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Huddersfield, Gb

Salford

Covering a variety of sports, including football, cricket, Olympics and Paralympics, Euro 2012/16, World Cups 2014/18, Wimbledon, Six Nations and more for the BBC Sport website.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Covering property news and social media for Manchester and Hong Kong-based property investment company. Focused on promoting markets in Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham and Leeds but also covered wide range of property and investment-related issues, both UK and overseas, during a challenging and interesting time in the housing market.

Promoting the University's research excellence through articles, blogs, offline and social media, increasing the followers of the @weloveresearch account by 25% during my time at the University.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Bingley

• Coordinating content creation and delivery across multiple digital and offline projects for academic publishing agency.• Researching and creating content in response to briefs and client requirements for higher education institutions and academic research organizations.• Interviewing academics and writing copy in the required tone of voice and style for a variety of UK, European and global clients.• Proofreading, amending and editing a global range of online publications, video scripts, academic journals and books.

Writing and creating content on German top-flight football for Bundesliga's English language website

Manchester, United Kingdom

Helped in site migration of historic content from Sitecore 7 to Sitecore 8 for new MCFC website, as well as creating new content both for old and new versions of the site while they were run in parallel.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Writing copy, sourcing and researching new content in preparation for the proposed re-launch of RBS retail operation as Williams & Glyn.

Old Trafford

Writing and creating content for manutd.com, social media channels and the matchday programme United Review.

Salford

Contributed to ongoing project to transform the Bupa website from a brochureware approach to a more responsive, modern web/mobile/tablet-friendly look and feel. I pared down and rewrote the copy to be something more succinct, retaining the key messages with a tone of voice that was friendly yet authoritative.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Covering football news and live matches on Sky Sports' football website.

Football-related writing on Manchester City for the Bleacher Report

• Responsible for creating and editing a diverse range of content of the highest quality published across MCFC’s digital and offline channels, and for the club’s commercial partners and internal stakeholders throughout a period of unprecedented change at the club.• Established and developed excellent relationships with departments across MCFC, including events, hospitality, ticketing, partnerships, charities and community, as well as external stakeholders, improving the promotion of the club’s business, commercial partnerships and community work.• Played a key role in the project team for the relaunch of the club’s website in 2009, gaining a deep understanding of Sitecore by migrating content from previous CMS into Sitecore.• Website’s unique users rose by 55 per cent to 808,000k in 2009/10, with a 42 per cent jump in page views to 10m. Won Roses Advertising Website of Year 2010.• Sent first tweet on club’s official Twitter account in April 2009.• Planned, created and published multimedia content on MCFC’s social media channels resulting in radically improved engagement with fans and attracting new followers.• Analysed site performance using Google Analytics and applied results to improve the site’s SEO and increase traffic.• Trained colleagues to use Sitecore 7, and coded in HTML when necessary.• Developed and maintained close relationships with external media to help improve the club’s profile, promoting positive aspects of MCFC’s on-field and off-field activities during a time where the club became a major news story.• Maintained high standard of MCFC digital content – text, image and video - to demanding schedules.• Interviewed key personnel on video and for written articles for MCFC digital channels, the monthly magazine and match day programme.• Ran website’s Match Day Centre with live blog on MCFC fixtures. • Used Photoshop, Fireworks and Brightcove for image and video content.• Planned content schedule in Head of Content’s absence.

Delivered multimedia content for a broad range of sport web sites, as well as providing support to other Sky Sports.com journalists associated to each client's site by editing and publishing their material. Maintained sites by frequent monitoring of news agencies and through relationships with journalists in order to keep site content fresh. This performed by use of content management software, and also by direct HTML editing.Trained other Sky Sports.com journalists in use of content management software.Filmed, edited and published interviews with players and coaching staff of clubs whose sites were hosted by Sky Sports to both free and subscription-only areas of the sites as necessary. Monitored club web sites hosted by Sky Sports to ensure that audio-only match commentaries were available. Published post-match audio reports and television footage to individual club sites and www.planetfootball.com by capturing and editing material using Sound Forge and Adobe Premiere software.Sourced photos and graphics for club sites, editing and uploading to relevant areas.

Co-ordinated a wide range of web and CD-ROM-based projects from inception through to sign-off to exacting deadlines.Rigorously documented work for both internal staff and external clients to track and control projects. Supervised both regular updates and a major overhaul on Yamaha Music's educational and e-commerce web sites, resulting both in increased traffic and turnover.Interpreted work requests from clients and created project specifications for company resources to perform.Monitored web site traffic and compiled regular reports for clients.

Published regular updates to Intranet sites across BT Cellnet sales network.Updated database on both the Intranet and customer-facing website. Visual data also manipulated via use of Photoshop, then uploaded to sites using FTP software.

Published and maintained content of new car auction website trading motor vehicles from vendors and manufacturers to the motor trade. Co-ordinated regular single-manufacturer Internet auctions, including VW Beetle.Monitored access to secure area of web site. Utilized web publishing software to convert company documents into web pages for company Intranet.Provided comprehensive troubleshooting support and fielded general enquiries from inside and outside of the motor trade.

Ba, Historical Studies

Yes! I went to a polytechnic! They did actually exist.

Msc Electronic Publishing, Internet, Journalism, New Media Law, Masters