About Me

From my first job as a Youth Sports Instructor in North London in the late 90s to DJing and freelance work over the entire length of my career which, so far has included big brand names and a stint in sales, all knowledge and inspiring people met has been channelled. I've become  a unique, multi skilled 'plug in,' a proven asset, innovative, creative, sometimes mentor and professional digital asset jockey with pride and gusto. Here are some highlights.

Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) 2023 -

Employed as a Senior Skills, Capability and Training Specialist, I was able to fuse my knowledge of using authoring tool Articulate 360 with the creation and editing of video and images using the Adobe Creative Suite. During my time here I won £100 voucher for voluntary video editing work on one occasion and a fullly paid day off for another occasion. Both videos were made available company wide. I successfully developed and implemented a Subject Matter Expert content generated, learning package where the majority of the learning material was capture by video and converted into a series of talking head videos, animations using Vyond and bite sized text slides aided with AI genterated, content relevant images.

Notable Instructional Designer Roles 2015 - 2022

Barclays

5 years as a Digital Learning Designer, employed to 'shake learning designs up,' saving money on outsourced designers and personally, upskilling colleagues. Apple used an animation for their staff that I created for a partnership programme and also created a successful project in conjunction with Tesla. Brand ambassador.

Travis Perkins 

My first ever foray into Instructional Design and using HTML to construct it. Using my previous web maintained and design skills, this is where I got the bug for learning packages, Having full access to professional studio equipment enhanced the ability to create digital assets for learning.

Leicestershire Police 

Working in the strict confines of a brand and learning a bit more about Police Officers. My main project was received well by stakeholders on the subject of Romany Travellers. Other responsibilities included designing and laying out designs for printed documents within the brand.

Other career highlights

The Paul Canoville Foundation

A voluntary role and for a short period, the Head of Digital. I created promotional material for both print and social media and produced two episodes of the 'Imagine Not Being Chelsea' podcast featuring the pioneering ex-footballer Paul Canoville, actor/comedian Omid Djalili and BBC Radio 2's, Trevor Nelson. Created slides and an edited podcast for a Black History Month Event at Chelsea's Stamford Bridge stadium.

Bauer Media (formerly Emap)

I went from a short stint in sales to a longer stint producing ads for classified ad pages for Golf World, Angling Times, Sea Angler, Bird Watching and Digital Photographer to being internally headhunted to joining the web maintenance team where I helped launch the Country Walking website and increased traffic and engagement whilst  maintaining the Your Horse magazine website.

Pets at Home/Boots UK

2009, a two week contract and a crash course in how to use Adobe Dreamweaver saw me contribute store pages on the website to coincide with a national TV ad campaign by the brand.  I had a short term contract in 2022 at the headquarters of Boots UK maintaining some of the special offer web pages and creating online forms for medication sales. I enjoy coding it's oddly relz

Football VS cancer 2016 - 2024

I started as a volunteer in 2016 providing live, pitch side commentary, with a friend of mine who at the time was a budding stand up comedian. Through the years I became the event logo designer, contributing three iterations over the years and Football VS Cancer's on screen interviewer, providing behind the scenes footage and interviews with the 'legends' who took part in the events, to name a few, Ex-Footballers, Razor Ruddock, Colin Hendry, Des Walker and Marcus Gayle; TV actors Phil Daniels (he who is the main vocal in Blur's 'Parklife' Thomas Turgoose and the late Paul Danan, Movie actor and tough guy, Tamer Hassan and superstar DJ Krafty Kuts.

I eventually graduated to committee member, looking after a large portion of digital asset creation for their social media pages, designing and laying out the event day, printed programme and eventually overseeing a team of my own which included a presentation assistant, photographer and a two man film crew. 

Random experiences

Radio and Podcast producer, editor and presenter

Self taught using a mixture of media capturing apps and editing software ranging from personal to corporate. I have 40 hours live radio broadcasting experience on a music show I developed for a minor, independent FM frequency radio station in Northampton.

TV industry experience

Have been a hired extra for a Halifax advert ) shot in Australia), a short independent film, 'Green Means Stop!,' a small improvised acting role on a Granad TV production called 'Love Bites' and was a camera facing telephonist on BBC's National Lottery Winning Lines.

Youth Sports Instructor

3=4 years experience instructing on and supervision sports sessions (mainly football) including stints as lead coach and holiday scheme head organiser for school holiday periods.

DJ

For over 20 years I've clocked up nearly 1000 gigs including 2 private gigs for Canadian Diplomats at The Four Seasons in London's Park Lane, a support act for Lee (from Steps) Latchford-Evan's breakout, indie group The Latch, a residency for Entrepreneurial, body builder Aaron Lambo  as well as a brief residency in Liverpool's City Centre and am after party for ex footballers, actors and reality TV personalities.

My visual Portfolio

A compilation video and some select image uploads showcasing some of my best work to date raning from Instructional Design and Social Media assets,