Richard Foster

About

Experience

• IT Consultant at Self Employed
  Nov 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 8 mos

• Auto Trader UK (Full-time · 9 yrs 4 mos)
  • Development Manager (Trader Media Group - Technology Team)
    Oct 2010 - Oct 2015 · 5 yrs 1 mo

  • Development Manager / Senior Manager (Ad Trader Digital)
    Jul 2006 - Oct 2010 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Freedom2 UK (On-site)
  • Product Manager / Developer Support / Customer Relationship Manager
    Oct 2005 - Jul 2006 · 10 mos

    Various consultancy work in project and relationship management including Freedom2 and Imparo who I previously worked for.

  • Co-Founder / Development Manager
    Jan 2000 - Oct 2005 · 5 yrs 10 mos

    Founded Freedom2 to provide appliance server solutions to the education and SME markets. Freedom2 also continued to run the ArgoNet ISP (Later sold to Orpheus Internet run by Paul Vigay) as well as web hosting, server co-location, site design and a dedicated ISP for the education sector. Freedom2 appliance servers were white labelled / grey boxed to companies including Sun Cobalt, Apple Computers, Pearsons and TheBigBus. Freedom2 was sold to Imparo Ltd, a specialist in education IT systems which included the elearning content TheBigBus.

• Customer Support Executive (ArgoNet) at Argogroup (ASCOM)
  Jun 1999 - Jan 2000 · 8 mos

  Phone and Email technical support across EMEA and APAC regions for the Internet Services Division of ArgoGroup, originally based in Chichester. Went on to found Freedom2 with ArgoNet as part of the new business