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County Wicklow, Ireland

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Developing and Implementing communications and brand strategy as part of the overall commercial roadmap from ideation to MVP to Beta mode for a Hospitality-Tech Social Platform - Tabero. Built over a bespoke B2B2C marketplace using a prepay revenue model to connect people at events to network, make friends and broaden their social circles with two-way messaging, event review and ticket selling capabilities.Brand book creation. Rollout marketing strategy with KPIs to measure our objectives.Content and creative strategy using relative touch-points to target demographics.Working with CTO to deliver marketing strategy as part of technical roadmap through analytics.Negotiation and co-ordination of deliverables and SOW from external and internal teams.Design, communicate and share systems and processes to mitigate potential issues for external and internal teams.Using Lean methodology, ongoing customer discovery to identify value proposition / potential pivots, prioritising requirements for growth.Hyper-local, go-to-market strategy to develop playbook to scale operations systematically.Commercial revenue projections as part of an overall strategy and business plan to raise funding and investment.Regular stakeholder progress presentations.

Dublin City, County Dublin, Ireland

Enterprise Ireland's National Programme for Developing Entrepreneurs.

Kampala

Creative Director and Senior Art Director working with Pan-African brands in Banking, FMCG, Telecoms and Insurance. Finding solutions and interesting spaces for brands to live and grow all over Uganda and East Africa.Managed a team of 24 full-time creatives, client service executives and researchers including new hires.Co-ordination of third party providers for cost efficient outsourced services.Negotiation of deliverables, scope of work, timelines from client brief.Writing and presenting effective solutions for stakeholders.Generating new business through competitive pitches and maintaining retainer clients through ongoing delivery of strategic objectives.Maintaining positive relationships with all external and internal stakeholders through regular social connection.

Ireland

Consultant Art Director, working with own clients and freelancing with multiple agencies in Dublin.Growing and developing own Branding client base across multiple industries including; Aviation, Education, FMCG, Food Service, Healthcare, Hospitality, Insurance, Legal, Travel & Tourism.Providing freelance creative services to advertising and creative agencies working on large scale campaigns for blue chip companies across industries including Automotive, Energy, Entertainment, FMCG, Gaming, Hospitality, Telecoms.

Dublin City

Co-founded a boutique branding agency delivering creative solutions for retainer clients that included: Concern Worldwide, Dublin Bus, Irish Rail, Paddy Power.Managed a small creative team of 5.Co-ordination and negotiation of third party providers for outsourced services.Delivering effective brand campaigns and one-off creative solutions for smaller clients.Generating new business through competitive pitches.Worked with co-founders to maintain relationships with all external and internal stakeholders.Provided overflow service for larger agencies.

Dublin, Ireland

Brand creation. Designing for print and digital.

Postgraduate, Innovation, Entrepreneurship And Enterprise

Graphic Communications For Pre-Press

Pre-press packaging design, Barco Graphics, Ghent, Belgium 1999