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Meet the Team

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It's only fair that you meet the hands that will be delivering your campaigns and driving your internet success.

We have an extremely diverse team with experience that is unrivalled by any other company in the West Yorkshire region. If you think you have what it takes to join us why not visit our careers page.

Stephen Harvey Franklin

Steve has been in e-commerce since 1996, following an early career in Publishing and Management Consultancy.

  • Firstly as Managing Director of a number of leading online photo libraries. During this time he took direct responsibility for the website development and oversaw tremendous growth often in excess of 100% pa and was presented with the Queens Award for Export Achievement.
  • Secondly as managing Director of the UK's leading independent online seller of digital cameras, when Stephen left to set up WSI in Yorkshire, the company had grown by 70% during the year and was turning over £20m outselling Amazon, e-trader and dabs, in fact outselling everyone except Dixons & Jessops.

Most recently setting up www.gifts-2-go.co.uk with his wife Fiona.
Steve's passion is for meeting new clients and seeing a client's bottom line increase as a result a website or a search engine marketing campaign. "It is a joy to meet new people, learn about different industries and to develop online solutions for each client".

At home Steve is married to wife Fiona, together they have 5 children, and with any spare time remaining likes to run or cycle.

 

Pamela Charlesworth

Pam started working for WSI in early 2005 and now manages the web development and search engine teams. After graduating with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art many 'moons' ago, Pam has always worked in a customer service environment both face to face and on the telephone and in a variety of industries including retail, financial services and advertising. Before working for WSI, Pam worked for over 5 years at first direct as a team manager in their Foreign and Sharedealing department and achieved an HSBC Outstanding Award for her contribution to the business. Pam left first direct to have her third child and applied to WSI when she was ready to return to work after deciding she wanted to work in a more creative environment.

Pam lives in Holmfirth with her husband Darrin and 3 children Jemma, Lauren and Daisy. When not working Pam is a PTA secretary, enjoys walking in the Holme Valley, going to the cinema and is also a Reiki Master practitioner.

 

Matthew Redford

Matt has been part of the Search Engine Marketing team since 2006. He is 24 and has just graduated from Huddersfield University with an E-Commerce and Multimedia degree. As well as search engine optimisation Matt is also a keen web programmer. He likes to play and watch most sports. Matt is the only one who supports Leeds United here. He is a big fan of dance, electro, indie and rock music. Matt has just started to get into making dance music which is great for stress relief on weekends!

 

Daniel Fielding

Dan has been with us for over 2 years. He has a BA (Hons) in Multimedia Design and spends most of his working time putting together concept website designs. He's passionate about great design and clean compliant code. In his spare time he likes to golf and is currently learning to snowboard.

 

Barnaby Knowles

Barnaby has more than 10 years experience in website development. Although initially developing websites as a hobby, his interest in the field increased at the same time he attained an LLB (Hons) degree in law. After graduating he decided to pursue his passion for website development rather than a career in law. Outside the office he enjoys keeping fit and trains in the gym several times each week. He is also keen on poker and is a regular player in a national poker league. In August Barnaby reached the regional finals of the Redtooth Poker league.

 

Douglas Sehsuvaroglu

Douglas is the newest addition to the WSI staff. Although he has a keen and enthusiastic ambition in marketing, this is his first experience as an online marketer. Douglas has spent his last four years studying at university, and as a result has achieved a Bachelors Degree in Business Management and is completing his Masters in Marketing. In his spare time, Douglas is an avid musician who is currently performing in the Huddersfield area with his band.

 

Chris Reid

Chrisi's website design and development experience started at the University of New Mexico. She has a keen interest in the usability and customer experience of websites, particularly in e-commerce systems and testing. She is also developing further skills in Flash animation and programming to create rich media presentations for our sites. Chrisi has also studied 3D Art, Art History, Drawing & Painting

Outside the office, much of her time is taken up caring for a menagerie of exotic animals - enough snakes and lizards to qualify as a small zoo. When she is not feeding, maintaining or being bitten by something with scales, she spends a great deal of time providing support and advice to other exotics keepers online.


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