Work History
Consultancy | 2006-Present
I have just finished a major contract for Oxfam Education, helping to transform the way that they make use of digital technology to communicate to teachers and young people.
Clients across the schools sector, including: Oxfam, Pearson, Rising Stars, BBC, OUP, SparkLearning, LiteracygoesMADD, PFP, and Folens.
National Primary and Secondary Strategies Capita SES | 2005 - 2006
Blended Learning specialist, advising on publishing strategy and systemic change to publishing processes. Adviser to the Primary Frameworks for Literacy & Mathematics, developing new Monitoring and Evaluation systems and Annual Planning processes.
Oxford University Press | 2002 – 2005
Recruited as a commissioning editor to build the electronic publishing list, and to develop supporting internal systems. Managed a £500k budget and published six successful products on time and budget, the biggest of which beat sales targets by 30%
Kingscourt McGraw-Hill | 2000 – 2002
From a ‘self-start’, initiated a new publishing plan, and sales and marketing for electronic product, such that within a year, 65% of the publishing programme for the following two years was digital product, where it had constituted less than 5%. This proved to be the growth area for this business, forming over 60% of all sales in 2003.
Snowsfields Primary School, Southwark | 1999 – 2000
ICT Co-ordinator and Year 3 & 4 Class Teacher. Transformed policy and practice in a school in ‘Special Measures’.
Teaching, London | 1994 – 1999
Teaching in Key Stage 1 and 2, including both long and short term contracts supply teaching.