Experience

Wareable

• Technology, Information and Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder – Wareable

  • Jun 2014 - Present

  We launched Wareable in 2014 and established it as the authority on wearable technology. The site experienced huge growth, hitting a peak of 4.9 million UUs in Dec 2016. It's remained the voice of the wearable tech industry and commands huge industry respect.- Developed the editorial and launch strategy- Implemented and managed SEO strategy and built the custom CMS- Worked with the development team - Managed a team of nine journalists- Migrated site to new custom CMS in 2022- Launched the Wareable Tech Awards event and Wareable Presents: Wearables London events

• Co-founder - Get Sweat Go

  • Jul 2019 - Present

  Get Sweat Go is dedicated to helping you sweat in new place. Places you didn’t even know existed. The way we see things, it’s boring just doing the same old thing. So Get Sweat Go is about helping you find the next fitness challenge. That could be stepping up from road running to the trail; half marathon to a first ultra; finding new classes like Barry’s Bootcamp or CrossFit; or going off to a new yoga retreat.This was a personal passion project, and aims to bring together the Wareable Media Group specialism of reviews and gear testing, in a new vertical with the growth area of wellness travel.Our content is split between – Get: Expert reviews of gear– Sweat: Get inspired and do what you love, better– Go: Travel: bucket list races, trekking holidays and far-flung yoga retreats

• Co-founder – The Ambient

  • Jan 2018 - Present

  The Ambient is designed to be the first and last word in the smart home. We’re dedicated to demystifying this new world of connected home technology, and helping people unlock the power of voice assistants and smart home technology.A gap in the consumer technology market, The Ambient is a place where experts on the smart home are found in one place – testing the technology that generic tech review brands can't. The Ambient is here to test and review the best gear on the market, explain how to get your smart home up and running, and show you how to get the most from it. And, perhaps most importantly, we’ll be charting what’s next.



Future

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Features Editor, T3/T3.com

  • Jul 2013 - Jun 2014

  Features editor of T3 (magazine and tablet) and T3.com. Responsible for features across all of T3's platforms, (magazine, web and iPad) as well as Tech Life Editor. Remit included commissioning and editing all cover features, long form reads and product roundups, and required expert knowledge of all aspects of consumer technology, from the latest gadgets, cars, sport, home appliances, super-awesome robots and more.

• tech. associate editor

  • Sep 2012 - Jun 2013

  Part of the launch team of tech., Future's innovative digital weekly technology magazine. Launching exclusively iPad before moving to Google Magazines and Zinio tech. was part of Future's new digital publishing strategy, offering a weekly round-up of technology news, comment, reviews and opinion. Run with only a two-man editorial team, the role involved design, layout, Photoshop, and planning interactive treatments as well as the usual fayre of an editor. Working on tech. magazine was a wonderful digital publishing experience, where all the rules of old publishing no longer applied. A brilliant and totally challenging experience.

• Editor, T3 Presents: Guide to Android

  • Mar 2012 - May 2013

  I edit a quarterly T3 branded bookazine about getting more from Android devices. The 148-page magazine is made nearly entirely from existing editorial content, which I curate from a range of sources. The extremely demanding three month schedule requires constant forward planning to seed content for the next issue, as well as feeding any fresh editorial back into the monthlies to save cost.

• Launch editor, Windows: The Official Magazine

  • Jul 2012 - Oct 2012

  A temporary secondment to launch the new and improved Windows: The Official Magazine, a lifestyle technology digital and print title. I was brought in with the plan for the magazine still in its infancy and I have been working on guiding the project from hand-drawn wireframes to the complete product, which will hit the shelves (digitally and physically) in October 2012.

• Editor, What Laptop Tablet & Smartphone

  • Mar 2011 - Jul 2012

  I joined What Laptop in March 2011 and quickly relaunched and redesigned the title to become What Laptop Tablet & Smartphone.The relaunch required a complete refocussing of the product for a less tech savvy readership of supermarket buyers, and the change of brand led to an initial upturn in advertising and a signifiant reduction of costs.Sadly, despite the hard work of an excellent team, the volatile advertising market and a reliance on creative solutions led to the title being too risky to continue and it closed in September 2012.



Flametree Publishing

• Freelance author

  • 2014 - 2014



Windows Vista: The Official Magazine

• Deputy Editor

  • Apr 2009 - Feb 2011



Future

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 700 & Above Employee

• Windows Vista Magazine

  • Jan 2007 - Apr 2009

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