Experience

RoboTech Recruitment

• United Kingdom
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director/Founder (and headhunter) @Robotech-recruitment

  • Apr 2018 - Present

• Specialist In VR/AR/AI, Unity/Ue4, Robotics Development! (Director)

  • Feb 2018 - Present

  RoboTech recruitment helps innovative, groundbreaking technology companies produce the best products and work, by placing the top programmers in the market.Owned, and ran by technical minds, recruiters who have coded, and developed software, games, apps and more, therefore offering a unique technical approach to recruitment, resulting in a higher technical understanding of the role, and a quicker more efficient service!RoboTech offers a unique specialist service. Because of our programming understanding and experience we understand code, therefore we understand job specs which results in strong relationships with clients and candidates. We are headhunters, we are known for filling the harder to fill senior and lead level roles. The roles others agencies can’t fill. If you are a developer looking for your next role, or you are looking for your next programmer to join your team, get in touch for more information!Robotech has partnered with James Caan due to its unique approach to recruitment.



aap3 IT Recruitment

• Specialist Gaming and Robotics consultant

  • Feb 2017 - Feb 2018

  aap3 IT Recruitment are a specialist IT Recruitment company, I was a specialist in placing VR/AR/AI/MR programmers within the medical, military, gaming, retail, Robotics, machine learning, technology product development sectors, with a focus on UE4/Unity highly skilled roles. Closely focusing on VR/AR/AI Robotics development. What sets me aside from the usual 'recruitment consultant' is that I have developed software previously and gone through the testing and project management process. Code isn't an alien language to me, in fact, I find it fascinating! I can actually read code as a human! (I am learning Unity C# programming in my spare time, so I can develop VR, AR, AI Games/products, and am saving up for a Microsoft developer Hololens mixed reality headset) I have found a massive passion for Unity/Ue4 engines and am excited as to where they are going, it seems like the sky's the limit, in regards to developing with Unity/Ue4, as they move more into AR mobile game development, VR simulation training development and of course AI! I have found a passion and am excited about helping equally excited developers find their dream role! I have learnt the basics of front-end development, i.e HTML, CSS, and Javascript, then dabbled in server-side languages, Java, Python, PHP, C++, C#. By know means am I an expert, but I have enough knowledge and excitement about it, to talk to the right people about the right things. I recruit for gaming, progressive robotics, VR/AR/AI focused revolutionary technology companies looking to progress their team, and grow their products with top of the board talent! (with a particular focus of Unity/Ue4).



Big App Consultancy Ltd

• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Bespoke CRM Developer - Software Analyst - Project Manager

  • Jan 2016 - Feb 2017

  Website, CRM analyst, marketing, . In regards to testing of websites and software, in my current role, I use a number of automated tools to test application performance, security, usability, validation, stress, optimisation, availability, accessibility, and lots more. I am the connection between the developers and the customer. I make sure the customer is clear on their requirement, and that we are clear on the solution to meet that requirement. I manage the whole project from start to finish, from writing a detailed functional specification, and getting sign off, or amending where needed. Once developer and customer are happy with the project/solution and everything has been signed, the build will start, there are clear development periods outlined in the design spec that the customer will have, that show when the customer will receive updates and screen shots of the applications build, so constantly testing as we go along involving the customer in the build. I believe constant testing throughout the build with the developer is key to a quick and well developed application, again at the design stage, I would pin point dates and times of testing of certain elements/pages/code sources, as we go along. Always involving the customer, right up to discussion of a go live date with the customer, and developer. A big part of my current role, is providing support to all websites and CRM systems built by Big App Consultancy or alternatively have been built elsewhere and just wanted support. The way I support applications is doing a pre defined test of there system every 1- 3 weeks depending on support package agreed on, I log all bugs found and make sure the bugs are fixed in priority order, we use a bug tracking tool called YouTrack, which allows me to start a project, assign developers to the specific project, and then set each bug as a specific status, for example show stopper would need to be fixed today, normal can be fixed in the next week.



Mercator Media Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Media Sales Executive - Account Holder

  • Jan 2016 - Nov 2016

  At Mercator, I work on the Motorship magazine, which is THE magazine for senior marine engineers, ship builders, ship owners, operation managers, CEOs, from all over over the world. They are 100% marine specialists, and they use this publication to do there job day to day. It is Filled with needed editorial written by industy experts, that they need it to make the vital business to business connections, to keep up to date with the changes environmentally or In regards to changes in the law needed for them to progress in the maritime world. It is a niche publication with 19,000 readers a month, being 100% marine specialists from all over the world. The people who receive this magazine, either qualify as a senior decision maker, or subscribe yearly to receive it, so the quality of audience is completely targeted.



