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Building products and businesses

I work across strategy, design, engineering, marketing, sales and operations. Over more than a decade, that has included work for Groupon, Vouchercloud, AWIN and The Motley Fool, product engineering for Framer, Contra and STRV, and founding and selling three software businesses of my own.

I’m good at taking a complicated business problem, making the work clear and seeing it through. That can mean deciding what to build, designing the experience, writing the software, finding customers or improving how the business runs. I work with colleagues across those disciplines and take responsibility for the work myself.

In my own businesses, product decisions, customer acquisition, sales, revenue and day-to-day operations have all been my responsibility. I bring that same connected view to client work, from shaping the offer to building the product and measuring whether it works for the business.

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Patrianna

Games for a social-casino platform

Studio leadership · Hired the team and shipped five games to 1M players

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  • Built an in-house game studio from zero and shipped five high-stakes React games to 1M players.
  • Hired and led the cross-functional frontend, game-development and QA team.
  • Owned monetisation, retention, experiments and telemetry.
  • Owned product architecture, delivery, team structure and production quality for a top-three social casino.
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Reach Robotics

MekaMon AR battle robot

Digital Marketing Manager · Led acquisition, ecommerce and measurement

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  • Led marketing and digital operations for MekaMon, an AR battle robot launched globally in Apple Stores. As Digital Marketing Manager, owned go-to-market strategy and delivery across acquisition, content, ecommerce, customer success and measurement.
  • Managed a £100K paid-marketing budget, alongside social media and influencer campaigns.
  • Led and curated the YouTube influencer campaign, including partnerships with SuperSaf and KhanFlicks, with campaign videos accumulating 750K+ views.
  • Hired and managed the marketing, video-production and customer-support teams, with responsibility for customer success.

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The one-man band

On 20 September 2026, the Vouchernaut repository was an empty starter. Twenty-two days later, on 12 October, vouchernaut.com had fifteen live products on it, from checked codes for 995 UK shops to a platform for brands with its own Shopify app. Behind them were 772 commits and about 530,000 lines of code, 145,000 of them tests.

I did every job myself: product, design, engineering, operations and selling. Agents did most of the typing while I wrote the specs, made the calls and checked the work. This is how that went, and why I came back to a site I started ten Black Fridays ago. There's a longer version too, with every feature and decision in it: the 40-page case study as a PDF.

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The Vouchernaut homepage on 26 November 2020: dark plum, a search box for UK stores and the astronaut mascot with a pink V on his chest
Vouchernaut on Black Friday eve 2020, from the Internet Archive. The astronaut with the pink V is the one who became Vinny.
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