Parachutes packed. Apps built. Talks given. Tyres changed. Code written. VoIP PBX systems installed. Vans driven. Parties thrown. Locks picked. Yachts sailed. Watches mended. Road trips planned. iPhones fixed. Gardens cleared. Lighting designed. Cocktails made. Chinos modelled. Cables run. Events organised. Data analysed. Copy written. CAD drawn. Training provided. Servers migrated. Sound mixed. People found. Tours given. Projects managed. Voiceovers recorded. APIs interfaced.
Why the crown?
I’m a poor artist. It’s easier to latch onto a theme, in this case: Keep Calm and Carry On – a trait I try to embody.
Toolbox
Ruby on Rails, RSpec, Cucumber, iOS / Objective C, PHP5, Drupal, SilverStripe, WordPress, CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, MySQL, SQL Server, Debian / Unix, Apache, Git, Python, C++, VB.NET, MATLAB, Mathematica and when all else fails: Gaffer Tape.
Discuss a Project
I’m always keen to hear from new people about the projects they’re involved in, especially early stage startups. If you feel I can be of any assistance then don’t hesitate to get in touch via any of the means on the right.
If confidentiality is paramount, then I provide a Unilateral Non Disclosure Agreement (NDA) for peace of mind.
That said, in my experience it’s best to tell everyone about your idea - if it can be easily copied then it probably needs more work.
Latest Blog
Meet My Tutor is a lean startup I’ve recently been working on with my friend Deepak Shukla. It’s a place where those looking for a private tutor, and those who offer such services, can be introduced and a business relationship can be formed. It’s a burgeoning market and the value and volume of the transactions ... read more
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Latest Project
Purr Digital is a London-based digital marketing, creative and development agency, where I’m a cofounder and head of all things tech. I work with a lovely team of people and we scale up and down to meet some fairly diverse project requirements. If you’d like to benefit from Purr’s services then drop me a line at nickellison@purrdigital.com.... read more
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Latest Tweets
Had you fooled. I don’t use Twitter.
Contact
- Telephone
- 020 3137 3983
- nickellison@me.com
- Skype
- nickwje [offline]
Social
- linkedin.com/in/nickellison
- Google +
- gplus.to/nickellison
- GitHub
- github.com/nickellison
- Friends only, I'm afraid