Meet our core team of digital specialists.
Meet our core team of digital specialists.
Simon is responsible for Industrial Strength's business development. He has over 16 years´ experience of planning and implementing strategic marketing, brand management and digital communication campaigns for a range of national and international brands.
Prior to joining Industrial Strength, Simon worked for a number of large agencies including Publicis, Robson Brown and DTW.
He possesses strong leadership and project management experience in both B2C and B2B environments which has enabled him to build long-term client relationships.
Richard first became self-employed at the age of 19 and has continued to run businesses since then. He started off working in the music industry but then migrated into new media in the late 90's. He is very customer focused and takes great pride in developing long term relationships. He has worked on many international brands but his passion lies in working with creative SME's which is demonstrated through his ongoing mentoring work for the Institute of Digital Innovation at Teesside University and national music development agency, Generator.
Gary started working as a developer over 15 years ago. His experience lies in database & systems architecture and technologies such as PHP, ActionScript3, Javascript and HTML5.
Gary has a keen interest in accessibility and web standards and is an Open Source advocate and contributer. He also recently started developing for Apple iOS and Android mobile platforms.
In 1995 Lee started his first digital business in the burgeoning new media boom. Since that time he has designed digital and multimedia projects for many diverse brands, SMEs and international corporations. Now as creative director at Industrial Strength he continues to deliver a high quality service and strives for excellence for Industrial Strength's clients.
Lee has a degree in fine art painting and previously worked as an illustrator.
Flemming started working in new media in 1999 with kitbag.com and since then has worked for several creative and new media organisations in the Midlands and the North East. He started working with the Industrial Strength team in 2005 and since then has enjoyed refining his web development skills to focus on CMS (Content Management Systems) and Ecommerce.
Since 2003 Jill has been working in the creative industries, specialising in the music industry. She has run her own recording studio for the last two years while also working in various freelance roles for creative industries in the North East. Jill has a great passion for working with small independently run creative companies and has recently started promoting her own music events in under-used venues in Newcastle. Jill works for Industrial Strength on a part time basis running all of our finances and administration. She also works on clients projects by populating, quality checking and testing websites.
We operate a large team of freelancers in the North East of England. They are vetted before we employ them and are closely managed throughout the production process which takes place from our offices. We have long-standing relationships with our team, some have been with us since we started trading in 2005.
