City of Norwich School

Prince Rupert School

Kingston University

Northern Europe PR Manager at AMD

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Manage the development and execution of various PR and community management strategies and tactics in Northern Europe.

Northern Europe PR Manager

Manages the development and execution of various community management strategies and tactics in the UK.

UK Community Manager

Worked with AMD, Skype, and SanDisk. Dabbled with Lenovo, Kodak Alaris, and NXP Software.

Text100

PR Executive

Currently work with Blackberry, SanDisk and ChannelAdvisor.

Freelance PR Consultant

Managed the Kingston Technology, olloclip and CyberLink accounts.

Zaboura Consultancy

Managed the flow of information of 50 magazines and websites to the public.

Main responsibilities:
-  Develop strong relationships with editorial heads across the Dennis Publishing titles
-  research and generate new PR ideas
-  Translate ideas into multimedia pieces via the web, social media, print and broadcast
-  Draft and issue press releases
-  Work with marketing divisions to develop and implement a content/PR strategy to engage with comsumers, clients and the publishing industry
-  Develop social media communities
-  maintain editorial content on Dennis.co.uk

Key Skills:
- Writing, literacy and visual skills
-  Project management skills
-  Communication skills
-  Experience working with and within editorial teams
-  Good awareness of online developments in social media
-  Creativity
-  An excellent understanding of the publishing landscape
-  Attention to detail

Dennis Publishing

Communications Executive

Worked on consumer and corporate PR, primarily on Jawbone, Gallo wine, Isobar and Carat accounts. My work with Jawbone saw me work on a number of features and news stories, most recently being the compatibility of the Big Jambox with the new iPhone5 as well as broadcast and print placements for the Big Jambox.
- Worked on over 10 accounts with media relations and press office duties
- Writing press releases and media alerts
- Secured coverage in national/regional papers, lifestyle magazines and televised broadcast coverage.
- Liaising with media to set up reviews, competitions, selling pictures, news stories and expert comment
- Sold in products and feature ideas
- Creation of pitch materials such as PowerPoint documents, scope of work documents and printed advertorials
- Brainstorming to come up with ideas for plans and stunts
- Assisting in the creation of a PR plan for the next year
- Attending events with media
- Provided operational and logistical support for events
- Arranged distribution of products for review, seeding and product placement purposes
- Monitoring and analysing press coverage
- Maintaining and updating databases
- Running social media for certain clients
- Assisted in weekly admin including post
- Maintained the stock of products for review
- Working with and assisting other interns
- Provided in-house tech support to team member across several products, platforms, programs and operating systems including windows and OSX.

W Communications

Intern

Worked on site for the launch of the tv show Alcatraz in partnership with UKTV. Tasks included:

General site maintenance
Prop maintenance
- Actor' in promotional film for media outlets
Host for media party at the venue.

Had good first hand experience working with professional actors and set designers.

Hope&Glory PR

Freelance PR accountant

general postal duties
called journalists and blogs to sell in products, games and feature ideas
Assited with weekly admin
Worked at events
sent press releases and media alerts
sent out and kept track of products
looked for and contacted possible sponsors
kept track of all UK coverage for Activision games
designed powerpoint presentations for clients
Helped organise other interns
General kitchen duties
general secretarial  duties

Joe Cowell