
Independent Business Development Practitioner
Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Independent Business Development Practitioner
Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Experienced business development strategist with a wealth of campaign implementation and management experience with strong vision and the passion and persistence to create opportunities
An abundant knowledge and experience of a large portfolio of technologies
Strong networking skills and a fantastic memory for names and faces
Web marketing aware and a big fan of Permission Marketing and experience of PPC campaigns, SEO and web experience.
A great listener that values the differences in us all.
Google AdWords, PPC, telesales campaigns, direct mail, permission marketing, networking, business process analysis, relationship building. Listening. Sales and marketing strategy. Business development.
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)
July 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
So I finally made my leap of faith, finally had the confidence to go it alone. I just can't do corporate monogamy any longer. Lot's of businesses could benefit from my experience and expertise, why shouldn't I play the field a little?
My services are formed around the experiences gained in many years in sales, marketing, business development, on-line marketing, business strategy, export and an almost geeky knowledge of IT.
All these are only tools though. Tell me what job you want to do, and I'll tell you what tools you need.
First seek to understand.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2007 — July 2007 (5 months)
Working with leading brands to take emerging technologies to many different vertical markets; public services, leisure, hospitality and conferencing, property, education, retail and corporate.
Product and service range includes bespoke technology design and implementation, VOIP, video conferencing, interactive display, digital signage, digital marketing display - oh, and leading edge home cinema ;)
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
November 2005 — February 2007 (1 year 4 months)
Having demonstrated strong skills, initiative and capability in previous positions, Compsoft asked me to take up the position of Head of Business Development. The primary objectives of this position are to define and implement a strategy to build on a strong client base, with a particular focus on new technologies such as Microsoft ASP.NET / SQL server, browser-based application development.
(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
March 2005 — October 2005 (8 months)
A short-lived company restructure yielded a promotion to Head of Applications Division with responsibility for around ten staff, managing sales, development and support of Compsoft's two fixed applications to niche market sectors.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
July 2000 — March 2005 (4 years 9 months)
Marketing and Sales of a niche-market application, Obelisk. I succesfully promoted this application from a bespoke system used by two-three clients to the UK market leader and a growing European brand.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
1996 — 2000 (4 years)