Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos · Remote

Jan 2019 – Apr 2019 · 3 mos · Remote

Nov 2017 – Mar 2018 · 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Sep 2017 – Nov 2017 · 2 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

Feb 2017 – Nov 2017 · 9 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• Helping Jimmy with his excellent new venture.

Mar 2014 – Nov 2017 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Dartford

• Primed brings employers and people together with intelligent software and the human touch.
• Instead of relying on keyword matching, CVs, and job specifications – awkward, inexact ways to find talented people in the technology industry – Primed matches employers and people using intelligent software and human curation.
• http://www.primed.is

Jan 2012 – Jul 2012 · 6 mos

• Attempting to help steer RS to make good decisions around developer interaction. Left due to differences in what "good decisions" looked like.

Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 · 0 mo

Nov 2011 – Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos · London Area, United Kingdom

• I helped set up and recruit the founding team for the Government Digital Service. I gave all manner of strategic advice on technology recruitment, as well as helping hire and retain 100+ technology roles, then building the strategy and direction to replace (most of) the need for using external recruitment cost.
• Since June 2013 Team Prime has been helping do the same but external to GDS - we now do the above across all the major government departments as part of the GDS Recruitment Hub > https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/the-team/recruitment/hub.html

Oct 2011 – Mar 2012 · 5 mos · West Midlands, England, United Kingdom

• Helping people/companies build apps to showcase Kasabi. I sourced and managed 3 apps using Kasabi:
• http://consulting.talis.com/2012/04/app-fund/

Apr 2011 – May 2011 · 1 mo

• Strategy: Helped InMobi kick off their UK developer outreach strategy and initial partnership discussions.
• Recruitment: Introduced them to their full time developer relations hire (Terence Eden) within first week of working for them.

Feb 2011 – Present · 15 yrs 4 mos · Dartford

• My consultancy business, focused in two areas: coaching and therapy for people in the tech industry as a specialism; and recruitment services specialising in organisational strategy, recruitment strategy, and finding solutions for anything that involves people/communities and technology.
• Main themes of our work and who for listed below.
• ORGANISATIONAL GROWTH SOLUTIONS FOR:
• The Body Coach, Equal Experts, Keel, SH:24, Greenshoot Labs, Citizens Advice Service, Beano, Monzo, IF, Memrise, Thriva, Mixcoud, WikiTribune, Code Kingdoms, MeetCleo, GOV.UK, MOJ, Money Advice Service, Springer Nature, Impossible, Jimmy Wales, Diginut, Adaptive Lab, eSearch, Stripe, FutureLearn, Miller Hare, The National Archives .. and loads more > https://team-prime.com/clients
• TECHNOLOGIST ENGAGEMENT FOR:
• CDI Europe, NASA, Creature London, BFI
• DIGITAL STRATEGY FOR:
• Impossible, London's Children's Museum, Bolton & Quinn

Jan 2011 – Jul 2011 · 6 mos

• Assisting with general strategy for an incubated project called Kasabi (http://www.kasabi.com/) including staff hires, mentoring, outreach consultancy and support.

Nov 2010 – Dec 2010 · 1 mo

• Working on a global bank account on behalf of Friday. Currently confidential.

Oct 2010 – Jul 2011 · 9 mos

• Working as a consultant for W+K on their Nokia account to create and produce some exciting developer outreach events (for example defining and collaborating on (H)activate with the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/blog/2011/jun/21/hactivate-developers-mashup-results), and much more background marketing and outreach strategy for interacting with Qt developers.

Oct 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Working on Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Professor Nigel Shadbolt's data.gov.uk project with the Cabinet Office and Central Office of Information, helping government spread the message of open data, and raise awareness and interaction.
• Main areas of my work are:
• strategy
• outreach
• communication
• events
• coverage / exposure

Jul 2009 – Oct 2009 · 3 mos

• Working alongside the owner/founder Gavin, I'm helping with a commercial strategy for 2009/2010, as well as building key relationships with new and existing clients to help Gavin take Digital Health Service to the next level.

May 2009 – May 2010 · 1 yr

• Back at a company I helped found, giving strategic and commercial direction.

Sep 2007 – Oct 2008 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Maintaining my interest in Chinwag, I am now retained as a consultant on various projects. My role is now more focussed on my strategic input alongside product conception and development.
• This is not full time, and I undertake external projects as well when they pop up.

