My past experience as a project manager in the media industry has give me a wide range of skills and experience, in dealing with outside agencies, developing and maintaining budgets, dealing with staff issues, scheduling and day to day running of a project and team of people. Working in a different culture and country gave me a great deal of experience working with people of different cultural backgrounds to myself, which gave me the ability to adapt and learn from those differences, which I found very interesting to do so. Since then I have worked as a freelancer so I have experience of dealing with agencies from the opposite side of the coin, which has been very useful. Also my time spent as a freelancer has been very good at developing my own time management skills, as well developing skills in areas such as marketing and creating a contact network. Recently I’ve combined the two by setting up a free online magazine, which I edit. The magazine Irregular ([login to view URL]) is published as a PDF every three months and contains articles on gaming, hobby news, painting tutorials and short stories. As part of this I also write articles, generally on historical topics that would interest gamers. We released issue 1 on July 1st and since then have had over 5500 downloads. Issue 2 is currently online and has had 3000 downloads since October 1st. A lot of my role on the magazine is to generate a community of contributors, who contribute articles and artwork for free. I do this by frequenting forums and developing topics about the magazine. So far I have had a good response, from writers and artists wanting to help contribute to the magazine, all contribution are generated for free. I have also started networing with the gaming industry and gaining good feedback and support from a wide variety of companies.