Career History

I joined the British Army straight from school in 1984 joining the (as was) Infantry Junior Leaders Battalion in Shorncliffe, Kent. I served in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Green Jackets (3RGJ), now The Rifles. After about three years of infantry life, a few beers with a guy from the Royal Army Pay Corps on a skiing course in Germany led me to transfer to do “something sensible”.

3 RGJ, BATUS, Canada 1986

This was a good move in many respects ‘though, with hindsight, I should have gone on to further education before joining which no doubt would have led to an entirely different career in the Armed Forces. Generally though, I believe the Army was a great experience and served as a good grounding. I occasionally wished I had stayed in but that moment soon passes…

I then spent eight years in the wrong career working for an engineering company in the Aerospace sector. I’ll never forget the first time I saw people queuing to clock out. Eventually, I became a Customer Service Manager but this was not the right thing for me. A long lesson.

During this time I had a new software application implemented for my department and the company that built it offered me a chance to join them in 1999. This was good in the respect it introduced me to a new career path but was ultimately destined to fail as the company was full of egos and even split into three separate entities in my time there to accommodate the need for everyone to be “a chief” or, at least, one of his pets.

From here, I was approached by one of the business partners to join them. This was Nimbus Partners, who are developers of process management software, control-ES. This was a great application and I enjoyed my time as a Consultant and Lead Trainer. One thing the experience did teach me though was that I wasn’t destined to work in larger companies. Although not huge, Nimbus did expand quite rapidly and for me personally, I felt increasingly isolated as new characters came on board with edges much smoother than my own!

My interest in the Internet started in about 2000. Working in IT led me to be ‘volunteered’ to create the website for my Rugby club (Nomads RFC, Portsmouth) though I hasten to add this has since been taken over my someone else and I have nothing to do with its current design!

I then started to dabble with creating my own sites which, in turn, led on to creating sites for affiliate marketing and developing my skills in search engine marketing.

Since March 2007, I have worked as Head of Search for Impact Media, a UK search marketing company.

I’m a Google AdWords Professional and have been using AdWords since 2003; I have a very good grasp of both Pay per Click and Search Engine Optimisation.