Sep 2005 – Sep 2007 · 2 yrs

• I created http://jobs.chinwag.com with the owner Sam Michel, and turned it into a commercial venture.
• My roles include: company and commercial direction and strategy, account direction and management, commercial forecasting, building and managing a team, helping build and look after the Chinwag communities, production, technical strategy, PR, marketing, and much more.
• Chinwag Jobs was up for two awards in 2006 and are the first Web 2.0 recruitment website in the UK.
• In 2007 we launched the Chinwag Live events series (http://live.chinwag.com). Each event has been sold out, and been covered by the likes of Microsoft, the Register, Media Guardian and many of the industry bloggers.
• We also threw the biggest New Media party in London this year - Big Summer 07. I negotiated all the sponsors for the event, and helped to organise and run it. We had over 2,000 people attend the free party, sponsored by Agency.com (with the Big Chill), Adobe, Channel4, Purple and Neutralize.

Jul 2008 – Jun 2009 · 11 mos

• Working with Matt McAlister and Mike Bracken, I'm helping to engage target audiences with the Open Platform (http://www.guardian.co.uk/open-platform).

May 2008 – Jun 2009 · 1 yr 1 mo

• Giving some consultancy around recruitment and staffing for The Guardian, Technology Department.

Mar 2008 – May 2008 · 2 mos

• Working on http://www.metrotwin.com/ on behalf of Agency.com for British Airways.
• My role was defining and ensuring the smooth running of the technical implementation, being delivered by an outsourced agency.

Feb 2008 – May 2008 · 3 mos

• I gave consultation to Mike Butcher on running events under the Techcrunch UK brand across Europe.

Jan 2008 – May 2008 · 4 mos

• Community and recruitment consultancy on the Channel4 project, 4Pioneers: a Maverick Television web project that aims to exploit the connectivity of social networks to equip teens with the tools and contacts they need to launch their own businesses.

Dec 2007 – Feb 2008 · 2 mos

• I'm currently doing some research into digital companies and communities for Apple.

Sep 2007 – Nov 2007 · 2 mos

• Make Your Mark is the national campaign to create an enterprise culture among young people in the UK.
• They do this by giving people in their teens and twenties the inspiration and opportunity to turn their ideas into reality, whether through starting businesses or social enterprises or by making an idea happen at work.
• I was on contract with Make Your Mark 3 days a week, assisting the campaign managers with press, public relations and event organisation focussing on the games industry during Enterprise Week (http://www.enterpriseweek.org/). I also couldn't help myself with some digital involvement too!
• Events I organised during my 8 weeks included:
• Women in Games first Mixer event
• ELSPA round table for enterprise in the games industry
• Seedcamp winners talk with Sun Microsystems
• I also had an article about career routes into the games industry published by The Independent during this time.
• http://www.independentezines.co.uk/theguide/games/?directlink=8

May 2004 – Sep 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos

• My main functions and skills were winning and developing new business, as well as networking and creating a large pool of fantastic talent for my clients, and a large pool of fantastic clients for my candidates.
• I wanted to try and take a real consultative approach to companies' human resourcing needs, as well as be an advisor to my candidates on their best move for their careers.
• My clients included Dare, Good Technology, Exposure, View UK, AKQA, 12foot6, Lateral, Tonic, Modem Media, Now Wash Your Hands (NWYH), uSwitch, UpMyStreet, The Search Works (formerly WSPS), Deal Group Media (DGM), Yahoo, Kelkoo, Overture, Ogilvy, and many more.

Jan 2004 – Apr 2004 · 3 mos

• I was employed in a 3 man creative agency start up to take the commercial offering forward.
• Sadly I didn't agree with the business plans the MD had for the company, and chose to leave.

Sep 2003 – Oct 2003 · 1 mo

• Worked on Smart car website doing an Irish local version. Worked on Mazda, Citroen and WPP websites doing updates and front end work.

Aug 2001 – Sep 2003 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Came to UpMyStreet as a junior developer and became 'fully fledged' in 6 months thanks to code buddying and some great mentors within the company.
• I programmed in PHP, MySQL, Perl, X/HTML, XSLT, XML, CSS working across the UpMyStreet website, both on building new featured information blocks as well as helping to build the forums for the UpMyStreet online community. I also later helped moderate the communities with others in the team. I also did some work on the Sky Open platform during my first few months at the company to get the UpMyStreet service on Interactive TV.
• I also developed a very good understanding of online media, dot coms in general, the boom and crash 1.0, and the London new media scene.

Oct 2000 – Aug 2001 · 10 mos

• Aggregated and interpreted SME data for MPs speeches and policy documents.
• This involved vast amounts of data capture and cleaning, as well as an excellent eye for detail and a lot of patience.
• Gained a very useful insight into policy making, Excel and started programming in order to make everything quicker.
• I voluntarily helped create the Sheffield and London Information Technology Focus Group (it was the Civil Sevice, that's what they call them!) where I championed future tech and innovation within the government departments.