Enjoyed working at Afrox, and wish the company the very best. Extremely proud of the 90th Anniversary video which I conceptualised, scripted and saw through to launch. My position with Afrox called for a hands-on, self-starter with 24/7 responsibilities, which included: • Stock Exchange News Service communications• Interim Results business commentary• Annual Report design, management, commentary (Chair/CEO statements/business commentary) • Company profile• Crisis Communications (trained in kidnap communications management September 2014) • Company spokesperson (TV/radio/print media) • Corporate DVD: management, planning, script writing, production and editing• Script writing (promotional/Marcoms/corporate)• Speech writing (Chair/CEO/Executive)• Internal TV News (RAF Insight) planning, presenting/interviewing, production and editing (DVD format, moving to streamed radio programming)• Change management communications (restructure/project support)• Communications strategy, planning and execution• Executive internal communications (strategy planning, advice and support)• Media/internal communication support to businesses in 15 other African countries• Industrial action communications (advice/support/execution to executives)• Customer critical communications (advice/support/execution to the business)• Corporate advertising campaigns, strategy, design and copy writing• Press releases• MarComs support• Internal staff newspaper planning and production (quarterly)• Supplier management• Public Relations.

Publications manager, Group Corporate Relations, The BOC Group, Surrey, UK. The BOC Group was a multinational company with operations in 55 countries around the world. The company was taken over by The Linde Group in September 2006. As BOC Publications Manager I managed a host of internal/external communication vehicles, including the annual report and international magazine, with responsibility for budgets, contract management, writers, photographers, printers and distributors. Responsible for the management, content and production of:BOC Annual Report & Review BOC World Magazine – a quarterly 40-page, full colour, international employee magazine cir. 20,000.BOC World Today – write, manage and produce an online news and features service; updated daily and includes flash and video streamed features and financial quarterly results; average visits 24,000 a month with 750,000 hits. BOC Focus Europe – a bi-monthly eight to 12-page employee newspaper, cir. 4,000; CiB Awards, Class winner 2003, Best Internal Newspaper of the Year.Cryostar Magazine – edit customer-facing magazine for global French subsidiary, Cryostar.BOC Group annual report and review, interim report – manage budget, process and contractors.Duties included budget, editorial and supplier contract management, liaison with the BOC Group's Board on the annual report and review, with senior executives globally, commissioning writers and photography and writing both news and feature material.

Worked freelance for monthly internal newspaper and copywriter for their Formula-1 sponsorship manual.

Editing, writing, story / photography commissioning, client liaison, new contract presentations. Responsible for the management and production of:BOC World Magazine / BOC Focus / Talking Shop CPS Journal – bi-monthly magazine for the Crown Prosecution ServiceInside Track – monthly newspaper for the Home OfficeThe Job – fortnightly newspaper for the Metropolitan Police ServicePNN – quarterly magazine for the Police National Network (Home Office)Nexus – quarterly magazine for the National Criminal Intelligence ServiceInform – bi-monthly newspaper for national gambling company, William HillHearsay – quarterly magazine for The Lord Chancellor's Department

Duties included court and council reporting, general news and feature writer, campaigns journalist (child abuse/housing/substance abuse), crime reporting.

I was a down-table sub on Development Magazine and Hotel & Catering Gazette and a freelance for The Farmer Magazine, Zimbabwe Farmers' Union

I received training with The Zimbabwe Ministry of Information as an information officer and media analyst.