While studying audio engineering I set out to launch my own record label. Late 2008 I started developing the website and artist roster. The label launched in 2009 after I graduated college.
During 2010 I started studying different computer code and web development languages. Meanwhile, I managed a roster of eight artists and started developing online marketing techniques designed to promote music.
During 2012 I started work on dismantling the record label and distributing its assets. Over the four years I ran the record label I learnt a lot about myself, business and leading people.
I was ready to start new projects and build upon my experience.
During 2012 I started working as a kitchen fitter, which I was surprisingly well suited for despite my lack of eyesight. I loved manual labour and worked in this part time position until March 2015.
During 2014 I had amassed a medium sized catalogue of music. As an experiment I set up a few songs to be distributed over the course of a number of months which I began to market and advertise. I believed you could take any songs and market them on mass.
Mid 2015 I actually began to rethink my experiment and for good reason - as someone who is legally blind I was not expecting for people to start recognising me in the street in various places across the country. I featured in the SoundCloud charts multiple times and accumulated "nine million" Plays/Streams across various platforms.
Without anymore intervention I left my experiment and have since accumulated eleven million streams via SoundCloud. I paved the way for new ventures. I set the remainder of the songs to private and only display on particular blogs. Mainly because I was releasing work I was not happy with I just wanted the worst music possible. As part of the experiment, could I keep people listening? WOW.
During this time, I ran a community project later named and incorporated "Music In Communities", a company limited by guarantee. I worked with young disabled adults tutoring music in various forms.
I also formed an advertising platform called "If Marketing" around this time. My goal was to work towards developing new marketing tools provided for free.
The second year of my relationship with my future partner and we began a successful venture together.
This is the year I also began to develop my website network as it is today.
I reached 10K connections via LinkedIn, helping further my freelance work as a developer and project manager.
In 2017 I began to create various software and SaaS suites that have been designed to deliver comfortable workflow for complex processes. Waiting in the content locker.
It was around this time I halted development on personal projects and started offering web design services on a freelance basis. My skills in SEO and PR proved highly popular. Some of those projects are still on hold today requiring API updates and so forth.
During 2018 I planned on creating a web design company. I incorporated CookeCorp in 2019. I then started work on developing the company.
I decided to get hands on with helping the disabled community and now offer consultations to disabled individuals while developing the business. It aims to help disabled individuals find the right resources & gain skills that help acquiring work placements, amongst other things.
In 2023 I welcomed my daughter into the world. I need to work harder, be smarter and remain humble.