I have 20 years commercial experience in the web industry. I’ve worked in a wide variety of capacities, from designing websites, programming, managing web products, leading teams of developers and analysts, customer research, email marketing, and SEO.
I’ve worked with a range of national and global companies, such as Times Higher Education, The Economist, Haymarket and NBC. I’ve also worked with many small and medium size companies.
This wide breadth of experience gives me a lot of draw on while creating solutions to my clients problems.
Here’s a summary of my experience:
Technical leadership
- Led the product engineering team in the successful launch of Times Higher Education Student website
- Technical lead for The Careers and Enterprise Company, including strategy consulting
- Technical lead in development large scale magazine websites for Haymarket Media, including Autocar, FourFourTwo and Classic and Sportscar
- Created a solid platform for development and maintaining magazine sites for H Bauer Publishing, including Take a Break, That’s Life and TV Choice
- Led the frontend development of a new debating platform for The Economist
Automation, integration and personalisation
- Funnel design and automation for various companies using ConvertKit
- Integration between ConvertKit, Memberstack, Circle and Squarespace
- Custom tool that allows members to manage their email newsletter preferences (integrates with Pardot)
- Custom dynamic call to action tool that gives members the next action for them based on their current status
- Integration between Drupal, Salesforce and Pardot
Membership
- Architected a new membership website solution for The Marketing Society, including integration with Salesforce and Pardot
- Improvements to the membership site for the UK’s biggest clientside research networking and events organisation, Aura
- System integration, funnel design and email automation for various companies using Memberstack and ConvertKit
Training
- Taught Drupal 8 to a range of development teams
- Taught editors and writers how to manage content using Drupal
- Author of two books teaching developers how to create custom functionality for the Drupal platform
- Creator of BeFused.com, a popular educational website for web designers and developers
Other
- Media spokesperson for leading comparison site, uSwitch. Helped uSwitch increase awareness and sales by acting as an industry expert and working with journalists.
- Operations Manager for leading telecommunications provider, Onetel (now part of Carphone Warehouse). Setup operational processes for new 3rd party channels to deliver new sales