Daily Echo

• Newspaper Publishing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advertising Media Consultant

  • Nov 2014 - Jan 2016

  I worked at the Southern Daily Echo newspaper, where I was an account manager, new business, digital and display advertising executive. This is a high pressure job as it is a Daily paper, so there are daily deadlines to meet this involves me; - Account holding long term and new customers, building strong relationships, through trust and efficiency, buy finding out the customers need and making sure that they are covered, and that their campaigns are delivering the proposed result. - Being In charge of my own time, organising my time between designing adverts, generating new business, sourcing my own leads, and keeping in touch with long term customers. - Also involves me working very quickly and being highly organised, as for example if there is a full page to sell for the next days paper, we would have to contact the customer, take payment, create the artwork and make sure the customer is happy within 2 hours. - A large part of my job is to sell, up sell and change current customers onto digital advertising, by selling the benefits of driving audience's towards the customers website, therefore increasing the customers SEO, We do this by selling targeted campaigns selling a number of page views from our website, designing animated online adverts, with a strong call to action to entice the customer to click threw, and delivering reports after every campaign on how the advert has performed. - Other publications I work with and are targeted for are, the Hampshire Chonicle, The Romsey advertiser, the Andover advertiser, The Boat show publication, brides magazine, newforest society, Hampshire society and many more publications throughout the year.



Advisalink

• United Kingdom
• Retail Office Equipment

• Lead Generator

  • Aug 2013 - Sep 2014

  At Advisalink my role was to cold call the public across the board, persuading people of all ages and backgrounds the need of having life insurance. This was a high pressure sales role, as I had around 10 seconds to grab the customers attention, gage interest and also build trust and like ability. Also within the call I would find out the customers work history if they had been contributing towards a pension within there working life, and persuade them into the importance of having a review by a professional pension advisor. I was targeted on; - Quality of leads generated. - Correct information taken. - Correct age and demographic given. - If the lead was then able to be transferred into a sale by the adviser. - Amount of calls made. - Daily/weekly/monthly targets. I learnt lots of really useful sales skills within this role, causing doubt, creating immediate interest, and closing efficiently, quickly and thoroughly.



Doubletake Studios

• Graphic Design
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Viewing consultant

  • Nov 2012 - Jul 2013

  At double take studios it was my role to sell the photographs to the clients, I did this by presenting a 20 minute presentation face to face to the clients directly after they had them done, I gave them a series of different packages ranging from £400 to £3000 pound. The sale would involve me; - Gageing the customers respect and trust through very quickly building rappor from when I first collecting them from the reception area. - Finding out as much about the clients lifestyle, work life, want and need for the photos as possible. - Delivering a presentation on the packages, selling the benefits of the bigger packages, and up selling, repeat visits, re-touching, and recommendations for their friends. - Selling finance plans and setting them up with the customer, there and then, liaising with banks to complete credit checks and approving monthly payment plans, completing paperwork, thoroughly with the customer. - re capping with the customer so they are happy with what they have bought.


Memento Studios & Promotions Ltd
• United Kingdom
• Photography
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Sales - booking agent

  • Sep 2012 - Jan 2013


Thomas Cook

• United Kingdom
• Travel Arrangements
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Holiday representative

  • Mar 2011 - Nov 2012

  Holiday representative; - Cyprus 6 months. - Corfu 6 months - Ibiza 5 months As a holiday representative I was in charge of 4, 3-5 star family hotels, making sure all holiday makers had the best possible holiday, my duties were; - Delivering 4 separate welcome meetings 3 days a week on arrival days, from 20-400 people, sometimes on stage with a micro-phone, with speakers from local excursion reps and restaurant owners. Each welcome meeting lasted 40 minutes, in these meetings I would introduce myself and the companies values, and tell the guests everything about the island, easiest ways to get around, the best places to go and see, and the history of the island. - The main part of the meeting was giving 3-4 pitches on excursions, making sure the guests would spend there money with me other than street and other resort sellers by selling the benefits with us as a tour provider. - At the end of the meeting I would sit down with each group and close the sale, take the money and give them the tickets, explain times of pick up points and what they needed to take with them. As a holiday representative, I was also there to be the customers go to person for questions, queries, worries and basically any problems that they may come across, it was my duty to sort them out quickly, showing empathy, efficiency and excellent customer service. - We were targeted monthly on our overall excellence of our performance, the way that this was monitored was on the guests flight home they would fill in a feed back form and rate my welcome meeting, my customer service, my appearance, my reliability out of 100%, we had to meet an average of 85% excellence overall a month from all of the guests, If we didn't meet this, you would be put a performance plan and let go within 2 weeks if it doesn't improve. - We also had sales targets to meet; we had to hit a target for excursions sold, adhoc, up selling flight seats, extra luggage, taxis to the airport etc.


PITCHER AND PIANO LIMITED
• United Kingdom
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Assistant Bar Manager

  • Feb 2011 - May 2012

IBTEFL - International Bureau of Teaching English as a Foreign Language
• Education Administration Programs
• Teacher Assistant

  • Aug 2011 - Feb 2012

X bass backpackers - Scary Canary
• Assistant Bar Manager

  • Jan 2010 - Nov 2010

R J cornish & Co
• fruit picking - Australia Visa extension course

  • Aug 2009 - Oct 2009