Marketing and Communications Manager

• Aug 2016 - Present

Scottish EDGE is the UK's largest business funding competition and to date has awarded over £13 million to some of Scotland's most innovative, high growth potential entrepreneurial talent. The businesses that Scottish EDGE has supported have, in turn, created 1652 new jobs, generated £131 million of additional turnover and attracted £108 million of external funding. As Marketing and Communications Manager I'm responsible for social media marketing strategy, press relations, email marketing, and event comms management. Additionally responsible for Scottish EDGE's in-house design - including the creation of on-brand image and motion video content for digital and print media.

Head Of Creative

• Jan 2020 - Jun 2022

TEDxGlasgow is one of the independent arms of TED Talks in the USA, bringing together leading thinkers and innovators across disciplines to share their ' ideas worth doing'.I Joined the TEDx Team in 2018 to assist with social media messaging and to produce visuals for digital comms. I progressed to Community Manager and now Head of Creative.On main event days, I co-lead a six-strong Comms Team who oversees the social media coverage of the TEDxGlasgow conferences - which in the past have featured up to 20 speakers, up to 2000 delegates and regularly trended No.1 Worldwide on Twitter.

Community Manager

• Jan 2019 - Dec 2019

TEDxGlasgow is one of the independent arms of TED Talks in the USA, bringing together leading thinkers and innovators across disciplines to share their ' ideas worth doing'. I Joined the TEDx Team in 2018 to assist with social media messaging and to produce visuals for digital comms. On the event day, I was one of a six-strong Comms Team who oversaw the social media coverage of the 2018 TEDxGlasgow conference - featuring 20 speakers, 2000 delegates and trending No.1 Worldwide on Twitter.In late 2018, I took on the role of Community Manager - overseeing all website content and contributing to the overall digital marketing of the organisation.

Content Marketing and Design Consultant

• Feb 2017 - May 2018

ESS Holdings has more than 50 years’ collective expertise in bespoke professional services recruitment. I joined the team as a design and content consultant, recently overseeing its rebrand from a three-brand consultancy to a parent company of a number of niche consultancy divisions which deliver a fresh, new and disruptive approach to recruitment within the High Tech, Life Sciences, Engineering, Start Up and SME, Energy and Water, Food and Drink and Executive sectors. ESS Holdings has more than 50 years’ collective expertise in bespoke professional services recruitment. I joined the team as a design and content consultant, recently overseeing its rebrand from a three-brand consultancy to a parent company of a number of niche consultancy divisions which deliver a fresh, new and disruptive approach to recruitment within the High Tech, Life Sciences, Engineering, Start Up and SME, Energy and Water, Food and Drink and Executive sectors.

Multimedia Project Manager

• Sep 2015 - May 2016

My role as Multimedia Project Manager for Plan Bee Ltd was of a dual nature. In the first instance I oversaw a substantial Legacy Project between secondary school children and a large utility firm. Throughout this project I successfully identified and coordinated engagement opportunities, and also contributed to multiple digital and social media marketing campaigns. Secondly, on a daily basis I provided graphic design services both for Plan Bee Ltd and its clients, always to a high standard and often within tight time-frames. Such services included: Promotional Imagery, Case Studies, Brochures, Videography/Video Editing, Motion Graphics/Infographics, Web Design, 2d/3d Illustration, Banner Ads, and Photography.

Napier University Studentship - Design Researcher

• Sep 2015 - Jan 2016

Co-Leader of Adolescent Design Workshops

• Feb 2015 - Nov 2015

As part of the 2015 Heriot Watt University’s Year of Light Festival, I co-lead a series of secondary school workshops which promoted science through design. During these workshops, I tutored 150 pupils in the use of Arduino and light spectrum theory. This was deemed a great success by both the organiser and the schools and attracted national media coverage. As part of the 2015 Heriot Watt University’s Year of Light Festival, I co-lead a series of secondary school workshops which promoted science through design. During these workshops, I tutored 150 pupils in the use of Arduino and light spectrum theory. This was deemed a great success by both the organiser and the schools and attracted national media coverage.

Co-Team Leader of Satelite Advertising

• Apr 2015 - Jul 2015

On the lead up to Edinburgh's 2015 Hidden Door Festival, my Co-Leader and I were tasked with heading a team of fellow student designers in a covert advertising campaign to promote the festival. On the lead up to Edinburgh's 2015 Hidden Door Festival, my Co-Leader and I were tasked with heading a team of fellow student designers in a covert advertising campaign to promote the festival.