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Driving the product planning and development to connect talent and employers around the topic of skills.

As a mobile visionary Dave has helped educate others on the topic and share his experience. His supporting roles includes informal networking to board level advisory.

Dave works hard to evangelise the adoption of Mobile Web, specifically in recruitment, using social media, blogging, authoring for publications (eg ere.net), publishing white papers and speaking at events all over the world.

Dave is always open to discuss mobile.

Dave spoke at the first European conference on mobile recruiting in 2010 - Mobile & Video in Recruitment - and again in 2011. He spoke at the first USA mobile recruiting conference in San Francisco mRecruitingCamp 2011 and was invited back in 2012.

Previous public speaking includes OnRec (London), SRConf (London), The Firm (London), Online Recruitment Enhance Media (London), CJEX (Johannesburg), World Association of Newspapers (Copenhagen), mRec (USA), MVIR (London) and more.

Working with the executive team Dave provided a clear strategic product direction to take the company to the next level.

Dave implemented an agile product development approach across the business. He owned the change management process which successfully supported 4 development teams to adopted agile. The results where visible in the speed to delivery and the focus on adding product value to the business.

The firms focus on community was demystified through Dave's product conversation strategy that will significantly change the user adoption and user engagement rates for the product.

Throughout the role Dave supported strategic development and networked closely with experts from around the world but specifically Silicon Valley.

Driving talent community for skills development and recruitment via the mobile channel.

After joining the company Dave worked closely with the CEO and the product team to improve operation efficiencies from concept to live features.

Dave invested time in Silicon Valley visiting leading web based and mobile firms. The findings helped shape the Mobile Strategy and refocus the overall platform feature strategy.

Dave put together a mobile team and lead the high definition specification for the mobile development.

Since launch Dave has inspired the company and driven user and customer centric innovation.

Dave's project management skills mixed with business accumen and strong technical know how delivered one of the UKs major job search engines.

During the ecconomic turn down, Dave lead the business to develop new markets within the recruitment online industry, resulting in 2009 an industry first service - FreeMyCV.com. Soon this service was generating significant revenues and attracting copy cat services.

When the iPhone was released, Dave saw the future of the Internet and recognised that a revolution within online consumption was about to take place.

A focused effort building on existing staff skills saw the company launch the UKs first job seeker iPhone app. Following a evangellic promotional campaign on a restricted bugdet Dave lead the 8 man company to work on mobile solutions with Monster, TotalJobs, CV Library, The Ladders and many more.

In 2010 q4 developent started on a world first mobile solution aimed at giving corporate talent acquisition teams the power of mobile web. After 3 months organic development the company powered PepsiCo US launch their mobile career app at the famous South East by South West social technology event.

In the couple of months following the company has successfully secured business with many leading global brands including Nestle, Autodesk, Research In Motion (Blackberry) and many more.

Over the 6 years in the role, Dave managed a development team responsible for 300+ UK local newspaper site, JobsToday, PropertyToday and MotorsToday.
Dave worked at a senior level, frequently presenting to the PLC Board of Directors. His input was sought out not only in digital commercial and technical strategy but in the companies over all IT strategy leading to the a new group IT department and Director.

His intensive efforts and passion surrounding the Digital Strategy supporting the group developing online advertising revenues from £0.5m when he joined to £12m+ when he left.

Operating a lean central team which grew over the years from 5 staff to close to 40 staff Dave illustrated creative product development skills, company wide communication skills, stakeholder management skills, project management skills and leadership skills.

Leaving the company was a tough decision for Dave, he remained involved on a consultancy basis.

Pilot Technology projects across multiple platforms and distributed system.

Business process analysis and systems development with 24/7 international speaking call centre.