Haunting Thunder

2005 -2006  Head of SEO THUK

Contact morris@thuk.co.uk  tel 07984 301472 or on Linkedin or Facebook 

Currently I am working as the head of SEO for a small internet marketing consultancy (as well as offering consultancy to my colleagues and on PHP and ASP development).

The SEO projects range from small initial setup projects to ongoing SEO campaigns for a variety of clients as well as some in house research sites to experiment with different strategies. Projects can be complete rebuilds from the ground up (where my extensive and wide raging experience allows  me to analyses the structure and architecture of any site)

I also helped draw up new more informational reports delivered in a more regular timetable to our clients. Since I started the team as grown from 1 person to a small team of 3 and from 6-7 customers to over 20.

I take a holistic approach to SEO its not just about high organic rankings its converting those rankings into sales or some other desired outcome – I also get involved in driving traffic to a site by other means than Organic serps – building a hook into the site to harvest emails for later use in email marketing campaigns for example.
I rebuilt the companies Blog and have developed a large number of Marketing Bogs/Social media sites used to drive traffic to websites, As well as using a full range of social media marketing techniques.

2002(Oct) - 2004 Freelance Developer/Consultant

After leaving Poptel (due to the collapse of the company) I have been working as a self employed contractor

I have done a variety of programming short term contracts for example I worked on www.healthfarms.co.uk developing the administrative back end to allow the client to update the large amount of database driven data on the site room data special offers and types of treatment.

I passed  the full 4 semester Cisco Networking Academy to systematize and expand my networking skills – with an eventual view to taking the advanced design CISCO certifications And I have recently passed the Comptia Security+ exam. Ialso did some multimedia traing in audio/music production techniques.

2001(Jan)-2002 (Oct) Developer Poptel

After leaving BT (after a short break to recharge my batteries) I joined Poptel www.poptel.coopas a developer in their Professional Services department. I worked on many projects mostly for the social enterprise/charity/trade union sector. I was also involved in evaluating external products and integrating them into our solutions. I also worked on productising a paperless direct debit system that is used by several major charities and which has raised favourable comment from the e-government minister.

I also worked on award wining accessible sites and helped develop the betsie screen reader tool in conjunction with the BBC

1999-2000 Lead programmer DMS (Multimedia Developement in BT)

In early 1999 I joined DMS, the leading multimedia development group within BT, as the lead programmer. I mainly worked on supporting and enhancing the Odeon website www.odeon.co.ukachieving a 400% increase in bookings and improving the previously poor relationship with Rank/Odeon. Additionally I worked on several other customer facing sites including producing a key integration program for the millennium dome site at short notice and work for bt.com

1995-1999 LSEC (BT Worldwide) WWW development team

As a key member of an inter/intranet development team - our customers were the global sales and marketing community in all the joint ventures BT had  around the world. I worked on several inter/intranet based websites (Global Partners Marketplace Showcase) from their earliest trails to the mature systems they developed into. I was involved in the creation of a global intranet environment for BT Global.

I performed the full range of web based work from graphics work (we were a full service group), working with external suppliers (both graphics and programming) server configuration and administration CGI development in a variety of languages - Perl being the primary tool - moving to Oracle based systems later in the projects life - including getting one major subsystem through Y2K tests on time where other projects using the same technology needed derogations of several months.

1993-1995 SIROS Development

I expanded my knowledge of WWW/Internet. I ran one of the first handful (number 5) of web servers in the company and advised BT net on WWW PC issues. I also took part in the first trial in BT of using web technologies as a delivery platform - this was very successful using RAD technique’s producing in one month what another part of the company had quoted 2 years - this led to me moving full-time into web/intranet work.

1989 - 1993  X400 Interconnection and Software support

I have wide experience working in X.400 and messaging systems, (I tested about half of the X.400 links BT had at that time), providing technical support to both Customer Services and Systems Administration. Working in a small team, I was required to take responsibility for support requests, owning the problem through to resolution. This often required me to liaise with BTNA for information or assistance and to liaise with software suppliers.

I completed systems acceptance testing following the delivery of a new version of the Messaging software from BTNA. I have experience of writing user guides and test specifications. I have also prepared and given technical training to Systems Administration and Customer Services personnel.

I was responsible for defining and installing a process for controlling the distribution of the BT Mailbox master discs. Additionally I helped support the BT Mailbox product including some visiting some customers to install and advise them on the product.

I was involved in X.400 ADMD interconnect testing, which required me to liaise with the corresponding service support personnel around the world and resolve problems.

1987 -1989 Aprox Telecom Gold/Dialcom, Tymnet

Billing Software Development

I assisted in development of the extra TGBS modules for the  X.400 billing system, for example writing an extension to handle a new service or coordinating changes required at short notice by the government (normally VAT changes).

I provided support, (and took a proactive role in correcting major problems) to the Finance department during the implementation of their MIS system that interfaced with BACS.

I joined Telecom Gold (a BT Subsidiary) as a member of the TGBS billing system development team. I wrote several modules for this product and supported the service after it went live. I was responsible for the operation and support of the old billing system during the development of TGBS. During this time I also worked on the testing of the BT EDI service
 

1984 to 1987 Systems Programmer/Analyst, Dar Al-Handasah Consultants, London.

Consulting Engineers. (Ranked 4th in the world at the time).

I managed the company’s Mini and PC systems, additionally I was responsible for developing the system software and utilities used by the other application programmers. For example, new device drivers or a complex 3d model for bridge designs.

I maintained the computer links between offices in London and started development on linking our offices overseas. Other areas I worked in at Dar Al-Handasah include Geographical Information Systems, bridge design and test analysis programs. I upgraded our in-house WP systems, this required a lot of customizing, training and installing of several products, including bi- and tri-lingual systems.

1979 to 1984 Experimental Officer, Research Assistant British Hydromechanics Research Association (now the BHR Group)

A world leading research association working in all fields of fluids, i.e. Pumps, Valves, Noise, AI, Pipelines, Fluids, Database, Nuclear, Technical Software and Computer Modeling.

I developed technical programs for the research staff in the firm. Often these would be sampling and displaying experimental data graphically. Problems ranged from simple graphs, to complex problems involving digitizing data, from both still and high-speed film cameras.

I was responsible for the management and support of most of the company’s computer resources, planning and allocating systems to projects. I also was responsible for consumable and upgrades, and was able to achieve large savings on disk drives, terminals, communications and plotters, etc.

I also worked as part of a small team to take-over another part of firm that had got into problems, developing technical software for personal computers. This required fixing all outstanding bugs and setting up a full master backup system. Also I set up a system to produce copies of the software for sale and acted as both pre- and post- sales support.

EDUCATION:

Hastingsbury Upper School, 1973-1979, 7 ‘0′ Levels.Bedford College) 1979-1983, BTEC in General Mechanical Engineering A1.