Mark Griffin FBCS CITP

Current

Online Business Consultant at Cyberpoint Limited (UK)

Past

Social Organiser at British Mensa
Engineer in Charge at Cray Research
Telecomms Technician at Royal Air Force

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Education

St John's School, Singapore

Recommended

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Industry

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Mark Griffin FBCS CITP’s Summary

I founded one of the first commercial web design companies in the UK in March 1995, the month Sir Tim Berners Lee held a press conference to announce the World Wide Web to the European media.

At the time, there were only 16,000 web sites in the world.

I have worked closely with clients of all shapes and sizes, in every sector, in the UK and abroad, and many of those clients have remained with me for several years, a few for more than a decade.

That is because of the difference I make: the enthusiasm, the ideas, the attention to detail that I bring, and my ability to solve problems, organise and lead.

I still have that vision; I still explore what's new, but with a decade and a half of experience I can relate it to a demanding commercial context.

Currently that is social media, and I have considerable knowledge and experience in this area which I am sharing through training courses and consultancy.

Mark Griffin FBCS CITP’s Specialties:

Management, leadership, creativity, imagination, anything to do with social media and the web

Mark Griffin FBCS CITP’s Experience

Online Business Consultant

Cyberpoint Limited (UK)

(Internet industry)

March 1995 — Present (14 years 11 months)

I have fifteen years experience working very closely with clients at the highest level to develop digital projects that integrate with their businesses and meet and exceed their goals.

In that time I have managed more than 100 projects for clients including: the Falkland Islands Government, the Adam Smith Institute, and the AEEU (now called Unite), and for these and many others I created their first-ever web site. These projects covered a wide range of applications, for: consumer, e-commerce, membership/subscription, hotels/tourism, niche retail, magazines, and business to business sites.

My approach is always customer-driven, to:
• learn and understand the client’s business
• educate them as to the possibilities
• help them develop a plan that meets their objectives
• educate them so they understand how and why it meets their objectives
• draw together any different internal or external stake holders
• manage the project to completion, if required
• ensure the delivered project is exactly what they wanted
• ensure it is as user-friendly as it can be
• ensure it is delivered on-time and to-budget
• educate and train the client in on-going management and further development.

I relish every opportunity to learn, even at speed, even under pressure, maintaining an acute attention to detail while developing imaginative practical solutions to problems.

I am an effective team leader, recruiting and managing web developers, fully adept at hands-on creation of web sites, conversant with accessibility, industry standards, and platform issues. I am also an excellent copywriter and a skilled image manipulator.

I provide training and consultancy particularly in social media for business purposes, I have spoken at seminars and presented clients’ sites in person to The Queen and Prince Charles on separate occasions.

My experience over the last fifteen years has given me a broad multi-disciplinary understanding of digital marketing strategies.
Social Organiser

British Mensa

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 1987 — November 2009 (22 years 5 months)

Chairman of International Licensing Committee - A volunteer role for Mensa International, vetting proposals for commercial activity from international Mensa organisations and dealing with issues that arise from unauthorised use of the Mensa name and reputation.

Special Interest Groups Officer - During a term that lasted ten years, I reorganised and promoted an activity that had 2,500 members in 80 groups at the start into one that had 12,500 members in more than 100 groups. I wrote the manual that group leaders still use and built this up into the leading activity for members of the Society. Also wrote the rule book for on-line groups.

Organiser of annual Mensa At Portmeirion Weekend - Running this for at least a dozen years, a large group of us take over all the accommodation at Portmeirion for a weekend of fun and games.
Engineer in Charge

Cray Research

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CRI; Computer Hardware industry)

February 1985 — March 1995 (10 years 2 months)

A senior hardware engineer responsible for all aspects of support on multi-million pound supercomputers, including planning and installing new systems at customer sites. Work to a very high standard under great pressure.

Skilled at: fault finding to component level, writing and use of machine-code diagnostics, higher-level programing and system diagnostics, analysis of system dumps, repair of circuit boards, disk drives, and ancilliary equipment, maintenance of power generators and refrigeration plant.

Worked on: Cray-1 serial no 1, other Cray 1's, XMPs, YMPs, C90s, T3Ds and a pile of smaller stuff, working with COS, UNICOS, Unix, C++, MSDOS.

Worked at: AWE Aldermaston, ECMWF, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, AERE Harwell, RARDE Fort Halstead, RAE Farnborogh, Met Office Bracknell, ADNOC and many others.
Telecomms Technician

Royal Air Force

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

March 1973 — February 1985 (12 years )

Served for twelve years in the Royal Air Force as a technician working on radio transmission equipment and digital control equipment. Head of a team in the Falkland Islands shortly after the 1982 war and reorganised the section looking after vital radio transmitters. Did this so well I was then tasked with setting up a management cell for the unit.

Skilled at: operating and maintaining communications equipment, repairing equipment to component level, firing guns and tossing grenades.

Worked on: HF, VHF, UHF transmitters and receivers, digital control and communications equipment, mainframe computers.

Worked at: RAF Buchan, RAF Gutersloh, RAF Locking, RAF High Wycombe, RAF Kinloss, RAF Stanley