Wooshii

Founder and CEO of the internets leading video production community.

We provide scalable video solutions for the worlds largest companies via an online network and software solutions

I've led the team through its bootstrapped beginnings and two rounds of venture funding.

Envoke-Demos

I played a small part in turning an idea into a product, winning early customers, and setting up for growth.

Co-Founder & Advisor

Flexy App

Advisory Board

Hartest Brewing Co.

Founder

MentorCamp

Business Mentor

Fergus & Permjot

Worked with Permjot Valia and over 100 entrepreneurial and start up companies in a variety of roles.

Helped companies ranging from small 2 man shops to business with turnovers exceeding £14M per year

Partner

New East Manchester Ltd

Working with start-ups and SME's both in developing growth and on-line strategies. Over 100 business aided through New East Manchester Ltd regeneration company

Created and ran the EnterPrize one of the North Wests leading entrepreneurial start-up contests

Enterprise Facilitator

Outgoing

Director at Outgoing which grew to be the largest UK student tour operator and where we also founded Snowbombing, Europe's largest winter festival.

Director

Dyer-Smith Consult

As a freelance web developer, I helped companies turn their visions into reality at a time when websites were a black art and companies would pay over the odds to get online !

Developed online marketing strategies and acted as an advisor to companies looking to expand their business online.

Web Developer

🤖 Lead a team that has built several AI products, including;

🤖 Assist - a new AI operating system for Marketing teams used by companies from Publicis to Toyota

🤖 BrandCheck - AI Video analysis tool used by companies from WPP to Google

🎬 Wooshii - Founded to help companies scale video operations and production.

🧬 Envoke - Co-founded a company that brought VR innovation into life sciences

🤪 Co-founded Snowbombing Winter Music Festival, a brewery and several apps

🏄🏽‍♂️ Surfer

If you're interested in how AI can transform marketing or AI agents can scale operations...

then I'd love to connect

Fergus Dyer-Smith

Barwick + Turner

It all started when I was studying for my degree in 2003. To help pay the bills and to do coursework I started working freelance for a small, independent clothing store in Kingston Upon Thames building their new e-commerce website. I was immediately hooked on how my creative and technical know-how helped make a difference, not only to their profits but also to the lives of the business owners and their employees. 

Making a difference through my work over the years has become my purpose and the reason why I enjoy my craft so much and what has became apparent is that when I work with smaller, more independent businesses the impact of my work is greater felt but there is often a cost barrier to be overcome - which is a real shame.

I now work as a designer for businesses of all shapes and sizes using my huge range of skills and experience to help deliver tangible results for my clients whilst making their world a more beautiful place.

No matter where your business is on it's journey I can help so please feel free to reach out and tell me your story.

Designer

Lavenham Youth FC

Vice Chairman and Acting Treasurer. U13s Manager

XYZ Reality

Lead Digital Designer working as sole graphic designer for the business. Working independently on branding, website design and development, iconography, PowerPoint decks and other digital material. 

Currently working on new website wireframes and developing a digital design system allowing future designs for other platforms to be more efficient and on brand.

Digital Design Lead

Gfinity PLC: Esports Solutions

Over the past 3 months I have been freelancing at Gfinity - one of the leading brands in competitive gaming and esports. During this time I undertook an Art Director role aiding the company in many projects

Firstly I kickstarting their rebrand process. I worked with their lead brand agency ICHI to carry out internal workshops to dive deeper into the internal opinions of the brand and where the business was heading.

Whilst I the rebrand was to be a key part in what I was brought in to do I had opportunities to work with other aspects of the business. I worked alongside Gfinity's creative department helping designers and editors to up-skill and improve processes within the company to increase productivity and quality control whilst also lending a hand to produce key graphics on their content sites gfinityesports.com and realsport.com.

Working closely with their Communities Manager / Growth Analyst we sort to improve on the sites' UX to help users engage further with content. We achieved immediate results by adding  infinite scroll to articles seeing record numbers of users hitting the site and seeing a huge growth in pages view per visit. We also redesigned the site based on UX best practices for sites that focus on content to help users find further reading and cross-pollinating users to other brand touchpoints.

The final weeks at Gfinity I worked to design and build a new WordPress for the company which looks to broaden their user base and expose them to the consumer gaming market.

Art Director

Wired Canvas

Digital Designer / Front-end Developer

Fat Beehive

JTF Marketing

Hartest Brewing Co

The Hartest Brewing Co is a side-project created to see if we can do good in our local community by doing something we love – drinking and brewing great beer.

Inspired by some of my favourite clothing brands - Patagonia, Hiut Denim, Howies and Toms Shoes our focus is to develop an amazing product of which we'll tax ourselves a "Community Tax" that will go to local projects as voted for by our members.

My role within the company is;

Develop the Brand
Community Growth
Events Planning
Recipe Development

Co-Founder

Fellowship Productions Ltd

Working closely with the Creative Director, Developers and senior stakeholders to produce UX and UI.

Head Of Digital Design

AnalogFolk

HSBC Design Review Board. AnalogFolk is retained by HSBC to act as brand guardian, with oversight of all global digital collateral produced by HSBC internal teams and also their retained agencies.

I work alongside a team of producers providing art direction for the clients global design roster helping design apps, mobile banking and online banking experiences in both the retail and corporate banking world.

Design Manager HSBC

Hello I'm Rik, an artist and designer with over 20 years of experience. I have freelanced in the digital space for all kinds of businesses - big and small, local and international.

I ran my own design agency 'Creativitea*' for 8 years where I managed a core team of 4 designers and a few freelance consultants. I worked hand in hand with our clients providing them quality of service whilst leading pitches for new clients. Tea* was a great success working with amazing clients and earning recognition at award shows. We won two A* Design Awards in Italy and were finalists in the local Surrey Business Awards.

I am now a very rounded designer with experience in telecoms, retail, product and fintech. Not only do I design great digital experiences, I also build brands helping launch and support businesses as they grow.

I've always wanted to change the world through the skills I have. One day I hope I do but in the meantime every project I undertake I try and change my client's world - leaving a positive legacy behind me whether it's fantastic results, a sense of pride or an improved skill set. 

I live outside London, proudly on a hill in Suffolk. I met my wife when we were just 15 and we are blessed with 3 sons, 1 cat and 3 chickens - all are free range. If that's not all I am also a qualified FA Football Coach coaching kids aged 9 & 10 so have lots of patience.

I truly love what I do!

If you are in need of an experienced designer to join your team or help build your brand, give me a call - i'll fly with you.



Now for some lists...
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A few client highlights are;

Atari, Activision, Buyapowa, Carphone Warehouse, Electronic Arts, Experian, HSBC, GSK, Gfinity, Maximuscle, Marchon & Vodafone. 

Agencies worked with are; 

AnalogFolk, Publicis, Wired Canvas, Be Different, JTF Marketing, Fellowship, Fat Beehive, Ogilvy & Wired Canvas.

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Key Specialties: Art Direction, Upskilling, UX, UI, Digital Technology, Website Design, Branding, Front-end Website Development, Email Marketing, SEO, PPC, Internal Comms, Internal and Remote Team Management.

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