Sean Blakeley Email & Phone Number

-- Responsible for operations and technology across Enterprise WordPress-- Overseen internal investments leading to an average 12.5% project efficiency saving-- Responsible for onboarding & defining requirements on key strategic accounts-- Worked directly with the C-Suite on key internal & external initiatives

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

-- Created a new Enterprise WordPress Team working on large, enterprise engagements, within an 800-strong agency-- Hired and directly managed a remote team of 15 operational and technical staff-- Key role & responsibility for pitching, hiring, resource planning, scoping, architecture, key technical decisions and escalations-- Implemented agile practices within the team-- Worked directly with the CTO and Leadership Team on strategic focus-- Delivered key commercial insights and steer to the Leadership Team-- Provided level of effort estimates across multiple large & complex sales opportunities-- Successfully moved from 0 to $4m+ annual Team revenue in less than 2 years-- Architected and oversaw the delivery of a $1m+ headless WordPress project-- Oversaw running and maintenance of large-scale retainer engagements-- Delivered multiple presentations and learning sessions within the agency & beyond-- Spearheaded the teams contributions back to the WordPress community-- Created and maintained internal products utilised across the team-- Introduced new agency partnerships including Algolia, Cloudinary, Vercel & WP VIP - generating substantial new revenue streams-- Fronted a National TV Campaign - playing across major networks in the USA

Brighton, United Kingdom

-- Oversaw a department of 30 engineers and designers - onsite and remote-- Member of the agency Leadership Team-- Moved the agency to agile delivery practices-- Created the agency Technical Strategy - across production, support & DevOps teams-- Successfully pitched, scoped and delivered multiple award-winning sites, including Sage, Danone and ITV.-- Regularly worked with clients to provided effort estimates, negotiate investment levels, define programmes of work and identifying new business opportunities-- Managed training provision across the technical team - including an early collaboration with the core Gutenberg team-- Created a React training programme for the technical team

Brighton, United Kingdom

-- Working into a modern WordPress stack and environment-- Created an early headless site - using WordPress as a REST API delivery system.-- Writing clear and concise technical and non-technical documentation.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

-- Built and oversaw the creation of dozens of WordPress websites – managing the full project-cycle including: pitching, proposal writing, designing, delivery, training and ongoing support.-- Regularly working with other commercial agencies - often as part of a team and overseeing projects - including managing an outsourced development team.

London, England, United Kingdom

-- Daily pitching & relationship building with company Directors across London - helping to assess potential training needs across organisations

London, England, United Kingdom

-- Daily research, correspondence & a member of the Employment Policy Committee.