Over fifteen years of experience working in print and digital media in a number of full-time and freelance roles. • Began with internships at the Daily Express and Irish Times newspapers, and, alongside the usual office admin roles, gained opportunities to write and edit published works, as well as attend press events. First published work was a write-up of boxer Chris Eubank's pre-fight press conference. • Worked as an editorial assistant at Hayters Sports Agency, mainly researching and editing content and data that the company was able to sell on to newspapers. • As a film reviewer for The Times, Saturday supplement attended press screenings, liaised with publicity officers and then turned over copy in short order to editors. • Sub-edited for The Times, working mainly on the layout and wording of listings pages with an in-house management system. • Editorial assistant at The TImes online, working specifically on the student portal that at that time was known as 4-d. Gained first experiences of working with web content, learning the basics of HTML and XML, photo editing and CMS. Written work included producing career guides and bluffers' guides for prospective graduates, a weekly sports round-up, conducting interviews including with Tracy Cox, relationship guru, and attending the launch of the Swatch satellite, beatnik, from the European Space Agency’s control centre in Darmstadt. • Editorial assistant for The Times online Millennium project, with the specific task of setting up interviews for journalists or garnering quotes from some of the twentieth century's greatest figures, including Pelé and Muhammad Ali. • Wrote a series of guides to major and minor sports including softball, archery, boxing and basketball for worldsport.com. • Employed to write album reviews for the nascent amazon.co.uk, specialising, particularly in world music artists like Milton Nascimento and Cesária Évora. • Staff writer and then assistant editor at foodoo.com, a food and drink start-up, the original online home of celebrity chefs Gordon Ramsay, Sophie Grigson, John Torode, Jamie Oliver, Gary Rhodes, Antony Worrall Thompson, and Ken Hom. Gained further experience of CMS, HTML, XML, and software like Photoshop and Wordpress. Wrote weekly e-newsletters, ghosted columns, wrote features tailored around ingredients that were in season or on-trend, managed a team of sub-editors in the task of editing over 500 recipes, reviewed products for the e-commerce side of the business, and attended promotional and industry events. Instrumental in building up a loyal user-ship of over 100,000. • A founding member of UK Footvolley, including promotional work, web design with Wordpress and speaking to and writing for the media, including Talksport radio, the BBC and alexbellos.com. • Regular Premier League football journalist for espnstar.com, which involved watching the games from a remote studio and then quickly turning over a match report. • Staff writer for fanball.