Ben Maden – Web Consultant
Ben is our lead Web Consultant in Brisbane. He has extensive experience in all areas covered by Matter Solutions.
Qualifications
2008 – Qualified Google Adwords Professional (though he started managing adwords campaigns in 2004)
2004 – Degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Cass Business School, London
1998 – Degree of Master of Engineering in Aeronautical Engineering from The City University, London
Web Consultant Brisbane – Skills
A unique combination of marketing savvy, commercial acumen and technical expertise.
Communication
Able to communicate clearly with various types of staff. Translating instructions and requirements so that designers, programmers, entrepreneurs, managers and operational staff can all clearly understand the project and provide input comfortably using their own jargon.
Web Consultancy
Evaluating opportunities and steering your project through to the most rewarding result means that instead of just a project manager you get a true commercial advisor.
Brief History
2006 – Present
Matter Solutions Pty Ltd established and began working with clients in Australia in addition to looking after existing UK commitments.
2004 – 2006
Worked based in near Tower Hill, London E1 on projects for clients all over the United Kingdom. Also worked on first project for an Australian client in 2005. Started to expand the range of services into Internet Marketing from pure web development.
2003 – 2004
Continued to work on client projects and studied a full time at Cass Business School to attain an Master of Business Administration (MBA).
2000 – 2003
Founded Matter Solutions business and began working on a variety of projects including three hugely successful websites for a City stockbroking firm.
1998 – 2000
Worked at Merrill Lynch Capital Services on Credit Derivative trade processing and soon became the team supervisor. I was also assigned various intranet management tasks which included learning HTML.
I found that I could communicate easily between managers and the technical staff meaning more efficient solutions and therefore much better results. I quickly learned to program in Perl and PHP and was responsible for automating a huge number of repetitive reporting tasks.
I saved so much time that my team of five could manage more work with less people.
1998
Graduated as Master of Engineering (MEng) in Aeronautical Engineering from The City University in London. I’d begun programming visual basic macros using Microsoft Excel.
Early years
I remember being shown by my Dad how to write very simple procedural computer programs in BASIC on our BBC computer at the age of about 8.
Link with Ben online
If you know Ben please use one of the links below to connect on the social networking websites he uses.
- Ben Maden’s profile on LinkedIn
- Ben Maden’s profile on Facebook / Add as a friend
- Brisbane Web Design Group. Ben’s BWD profile at Meetup.com
- Visit Ben’s blog, “Web Advice for Business” at www.maden.com.au
- Follow Ben on twitter
- Follow Matter Solutions on twitter
Why is MySpace missing? Last time Ben tried to use it he said “It’s just too scruffy to be a serious business tool”. That said, he does accept that MySpace certainly is very good if your target market is too cool for school.
