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Simon McCaskill

Simon McCaskill

Web Designer and Team Leader

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Speaker and facilitator helping you solve the BIG challenges and make tough bold decisions.

  • Education

    • Temple Moor High School

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      Art/Art Studies, General

    • Leeds Metropolitan University

      1999 - 2003
      Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) Computing & Multimedia

  • Experience

    • Pollock New Media

      Nov 2005 - May 2007
      Web Designer and Team Leader

      Team leader of design team for digital agency. Other responsibilities included the daily maintenance of the ASDA direct electrical website. Key involvement in affiliate marketing programs and social marketing.

    • DPP Advertising & Marketing

      May 2007 - Jun 2009
      Web Designer & Developer

      Design and development of websites and marketing campaigns for car dealerships including Mercedes, Toyota and Land Rover.

    • Buzz Sports

      Jun 2009 - May 2012
      Brand Manager | App Design and Development

      Pivotal role in evolving the company from European sports betting franchise into the app market, specialising in social gaming during live sporting events.

    • Electric Design Company

      May 2012 - Jul 2015
      Digital Projects Manager

      Lead role in a number of successful digital projects in a fast-paced agency environment including ecommerce, loyalty schemes, and B2B sales.

    • Digital Boost Academy

      Jul 2015 - now
      Speaker & Facilitator - Digital Transformation, Marketing and Change Management

      The Digital Boost Academy is a organisation that provides speakers, content design and delivery for a number of large organisations.

    • Google

      Aug 2015 - now
      Speaker & Facilitator - Google

      Speaker and facilitator for the following Google divisions: Virtual Facilitation Academy, Google’s Digital Academy, Google Acceleration Program, Google News Initiative, DLaB (Deliver like a Boss) & Google’s Digital Academy.

    • AVADO

      Jul 2017 - now
      Facilitator & Learning Designer - Data, Digital Marketing and Change Mindset

      Supporting Avado in the designing and delivering of professional development initiatives for: Citi Bank, Colgate and Google.

    • Leeds Boost - Project

      Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
      Founder, Facilitator & Learning Designer - Award winning Digital Skills Initiative

      Working in partnership with LeedsBid, upskilled over 1000 professionals as part of the award-winning Leeds Boost digital skills initiative.

  • Licenses & Certifications