Mike Slater C.V.

In the 1990's I worked for an image agency and ran a community art gallery. In 1999, I brought together my background in the visual arts with computer programming to build effective websites. Since 2000, the business has run its own web server for art71 clients only, 24 hours per day, every day, every hour, for a decade with our dedicated team of web server professionals.

Much of the software used to run art71 websites is written in-house to ensure that you have access to web applications such as shopping carts, online ordering systems, customer-to-client contact forms made bespoke to your website.

Some history:

1987: Started writing software using BASIC programming language

1991: MA(oxon) degree from The Queen's College, Oxford

1993: Used one of the first community internets while in San Francisco, USA. Worked in Costa Rica in cloud forest reserve. Developed photography as prefered visual medium

1994: Senior picture researcher at OSF photo agency including image licensing and stock photography sales to international publishers and advertising agencies

1995 onwards: Photography sold to a wide range of clients as a freelance photographer

1999: As sole director set up art71, a company specialising in graphical and digital design, art and web based applications

2000: Exhibitions at DesignVision, London Olympia and National Railway Museum York. Managed the Parcel Room gallery, an independent artist-led art venue in Newtown, UK. Started running our own dedicated web server which has been running our client websites 24 hours per day ever since

2001: Developed many online projects and applications using digital design, photography and web programming. Continual development of bespoke e-commerce shopping cart, search engine, database-driven and content management software

2005: Client website visitors pass 1 million unique users per year and we celebrate 10 years of business trading

2010: With our technical 24 hour team at RackSpace, art71 is managing 250 web domains with 100% up-time through the year and clients across the EU and the US

2011: With our US business partners, art71 now fully owned by Seren Web, Gulf Breeze FL to provide a stable future for all the clients using our web servers

• Our Service Level Agreement