Russell Wickens Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Chester Zoo is a conservation and education charity committed to preventing extinction, and the most visited zoo in the UK with over 2 million visitors every year. Learn more about the conservation strategy here: https://www.chesterzoo.org/what-we-do/our-strategy/

BBC Children in Need’s vision is that every child in the UK has a safe, happy and secure childhood and the chance to reach their potential. The charity will realise this vision by supporting, promoting and publicising work that addresses the challenges that children and young people face and work that builds their skills and resilience.BBC Children in Need is currently supporting over 2,500 local charities and projects in communities across the UK that are helping children and young people facing a range of disadvantages such as living in poverty, being disabled or ill, or experiencing distress, neglect or trauma.To find out more about BBC Children in Need visit: bbcchildreninneed.co.uk

Manchester, United Kingdom

San Francisco Bay Area

Taptica is a global end-to-end mobile advertising platform that helps the world’s top brands reach their most valuable users with the widest range of traffic sources available today. Taptica is headquartered in Tel Aviv with offices in San Francisco, New York, London, Seoul, Tokyo, and Beijing. Taptica International Ltd. is traded on the London Stock Exchange (AIM: TAP). www.taptica.com***Taptica acquired AreaOne in October 2015

Tel Aviv, Israel

Founded in 2011 to leverage the tectonic shift taking place in the advertising technology landscape, we’ve built a comprehensive programmatic platform to meet the emerging needs of data driven performance marketers.Across the US, Europe and Asia, our people and cutting edge technology platforms deliver outstanding business results across social and mobile channels, leveraging human creativity and intelligence, enhanced by algorithmic speed, precision and scale.We offer deep strategic insight, absolute data transparency and hands on expertise and support to ensure the success of your customized programs. Some of the world’s largest technology companies, app developers, e-commerce platforms, and brands rely on us to unlock previously unavailable business value.AreaOne. Advertising. Optimized.

Tel Aviv, Israel

Tel Aviv, Israel

• Full time course studying Hebrew.• Developing an Excel Application with VBA to aid learning, now in use by a growing number of students.

Stockport, United Kingdom

• Supervising a team of 3 responsible for maintaining and updating the national engineering database.• Taking on responsibility for the more complicated contracts in the department.• Identifying opportunities for new contracts and seeing them through to completion.• Developing an expense code analysis report in Excel using VBA, allowing comparison of budgeted vs actual spend across the entire group. • Developing working relationships with Storekeepers, Sales Managers, and Company Directors.• Managing a large workload in a high pressure office.

Stockport, United Kingdom

• Producing a wide range of reports using Microsoft Access and Excel.• Developing a new report highlighting depot off contract spend, leading to improved contract compliance and increased savings. Achieved annual savings of over £250,000, or 5%. • Pulling information from 18 separate databases via CSV files into combined reports.• Managing and updating an Access database of over 1 million records.• Developing a fuel economy analysis report with VBA for Excel, particularly in relation to green bio fuels. • Distrubuting results to depots, and dealing with requests and questions arising from them.• Daily communication helping depots and suppliers improve performance.• Writing VBA macros that considerably reduced the number of manual jobs in the office.

Stockport, United Kingdom

• Producing and distributing tender documents. • Collating returned bids into tender comparisons.• Carrying out negotiations with suppliers, and awarding contracts.• Involved in the completion of 17 contracts, with savings of over £50,000.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Producing customer service delivery reports in Excel. • Writing macros in VBA, increasing accuracy and efficiency of report production.• Taking responsibility for a number of high profile reports, previously done by the team leader.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Supervising a team of 3.• Responsible for Job scheduling, Stock Control, Quality Control, Health & Safety, and Buying. • Conceiving and implementing a computerised system to handle all aspects of work-flow.