Professional Experience
Aug 2009 – Present
Podcast Editor
GamesAreEvil.com
- Recovering and bringing forward the site’s podcast DoubleJump.
- Scripting, recording and editing together the weekly podcast.
- Contributing written news and reviews to the fast-growing US site.
Aug 2009
Contributor
Gamasutra.com
- Provided coverage of Peter Moore’s keynote speech to this year’s Edinburgh Interactive Festival.
Oct 2008 – Present
Staff Writer
Nidzumi.com
Popular and stylish games blog
- Contributing high quality reviews and commentary to an off-beat popular site.
- Building relationships with major publishing houses such as Activision and Rockstar in order to secure advance copies of games for review
Nov 2008 – March 2009
Contributor
Gameplasma.com
Well-informed US gaming site.
- Contributing news and the occasional review to a popular US-based website.
Oct 2008 – Present
Online Reviewer/Contributor
AllAboutTheGames.co.uk
Off-beat games website with news and reviews on all the latest gaming developments.
- Contributing high quality reviews and commentary to an off-beat popular site.
- Building relationships with major publishing houses such as Activision and Rockstar in order to secure advance copies of games for review.
Aug 2008 – March 2009
Online Contributor
InsideSocialGames.com
Blog about the convergence of games and social networks
- Contributing articles to a blog that commentates on social networks and social videogaming.
- Bringing a high level of analysis to certain technical areas of the online gaming field including subjects like virtual economies.
- Conducting deep and thorough research in a short time-frame.
- Subbing my own work as I go in order to maintain a clean and concise style appropriate to the blog’s core content.
Feb 2008 – Mar 2008
Agency Reporter (work experience)
Centre Press
Busy National News Agency
- Published bylines in the Sun, Daily Record, Daily Mail, Daily Star and the Glasgow Herald.
January 2008 – August 2008
Web Editor/Writer
GamersUniverse.com
Greece and Poland’s premier games site. (Site sadly no longer exists)
- Contribute weekly games reviews, previews and features and daily news for the site. Review, previews and features are translated into Polish and Greek.
- Building contacts and raising the profile of the new UK version of GamersUniverse.com.
- Contribute ideas to develop the site and the content through close liasons with the UK Content Editor.
Aug 2006 – May 2008
Editor/Contributor(unpaid)
The Big M
College Magazine
- As an editor, I helped set up and re-estabish the student magazine after 2 years of sub-standard output.
- In my first year I was a regular contributor to the college magazine and website writing features on entertainment, American sports, food and student debt.
- Built the magazine from the ground up using Adobe InDesign including defining house styles, setting up libraries and master pages.
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
Freelance Copy Writer (contract paid)
McCann Erickson
Advertising Agency and Web Developer
- Contributing regular reviews of Scottish tourist attractions on an annual basis for a website. (http://www.mygoodyear.co.uk)
- Performing consistently to a tight deadline.
Jun 2007 – Oct 2007
Sub-Editor (Unpaid work experience)
The Stirling Observer
Local Newspaper
- Subbing articles accurately and creating headlines and captions to fit in the pages of the Stirling Shopper, Stirling Observer and Perthshire Advertiser.
- Learning how to apply the skills learned in college in a professional environment.
- Gained experience on the TERA system.
- Built up a portfolio of published page layouts.
Aug 2006
Amateur Film-maker
“The Tunnel”
Awards
Nominated for a 2007 Write Stuff Student Journalism Award in the college entertainment category.
Student of the Year Award for my class 2006/07.
Education
2006 – 2007 Glasgow Metropolitan College
HNC Journalism: Broadcast and Print
1999 – 2005 University of Glasgow
MA (Hons) Philosophy
