I have been with HDANYWHERE from its infancy and am its first employee.Joining a company at an early stage in its life - you need to demonstrate a wide and varying range of skills and abilities and importantly, prove that you have the capability to see them through. I wholeheartedly believe that I have done this time and again, playing an integral role within the company and helping it become the successful, strong and prosperous one it is today - something I am proud of.My role has since evolved into brand management. I am no longer hands on with day-to-day tasks, instead, I now manage a team of talented creative and technical staff covering almost every aspect of brand control, on and offline. I am not a fan of lengthy lists but my work can be summarised into the following two areas:1. Creative Design & Direction -- Brand management (PR, social media, marketing & advertising) -- Web design -- Print production & offline materials -- Video -- Industrial design -- Principal hand model for HDANYWHERE2. Online strategy, planning & management -- Server management -- Web development (system backend, efficiency optimising, business growth projects) -- SEO, PPC, SEM -- Return on Investment (ROI) analysis

Appointed to an entirely new position in the agency to satisfy the growing number of tenders requiring an online offering as part of their marketing mix. Primary duties included web site design and development, SEO, PPC Advertising, microsite-builds and website management. Depending on the specifics of the tender, I was also part of the pitch team, accompanying account management, giving talks and demonstrations to prospective clients on a regular basis. Also, worthy of note, I was made solely responsible for the management and control of all our PPC budgets with the largest client spending over £120k/annum. In my first 12 months I had managed to reduce this figure by half by focusing on optimising bid strategy and an aggressive optimisation of website landing pages targeting conversion. Finally, working in an agency environment was fast-paced and required quick web builds, often deployed at short notice - the ability to work under pressure was a necessity!The agency was one of the oldest independent advertising agencies in the UK and boasted large clients such as The National Blood Service, The NHS, The Equalities and Human Rights Commission (a AAA rated compliant website) and MoneySuperMarket.com.

Heavily involved in the political machine of the University where the main duties were to ensure that student concerns were heard and represented. Appointment for this job came by election only and I successfully defeated 4 other opponents all running for the same position. The figurehead for all students on my campus I was asked to do large amounts of public speaking, events management and chairing for students and University guests alike. Responsible for creating a stronger bond between University and Union and organising an amateur Mixed Martial Event!

I worked for two consecutive series of children's hit TV show 'Grange Hill' which was filmed at the BBC's Elstree Studios in London. I have put the position down as actor but in actual fact it was more of a supporting artist role. Work was mixed in with part-time education and I credit this first job for sparking my interest in the the media in general. Duties mainly involved, pretending to read, pretending to go to class, pretending to play football, skiing (1 episode only) and pretending to queue in a pretend canteen for pretend food.