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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Provided marketing consultancy to a range of clients Social media management: Organic content creation and Facebook ad implementationEmail marketing: Campaign creation, execution and analysisSEO & SEM: On-page SEO improvements on WordPress and Google AdWords campaign creation and management Content marketing: SEO-rich blog content

Rothesay

Responsible for the successful marketing and PR of Scotland's leading bid and tender specialists.Created the company's comprehensive marketing strategy.Planned, created and executed several marketing and PR campaigns, resulting in increased lead generation and brand awareness. Integral part of the leadership team, reporting directly to the Managing Director.

Adelaide, Australia

Responsible for the successful marketing and brand management of all six businesses within the Hub39 Group and the charitable foundationManaged a large marketing budget across digital, print, radio and events Led the successful rebrand of two of the six businesses - Peak Super and Dale Wood - resulting in 380% increase in lead generation over four monthsSecured successful regional and national PR for Altitude Advisory and Catapult Wealth Member of management team attending weekly meeting and providing monthly group marketing reportMentored and trained marketing assistant who now works for RAA's marketing department

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Launched Juggling Swords in May 2014 - a content marketing agency that plans, creates and promotes digital content that delivers results. Named by the Scottish Sunday Herald as one of the top 20 entrepreneurs under 30. Talk to me today about your content marketing, digital marketing and social media.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Lead the strategic, operational and creative line for Tangible Media’s NZ Fishing World content• Content marketing campaigns included Isuzu and Maritime NZ• Commercialization of websites and various content marketing propositions including video and web content campaigns • Full editorial control of NZ’s second-biggest selling fishing magazine with an audited readership of 265,000.• Integral to the commercial success of the magazine and wider group through the introduction of content marketing and digital content creation• Expanded product’s Facebook fanbase from 300 to more than 10,000 in 12 months• Monitored and reported on content marketing results in various channels – web and social. Overseen a steady increase in monthly users and sessions • Created and monitored weekly email marketing campaign to more than 4,000 subscribers, achieving as high as 70% open rate• Positioned myself and the NZ Fishing World product as community leaders in category through social media campaigns, integrating various TV and radio appearances and events which lead to commercial growth• Responsible for editorial budgets• Organised several successful events to market the product to new audiences

Auckland, New Zealand

• Permanent casual sports sub for New Zealand’s biggest Sunday newspaper • Copy sub for sports stories, features and layout

Auckland, New Zealand

• Assisted the chief sub-editor in organising and managing a team of 14 sub-editors • Responsible for page flows of newspaper production • Responsible for national news, business and sport content on a minimum of five publications in any one shift • Checked and sent final proofs on deadlines • Layout of a range of pages including front pages and features • Undertake copy subbing on a range of titles • Input in operational changes and staff rosters

• Help in undertaking of staff training• Advanced user of Citrix Cyber software • Work to extremely demanding deadlines for The Herald and several of APN’s regional mastheads • Run schedules for several APN mastheads • Plan and copytaste business, national and sport pages for mastheads • Liaise with mastheads over content • Sub variety of content from business to news and features

• Helped to launch the company’s renewables news service • Duties included news-gathering, web-editing, data entry and conference and expo participation• Built an in-depth knowledge of the offshore wind market

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

• Worked to extremely tight deadlines on Scotland’s largest evening newspaper with four editions daily • An excellent eye for detail and accuracy were required in this demanding position • Duties included writing snappy headlines, proof-reading, rewriting reporters’ copy, page layout, web-editing

Sydney, Australia

• Involved in all aspects of magazine production including layout, copy writing, sub-editing • In charge of running of the magazine in editor’s absence • Heavily involved in magazine’s first full redesign in five years

United Kingdom

• Published work in a variety of national publications in the UK • Covered professional football matches for national newspapers • Travel features published in newspaper supplements

Oban, Scotland

• Headhunted by editor following success at BT Scotland Media Awards • Covered all aspects of local news • Assigned duty of overseeing regional office in Fort William, Scotland

Rothesay, Scotland

• Learned core skills of journalism as a ‘cub reporter’ at local paper • Covered general news, sport, crime and court • Captured all of the paper’s pictures for print

Oban, Scotland

• Worked voluntarily for community radio station • Learned editing skills • Duties included news-reading, compiling playlists and schedules

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Activities and Societies: Rugby, football

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