William David Wilson

Provide specialised and tailored support for higher education students with disabilities, neurodivergence, or other learning differences.

Researched and wrote numerous articles for the Alexa Top 200 US website Scribol.com and its sister publications to specific briefs and tight deadlines. Sourced images and resized, cropped and retouched them using Photoshop for use in the articles.

Identified and curated compelling and potentially viral ideas and content from around the internet to be tested via the in-house testing project. Devised new and creative headlines and excerpts for the selected articles and ideas with viral potential to give them the maximum chance of achieving agreed 10% clickthrough threshold.

Created new campaigns for the promotion of articles across web and edited existing ones in the company's own native advertising system. Utilised external native advertising platforms such as Outbrain, Yahoo Gemini and Taboola to promote the company's and other clients' content to approved scale.

Wrote, researched and subbed a variety of widely-viewed content for the World Travel Guide site, including top 5s, features, interviews, country overviews and guides. Built and then uploaded articles to the Drupal content management system, sourcing eye-catching images and editing them using Adobe Photoshop where necessary.

Performed several office roles across numerous locations for the Ministry of Education in Wellington, New Zealand whilst on a gap year travelling in New Zealand. Responsibilities included data checking and amending, data entry, sorting post, filing, scanning plus ad hoc problem solving.

Created artist profiles and wrote album and single reviews for BBM Live website and magazine produced in Australia. Produced timely football match reports and previews of upcoming fixtures and entered festivals and concert listings on to company's Joomla database.

Utilised SAP system for processing cheques, clearing Bank Giro payments, cheque printing and searching for duplicate payments. Processed Auto lists and completed and transported daily banking to HSBC on behalf of Lincolnshire County Council.

Grade: MA with Merit

Master's degree in Web Journalism from the University of Sheffield, completed with Merit.

Level 1 Award in Coaching Football from The Football Association.

Level 5 Diploma in Teaching English as a Foreign Language from The TEFL Academy.

Grade: 2:1

Bachelor of Arts in History from Sheffield Hallam University, awarded with a 2:1.