Tom Parson
Founder & Chief Innovation Officer (CIO)
Stevenage, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolTom Parson is a founder and technology leader who blends 20+ years of hands-on software development with more than a decade of commercial leadership and product strategy. He has built and scaled agencies (Huddle Digital, Big Echo) and platforms (Circles MCR) focused on democratizing innovation and connecting communities, while advising clients such as St John Ambulance, GM Chamber and the RAF. An MSc in Human–Computer Interaction and 15 years of UX practice inform his user-centred approach to product discovery, design sprints and validated experimentation. He teaches entrepreneurship and web design, runs public and private training, and mentors apprentices—translating complex technical trade-offs into pragmatic business value. Unusually for an agency founder, he combines formal research training and a philosophy background with a creative practice in music and art, enabling original, cross-disciplinary problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bsc, Mathematics & Philosophy, First Class with Honours, Bsc, Mathematics & Philosophy, First Class with Honours at The University of ManchesterMsc, Human-Computer Interaction, Distinction, Msc, Human-Computer Interaction, Distinction at University of Nottingham
Github Skills (13)
zendesk-api10
laravel-package9
api-client9
api9
zendesk8
php8
laravel8
wordpress7
trellis6
composer6
boilerplate5
multilingual2
laravel-admin2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
huddledigital/zendesk-laravel
Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
Laravel wrapper for zendesk/zendesk_api_client_php package.
Contributions:4 releases, 13 commits, 2 PRs in 2 years 1 month
api-clientapiphp-clientphpzendesk
roots/bedrock
Feb 2017 - Feb 2017
WordPress boilerplate with Composer, easier configuration, and an improved folder structure
Contributions:1 issue in 1 day
wordpress-starterbedrockboilerplateimprovedwordpress
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