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Valencia, Spain

- Primary research in various fields of the ICT sector globally.- Analysis and report compiling for clients.- Business development

Valencia, Spain

Creator of news and marketing content for Google News-registered sites ICO Examiner and cryptocoinspy.com. * Research and write original news content.* Profile new ICOs.* Thoroughly review and analyse ICOs and their white-papers for an audience of potential investors.

Managing content and PR for Platio, an international fintech platform based in London. Content Marketing:Medium articles/blog posts Content marketing strategy Promotional materials Client emails Client reports Video scripts PR & Marketing:PR strategy Press release writing, targeting and distribution Slogan and boilerplate writing Copywriting & Technical Writing: Website copyWhite-paper editing

Bradford, United Kingdom

* Digital Marketing: designed and ran the company’s Google Shopping and Amazon Sponsored Products advertising campaigns. * Copywriting: product descriptions for web landing pages.* Overseas markets: led the company’s expansion into international markets (USA, France and Germany). Within six months these markets accounted for one half of all sales revenue. * Operations: responsible for all the company's operations and logistics; streamlined all company procedures.

Halifax, United Kingdom

Award-winning blog examining the culture and history of the north of England, particularly Yorkshire.

Halifax, United Kingdom

Director of events production company.Produced the Shopify-sponsored “Digital High Street” conference, bringing together an international audience of technologists, local government and community activists to discuss the challenges and opportunities of e-commerce, augmented reality and the increasing dominance of mobile. Wrote the programme, secured the speakers and managed all interaction with sponsors and media partners.

* Business analyst in the company's team to use agile methodology for software development. This bridging role was key in implementing the model, accredited with achieving fast and harmonious development and a project delivered on time and to budget. * Daily liaison between users and developers. Authored guides to desired functionalities and wrote all user stories. * Developed user acceptance criteria and ran multi-stakeholder user acceptance testing.* Designed and oversaw a complete redesign of existing systems, ensuring that all teams built in space for future users to drive further development to reflect changing business needs. * Gathered and codified all departments’ procedures to create the company’s first comprehensive procedures manual. * Delivered a business-critical project across a period of change, and with virtual teams split across multiple locations.

London, United Kingdom

Team manager responsible for resolving all operational and trading issues arising from the trading of $1bn of client funds.*Project managed the business side for new back-office system for booking trades and performance reporting, developed over three years in house. Authored user acceptance specifications, liaised with all departments on requirements, and communicated these with software team. “Senior User” in the modified PRINCE2 methodology used.* Established and managed a new operations team to monitor worldwide trading. This necessitated my management of complicated shift patterns to ensure high levels of service over the 24 hour trading day.* Led development of new operational processes and IT systems. Drove automation of many processes to improve accuracy and reduce risk.* Developed close relationships with futures brokers and their back-offices.* Worked with clearing brokers to improve their accuracy when booking Altis trades.* Responsible for sign off on all the day’s trading and client performance accounting.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Economics

Certificate In Information Technology And Computing, Information Technology

Equivalent to the first year of an information technology degree, this course combined ICT with computer programming in HTML, CSS.