Ed Dowding

Current

Founding director at Online Personal Assistant
Co-Founder and Director at BeatRoute Ltd

Past

Web Application Entrepreneur & Project Manager at Usology Ltd
Product Manager & Information Architect at CitySafe
Project Manager at Incutio Ltd

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Education

Edinburgh University
Sherborne

Recommended

4 people have recommended Ed

Connections

142 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

Ed Dowding’s Summary

Ed Dowding’s Specialties:

Web development, web design, usability, information architecture, information design, project management, agile development, bluechip industry clients, data visualisation.

Ed Dowding’s Experience

Founding director

Online Personal Assistant

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

March 2008 — Present (5 months)

Imagine if you could outsource the tiresome tasks in your life. If you could ask someone else to find you work, promote your services, do your market research, find you suppliers, deal with customer care, arrange appointments and functions, deal with bookings for events and travel… how much stress and hassle would that save you?

We are a team of business-thinking, resourceful, and productive individuals who want to help you and your business prosper by handling tasks like these for you.
Co-Founder and Director

BeatRoute Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Consumer Electronics industry)

June 2005 — Present (3 years 2 months)

BeatRoute licences and manufactures fitness-based consumer electronics.
Web Application Entrepreneur & Project Manager

Usology Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

March 2002 — February 2008 (6 years)

We specialise in rapid business-driven development of complex web-services.

We have developed tools which help the global insurance industry visualise very large amounts of risk data, and are keen to build upon this expertise to help other companies liberate hidden information in their databases.

Our goal is to make great things that save / make money, and enable more people to do more work more efficiently.
Product Manager & Information Architect

CitySafe

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years)

CitySafe is London’s most depended upon incident management application provider.

Every day things catch fire, crash, fall over, and get attacked. We’re trusted by governments and banks alike to get the right information to the right people at the right time.

Before, during, and after an incident, our market leading products can help reduce your business downtime and protect your reputation by doing the same for you.
Project Manager

Incutio Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

March 2004 — October 2004 (8 months)

Ed Dowding’s Education

Edinburgh University

n/a, Psychology, September 1996 — December 1996

Activities and Societies:

Voluntarily withdrew to pursue business interests.
Sherborne