Professional Background
From classroom to boardroom — Graham Raddings has navigated both education and enterprise technology, bringing a uniquely people-centred perspective to every role.
Career Journey
Graham Raddings has built his career across both the public and private sectors, working in roles that demand both technical depth and human understanding.
Present
EdTech · Private Sector
Leading a solutions engineering team across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Graham Raddings brings together every skill accumulated over a career spanning creativity, code, education, and enterprise technology — helping institutions across the EMEA region adopt, implement and maximise digital learning platforms. A role where teaching, technology, and leadership finally converge.
10 Years
Higher Education · Public Sector
A decade in the classroom, teaching the next generation of digital creators. Graham Raddings lectured in Interactive Media and Games Design, bridging creative craft and technical skill. This period gave him a deep, practitioner-level understanding of what learners actually need from technology — knowledge that has shaped every professional decision since.
Entrepreneurship
Web Design & Development · Private Sector
Graham founded 029 Ltd, a web design and development company delivering hundreds of digital projects for clients across industries. The business developed a particular specialisation in bespoke educational software — an early signal of the EdTech path that would define his later career. Building digital products end-to-end: design, development, delivery.
Early Career
Digital Media · Private Sector
Graham's professional career began at the frontier of digital media — building web presences for print newspapers entering the digital age, designing user interfaces for interactive television, and creating physical interactive kiosk installations for public-facing experiences. Early, hands-on experience of how technology meets audiences.
Education
Higher Education
Formal training in filmmaking, film theory, and cinematography — combined with self-taught HTML and web development. Graham taught himself to code entirely independently, a habit of self-directed learning that has defined his approach to technology ever since.
Roots
Miniatures · D&D · Commodore 64 · Demo Scene · Fanzines · Music
Long before any professional career, Graham Raddings was creating. Painting miniature models. Running Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. Coding and making demos on the Commodore 64 as part of the demo group SXPRESS. Producing music and animations on the Amiga 500. Self-publishing Apocalypse Fanzine in 1991. Touring as a drummer in a rock band. Creativity was always the constant — the medium just kept changing.
Skills & Expertise
Connecting systems, APIs, and workflows to create seamless technology experiences for organisations of all sizes.
Specialist experience with learning management systems including Canvas LMS — from implementation to ongoing optimisation.
Bridging the gap between technical teams and non-technical decision makers — turning complexity into clarity.
Supporting organisations through the process of adopting and embedding new technology — sustainably and effectively.
A career in education honed the ability to explain the complex simply — an invaluable skill in any technical role.
Technology should work for people, not the other way around. Graham keeps the end user front and centre in every project.
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