To strategically grow the business, including staff development and recruitment. To raise Crombie Anderson’s profile and share of new media business in Scotland. P&L responsibility and business leadership, business development from early customer contact through strategic consultation, creative proposal development to deal closing, oversight of project implementation and management of customer satisfaction.
• Account management, sales and new business development
• People management
• Client business strategy/development
• Conceptualise and oversee build of new business solutions

Manage the strategic and operational development of IT products for both external clients and the Opex group. Reporting to the board, the job requires team management, supporting departmental requirements, hands-on responsibility for web site and content delivery, as well as influencing skills to build and maintain relationships with all levels of management and staff.
• Develop new IT business tools - conceptualise, design and oversee IT build
• Manage a team and budget to deliver brand, IT products, web sites, sales and development initiatives to external and internal clients
• Plan and manage strategy and development of the company’s current and future IT business requirements
• Application service provision support
• E-commerce application deployment
• Account management, sales and new business development
• Client business strategy/development
• Liaise between IT and non IT

I set up Statedigital, a new media solutions company, to provide business consultancy, design, IT development and online marketing. Over the years we specialised in consulting and building web sites for the recruitment, finance and exhibition sectors being the only UK preferred supplier to Merrill Lynch. In the final years we focused on reselling IT business services developed for the exhibitions market and sold the company to Opex Exhibitions Ltd who had direct interests in our knowledge and IT assets for their sector.

• Account management, sales and new business development
• People management
• Client business strategy/development
• Conceptualise, design and oversee build of new business tools
• Application service provision support and development
• Hands on production when required (HTML development, graphic design)

I was employed by Harley West to expand their successful training company to produce, as well as train, new media. I set up the new media division with a sales person, aiming to grow to enable a full communications service through web and CD-ROM platforms. My main role was pitching, account handling and production. Over two years we grew to 10 people and then acquired another company who specialised in training CD-ROMs to become a company of 28 people. I continued to oversee recruitment, art direction and to support the sales team.

• Support sales, account management and new business development
• People management
• Art direction
• Design
• HTML development

Began as a commercial artist creating advertising images for many well known companies such as Nissan, Sony and Philips. Artwork was mainly produced on the computer which progressed to animation, VR and then to new media. I also produced DTP for magazines, publications and advertisements. I moved into development of web sites and CD-ROM presentations, designing and programming projects from client brief to delivery.

• Design, art direction
• Illustration
• Computer skills: Illustrator, Photoshop, 3D Max, QuarkExpress, Strata Studio Pro, Quicktime VR