Andrew Downes
Vicar at St Peter's and St David's, Fleetwood
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndrew Downes is a Church of England vicar and former learning technologies specialist with 13 years' experience blending ministry, project leadership, and data-driven learning practice. He moved from roles as an xAPI pioneer and Learning & Interoperability Consultant—helping organisations implement learning analytics and authoring much-regarded content—to parish ministry, where he has led community initiatives, church planting strategy, and digital projects such as a searchable burial record for 6,000+ entries. Comfortable translating technical concepts for non-technical audiences, he has spoken internationally on learning evaluation and helped L&D teams adopt data-led approaches. In parish ministry he has applied that same analytical and project-management mindset to launch youth groups, community services and a KICK football academy. Based in Fleetwood, he combines theological training from Durham with practical experience across both digital and pastoral contexts. A detail-oriented communicator, he brings uncommon cross-sector fluency between technical learning ecosystems and frontline community ministry.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA Theology Theology, BA Theology Theology at Durham UniversityCertificate of Higher Education Leadership and Management, Certificate of Higher Education Leadership and Management at Newcastle College
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Github Skills (121)
xapi10
moodle10
h5p10
experiences10
eve10
specification10
wormhole10
openapi10
jsonpath10
locker10
lrs10
api10
csv-parser10
rdfa10
csv-reader10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
davidpesce/moodle-mod_tincanlaunch
Jul 2013 - Nov 2018
A Moodle plugin that allows the launching of xAPI content using the Rustici Launch Method.
Contributions:3 releases, 164 commits, 40 PRs in 5 years 4 months
moodlemethodmoodle-pluginxapi
garemoko/tinBook
Nov 2012 - Apr 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
reporting-tooltingoogle-booksreporting
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