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Our aim is to create a place of reflection, to remember and support all those who have lost a loved one, celebrated a birth or suffered because of Covid-19. Our mission is to make the Forest of Memories a peacetime observation of life similar to the National Memorial Arboretum.The Forest of Memories will harmoniously balance the requirement for trees and wild habitat with the need to bring communities together to commemorate life using technology like augmented reality. This scheme will also aid the governments' tree planting targets, fight climate change, increase UK wildlife and offer a site for education.

Gillingham, Kent

Supporting the academic achievements of The Academy of Woodlands to make sure the students and teaching adhere to the ethos of the school. This aim is to assist in the all round development of the children; intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, morally, socially and physically. Providing outstanding facilities, excellence and passion to the diverse community in the local surroundings.As well as assisting with the general governing body, I also have a role on the board that closely manages the building and the financial responsibilities within the school to the make sure the balance between profit does not hinder the advancement of the education, the school itself or quality of staff within the school.I also have taken responsibilities to administer the relationship between The Children Centre, The Woodlands Gym and The Arts Centre to make sure they are both profitable and have a centralized voice.

London, England, United Kingdom

Fitpack is a plant-based health and fitness app that enhances lives by helping people build and maintain healthy habits. We began operating in 2018 with the sole mission of developing a global solution for fad dieting with an emphasis on providing a pathway to long-term health and wellbeing; mentally, physically and environmentally.

London, United Kingdom

We all understand the importance of sleep... don't we? Well, global stats suggests that 1-in-3 have an issue sleeping ranging from light sleep right the way through to insomnia. It is serious and harms mental and physical health. The answer, we are told is Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), wearable monitors or drugs, all of these either tell you what you already know, don't have evidence to substantiate claims or have side-effects!Somnuva offers the worlds first sleep solution that uses patented non-intrusive sound to stimulate the brain activity into its natural sleep cycle.Somnuva literally translates as 'A new way to sleep'.

London, United Kingdom

Opus is a single port of call for business technology solutions.Established in 1992, Opus comprises of four divisions - Opus Digital, Opus Telecoms, Opus Networks & Opus Technology - all of which provide a caring customer service and deliver technology with purpose.Our print division, Opus Digital, provides flexible, service-focused MPS solutions for the demanding office environment. We offer customers an independent, consultative service, and help organisations of all sizes to make the most out of their technology, manage costs, reduce environmental impact, minimise administration and increase staff productivity through software, hardware and unrivalled support.

Tower Bridge, London

Digicorp is an independent supplier of B2B business solutions, providing managed document services to a wide range of organisations and across all business sectors. As part of my roles in the business I have worked as a linchpin between departments internally and our customer to make sure we work with the client to identify needs and develop, implement & support the most suitable solutions and increase revenue to Digicorp.• Strategic communication with existing accounts to provide direct management.• Development of a marketing strategy with existing partners, leading to full integration into the existing CRM system. • Build strategic relationships with external customers in a b2b role.• Proven ability to present and communicate with all groups in the relationship area.• Tailored customer plans that deliver sales and profit targets.• Development of account review reports to differentiate Digicorp in a heavily saturated market and provide visibility to the customer.• Assist Digicorp retain 91% of its client base.• Through upsell and replacement management• Compilation of reports including statistical and marketing trends.

Tower Bridge, London

• Understanding of brand P&L to provide budget management for the business and Digicorp partners.• Category management- using a variety of data sources to present fact based and informative arguments to proactively maximize sales in b2b environment.• Management and running of regular portfolio meetings.• Lead management programme.• Market trends; to track the growth of online sales versus primary offline practices.• Management reports to influence sales strategy.

Tower Bridge, London

Digicorp UK Ltd had seen a steady and gradual increase in annual turnover since the company started but with key individuals leaving the business was left a little stagnant and without a clear path. My main aim was to work closely with the stakeholders of the company to define a number of approaches that formulate into growing the annual revenue by 120% in 3 years.• The primary task was to strategize and plan migration from existing CRM and back office systems.• Since 2008 the average growth has been 102% year-on-year up to 2013.• In 2013 this grew by 114% to £8,540,278.• Creation of project management frameworks and reporting structures.• Management and running regular portfolio meetings.• Data resource management.• Project leadership skills – Liaise with third party suppliers to plan and execute activities.• ROI investigation to viability of the project.• Redesign and development of the dated website; through new improvements, leads are created at multiple points to feed through workflow rules to the CRM system.• Compiling reports and dashboards to benefit senior board members.

Medway, Kent

AMA UK is a charity organisation with over 100 branches nationwide and a direct membership in the UK and Ireland at over 30,000. It is a volunteer institution that’s aim is to provide argument and reason to societies contemporary issues. My personal responsibility is to support these branches while developing a strategic relationship with Senior Government officials and Senior Cabinet members that cascades down designed channels of communications to local government and council members. • Influential communication with Government officials, diplomats and key individuals in the South East.• Tailored marketing.• Campaign management and strategic development.• Events Management.• Press liaison officer.

• Evaluate the performance of key channels, performance indicators and management of key projects across the B2B Channel that improves the sales process.• Influential to the instigation of European projects that enhance the company’s overall objectives and ensured the promotion of more intelligent business practice across sales and marketing.• Instrumental in creating and managing intelligent tools that identify and strategically target Top and Key accounts within the business channel.• Responsible for tracking, monitoring and motivating a sales force of 90+ Territory Account Directors and Managers.• Communicating across the business and working closely with all levels.

Canon prides itself on their passion for the Power of Image in both consumer and business imaging solutions. Their solutions are varied but my focus was in B2B products and my role utilized this dominance in the market to target specific key demographic with a very much value added service. In accordance I providing tools and documents to the sales people directly to grow penetration and increase market share. • The actual increase in b2b sales during that period increased from 30% to 47% share for the segment 2 products and an increase from 12% to 39% of segment 4 specialist product in East London.• Integral involvement in creating full marketing campaigns with the Account Managers that recognized the potential out of London City and Canary Wharf. • Analysis of AC Nielson and IRI database consumer research to formulate a strategy for b2b direct and indirect channel marketing.• Involvement in specific PR campaigns that enhanced the Canon message across the direct and indirect channels.

• Achieving 135% increase in sales for new territory.• Penetration into 37 new businesses over a 9 month period.• Planning and implementing team motivating incentives through analysing and evaluating personal and team sales results.

Ba (Hons), Product Design

Dissertation: “Societies reaction to the Death of the Product” Product Theme (1/2): “Everyday”, relating to the dissertation this was.

Btec Foundation Dipolma, Art & Design, Distinction

Multi skilled disciplines with a focus of Product and Graphic Design

A-Level, Art, Design, Physics, Mathematics And General Studies