PR / marketing / freelance journalism / travel writer and food critic.

PR clients have included British Airports Authority,The Gleneagles Hotel, The Scotch Pie Club, Bell's, Barclays, Hearts FC, Caledonian Brewery, Innis & Gunn, British Midland, Ryden, BNI, The Federation of Small Businesses, Ashwood Scotland, Springfords, Go Green Bags, Alba Bioscience, Clifton Hall School, Stoneyport Agency, The Sports Aid Foundation, West Lothian Chamber, Napier University. Member of the CIPR.

Freelance journalist on news, business and sport for major titles including the Daily Record, Sunday Mail, Scottish Daily Mail, The Herald, Sun, Metro, Courier, Scottish Daily Express, Press & Journal and the Edinburgh Evening News plus Teletext. Sub-editor for several national papers and travel and food writer for The Culinary Guide. Part-time lecturer in PR and marketing and journalism at Napier University.

Editor of Business Network (circulation 210,000) for The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), chairman of NFSE Sales, the publications arm of the FSB, secretary of the East of Scotland Region of the FSB, board member of Midlothian and East Lothian Chamber of Commerce and former chair of The Pentland Hills Business Association.