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Cwmbrân, Wales, United Kingdom

Cwmbran, Torfaen, United Kingdom

Newport, United Kingdom

Chain of Public Houses, Restaurants and Night Clubs.Head of Accounting, Human Resources, Regional Operations and General Manager.Introduced new Accounting practices which saves the company on large expenditure and minimised the need for out sourcing. Initiated new HR protocols and better training.Improved marketing strategies and methods including the use of mascots and photo thumbnails. Increased brand awareness tremendously.

Live vocalist and dance performer as Michael Jackson Impersonator.

Uk

Unity UK is an International liasion and consultancy for direct sales organizations. Predominantly within the MLM and Nutraceutical field.-Guest Speaker for Clients such as Xango Llc, Synergy Worldwide.-Contract Publishing-Advertising Agent-Unity UK Magazine.-Printing Services.yatta yatta

Event Photography company specializing in live dance performances.A family business. 4 staff to work live events, 2 on stand, 2 photographers. Taking advantage of server technology, we would run up to 20 laptops at an event increasing our customer viewing area. Photographs were printed and sold live on site. We introduced live onsite software that allowed customers to simply click the picture they wished to purchase and the size. Once payment was received, it was marked as paid and would print automatically on one of 3 printers. A print server handled this task.An E-commerce website was introduced with strong promotion. There was no change in on site sales but it did improve the live stand with less people queueing to view pictures. Thereby increasing customer experience and our efficiency.A database driven website allowed for effective watermarking and diminished the ability to illegally grab any image from the site, unless you were very technologically advanced. Even then, the image would be watermarked. This website further saved time exporting photos and having to resize as the back office websoftware would be automated to do this at the point of uploading. A bulk uploader would also create categories and sub categorie based on your windows folder structure. It would also ignore duplications if you were to further update from the same folder structure. This gave us maximum productivity and the ability to deliver live online images within seconds of being shot at the event (wireless SLR camera device incorporated).The website actually increased our sales by 42% - on average. We offset the web cost and the ongoing maintenance (which was very minimal) by 'reasonably' upscaling postage and handling fees.The website then gave an online portfolio and live example of work which in turn brought us new clients by way of referral.The business was sold to a competitor after it lost it's appeal and the honeymoon period had come to an end. Although I do miss it now!

Private Music Tutor for Dum Kit and Music Theory.Grades 1-8 inc.Rock, Jazz and classical.

As Marketing Director, I directed Marketing, need I say more?I introduced, built and maintained a new website that connected directly with members and encouraged membership sign up. We started this with the option to upload a dance routine video, using some youtube technology which we hosted and streamed on our servers, we allowed users to vote for their favourite. Programming was a task at that time to ensure unique votes per user and to prevent multiple signups under different accounts for the same purpose. Using some Joomla programming and some custom made modifiers and add ons we got there in less than one month.This was highly successful and also gave a further ability in promoting to customer base by way of better data capture and direct marketing. This in turn, gave a reduction in administrative costs making it easier and far less time consuming dealing with memberships in general, allocation for competition categories and live sign-ups at the events themselves. Reducing paper trails, staff and of course time and queues.We later introduced an online e-commerce area which reduced staff costs at events and saw a 25% increase in sales with less than a 5% increase in costs.Dealt with corporations such as Nokia, BMG Sony, Psycho TV, Pineapple Dance Studios and many other big names.

Lead Vocalist

Uk

Self promoted Justin Timberlake Tribute Show.Live Vocal performance.Clients included; Chicago Rock, O'Neils, Jumping Jacks, Brannigan's, Liverpool University, Warwick University, and many more.

All Of Europe

Tribute Artist Management Company.Performed in touring shows all over Europe as Lead singer.Performed with atists such as; Bill Withers, Slade, T-Rex, Bay City Rollers, Chaka Kahn, Sister Sledge, Temptations, Four Tops and many more.

Bristol, United Kingdom

International publishing company.After 6 months in the role I found that the UK was too small a market place for this company. I managed to steer the business in a new direction by focusing on foreign markets and becoming a gateway for US based companies to open their doors to the UK and ultimately all of Europe. It was a successful and profitable move away from day to day publishing and put me at the top of my game and number one in the company. I left here to start my own company, naturally....

International Publishing.

Gloucester

Prior to Uni

Gloucester

These were the fun days. 12-8pm Saturday and Sunday earning £250 per week whilst in School :D

Ba Hons, Music

Activities and Societies: Business Management, Nam Pai Chun Gung Fu, Street Dance, Orchestra, Percussion Group, Athletics

A-Levels And Gcses, Music, Business, Maths,

Activities and Societies: Orchestra, Wind Band, Jazz Band, Choir, Basket Ball, Swimming. I organised my own Pop/Rock concert at the age.