Owner, The Inspirational Learning Company Limited
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Director & Internet Marketing Specialist at The Inspirational Learning Company Limited
- Director at Kiaya Limited
- Past
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- Internet / Marketing Consultant at Bulldog Communications
- Webmaster at London Underground
- Owner at Neocreate
- Software Engineer at Caplin Systems Ltd
- Software Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
- Java Demonstrator at UCW Aberystwyth
- Software Engineer & Business Process Engineer at Hewlett-Packard
- Internet Consultant at Direct Data Capture Ltd
- Support Technician at 3R Systems
- Education
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- University of Wales, Aberystwyth
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Niki Hignett’s Summary
I’m a 32 year old software engineer, internet marketer and entrepreneur - I can support you with software development, online marketing, design, and business building. I own a company called Kiaya Ltd (IT & internet marketing consultancy) - and co-own The Inspirational Learning Company Ltd - which offers live seminars and consulting services to small businesses. I’m savvy, analytical, results driven, and have a quick entrepreneurial mind.
Niki Hignett’s Specialties:
Web development, software engineer, Google Adwords, PPC marketing, e-mail marketing, banner advertising, OO, C#, .NET, IIS, HTML, SEO, CSS, ASP, SQL Server, Windows 2003 Server, GUI design, Fireworks, Photoshop, Javascript, AJAX, social media, split testing, multivariate testing, seminars, website analytics, Omniture, joint ventures, affiliate marketing, Web 2.0, blogs, video, Wiki, social bookmarking, viral, sales copywriting, online marketing, internet marketing, and social networking.
Niki Hignett’s Experience
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Director & Internet Marketing Specialist
The Inspirational Learning Company Limited
(E-Learning industry)
July 2006 — Present (3 years 5 months)
The Inspirational Learning Company Ltd offers live seminars and consulting services to small businesses. We also run an online social network called The Inspired Entrepreneurs Club.
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Director
Kiaya Limited
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — Present (6 years 5 months)
Kiaya Limited is a successful IT / Marketing consultancy and web development company. Via this business I also run a small mentorship practice teaching authors, coaches, speakers and consultants how to reach more customers, increase their income, and lower their workload, by packaging their expertise as information products, online services, and premium consultancy.
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Internet / Marketing Consultant
Bulldog Communications
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Telecommunications industry)
September 2004 — April 2007 (2 years 8 months)
For over two years, my boss and I managed an online ad-budget of £4.3m p.a and I was responsible for building two websites (bulldogbroadband.com / bulldoglounge.com - both in ASP) that received 600k uniques / month. During this time, we doubled the online conversion rate, halved the CPA, re-pitched our agency, and launched a successful affiliate programme.
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Webmaster
London Underground
(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)
January 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Our small team took the website (www.thetube.com) from negligible exposure to being amongst top 100 most visited websites in the UK - and during this time - we kept the website operational over 3 tube strikes in the face of phenomenal amounts of web traffic.
I built a successful interactive Java Tube Map and route planner, using J2ME, for Series 60 Nokia mobile phones. We rolled the product out to all major handsets. I managed the outsourcing of the project to a 3rd party supplier and oversaw development.
I built a product called TubeGuru (ASP / Javascript), which is an extensive London going-out guide based around the idea of a clickable Tube-Map. Packed with over a thousand witty and insightful reviews of London venues, the service received over 750 unsolicited ‘rave comments’ from users over the course of 15 months, and scored 60/75 in a review by New Media Age magazine. -
Owner
Neocreate
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 4 months)
Neocreate was a web design and development business. Specialising in web design, software development, e-business, graphic design, and copywriting. Examples of work : www.calypsovoices.com (website for a Soho based voiceover agency, dynamic, with streaming media). www.happiness.co.uk (e-commerce, database driven website with a custom web-based content management system).
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Software Engineer
Caplin Systems Ltd
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
January 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 6 months)
Caplin is "The Real Time Web Company", and provides online trading systems for the capital markets. I worked on the flagship "WebSheet" application and had the opportunity to work with Dow Jones, Easdaq (European Stock Exchange), Interactive Investor International, and Hemmington Scott. I also designed and Implemented a JavaScript Obfuscator in C++ to render proprietary Javascript code unintelligible, and compress applications to half their original size.
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Software Engineer
Hewlett-Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1999 — December 1999 (6 months)
Contracted to Hewlett Packard via Time-Line Consultancy Limited, I Headed a project to switch the European Logistics data-flow from EDI to SMTP. During this time a managed the system and acceptance testing for Hewlett Packard’s primary Logistics system and created documentation for key quality process, testing, and information systems.
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Java Demonstrator
UCW Aberystwyth
(Educational Institution; 51-200 employees; Education Management industry)
October 1998 — June 1999 (9 months)
Taught Java to small classes of undergraduates.
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Software Engineer & Business Process Engineer
Hewlett-Packard
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1996 — October 1997 (1 year 4 months)
o Held European responsibility for logistics addressing data quality.
o Won the Lewis Platt (CEO) process quality award for above process.
o Devised, specified and produced a tool for gaining insight into European logistics data.
o Two months in Milan, devising and executing Logistics systems acceptance testing. -
Internet Consultant
Direct Data Capture Ltd
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Outsourcing/Offshoring industry)
July 1995 — October 1995 (4 months)
o Production of corporate internet presence, leading to a $250,000 increase in revenues in the first 6 months.
o A couple of weeks in New York solving data transfer issues. -
Support Technician
3R Systems
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 1995 — August 1995 (3 months)
Provision of on-site/remote Software and Hardware technical support and assistance.
Niki Hignett’s Education
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University of Wales, Aberystwyth
M.Eng Software Engineering (1st Class Hons) , Software Engineering , 1994 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Captain of the University Chess team
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Niki Hignett’s Interests:
Composing psychedelic trance music; playing guitar; close-up slight of hand coin magic; documentaries and films.
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