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Singapore

- Fine Art Printing produces high quality prints on paper and canvas for both individuals and companies.- We are generally focused on low volume, high quality and leverage only the best papers and canvases from Hahnemuhle.- We print using large format printers from Canon and were the first in Singapore to bring in the latest 60" PROGRAF PRO-566 in 2024.- We became the first and only Hahnemuhle Gold Certified Studio in Singapore highlighting our skills and consistency in producing high quality prints on Hahnemuhle media.

Singapore

- Digitize helps organisations of all sizes to generate increased revenue from digital channels.- We focus mainly on web design & development, SEO, and Google Ads.- We have a proven track record of delivering triple digit growth in visits & leads along with quantifiable revenue impacts in some of the most competitive industries in Singapore.- If you think we might be able to help your business, please feel free to reach out.

Singapore

- FrameIT takes a traditional offline business model and brings it entirely online.- Build a perfect, made-to-measure custom frame online, receive in the post in 5-7 working days.- From original idea to fully functioning, profitable business.

Singapore

Singapore

Singapore

- Implementation of a data driven digital strategy, supporting the 9 markets across Southeast Asia & Oceania.- Lead 4 direct reports covering additional focus areas of content, paid digital media, SEO, UX and analytics. - Within 1 year, Korean HQ highlighted us as the best region in utilisation of web analytics data to drive actionable uplifts.- Supported major 'process implementation and enforcement' across the region to improve control and consistency of the Samsung brand across country websites.- Implemented default landing page functionality across open market handsets in 9 markets - enabling full control of consumers browser homepage. Estimated at over US$500m of marketing value per annum.- Drove vendor review and selection for ePromoter pilot project in Indonesia, deploying brand new proactive online chat for Samsung sales agents to handle customer queries. After 1 month, received approval for full regional roll out.- Implemented standard web reporting practices to ensure some level of focus within local country teams to identify and improve on clear opportunities (i.e., optimise paid media bounce rate, fix broken links etc).

Singapore

- Product stakeholder for all consumer facing products across The LateRooms Group.- Working in an agile set-up across 4 product development teams, and owning the prioritisation, UX/UI and delivery across mobile apps (android & iOS), search, the new fully responsive front end platform, and customer management.- Delivered and migrated LateRooms brand onto new fully responsive platform built with NodeJS and began the process of implementing a minimum viable product approach to further development work.- Saw significant commercial improvements driven by conversion rate uplift, including .8 percentage point rise in mobile conversion rate post delivery.- Website reached 1st position in the Compuware UK online retailers rankings, which measures site load performance. Previously we'd never been inside the top 30.- Continued to drive regular enhancements to the new platform, including UI and information improvements to the hotel details page, enhancements to the search experience, and implementation of Intillery 'sales' messaging across various touch points.- Worked with customer management team in Singapore to build and deliver a completely new authentication and user account system for both LateRooms & AsiaRooms businesses, leveraging those new APIs to bring additional benefit into the mobile applications.- Delivered countless enhancements to the mobile apps post the initial launch, including favourite hotels, push notifications, mobile only rates, saved cards, multi-currency, new user sign up incentives, and much more.

Singapore

- Accountable for the user experience across AsiaRooms and LateRooms brands.- This included the prioritisation and delivery of functional and design based enhancements across the websites and mobile applications (iOS & Android).- During this time we launched brand new mobile apps on both platforms, re-designing the entire experience and utilising newly built APIs on NodeJS.- After launch we observed a +300% YOY increase in app bookings for LateRooms and +200% YOY for AsiaRooms.- Drove delivery of full design overhaul across both brands in preparation for delivery of new responsive web platform.- Continued to actively manage the AsiaRooms community team, which focused on generating content around the travel industry as a way to drive brand exposure, link acquisition and social activity.

Singapore

- Accountable for the overall SEO strategy of the AsiaRooms.com brand (part of The LateRooms Group), focusing on functional enhancements to the transactional sites and utilising content via the community to drive brand, naturally acquire links and drive social interactions.- AsiaRooms was acquired by TUI PLC previously, and had a significant number of challenges around their backlink portfolio, so much of the focus was around removing toxic backlinks and improving the overall portfolio by driving natural link acquisition through content marketing.- As a result of this work we were able to get a Google penalty lifted on the AsiaRooms.com domain.- Defined and delivered a brand new travel community site and built up a team of 4 excellent individuals within a period of 5 months. - Launched and executed the AsiaRooms annual hotel awards to drive exposure with the hoteliers and link acquisition via winner and finalist badges embedded on their sites.- Successfully generated partnerships and links from many high authority sources, including the likes of Yahoo News and Travel Supermarket.- Created a highly successful outreach program, which at one point included more than 50 regular travel bloggers right across Asia, producing content for us for free.

Singapore

- Given my background running both PPC & SEO activities across the group I was asked to provide a set of recommendations to the board for how we should structure and execute our SEM activities in the future.- Provided a set of recommendations and next steps to the board and convinced them in the first instance to create a centralised SEO function within the eCommerce department.- I was asked to take the lead on hiring and implementing this SEO department and subsequent strategy.- Accountable for driving customer acquisition and revenue from the organic search channel for 45 transactional sites in 10 unique languages across the Americas, Europe & APAC.- Built a small internal team of 3 SEO specialists located in Europe and the US and proved the model for a centralised, specialist department that could operate effectively across all of the regions.- Delivered countless functional enhancements to the platform and drove a successful road test scheme to support our outreach programme (users would request a selection of components to road test and in return create a detailed article with links back to the products included).- Additional recommendation for centralisation of the PPC department was actioned at a later date, but I actively drove binging the regional teams together and ensuring that best practices were shared, and decisions around vendor management and tools was adopted globally where appropriate.

Leeds, United Kingdom

- Working as the product owner within a scrum project framework I was responsible for defining and documenting improvements to the transactional websites across the Premier Farnell group, ensuring that developers and testers understood requirements and delivered to specification.- Delivered countless enhancements across the platform that supported driving the organisation towards 70% of business via eCommerce channels.- Main delivery focus was on improvements to our search product (via Endeca) and our in-house business management tool iBuy.- During this role I was seconded to Singapore for 3 months to improve their referrals from manufacturer sites, which drove significant revenues across the other regions. I was able to increase referrals from manufacturer sites into the APAC businesses by over 300%.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsible for operational management of the search engine marketing team covering Europe and Asia Pacific. Annual budget ownership of £4.5m.Grew ultimately to around 45 websites and 10 languages.

Leeds, United Kingdom

- This role was part of my university degree, whereby I took 1 year out to work before returning to complete my business degree.- Despite no training or background in PPC I became very actively involved in this aspect early on. I ultimately took full ownership of it within the first 3 months of beginning my work placement.- I was able to grow the PPC spend from 8K per month across 3 European markets to over 80k per month in 25 markets, including APAC by effectively generating and showing the results to the senior management team. - By the time I returned to university for my final year of study I had hired 2 PPC executives, which I continued to manage whilst completing my degree.- The company sponsored my final year of study and continued to retain my employment until I came back full time in May 2008.