Focus on large scale enterprise level transformation projects, running a team of skilled Martech consultants.

Concentrating on strategic business outputs and large scale transformations projects for global enterprise clients. Developing business architecture, deep integrations and leveraging technology to unlock insights making data driven decisions a realty. Platform consolidation to drive business efficiencies, reducing costs and operational pains. Restructuring operational teams and processes to bringing departments closer together using technology and centralised data infrastructure. Global clients eg Fujitsu, Atos & AVEVA.

Joined Clevertouch to concentrate skills on enterprise organisations, B2B and B2C. Aiding in business strategy and technology direction to ensure return on investment is realised. Building long standing relationship with clients, maintaining their transformation roadmaps and evolving as the world changes around us.

Joined Avant to deliver their digital transformation across customer solutions, business systems, technology & digital marketing. Bridging the gap between customer solutions and ERP/CRM systems. Create new customer facing technology that elevates the Avant brand and increases customer engagement. Including an industry leading website, Acquia Marketing Automation & customer apps. Taking full control over all digital channels supplier relationships & managing our digital agency partner for delivery. Management user stories both for UX and back end functions. Introduced agile processes and created new management methods. Ensuring strong partners exist to support the digital strategy I directed. Developing a technology road map for short term and long term goals all within a commercial framework to increase customer awareness and drive sales channels.

Joined the Aylesworth Fleming board of directors with business KPI & commercial responsibilities. Working with OLIVER agency on their client roster, providing consultation on digital & technical transformation. Worked with global clients like Barclaycard & Jaguar Land Rover on global scale solutions. During the changes brought about by the GDPR and the update to the Data ProtectionAct, I was appointed the company Data Protection Officer (DPO). Providing protection of client data and data solutions as well as looking after the company's policies and compliance.

Responsible for technical solutions, internally and providing client support at a consultancy level. Focus on workflow efficiency, automation and technical leadership for all spectrums of business solutions. Management of our development, UX, SEO & CRO teams via multiple delivery methods including waterfall and agile. Write and direct user stories for UX and backend functions. My consultancy for clients would involve business systems analysis for existing/new ERP, CRM, MarTech stacks and developing 0-5 year technology road maps including building teams around the platforms to rapidly accelerate business transformation. Deep understanding of development and technical team structure and responsible for motivating teams while increasing skills via steadfast training programs. For the agency I headed up multiple teams, ranging from IT & Network engineering to website development (Front and Backend, SEO, CRO & UX teams. I handled all technical procurement, budget management in a micro and macro scale as well as platform supplier management and enrichment.

Emerge was the holding group for Aylesworth Fleming, Thinking Juice, Marketing Mattersand various other agencies. My role as Creative Services Manager was to look after eachagency’s interests in digital workflow efficiency & delivery. While providing clients consultancy for digital, technology and MarTech solutions. Assisting in streamlining and automating their internal processes to enable more effective use of their budget and spend with their agency partners including all Emerge agencies. As a multiple team department head I had to manage multiple team managers and at its peak was responsible for 64 people underneath me. Including assisting with talent and recruitment, team building, motivating and running effective training programs. Teams involved were, creative, animators, technical, developers, designers, CRO, SEO & UX as well as running the IT and networking departments ensuring that our business was always staying ahead of the curve for technology adoption.

Large team line management. Large team resource, schedule & delivery management. Upholding creative standards & agency consistency with strict quality controls. Developing new service skills, motivating the team to learn and grow. Lead training and development courses for animation, video editing, responsive HTML email coding, web development & traditional print layout skills (Typography, composition & Adobe Creative Suite skills). Ensure that each and every job is produced on time, to budget and at high quality. Managing freelancers & suppliers. Managing our IT requirements, specifically the Apple infrastructure, high speed network engineering and very large file storage, backup and archiving strategies. Studio automation, script & application development.

Technical training for all studio members, prepress & print production training providedto production staff. (Including advanced training for InDesign, Illustrator & Photoshop).Design, Code and distribute email marketing campaigns. Adhering to email developmentbest practices to create superior, highly compatible code. A consistent focus on quality, deliverability and rendering. Ensuring that email campaigns are created and deliveredaccording to design, on brand, on time and within budget. Managed Agency’s Mac department, procurement, maintenance, high paced automated deployment. Preparing complex artworkfor print. Assistive creative work & creative layout, where needed. Advanced typography management skills & speed layout artist. Mixed media designing, from print to web, requiring a good understanding of cross media software. Prepress preparation for all aspects of artwork, from brochures to signage, to high turnaround advert production.

Managing a team of 4. Creation of original designs from brief and direct from a mediumsized client base. Taking briefs directly from clients and ensuring customers are kept up to speed during the design process. Managing client expectations and guiding them through their ideas and the teams. Requiring professional phone, presentation skills and on the spot problem solving for start up businesses.

Management of the technical marketing department, running a team of 2 dedicated designers/artworkers and 3-4 regular freelancers. Involved in the sales process of technical autonomous software, hardware and communication mediums (ISDN, Fibre & broadband) into the graphic arts industry. Responsible for the maintained relationship between WAM!NET and its reseller channel and providing up to date technical documentation to aid in sales processes.

Network, Mac and PC engineer working under contracts for SME's in northern Johannesburg, South Africa.