Refereeing Amateur and Youth Football in the London and Surrey areas. Officiating on over 100 gamesa season, with and without additional official support. First qualified as a Referee in 2009 and retrained in 2023 and having officiated in over 300 games since first qualifying. 25 years as an Amateur Football Team Manager and experienced Football League Administrator, Team Manager and League Executive. Additionally experienced in Football data administration, IT Administration systems, Record and Data Management and Compliance and Best Practice.

Management and coordination of IT and other Technology to facilitate the strategic goals of The Extraction Action Alliance. Manage and maintain the TEAA Estuary database and information service and coordinate all communications globally for the organisation and stakeholders.

Owner and Managing Director of J.Com UK Ltd. J.Com UK Ltd is a local Teddington based supplier of all things IT from PC's and Laptops to Connectivity and Cloud Services. With partnerships with all the major IT players and access to all the current IT services, JCom is your one stop shop to manage, maintain and support your IT Services or Department now and into the future.

Founder and Director with full responsibility for the strategy and management for Aim Hire Global Ltd. Founded in 2010, Aim Hire's turnover has grown by over 20% a year becoming one of the UK's fastest growing Recruitment companies. Aim Hire specialises in the Global ITSM sector partnering with the global leader, BMC Software.Aim Hire has a global network and reach and the ability to service all our clients needs.

Founder and Director of Diversityjobs.co.uk

Represent consumer interests on BS8877 Committee for the creation of a Code of Practice for Online Recruitment in the UK. Also on the Drafting Committee for the Code of Practice and sent in the first draft to the committee on 21st May 2010.

Career & CV ConsultantProvide CV writing and career counselling services across a wide spectrum of industries working directly with both corporate clients and executive level candidates. Professional level CV writing service, bespoke and tailor-made for each requirement. CV targeted to specific roles or industries based on an in-depth fact-finding phone interview. Understand the candidate’s key selling points and translate these into a relevant format for inclusion in the CV. Additional responsibilities include CV re-modelling and executive level careers advice and support.

Represent consumer interests for all aspects of ICT for BSI on committees for both Standards and Codes of Practice in the UK and Europe.

Initially employed on a 3 month contract to cover the long term sickness of the Key Account Team Manager, the contract being twice extended to October 2009. Overall management for the team of 3 Key Account Managers and 1 Sales administrator. Tasked with organising the team on a daily basis and to meet and exceed all financial, team and personal targets. With regular team building and training, the effectiveness of the team to lift their accounts to strategic level consultative sales was improved. By focussing the team on the business critical areas such as Business Continuity Management, Information Security, Data Protection and Compliance better communication of the BSI message through each client’s organisation was achieved. The Key Accounts included: Balfour Beatty, Carillion, Johnson Matthey, BAA, British Energy, Virgin Media, COLT and UK AEA. Initiated development of British Standard to harmonise IT compliance controls (SOX, PCI, ISO27001, BASEL, HIPAA). • Managed Key Accounts portfolio of over £4m• 105% of target on Renewed Subscriptions• Revived the relationship with BSI’s biggest client – Atkins Plc• Instigated strategic corporate licensing and DRM policy• Initiated development of British Standard for Online Recruitment• 400% increase in 2009 on 2008 results

Fish4 Trading Ltd is the parent company of Fish4jobs, Fish4cars and Fish4homes owned by Trinity Mirror and Newsquest.In May of 2008 promoted to role of Recruitment Manager responsible for all the internal and external recruitment for Fish4 Trading Ltd. Tasked to implement new online recruitment processes and an E-Recruitment application – Hiredesk and to shorten Fish4’s recruitment supply chain and reduce Fish4’s reliance on Recruitment Consultancies. Implemented a full online E-Recruitment project including the use of tools such as Burning Glass and Talent Pool management. Instigated a structured interview process and conducted all interviews in partnership with the relevant line manager. In six months as Recruitment Manager 22 staff were recruited without the need to resort to recruitment agencies saving fish4 over £70,000 from a budget of £100,000, reduced from £400,000 in 2007. Achievements:• Implemented Hiredesk E-Recruitment• Initiated structured interview procedure• Rationalised the Recruitment Process• Initiated succession planning• Reduced spend by over £300,000 per annum• Developed Psychometric profiling• Managed Preferred Suppliers List• Reduced time to hire by 50%

