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Willand, Gb

Havant, England, Gb

Leicester, Leicestershire, Gb

Fishbadgermonkey is a digital consultancy that specialises in pulling hats out of rabbits. It has provided digital leadership, consultancy and delivery globally (UK, Europe and US) from early stage startups to established Public Sector bodies. Clients include Backbase BV, BaseKit, BrightPearl, Companybook, DEOS Consulting, Sherborne Area Schools Trust, PushMe Press, Booksellerate, the Met Office, Department of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Veterinary Medicines Directorate and the Department for Education.

London, England, Gb

Addlestone, Surrey, Gb

Exeter, Devon, Gb

Implementation of the digital vision across the organisation creating user-centric and multi-functional “virtual” teams using the Government Digital Services (GDS) Agile Framework. Significantly improved productivity and co-operation across departments whilst maintaining a budget of over 3.5m GBP per Year. Led a department of over 35 people.As Senior Responsible Owner for the Consumer Digital Programme exceeded delivery expectations by increasing social engagement in excess of 156% YoY; increased digital reach by 50m sessions per month; increased advertising yield by 200%. Outputs delivered: migration to a new cloud infrastructure for forecast and content data within 3 months; new versions of the Met Office App with a continuous improvement roadmap; replacement Content Management System; new web infrastructure; a Sponsorship programme. Also delivered an Agile transformation project across a multi-disciplinary team resulting in a quicker time to market and increased market share.

Companybook is THE big data platform for Company information, worldwide with detailed information on over 95 million companies. Responsible for scaling Product & Technology between Oslo and the UK.

Bristol, Bristol, Gb

BaseKit is the leading one-stop SaaS solution for Small to Medium sized Businesses based on award-winning drag-n-drop website design technology. I was contracted to mature the Product Development organisation in Bristol as the Company achieved rapid growth. Reporting to the CEO, I was responsible for leading the Product team with five direct reports.Designed and executed a switch to Aglie methodology resulting in a boost in developer productivity. Full REST API platform, Continuous Integration and a modern Agile UX layer that has boosted responsiveness to the Business. Upgraded the billing platform to support asynchronous transactions in Latin America. Delivered App Store and mobile vision for the product.Improved key product metrics on sales conversion with weekly tracking and reporting of Key Performance Indicators. Matured the product to a scalable architecture and development process leading to mass growth. Launched the first version of an integrated App Store within the platform.

Amsterdam, Nl

Backbase is a software solutions company that provides innovative enterprise portal products based on award-winning and mature Ajax, mobile & tablet technologies. Engaged initially as a Senior Product Manager to introduce Product Management best practices into the company and deliver the vision, strategy and product leadership for Backbase products, graduated to Director of Product Management to deliver five core products to enable the Company’s Web 2.0 product vision: Portal R5, Co-browse & chat, Forms, CMS and Content Hub.Champion for UX and outside-in thinking to deliver a key differentiator in the market. Successfully steered Backbase to gain entry into Gartner’s ‘Magic Quadrant’ as the first portal-less-portal utilising a Web Oriented Architecture with widget framework.Responsible for requirement gathering, Product Vision and strategy, Product Roadmaps, Product Definition, Product Design, Product Documentation and collateral, Product Marketing and User eXperience design. Delivered changes to the organisation to support a move to Agile SCRUM development teams.Working directly for the CEO, with several direct reports, as part of the Backbase Management Team.

Anywhere, Us

support.com provides IT helpdesk services to consumers and small businesses via the internet, retail and software partners. support.com is based in Silicon Valley. Reported to the EVP Business Development and Strategic Alliances to deliver business intelligence, campaign development, sales optimisation and marketing of support.com partner solutions to clients such as Dixons Stores International, Eircom, BSkyB, MediaSaturn & TDC. Responsible for gathering requirements from partner organisations and translating these back to Product enhancements. Close liaison with Product and Engineering groups.This role required regular travel to the USA as well as across the European Union.Responsible for both internal and external weekly reporting dashboards.

London, Gb

Tribal DDB is a global ideas agency specialising in brand demand generation in the digital world.Reported to MD of agency as responsible for a number of multi-channel campaigns across the Philips Consumer Electronics portfolio. Delivered a massive increase in sales for Philips/Amazon seasonal campaign via Tribal Amsterdam’s first ever Through The Line campaign.Responsible for generating new business for Consumer Electronics products via creative campaign concepts and online marketing campaigns (acquisition).

London, Gb

Liberty Global, Inc. is the leading international cable operator offering advanced video, telephone, and broadband internet services. It operates broadband communications networks in 14 countries principally located in Europe, Japan, Chile, and Australia. Eventually reporting to the MD global Sales & Marketing, responsible for the strategy, planning and delivery of a number of product initiatives designed to increase online sales and reduce customer support costs across online channels. Strategic analysis, product design, training and utilisation of e-marketing materials.Responsible for the formulation of online Customer self-service strategy and business cases. Delivered the design, development and launch of a remote broadband IT support product to The Netherlands, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and Ireland.Responsible for the design and launch of Value Added Services to DSP subscribers.Responsible for the management of supplier, vendor, local market and IT organisation relationships within projects delivering detailed Product Definitions and requirements. Lead for Customer Experience design and strategy own Product Portfolio.Close liaison with other stakeholders within the global Sales & marketing team delivering channel readiness, Go To Market strategy, Product Roadmaps and weekly reporting dashboards.

Founded Digital Architecture to provide digital strategy formulation for prestigious clients such as SciFi Channel, Royal Doulton, One2One, Coca-Cola, National Curriculum online, International Baccalaureate Organisation, World Rally Championship 2001.Provided consultancy and software solutions to commercial and academic entities on electronic content and content management, web-based strategies, product development and marketing opportunities. Developed and launched a number of innovative web-based products including CR-ROM, CMS and knowledge management systems. Delivered key strategic partnerships with technology vendors. Clients included Building Information Warehouse, Sage, Baxter Group, Artomatic, Tequila & Euro RSCG.

Noomedia was a web agency providing turnkey web solutions to industry leading websites such as eBookers, Thompson Travel and Bridge the World. This was at a time when the Internet was still in its infancy.Responsible for generating new sales channels by expanding Noomedia’s product range, including client account management.Responsible for digital production, expanding the depth and capacity of our product offering. Provided consultancy to the sales group on New Business.

Responsible for new business sales of local websites and their design & development. Whilst I was at Grayswood, I was also manager of www.haslemere.com, community portal for Haslemere town.

Responsible for all publications, bars & all major events.

In-store merchandising and product promotion

Ba (Hons.), Design & Technology, Theatre

Bachelor'S Degree (Exchange Programme), Tv & Film Production, Graphic Design, Theatre Studies

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