Online work

written work

Over the years I have contributed written articles to numerous magazines and online outlets. I enjoy writing about music and crafts.

An Alternative Guide To Student Jobs
As the credit crunch gripped the nation during 08-09, I read many articles about students being unable to find summer and part time jobs to fund their time at university. The situation was having a rising effect on the number of university dropouts so I decided to explore some alternative options to make extra cash whilst trying to study.

Comedy Reviews From Edinburgh Festival

I spent Three Weeks in August reviewing comedy shows for Three Weeks newspaper. I was reviewing around 5 shows a week which were printed in the weekly news paper, on their website and in the daily E News bulletin.

Music Reviews And Interviews

Black Velvet is one of the leading independent alternative music magazines in the UK. It is run by Shari and is the definition of DIY attitude. I spent over a year writing articles and interviewing bands here and my work was published in the magazine that has a worldwide distribution at indie and mainstream record stores. Check out BV here.

Vi Nouveau Vintage Clothing

Various Tasks

Vi Nouveau is an Edinburgh based vintage clothing company started by 2 friends, Zoe and Fi. During this project I worked alongside a developer to create their online presence. We worked with Zoe and Fi right from the start and were involved in the concept ideas, design and build. We also taught them about social media, setting up their Twitter and Facebook accounts as well as introducing them to blogging and search optimisation so they are able to take the website forward themselves. Wordpress integration, Flash, html, css and php were all used in this project. Visit the site at vinouveau.co.uk

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Employment

Central Station - Assistant Content Manager (March 2011 - present)

Central Station is an cross discipline arts social networking website. It funds creative projects and promotes art and collabortation worldwide. In this role I maintain and update site content, choose pieces of work from members to feature, create HTML newletters, write blogs on a number of creative topics and look after their social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter.

Web Publisher - Royal Bank Of Scotland (July 2009 - present)

Currently working as part of a team who are responsible for updating and managing the content of several websites including: www.rbs.co.uk, www.rbs.com and www.natwest.com. Tasks include Copy and image changes, creation of new pages/sections and SEO.

Promote YT - Digital Marketing Internship (October 2010 - January 2011)

In this 3 month placement at the UK's theatre network I helped redesign and build the Promote YT website and streamline all social media content to filter in the main site. Whilst there I learned how the company arrange and fund their workshops which happen throughout the year. I also assisted in the coordination of both on and offline marketing to sell their events and gain as many members as possible.

Digitalspy.co.uk - Production Assistant (April 2009 - April 2010)

I sourced, edited and updated images and site content. Digital Spy has 80 million page impressions a month and a unique audience of 5.4 million readers. Working from home at the weekend, I had to organize my time and tasks to meet deadlines set by the Production Manager who is based in London.

Stevenson College - Digital Media Lecturer (January - June 2009 - Covering teacher )

Teaching web design and interactive media to an HND design class. This involved teaching both young and mature students. Duties involved were:
• Preparing and presenting lectures about design and online media.
• Assisting students with problems and supporting their learning with regular one to one meetings.
• Assessing students throughout the semester on their work.

Other Previous Roles

• 2020 Productions - Multimedia Designer
• Bamboo Learning - Digital Illustrator