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Dave Bell

Web Experience Manager & Digital Strategist
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September 2026

Web Experience Manager & Digital Strategist with 15+ years aligning user experience, content, analytics, search, and technology around business goals. I own websites as products: setting the roadmap, then designing, building, and managing the platforms that drive conversion, revenue, and engagement across agency, startup, fintech, education, and institutional environments. My work combines strategic ownership with hands-on execution, including positioning organizations for AI-driven discovery alongside traditional search.

$4M+
Annual ecommerce revenue managed on platform
$32M+
Lead generation pipeline (Funds Under Management)
15+
Years across agency, startup, fintech, and institutional environments
30+
Websites, platforms, and systems delivered across sectors

What I bring

Website Strategy & Ownership

Owning the website as a business channel: roadmap, priorities, UX, conversion, and the technical decisions that keep it performing as the organization grows.

Search & Digital Visibility

SEO, GEO, structured data, and content built for both traditional ranking and AI-driven discovery across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

Strategic Analytics & Insights

Building analytics systems that connect customer behavior, marketing activity, search data, and business outcomes to uncover opportunities, guide investment, and drive revenue decisions.

Platform Performance & Transformation

Reliability, accessibility, security, integrations, automation, and digital transformation initiatives that improve efficiency and support long-term growth.

Selected Work

Discovery & Decision Intelligence Platform
Discovery Intelligence 2026 Production

Discovery & Decision Intelligence Platform

Turns content discovery into measurable engagement, customer intelligence, and business insight.

Reporting & Insights Growth Systems GEO & SEO Systems Integration
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Dynamic Lead Capture & Demand Intelligence System
Lead Generation 2025 Production

Dynamic Lead Capture & Demand Intelligence System

Converted inactive search traffic into 1,247 demand-qualified leads and $45K+ in attributed sales.

Growth Systems GEO & SEO Reporting & Insights
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SEO, GEO & Accessibility Operations Platform
Bellsight 2024 – Present Beta

SEO, GEO & Accessibility Operations Platform

Unified SEO, GEO, and accessibility signals into a single prioritized system that moves teams from analysis to execution.

GEO & SEO Reporting & Insights Growth Systems Web Development
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Next-Generation WordPress AI Assistant
Pressona AI 2025 – Present In Development

Next-Generation WordPress AI Assistant

AI-powered website assistant that connects visitor conversations to lead generation, customer intelligence, and business workflows.

Web Development WordPress AI Integration Growth Systems
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AI-Powered Business Operations & Reporting Platform
Beacon 2025 – Present Production

AI-Powered Business Operations & Reporting Platform

Beyond building websites, I build the business systems behind them, connecting an organization's operations, data, and reporting directly to its live, customer-facing catalog.

Systems Integration Business Process Automation Revenue & Capacity Analytics Workflow Governance UI/UX Design
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Alumni Network & Community Platform
Alumni Network 2026 – Present Beta

Alumni Network & Community Platform

Built the institution's first alumni network: community, portfolios, and shared identity across two platforms.

Web Development WordPress Systems Integration Growth Systems
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thedavebell.com 2026 Production

Custom WordPress Theme That Rewrites Itself

The site you are on: a hand-coded WordPress theme with role-targeted landing pages, a live resume builder, and a near-perfect Lighthouse score.

Web Development WordPress Systems Integration GEO & SEO
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Client Work
Client Work 2014 – Present

Client Websites, Designed, Built & Managed

Websites, ecommerce platforms, and web systems designed, built, and managed across education, finance, ecommerce, civic, cultural, nonprofit, and commercial clients.

Web Management & Operations WordPress Development UX/UI Ecommerce MarTech & Integrations
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Design & Creative
Design & Creative Ongoing

Digital Design, Brand & Creative Content

Website and app design, prototyping, brand identity, and marketing content across digital and print, from early wireframes to finished systems.

Web & UX Design Prototyping Brand & Marketing Content & Video
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Earth Science
Earth Science 2026 Concept Demo

Earth Science Data Visualization

A concept explainer that translates aquatic remote-sensing science into an accessible, interactive web experience for a general audience.

Public Outreach Accessibility Data Storytelling WordPress-ready
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Experience

Web Experience Manager & Digital Strategist

Maine Media Workshops + College
2023 – Present

Own the website, digital experience, MarTech stack, analytics, and operational systems that support enrollment, engagement, and organizational growth. Lead platform strategy, UX, search visibility, analytics, automation, accessibility, and digital transformation initiatives across a complex multi-audience ecosystem.

  • Own the strategy, operation, and continuous evolution of a $4M+ multi-audience website, ecommerce platform, and supporting digital ecosystem.
  • Develop strategic roadmaps for website modernization, AI adoption, accessibility, search visibility, and digital transformation.
  • Lead structured data, SEO, GEO, and AI-discovery initiatives improving visibility across Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and emerging discovery channels.
  • Built and operate Beacon, a custom operations platform managing the lifecycle of 400+ programs annually across planning, scheduling, finance, registrar, and web publishing.
  • Conceived and operated survey-driven campaigns generating $495K+ in revenue with 39% new customers across 241 orders.
  • Built and operate a lead capture system driving 1,000+ high-intent leads from inactive program pages.
  • Built and operate a recommendation engine and analytics framework tracking behavior from impression to purchase.
  • Authored WCAG 2.2 AA compliance guidelines and documentation.

