Marcus Coles

Current

• MD at Asitis Ltd

Past

• Technology Transfer Officer for DTI (BERR) at University of Cambridge
• Project Manager for Dow Corning Ltd at University of Southampton

Education

• University of Southampton
• The University of Manchester
• University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology

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Websites

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• My Website

Marcus Coles’s Summary

A self motivated professional, with sound creative and innovative abilities. From a background as a Research Scientist with responsibility for project planning and management of commercial research programmes and transfer of new technology and know-how into industry. Strong technical and IT skills coupled with a keen interest in design and the arts led to the formation of Asitis Ltd providing web design, web development and web marketing services.

Marcus Coles’s Specialties:

Website Design & Development
Open Source Web Development
Natural Search Engine Optimisation
Paid Search Engine Marketing

Marcus Coles’s Experience

• MD

  Asitis Ltd

  (Internet industry)

  January 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

  Web design and development company with sound reputation working as both a sub-contractor and directly with clients specialising in tailored open source software solutions and linux deployment platform management.
  
  Web standards (W3C) based design and development and both natural organic search engine optimisation (SEO) and pay per click (PPC) promotion and marketing.

• Technology Transfer Officer for DTI (BERR)

  University of Cambridge

  (Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Research industry)

  August 2001 — December 2005 (4 years 5 months)

  Managed transfer of innovative concepts from academia to industry allowing companies to secure public and private sector funding for commercialisation
  
  Part of the Management Team providing guidance to 6 universities and more than 20 industrial partners with an interest in display technologies.
  
  Mentoring of multiple Faraday Associate PhD studentships.
  Exhibiting at national trade shows and presentations at international conferences.
  
  Designed and authorised all public facing publications and provided web based resources

• Project Manager for Dow Corning Ltd

  University of Southampton

  (Educational Institution; 5001-10,000 employees; Research industry)

  February 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 9 months)

  Managed a team of post-doctoral research associates and PhD students, allocating tasks and ensuring completion to meet targets set by industrial sponsors
  
  Responsible for communicating and demonstrating technical research work to industrial collaborator and transferring that knowledge into their own technical R&D processes
  
  Evaluation of patentable value of research discoveries and presenting publicly publishable work at international conferences
  
  Specification & implementation of research experiments for the study of liquid crystalline systems at optical telecommunications wavelengths
  
  Training final year BSc undergraduates in presentation skills

Marcus Coles’s Education

• University of Southampton

  PhD , Liquid Crystals for Photonic Technologies , 1999 — 2002

• The University of Manchester

  MSc , Polymer Liquid Crystal Systems & Devices , 1993 — 1995

• University of Manchester - Institute of Science and Technology

  BSc , Physics with Electronics , 1987 — 1990

Additional Information

Marcus Coles’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Portfolio
• My Website

Marcus Coles’s Groups:

•    Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
•    Cambridge University Alumni Group
•    e-Den

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