Mark Devlin Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Newslines is a 'Wikipedia for News'. Our newsline for Conor McGregor, the UFC fighter, was viewed over 100 million times on Facebook in 2018, due to content, technology, and partnerships I developed. I am now building newslines on Elon Musk and his companies, which is broadcast to LinkedIn pages that I have created about Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos that have over 500,000 followers

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom

Website and weekly podcast, aimed at people who want a thriving Scotland, free of toxic nationalism.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Website and ecommerce development, social media marketing. outdoor marketing for medium-size clients.

Glasgow

Refreshed programming skills on a 16-week full-time intensive training course with over 800 hours of coding, one solo and two group projects. Focus on Test Driven Development and Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Sarasota, Florida Area

Founded Florida’s first private room karaoke business, which was to be the model for a franchise roll-out across the U.S. Built custom karaoke room software using remote teams (Ukraine). Responsible for construction, layout and design, customer experience, staffing, purchasing, website design and marketing.

Tokyo, Japan

Founded Japan Today, which is currently the world’s No. 1 source of Japan news and information in English. First person in the world to put reader comments under news stories, opening up the first two-way discussion of Japan and its place in the world.Led all aspects of product development. Managed development and editorial teams. Built custom content management system for fraction of retail cost. The business was sold to one of Japan’s largest media companies.

Tokyo, Japan

Founded Japan’s No. 1 English magazine. Over 14 years and 707 issues, I grew the magazine from a four-page classified ads sheet that was handed out on Tokyo street corners, into an 80-page full-colour city magazine with certified circulation of 30,000 copies/week, and a website with millions of monthly page views. By 2007, the company employed 40 staff from all over the world and had sales over £3 million with 20% profit.Led development team, building all internal and external systems including classified ad data publishing systems, personnel, circulation, and sales tracking. Launched Friendfinder Personals, Newsfinder (online news aggregator), and business directory modules. Created one of the world’s first social networks, with over 40,000 subscribers.Personally edited and designed over 300 issues. Had full editorial control and final design approval over all 707 weekly issues. Managed editorial and design teams.Managed sales team. Created all sales materials and procedures. Conducted readers surveys. Built relationships with hundreds of advertisers. Ran the largest Halloween Party in Japan (over 2000 attendees every year).

Tokyo, Japan

Building on my experience of dealing with hundreds of clients for the magazine and website, I founded a web and print design agency for external clients, including Sumitomo Bank, NEC (Japan’s largest company) and many others.

Tokyo, Japan

Founded one of the first Internet Providers in Japan. First person to provide internet access through premium-rate telephone lines. Grew the business to 20,000 subscribers and sold it in September 1996.

Network and user help-desk support. Responsible for purchasing. Install of ISDN line to London office. Created databases for front and back-office, including order tracking system and personnel systems. Was rehired by company as independent contractor after expiry of one-year contract.

Tokyo, Japan

Edited annual financial reports for large clients such as Sumitomo Bank, NEC, and Ryobi.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

While at University I interned at Linn Products, one of the world's premier high-fidelity audio manufacturers. I worked on the production line making speakers and amplifiers.