Web Manager & WordPress Developer (Contract)

Alt9 Design
2021 – 2023

Managed multiple client websites for the agency, including high-value production sites, handling custom development, content management, and incident response. Engaged via Alt9 Design (contracted by Rocket Launch Agency).

  • Managed and maintained multiple production WordPress sites for the agency, including high-value client sites.
  • Production incident response: hacked-site remediation, fatal-error debugging, and emergency troubleshooting on live sites.
  • Designed and built full sites including Domenico's, War Heroes on Water, Buckingham Investments, and Triden Group.

Real Estate Investor & Independent Consultant

Self-employed
2017 – 2021

Acquired and renovated residential property as value-add investments while taking select freelance web projects.

  • Acquired and renovated residential property as value-add investments while taking select freelance web projects.

Agency Partner & Consultant

Tourmaline
2014 – 2017

Partnered with a small, bespoke agency of seasoned developers and a designer whose prior work spanned major brands like Gillette and Merrill Lynch. Owned client relationships, technical strategy, and delivery across cultural, civic, nonprofit, and commercial clients. Won competitive RFPs end to end: set the technical approach, prototyped, then built alongside the team.

  • Led design and delivery of custom WordPress platforms, applications, and plugins across client and agency projects.
  • Owned and operated SEO, Google Ads, social, and content marketing strategies across clients.
  • Built and operated lead generation systems, funnels, and conversion optimization workflows.
  • Delivered API integrations across CRM, marketing, and third-party systems.
  • Designed and delivered municipal systems, nonprofit platforms, and operational tools.
  • Led hacked-site recovery, platform stabilization, and resolved technical debt and security issues across multiple environments.

IT & Web Manager

Custom Wealth Solutions (Appleyard Financial Services)
2010 – 2014

Owned technology, systems, marketing platforms, and infrastructure for a fintech and financial services group managing $500M+ in funds. Member of the Executive Leadership Team from the company's inception, alongside the CEO and COO.

  • Designed and operated digital funnels contributing to $32M+ in funds-under-management leads over two years.
  • Lead system fed a multi-product wealth practice: SMSF, life insurance, mortgages, property investment, and retirement planning.
  • Built and managed a multi-site SEO content network with a small ghost-writing team, dominating search rankings across major Australian cities.
  • Built an early-adopter Skype-based call center with virtual-number routing, scaling inbound call handling without dedicated agents.
  • Led B2B advisor acquisition campaigns across financial media, Google Search, and print.
  • Customized Xplan (the financial advisor platform) to automate adviser back-office workflows and accelerate Statement of Advice delivery.
  • Led the group's transition to a paperless, remote-capable operation built on a custom intranet and cloud technologies, winning an industry award for business innovation.

Frontend Developer & UX Designer

Clever Super
2012 – 2013

Frontend developer and UX designer on a fintech SMSF platform automating compliance, reporting, and investor workflows.

  • Designed and built frontend systems, onboarding, dashboards, and reporting interfaces for complex financial user journeys.
  • Built and operated affiliate and referral systems for early user acquisition.
  • Supported Google Ads, landing pages, and conversion-focused UX.

Education

Queensland University of Technology

Brisbane, Australia
2005
  • Bachelor of Arts, Nursing Science
  • Bachelor of Arts, Exercise Science

Moreton Institute of TAFE

Queensland, Australia
2001
  • Diploma, Leadership and Management
Certifications Google Analytics Certificate (updated 2026)

Toolkit

Growth Systems

Acquisition
Google Ads SEO / GEO Content Strategy Landing Pages
Conversion
Lead Capture Funnels CRO WooCommerce
Email & CRM
Mailchimp Salesforce Segmentation Campaign Automation
Analytics
GA4 GTM UTMs Dashboards

Build Toolkit

Development
WordPress PHP JavaScript React Node.js Tailwind
Platform & Commerce
WooCommerce ACF REST APIs
Databases & Data
MySQL phpMyAdmin PostgreSQL Supabase BigQuery PostHog
AI & Automation
Claude API OpenAI API Inngest
Version Control & Workflow
Git GitHub Code Review Jira Asana Monday
Hosting & Deployment
LocalWP WP-CLI SSH / SCP cPanel WP Engine SiteGround GoDaddy BlueHost

Content Toolkit

Design
Adobe Creative Suite Photoshop Illustrator Canva
Content
Landing Pages Email Campaigns Social Content Campaign Assets Image Creation
Media
Photography Photo Editing Video Editing Audio Editing
Copy
Copywriting Campaign Messaging Keyword Research SEO Content