Those of you that know me will be aware that I used to run an agency called e-Smartz with my colleague Patrick Reynolds.  Paddy set up the business early in the 00s and I joined around 5 or 6 years ago, and soon we were fully fledged business partners.  After the ‘difficult’ start up period – no money and lots of late nights (and grumpy wife-me / girlfriend-Paddy) we really started to make some in roads.

After a few really cool projects working for Allianz Cornhill (now Allianz), the BBC, Sony pictures and a few others we picked up a megga job redeveloping the Emirates Bank website.  Yep the one that works out of Dubai.  We’ve been working on this project for around 18 months, jetting back and forth from our development offices in England and the office we’d set up in Dubai.  Wow – so why the f*ck have I left?  Especially now the work (and more importantly money) is coming in?

Well my little boy, Charlie, is now about 18 months himself.  I thought it’d be fine to crack on with running the team, being a good husband, father and vanishing off to Dubai every month or so for a few weeks.  Well ladies and gents – it doesn’t work like that and after 6 months hard thought I realised that something had to give.  So, as anyone with a family will tell you there is only one decision that I could have made.

I think e-Smartz is a cracking agency with some really talented designers and developers working there, headed up be a technical architect who has (forgive me for this Padz) been in the industry for donkeys years.  I’d happily recommend them to anyone who wants / needs a new technology solution to their web or communication issues.

I wish them all the best in the future and look forward to collaborating with them as time goes by.  I’d especially like to thank my team, Sam, Mike, Luke and Jess for being cracking guys to work with!

To e-Smartz : Later t