Thomas Cronin

Perpetually curious, avid problem solver.

Thomas is a digital marketing and operations expert with a hands-on, technical background and passion for providing data driven solutions. He is just as at home crafting SQL queries as managing projects and presenting forecasts to stakeholders. Thomas loves crafting simple solutions to complex problems. He's experienced in leading diverse teams in international settings using a variety of methodologies such as Agile. He's seen a polar bear in the arctic, has a degree in Molecular Cell Biology and has taught himself to weld. He's looking for a role within an organisation with an interesting mission.

Work

YOUniversal Group

YOUniversal Group are a multinational conglomerate that have been in media technology and digital advertising since 2010. YOUniversal Media designs effective solutions to achieve clients business goals in any market across search, social and native channels.
Chief Marketing Officer
Rome, Italy

Success in CMO for subsidiary company led to scope of the role growing to include other companies in the group. Responsibilities included identify new opportunities for the company, promoting best practices for running client campaigns as well as developing new marketing strategies.

  • Acted as project manager for multiple concurrent projects balancing business needs, client requirements, and resource constraints

  • Promoted data-driven decision making through regular collaborative data analysis sessions to identify key trends and potential future problems.

  • Fostered collaboration among international teams spanning multiple time-zones.

Interim Chief Technology Officer
Rome, Italy

Assigned interim CTO role due to technical experience to promote cross department knowledge sharing. Thorough understanding of both the technical and the marketing aspects of the business facilitated much greater understanding of each department by the other.

  • Led assessment of infrastructure, technology, and processes resulting in a 30% reduction in ongoing costs.

  • Developed project roadmaps and ensured user needs were met by leveraging domain knowledge and stakeholder management skills.

  • Promoted agile methodology for software development through leadership role.

YOUniversal Next

YOUniversal Next provide digital advertising services to clients focusing on production, distribution and monetization of assets as well as identifying potential efficiencies in existing processes.
Chief Marketing Officer
Dublin, Ireland

Brought onboard to promote better use of data in existing business processes. Developed knowledge of Tableau as a data visualization tool.

  • Led multiple innovative projects to explore new avenues for business expansion.

  • Improved team training and knowledge sharing to maintain consistent service delivery.

Tekpaw Net Solutions

Tekpaw was a digital marketing agency, providing client services across programmatic, search, social and native channels. They created a proprietary platform that functioned as a unified dashboard for all of a clients campaigns providing near real-time performance insights.
Head of Operations
London, UK

Managed all 4 account management teams as well as the technology team through effective decision making skills. Further developed understanding of data architecture and workflow optimisation through leading the development of a new internal data management and reporting platform. Promoted team data literacy and curiousity through data transparency and using data to answer queries.

  • Led development and mentorship of 40 employees in 5 teams, including intern to team leader training.

  • Cultivated and nurtured strategic relationships with clients, partners, and stakeholders.

  • Enhanced reporting efficiency by 10x through developing new statistics systems.

  • Boosted productivity through development of custom tools and automation of workflows.

  • Successfully managed seamless migration between 3 office locations during expansion.

  • Implemented effective COVID response strategy prioritizing business continuity and staff and customer well-being.

Target Visibility

Target Visibility own and operate a large network of websites ranging from shopping comparison to travel advice spanning multiple markets. Working across programmatic, search, social, native and SEO utilising proprietary tech and data has led to the company growing to 228 domains, across 13 markets in 9 languages.
Operational Consultant
Remote

Used domain expertise and understanding of data to find opportunities for operational process improvements largely focused around developing software tools to improve workflows.

  • Transformed operational processes and workflows to enable successful business expansion.

  • Aided the creation of a new UK company for the digital advertising division, Tekpaw Net Solutions.

Head of Operations
London, UK

Led multiple teams managing client accounts, with a focus on quantitative methods for isolating key insights from disparate datasets. Utilised Python, SQL and other programming tools for data validation and quality control.

  • Responsible for campaigns for over 200 domains across 8 platforms and various sectors, generating £19m in yearly revenue.

  • Applied data-driven approach to optimize site and ad performance for seasonal surges such as Black Friday.

Account Manager (Digital Analyst)
London, UK

Utilised understanding of data and statistical methods to grow and optimize the performance of client accounts. Encouraged team members to embrace programming tools to automate tasks leading to process improvements.

  • Managed multiple client sites on various digital advertising platforms.

  • Created software to streamline tasks through automation.

  • Led the onboarding and training of interns and team members.

Intern
London, UK

Digital marketing intern, tasked with day to day running of campaigns. Promoted use of data analytics for finding opportunities.

  • Created advertising campaigns according to client requirements and timelines.

  • Optimized campaign performance by utilizing data-driven processes to enhance conversion rates.

Volunteer

Community TechAid

Senior Volunteer
– Present

Helping to bridge the digital divide by providing laptops and other internet enabled devices to those who need them most.

  • Helped establish, develop and maintain mission critical infrastructure and software.

  • Contributed to establishing defined workflows and best practices to streamline onboarding of new colleagues.

Education

University of York

Molecular Cell Biology

Bachelor of Science, with a final year dissertation titled 'Preparation and characterisation of a novel genetically encoded fluorescent cAMP sensor.'

Courses
  • Data Gathering, Analysis & Reporting

  • Statistics in the Context of Experiment Design & Analysis

  • Complex Systems

Skills

Linux Sysadmin

  • Bash
  • Debian
  • Networking
  • Arch
  • Ansible
  • Shell scripting

Data analysis

  • SQL
  • Postgres
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • NumPy
  • APIs
  • JSON

Digital Marketing

  • Google Ads
  • Bing Ads
  • Facebook Ads
  • Google Analytics
  • Taboola Ads
  • Outbrain Ads
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Tableau

Transferable

  • Communication
  • Stakeholder management
  • Leadership
  • Problem solving
  • Strategic planning
  • Critcal thinking

Tools

  • Jira
  • Trello
  • Confluence
  • Notion
  • Dokuwiki
  • Gitea
  • Forgejo
  • Taskwarrior

Languages

English

Native speaker

Interests

Travelling

  • Trekking
  • Snowboarding

Fencing

  • Foil

Classic cars

  • MG
  • Lotus
  • Restoration