This was an online advertising agency that was looking for something to separate them from every other SEO agency out there. I was head hunted for the position as an Online Campaign Manager. In due time I was given a department of my own with a remit covering SEO, web development and search engine technology.

Initially my work was largely involved with programming our in house search engine, which we then used to optimize websites, generate relevant content and related article links, develop new strategies and ideas for producing quality websites that would naturally climb the rankings without black hat intervention.

The search engine core is based on my own work on Optren (mentioned above within Personal Projects) and is entirely my own code. I redeveloped the entire code base in 2 months from PHP to C# in what was a new area for me. I've taken my original project and moved it to the desktop allowing a true personal search engine that will index depending on the keyword filters applied, as well as adapting it for the needs of an SEO agency. You can find the latest development news at http://www.surrch.com.

Most of my Campaign Management work involves use of Google's reporting tools – Analytics and AdWords are of course a staple and I have managed accounts spending tens of thousands pounds sterling monthly.

My department focuses on any technology involving search. We understand how search engines work through creating our own and are responsible for creating bespoke software to improve a sites ranking as transforming our in-house products into viable commercial offerings.

I spent a short spell working at technology agency Branded3 in Leeds as Lead Front-End Developer. I was responsible for front end design and development as well as seamless integration with our in-house framework.

Branded3 are a technology agency producing work largely using ASP.NET 2 and C#. Whilst with Branded3 I worked on projects for Sony, ASDA, JPMorgan and Halifax amongst others.

I joined Vebra, York, as a PHP and AJAX developer. Vebra is a market leader in the development of software for use in the housing and property industries and much of my time was spent prototyping advanced user interfaces and working with the in-house PHP framework for a next-gen project. Whilst at Vebra I also worked on the property portal ThinkProperty.com to help bolster the search engine rankings, on and immediately after launch.

I spent my spare time building a PHP search engine with a MySQL database capable of indexing millions of web pages, files and content. I also was asked back to work as a Consultant at Creative Lynx on two major projects – one using HTML and heavy Javascript for tablet PCs(award winning work, see http://www.pmsociety.org.uk/reports/26-1-07/geoffbrook.shtml) and the second involving the movement of 30 domains and sites with databases to a new independent server.

I was employed as Web Developer for Creative Lynx Limited. Creative Lynx are one of the North of England's leading design agencies. I worked in a small team to produce websites, multimedia and designs to what we called ‘pixel perfect' levels. I returned after leaving to do consultancy on a freelance basis for Creative Lynx until I moved away from Manchester.

I started at Creative Lynx as a multimedia developer and went on to be placed in charge of IT and Network security. I was asked to manage originally print based designers in order to create website design to different standards than their normal sphere of work. We researched and ran mass email campaigns for several of our clients to track the results of the campaigns and show the effectiveness of the approach to our client; resulting in at least 50% click through on all of our campaigns.

I was also put in charge of a project to research and set up a dedicated web server to transfer over 30 client websites with as little inconvenience as possible. Clients I worked with included Manchester City Council, Wyeth Pharmaceutical and the Land Restoration Trust.

My employment began with medication4u on a long term contract; the parent company to 0800easymed. I developed a PHP/MySQL system that went into use across the company with sale price for the full package reaching £6000. I spent 8 months in Cyprus in completion of the system and online marketing. The system included a payment gateway, order tracking and visitor tracking. It used OOP principles for its context based administration system.

Spent three months in development of a PHP/MySQL system for 0800easymed, including workstation build and a database driven sales website and payment gateway.