The Lyme Regis Development Trust is a community-based charity working collaboratively with other local organisations to improve the economic, social, environmental and personal well-being for all in Lyme Regis and its surrounding area. As a Director of Property Management I have responsibility and oversight of the team’s business operations, including;• Regular upkeep and maintenance of the Trust's property portfolio. • Management of the rental estate from which the Trust derives the majority of its income.• Expansion strategy to develop the estate in line with the Trust’s core values and function.• Sign-off of ongoing financial spending on projects alongside bi-monthly account review.

For the past five years I have been working on a project in the hospitality sector. In this time, I have taken a struggling independent Bed and Breakfast business and turned it into a highly successful and profitable going concern. Today the Albany Guest House is a modern multi award winning eco focused business which has quickly risen to become one of the top five in Lyme Regis.

Reporting to the Head of Digital, I delivered the entire international digital commercial revenue stream across all Met Office digital platforms. Managing a team encompassing all advertising, sponsorship, sports and leisure business. • Developed the roadmap and strategy for the Digital Commercial and Sports and Leisure business areas. Providing accurate forecasts throughout the financial year and maintenance of recovery plans where needed.• Devised the growth plan to extend the Met Office Programmatic channel and resulting revenue.• Increased Digital revenue from £300k - £1.4 million.• Lead the team which successfully won the 2016 Rugby World Cup bid. • Built a new team of Account Managers with responsibility for delivering Sports & Leisure revenue alongside those delivering the advertising revenue to the business area.• Engage with key stakeholders outside of the organisation at a strategic level within technology partners, DSP’s and Advertising Agency and Client customers.• Designed and began to implement a strategy to develop additional advertising revenue by working with other government agencies and trading funds to provide a service to monetise their websites.• I developed a dual focus strategy to develop both the direct Agency relationships while at the same time building on the Programmatic channel. • Exceeded the aggressive revenue targets that were set for the advertising business. • Panel judge for the 2013 Content Marketing Association awards.

Reporting to the Head of Digital I developed and actuated business plans to ensure Digital Commercial and Sports & Leisure capabilities of the Met Office aligned to customer business requirements and that suitable long term planning was in place to meet future capability needs.• Developed the long term revenue plans of the non-broadcast side of the Digital and Global Media programme.• Key note speaker at the 2012 Content Marketing Association ‘International Content Summit’.• Maintained key relationships with customers through development of business plans providing ideas and feedback on customer requirements, market and competitor intelligence to retain and increase customers.• Standardised business processes to fully incorporate the CRM system (Goldmine) within Advertising and Sponsorship business.• Retained the Benadryl sponsorship contract of the pollen forecast growing revenue from £60k to over £130k.• Created new sponsorship opportunities such as ‘Get Ready for Summer’ in partnership with the RNLI.• Developed forecasting services contract for the World Rally Championship with Prodrive BMW Mini. • Created a new constant revenue stream through developing a ‘Real Time Bidding’ environment for digital advertising delivering over £200k in the first 12 months.• Reduced all costs associated with our Adserving through competitive negotiations and change of incumbent provider.• Designed and led the project to move mobile Adserving to an alternative platform providing additional business through a variety of partners and backfill channels.

Reporting to the Sales Manager, but outside of a defined focus vertical, tasked to proactively and reactively create opportunity and generate profitable revenue to feed into the wider commercial team. Utilising customer information and market intelligence to develop new offerings within the ‘Other’ market sector.• Overachieved in first 12 months exceeding the financial target of £250k delivering £365k.• Delivered three Met Office products to support £790million 4th Road Crossing construction project.• Successfully led the campaign to regain the Sainsbury’s weather service contract and selected to present Met Office capabilities to the directors of Waitrose. Increasing the retail sector revenue from under £100k to over £165k (2012) – Leading to Retail being redefined as a Met Office target vertical.• Developed eight new high value brand customers to the Met Office including L’Oreal, TUI, Virgin Media and David Lloyd and brokered discussions and potential business on a much larger collaborative scale with; Telvent DTN, JCT and Trinity Horne.• Managed the Met Office weather services provision to the annual Wimbledon Tennis Tournament.• Negotiated consultancy services to support a 250km power line construction project for SSE in Scotland. • Developed new partnership engagement models through opportunities in the form of the Pirelli winter tyre campaign and the Rapanui clothing partnership.• Delivered major climate change consultancy projects with Dorset County Council & Kraft Foods to aid in capacity planning.• Became the default mentor and trainer for the new Sales Executives that entered the team.• Regularly relied upon to act as interim manager whenever the Sales Manager was on leave.

After leaving Tectrade I became self employed, delivering new business opportunities to Data Domain a data de-duplication hardware vendor. This role has a 100% commission structure with company supplying me with potential companies to target, with the aim of organising meetings at an IT management level.

As a Client Manager I had total responsibility for customers from initial contact, through to completion of the first deal and subsequent account management tasks to ensure ongoing business. My customer base was a dual split between SMB (small, medium business) with clients including Alliance Boots (Unichem & Moss Pharmacy), McLaren Formula1 and VT Group. My public sector business was primarily based around the police during my first year after which I became the dedicated Tectrade Client Manager for Police and Criminal Justice, engaging long-term contracts within Gloucestershire Constabulary, Dyfed Powys Police and Kent Constabulary.

After a successful assessment with Pareto Law, I was interviewed and accepted at Tectrade as a new business executive. Utilising a number of different vendors Tectrade deliver consolidated storage, centralised backup & recovery and comprehensive disaster recovery solutions. In this role I was responsible for profiling accounts, creating awareness of Tectrade within defined companies and organising initial business meetings between customers for our client management team. As a New Business Executive, I was expected to fully understand the business and technological benefits that our solutions provided based around various vendors including; IBM, NetAPP, HP, Symantec, NexSAN and Compellent. During this time I succeeded in winning six of the nine monthly incentives for the most meetings made within the whole sales and new business team on leaving in September 2008 still held the record for the most meetings made in a month.

Alongside my qualifications as an underwater archaeologist I worked at Devon Dive Centre as a Scuba Instructer and qualified Gas Blender.