Fish4jobs is the Online Job Board and Recruitment Portal owned by Trinity Mirror and Newsquest. Joining the company in September 2007 as the Key Consultancy Manager dealing with the top 200 Recruitment Agencies in the UK and promoted in December 2007 to Key Account Manager on the Direct Corporate Team. On boarding, mentoring and coaching of new team members was a key responsibility as senior team member. Managing the client relationship and annual renewals, clients included T-Mobile, Fitness First, Specsavers, Dell UK, Apple and Austin Reed. Target was based upon the renewal values of the annual contracts plus uplift. In the first quarter of 2008, achieved 89% (£67,000) against target of £75,000. Achievements:• Successfully managed over 40 trials • Over target on sales of Banners and Buttons• Closed biggest renewal for the team – T-Mobile • Closed biggest deal for the team in Q1 2008• Negotiated contracts for all team renewals • Mentored new team members

Involved from July 2005 to July 2007 in a number of sales and recruitment projects including:Talentweb Ltd - Talentweb Ltd markets an E-Recruitment service offering SAAS Online Recruitment and RPO ServicesInternet Corp Ltd - E-Recruitment Software Company marketing a SAAS E-Recruitment application called AMRISHolonomix Ltd - A Professional Services company supplying ITSM, ITIL and GRC solutionsDevoteam Frontrunner Ltd - French IT Services Company involved in Telecoms, Mobile, OSS and Professional Services. Contracted to advise Devoteam on Recruitment, RPO and Business Development.

Open Spaces specialises in the recruitment of contract and permanent GIS (Geographical Information System) and ITSM/ITIL staff in the UK and Europe. Contracted in January 2004 to recruit and manage a team of 5 permanent and contract IT recruitment consultants. Management responsibilities included training and mentoring of new team members, team KPI’s, Target Setting, CRM and Workflow training, legislative compliance and data protection. Achievements:• Achieved largest fee of £13,000 for 2004• Recruitment of 3 new team members• Team up to target within 6 months• Over 20 contractors on site• Opened new markets including Remedy ARC, ITSM, ITIL, MPLS & GSM• Over 80% new business

CPS & Update Ltd published a report of live contract and permanent IT vacancies in the UK and was the UK’s only client introduction service for recruitment agencies. Pioneered Online Recruitment and E-Recruitment services.Managing DirectorAs Managing Director responsible for the overall management of the company including Sales, Telesales, Production, Finance and HR. Grew the company by over 300% between 1995 and 1997 and negotiated a VC investment of £200,000 to move the business online and create one of the world’s first online recruitment and E-Recruitment websites. The site was developed at a cost of £100,000 but unfortunately was never finished, leading to a major restructuring of the company. With the successful restructure continued successfully as MD till the end of 2003. Achievements:• Inspiration to move business online in 1995• Developed Affiliates scheme with CRM suppliers• Negotiated £200,000 VC investment in 1997• Over 30% of top 100 Recruitment Agencies as clients• Developed Online Client database in 1999• Developed Online Recruitment business in 1997

Responsible for the introduction and account management of corporate travel accounts. Specialised in Long Haul and Business/First class travel for mainly business and high spend clients. Quadrupled the commissions for the Business travel sector of the company within 3 years.

Wordstar International developed and distributed the world’s first word processing application – Wordstar. Employed over 100 staff with a global turnover of over $20m.Responsibility for selling Multi-User Licenses of the Wordstar Word Processing application to major corporate accounts. Main accounts were blue chip companies throughout the UK including Wimpey Homes, BNFL, Local Government, etc. Responsibility for communication with FAST (Federation against Software Theft) and corporate users with unlicensed software.

Business Development and Account Management for a Retail Head Office Merchandising and ERP system (Merchant 400) and EPOS developed on the IBM AS/400 architecture. Trained in selling techniques for the AS/400 by IBM. Achieved the company’s first major account that resulted in over £500,000 of business in 1988, beating sales target of £250,000 by 100%. Promoted to the Key Account team in 1989 where the target was raised to £500,000 per year. Signed contracts in excess of £1,000,000 with Retailers such as Forbuoys Newsagents, BT Retail, Martins Newsagents, Boots and Mothercare.

Joined Syndicated Features from college with a keen interest in Photography. Employed as a production assistant and Trainee Photographer but soon progressed to the second staff photographer. Pictures published in, amongst others, The Times, Mail on Sunday, The Express, News of the world, OK and Take a Break.