As a Board Member of the West and North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, I contribute to driving the strategic direction and growth of the organisation, with a focus on enhancing marketing and technology initiatives. I collaborated closely with fellow board members and leadership to ensure that the Chamber remains responsive to the needs of local businesses and continues to advocate for sustainable economic growth across the region.Key achievements and contributions include:Strategic Marketing Development: Driving efforts to modernise and streamline our marketing approach, incorporating customer experience driven strategies to strengthen member engagement and fostering new partnerships.Technology Improvements: oversaw technology improvements that enhanced operational efficiencies and boosted membership acquisition.Policy and Advocacy Support: Collaborated on policy initiatives and advocacy efforts that align with regional economic development goals. In this role, I'm committed to helping the Chamber fulfill its mission of supporting local businesses and enhancing the economic vitality of the region and ensuring our strategy reflects the evolving challenges and opportunities faced by businesses in West and North Yorkshire.

Changing the media paradigm to focus on engagement and action, not just ad revenue and traffic. Challenging the norm so that advertisers can expect more from their spend and readers can trust what they read.

Proudly supporting the Leeds Business Improvement District since day one.As a Steering Group Member at Leeds BID, I bring my experience in marketing and technology to support and drive initiatives across various sectors within the BID area. Leveraging my background in strategic marketing, I contribute to shaping projects that enhance Leeds' business environment, attract footfall, and increase visibility. I'm pleased to support the fantastic BID team through their hard work to enhance and promote our city with on-the-ground improvements and clever initiatives that have truly animated and improved Leeds.

Working with freelance and contract clients across the UK, I began as open-source full-stack developer as well as using my skills to manage projects, develop solutions and bring pieces of work back on track and budget.Specialising working with marketing and digital agencies to create robust campaign websites and apps with an excellent customer experience and tracking.Delivered multiple projects for major UK Plc's and organisations including ITV, BBC, Sky, Sky Bet, Morrisons, Microsoft and the NHS

Working on high-availability and highly scalable applications across a variety of platforms and brands. I've delivered new functionality and was an integral part of the agile delivery lifecycle.

Worked alongside the in house team on several high profile projects with the BBC and ITV including ITVs first simulcast offering, Britannia High. Also worked on Britain from Above, The Culture Show and I'm a Celebrity.

Leading the re-launch of the company's transactional websites and migrate away from legacy technologies, improve the customer experience and achieve robust conversion metrics.

Front- and back-end development of the companies roster of client websites, project management of larger web projects and winning new business for the agency.

Strategy development and production of offline marketing collateral for B2C and B2B campaigns. Responsible for ensuring communications complied with the authority's statutory duties.