Experience

Boxharry

• United Kingdom
• Internet Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Jan 2022 - 2 years

  Brighton, England, United Kingdom

• Managing Director

  • Apr 2011 - Mar 2022

  Brighton Boxharry is a web application development agency, creating digital systems that provide bespoke business services for a range of clients, from public utilities to universities and charitable organisations. Overall responsibility for steering the business to increased commercial and service-level success, working with both internal and external directors and managers to deliver services and solutions across a range of sectors. - Year‐on‐year financial business growth -… Show more Boxharry is a web application development agency, creating digital systems that provide bespoke business services for a range of clients, from public utilities to universities and charitable organisations. Overall responsibility for steering the business to increased commercial and service-level success, working with both internal and external directors and managers to deliver services and solutions across a range of sectors. - Year‐on‐year financial business growth - Strategic business planning including resource scaling, forecasting and team business development - Oversight of service delivery, including the deployment of online service desks and ticketing systems - Highly effective resource planning and development, ensuring that cost effective solutions are sourced for all projects without compromising deliverable quality or longevity - Budget control and planning, ensuring expenditure and savings are implemented and managed to ensure strategic success of business goals - Direct business development, including multi‐stage tender processes and board‐level business consultancy and planning - Recruitment and team management, including directorial changes and contract support - International business development, particularly focused on North America and Australia



Audience Collective

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Technology Officer

  • Dec 2021 - 2 years 1 month

  Leeds, England, United Kingdom



Boxharry

• Technical Director

  • Jun 2002 - Apr 2011

  Brighton Managed the technical development pathway of Boxharry, ensuring that it consistently provided innovative digital solutions from the crucial early days to the more established years. Evaluating emerging trends to select the best technology to adopt, and crucially understanding which has reached its end of life. Creating a highly motivated and skilled team that can both create and deliver projects for a wide range of sectors. - Highly skilled in system architecture development… Show more Managed the technical development pathway of Boxharry, ensuring that it consistently provided innovative digital solutions from the crucial early days to the more established years. Evaluating emerging trends to select the best technology to adopt, and crucially understanding which has reached its end of life. Creating a highly motivated and skilled team that can both create and deliver projects for a wide range of sectors. - Highly skilled in system architecture development from high level business features through to the fine detail of user interface development - Experienced in Agile methodologies both development and delivery - Designing and building web and mobile applications using iOS and Android SDK, .Net framework, C#, XML, SQL databases, jQuery, Web services and APIs - Strategic software and vendor selection, including rigorous evaluation processes to understand the advantages and shortcomings of any solution prior to acquisition - Team development, building a full service technical stable from scratch, including developers, testers, producers and designers - IT standards implementation, including best practices for coders (such as Microsoft C# conventions using Stylecop), system designers, and support services - Supply of consultancy services to major clients, ensuring they are able to make their own technical decisions (for example, selecting a third party CRM vendor) effectively and with confidence - Transformation management, including a move to the .Net framework - Identification and creation of products and services, including the development of a content management system (CMS) and a recruitment candidate portal Show less