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Colchester, England, Gb

Chatham, England, United Kingdom

Funded by Medway Council and reporting to the governing board this role is to provide strategic and operational leadership to a new county wide festival with significant growth plans in the future.Supported by Medway Council, the Historic Dockyard Chatham, Dovetail Games, University of Kent and Mid Kent College.after initially consulting in this role i have been focused on expanding the scope and scale of the festival in reaction to the incredible talent, communities and businesses that operate in Medway and Kent. I have created a number of world first opportunities including creating commercial opportunities for companies in Medway, broad together an array of academic institutions and forged a close alliance with the Military to shape up an incredible and unique festival.Using adaptive planning, clear strategies and communication plans, and working closely with the public health department i have navigated the complex challenges of the Pandemic to maintain confidence and remain in budget to deliver for my client, Medway Council.See the attached brief slide deck on this amazing event to be inspired!

Colchester, United Kingdom

Founding and leading this new concept in gaming event shows across the UK, Europe and beyond.Rapture Gaming Festival is a local scale gaming event that covers the breadth of gaming content on a national and international level. It is designed to bring the local communities, businesses, and educational establishments together with the everyday gamers.It covers video games, table top gaming and cosplay togetherIt is also designed to allow local scale activation on a national level so brands can engage directly with tens of thousands of gamers easily with a single agreement and a single implementation reaching a whole new audience.It is also a gateway show into our clients larger events, esports and the wider games industry.

Essex

Forming and leading an innovative new start up business that launched in 2013, offering social gaming experiences, Event planning and management, turn-key solutions for event organisers and mobile promotional services to games publishers, retailers and peripheral manufacturers. .My role is to form the business, source funding and specialist skills, form working partnerships across industries and direct the products and services offered by the businessAfter successful implementation of initial business build phase, I am now focused on 1. UK and European expansion. 2. Gaming industry skills and knowledge youth development programmes3. Esports talent development programmeCurrent Projects include:ROGBUS - new partnership with ASUS and Republic of Gamers running a UK wide bus on constant tour engaging with Universities, businesses and events to bring the ASUS and ROG brands to every day gamers.GAMEBus - new Partnership with GAME RETAIL on a experiential and retail vehicleRapture Gaming Festival - Pilot show launching in May 2017Razerbus (Dreamhacks across europe, Insomnias, EGX, and many more)FierceBusGamersbusMinevention (UK and Ireland events)Wales Comicon Gaming ArenaDozens of Comicons, game Launches, Corporate events, Educational tours/

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Programme Leadership and Project Management within the press.I led and delivered a range of successful global programmes at my time at the Press, managed and mentored a number of project managers and worked with The Project Office in improving change governance and control, and to evolve a culture of change readiness for all departments during a period of transition for the companyRoles:Global Web Marketing Programme ManagerAcademic Online Platform Programme Manager.Global Academic Production Programme Manager Project Office PM Team ManagerWorking with the online books and journals teams to create a structured programme of new projects and BAU workloads.Project Manager for University Publishing Online.Interim Programme Manager for Global fulfilment, finance and product costing programme - Working with the Press Board and IT directors to take programme from idea to an approved in principle £10m+ programme.

Dual IT and business position engaged in a diverse range of roles including Programme manager, senior project manager, portfolio manager, PM mentor, Project Assurance, Strategic Business development, Technical SME and team manager

Programme and project manager, portfolio manager, PM mentor, Project Assurance, Strategic Business development, Technical SME, RHG Innovations member, Client Publisher Services manager and team manager

Project Management of technical projects (.Net, ASP, Vista 4GL, SQL, infrastructure)Senior software development

Software developmentsystems analysisbusiness analysisproject management of small technical projects

software development

Programme Management

Bsc(Hons), Physics, Space Science, Astrophysics

Activities and Societies: Cricket Club, Bowling Club, Bridge Club,