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Full name: Alec Hendry
First or given name: Alec
Last name or surname: Hendry
Languages spoken: English
My website: http://www.mtv.co.uk
Gender: male
Country: United Kingdom
Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/alec.hendry
Twitter url: http://twitter.com/alechendry
Bio: Alec Hendry is the Senior Director of Digital Media & Innovation Lab for Viacom International Media Networks. Alec and his team work with a number of well known Viacom brands including MTV, Nickelodeon and Comedy Central. He works across multiple platforms with video workflow and production being a specialty. Prior to MTV he worked at new media agency Deepend and was heavily involved with the launch of QuickTime streaming in Europe and a number of world firsts in web casting, including the first live web cast from the Glastonbury festival. He has worked on many award winning projects, including the interactive TV game "Ad Break Tennis" which was awarded a Bafta.
MTV UK has been using Drupal since 2006 and is used on a number of public websites, as well as internal systems and tools. Many features that were first introduced on our mtv.co.uk site on Drupal 4.7 were rolled into Drupal 5, as well as the integration of Memcached with Drupal.