Since 1993 On Demand PR has created a strong PR, Marketing and Event Management team. This team was led by Julie Vindis who was responsible for the overall ownership of each campaign, and handled the communications strategy. Other members
of the On Demand PR team specialise in areas including: writing articles, technology briefs and press releases; telemarketing; market research, event management and website design and implementation.
This team had been together for just over eight years and heavily involved in all of the Government National Projects work and most of the private sector clients On Demand PR delivered, and therefore, like Julie, was able to hit-the-ground-running.
• Julie Vindis – Lead Consultant
• David Mackenzie – Technical Consultant
• Rina Durban – Administrative Manager
• Susan Jones – Market Research Manager
Julie Vindis – Lead Consultant
Julie Vindis set up On Demand PR & Marketing in 1993 to
meet the needs of organisations that were bringing new and innovative ideas
to the market place. Over that period of time she has gained key experience
in how to present such ideas in the press, and to communities of users. The
fact that she has already been awarded contracts and provided successful
campaigns for over 30 private sector clients to five of the ODPM’s
National Projects, continues to work directly for Southwark Council
(part-time since August 2007) and for Communities and Local Government
since January 2008, and demonstrates her ability to consistently deliver results.
For each of the National Projects she had to work with tight timescales
to present very new ideas to local authorities. For the most recent of
these
projects she was chosen to handle the Communications Manger role as well
as the PR role, because of her demonstrable ability to build relationships
with stakeholders and local authorities. This resulted in the FAME National Project
creating a community of interested parties numbering more than 800 hundred
people
from local authorities, key stakeholders, and practitioners, regional and
external multi-agency partnerships.
As with all On Demand PR’s projects Julie Vindis remains directly
involved from the beginning to the end of the project, but will use other
carefully
chosen staff to fulfil key functions within each campaign.
Julie Vindis – Biography Overview…
Detailed Business Biography
David Mackenzie – Technical Consultant
David Mackenzie has been worked with On Demand PR for more than seven years
as a technical consultant. Recognised as a technology expert in both the
public and private sectors he has worked extensively on the National Projects
for On Demand PR, including the CRM National Project, Enterprise Workflow
National Project and also with NWEGG. On the FAME National Project, he
became lead consultant for the North East region and delivered the Proof
of Concept
report for the North East at the end of the campaign.
Working in his own right as a Technical Consultant, he has worked with
local authorities including South Norfolk District Council, Basildon District
Council,
and Hampshire County Council advising on the specifications to build and
enhance the most effective contact centre solutions.
In addition to providing specific technical consultancy, he is also used
by On Demand PR for technical writing and for brochures. He has written
many magazine articles discussing the technical details of a number of
the National
Projects, has represented them by presenting at major conferences, and
run many training seminars and workshops with local authorities and external
multi-agencies.
His ability to quickly grasp the ideas and issues behind new and innovative
technology makes him well placed to communicate those ideas to the wider
local authority audience via business and government media.
Rina Durban – Administrative Manager
Rina Durban worked with On Demand PR for more than eight years as an
Administrative Manager. Whilst her role has been primarily telemarketing,
this role is
more about using her telephone skills to encourage people to release
useful information for the good of the project, rather than selling a
product
over the phone. Rina is also very competent at handling media announcements
with journalists, event management support, administrative support duties,
and of course encouraging suppliers to part with budget for a good cause.
Susan Jones – Market Research Manager
Susan worked for On Demand PR in 2005 until December 2007, she
proved herself to the standard in which we provide our customer service.
Susan’s expertise is in obtaining qualitative market research from
all industry sectors. In 2007 Susan conducted the majority of the
market research campaign for the Scala Group looking into the HR requirements
of the UK’s Top 1000 organisations of Competency Frameworks and Assessment/Development
centres.
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