Karyx has built a core team focussed on delivering high-quality digital media.

Whether you need a microsite, an e-commerce juggernaut or a slick DVD presentation, we are always happy to talk shop.

Contact us on 01666 500005 or email us at

Key Staff

• Robin Layfield
  Technical Lead
• Dan Dineen
  Senior Designer
• Josh Rendell
  Intern
• Tom Brooks
  Intern
• Andrew Quaile
  Medical Consultant
• Debs Quaile
  Business Consultant

Philosophy

Methodology

Robin Layfield
Technical Director

Robin is an experienced web and data developer. He works mainly with Open Source software, such as PHP and MySQL and has a wide range of software development skills, experience with most major Database applications and fluency in many programming languages. He is also a Microsoft Certified Solution Developer.

He cut his teeth as the Software Manager for UCEcom, the e-commerce centre of excellence in Birmingham, where he was the principal software architect on a major European-funded project to web-enable small businesses. After that, he moved into consultancy, working for a number of blue-chip comapanies including Diageo, HSBC, Credit Suisse, Philips, DuPont and TNT.

He now spends much of his time looking after Karyx's web servers and scripting smart, elegant code for clients.

In between work hours and updating his blog, Robin likes to go snowboarding, sailing and surfing. He also plays a mean bass for geek wannabe rock band, the Gingers.

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Dan Dineen
Creative Director

Dan has been working in 'new' media for so long it's old news. He has acted as senior designer, producer and developer on projects for blue chip companies such as BP, the BBC and Carlsberg through to smaller firms like Shoji and Skillset.

Prior to forming Karyx with Robin, Dan ran a successful new-media design company Nsource. He has worked as an independent freelance designer and consultant, garnering a large retinue of loyal clients with whom he continues to work to this day.

Dan has won various prizes for his projects, including Young Designer of the Year in 1996 and Adobe Calendar Prize Winner in 1998.

In his spare time (what little of it there is!) He likes to play football, hang with his wife and daughter and draw comic book stories about sneaky cats...

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Tom Brooks
Intern

Tom is working as an intern for Karyx whilst studying for his final year at the University Of The West Of England. In recent years Tom has worked with a variety of clients across the UK as a freelance web designer.

In his spare time (which he has a lot of being a student) he plays Cricket in Bristol and Oxford, supports London Irish and DJ's on university radio.

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Andrew Quaile FRCS
Medical Consultant

Andrew is a full time Spinal Orthopaedic Surgeon and, as a result, is one of only fifty or so in the UK.

He works in the Guildford, Farnham and Basingstoke area dealing with both operative and non-operative treatments of the spine from top to tail. He originally trained at Charing Cross Hospital in London, spending time in the Royal Navy and Australian Army. He worked for the NHS in Somerset and Frimley before stepping out into full time private practice. He has set up a group called Spineworks as a multi-disciplinary team. Spineworks runs regular meetings to educate fellow healthcare professionals. Andrew also runs the South East Spine Club for spinal surgeons in the region. He is a member of the British Orthopaedic Association, The British Association of Spinal Surgons, The British Scoliosis Society, The Spine Society of Europe and The Swiss Spine Institute.

Andrew hopes to spend more time on his boat drinking decent quality wine in the future!

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Debs Quaile
Business Consultant

She qualified as a nurse in 1978 and worked in hospital medicine in the field of general surgery, vascular surgery, care of the elderly, intensive care and spines until 1988 when she started her family.

After having twin boys, Debs qualified as a Fitness Instructor in 1989 and worked for a while in the fitness industry as well as working full time nursing in intensive care.

After a break from nursing to look after her young family, which had now increased to three young boys, she then went to live in Australia with her family whereupon she was persuaded by her husband to run his full-time spinal practice in Brisbane, Queensland.

Family commitments brought her back home to the UK in 1996 and eventually she and Andrew settled in Farnham, Surrey. Over the last few years she has worked alongside her husband and is Business Manager of SpineWorks - a team of spinal surgeons, pain specialists, spinal physiotherapy practitioner and spinal practice nurse.