Company: Tribal DDB
Dates: Nov 2006 – present
Position: Project Director
Roles and responsibilities: Overseeing all digital
work for Volkswagen UK including digital advertising, micro sites
and development of www.volkswagen.co.uk. I lead a team of 7 permanent
and up to 3 freelance project managers delivering both small and
large projects and full website maintenance.
• Team management including oversight of
all projects, recruitment and mentoring.
• Client communication and management
• Project resource management
• Project leadership
• Quality Assurance management (including management of vendors)
, on individual projects and across clients
• Creating Statements of Work and Change Requests as required
• Creating and updating the project schedule as appropriate
• Managing specific projects (including pitches)
• Working with Account Director on specific clients to identify
new opportunities and provide support for new business initiatives
Company: The Sportsman Newspaper
Dates: June 2006 – Oct 2006
Position: Website Senior Project Manager
Roles and responsibilities: At The Sportsman I
was responsible for all digital project management and delivery.
Working directly with senior management and suppliers to ensure
the original website and further development was delivered successfully.
Using my design and technical knowledge helped avoid 3rd party conflicts
and technical issues arising. The following are a few of the key
roles that I had:
• Project management of the initial website
build including dealing with 16 3rd party suppliers
• Business analysis
• Design and develop functional specification for initial
build and new features
• Day to day technical management of the website and suppliers
• Convert business needs into tangible digital based solutions
Company: Ratio One
Dates: Jan 2002 to May 2006
Position: Senior Project manager
Roles and responsibilities: Upon joining Ratio
One it was my responsibility to review current practices and put
in place a full and workable project management methodology that
would work for both highly complex technical projects whilst allowing
creativity to be incorporated on more design lead projects. At the
same time I was responsible for delivery of all projects being delivered
to all clients.
Day to day project management of all projects including:
• Resolving conflicts between team members
• Setting the quality and tone of project communications
• Managing project definition, execution and transfer
• Establish and managing to Key Success Indicators
• Managing approval processes
• Acquiring and disposing of resources
• Managing work and budget breakdowns
• Forecasting and reporting
• Client liaison and presentations
• Management of blue chip clients for all bespoke development
other than SharePoint
• Issue resolutions and client relationship management
• Some art direction for interface designs
• Managing 3rd party suppliers
• Assisting prospecting at seminars
• Project definition including
• Wireframes
• Functional specification
• User interaction and flows
• Proposal generation
• Provide reports, guidance and advice to the board
• Recruitment of technical staff
Company: Spada (Previously Accelerate)
Dates: Jul 2000 to Dec 2001
Position: Art Director/Project manager
Roles and responsibilities: I was in charge of
the design and technical teams at Spada. Ensuring the clients received
the solutions as expected from the sales pitches.
• Print and digital interface design
• Generating design briefs to met client requirements
• Day to day management of a team of web and print designers
• Client presentation and liaison during the pitch, sale and
delivery phases
• Project managing all design projects
• Brainstorming and pre-sale pitch preparation
• Management of technical team and website development including
internal network
• Recruitment of design and technical staff
Company: Adval
Dates: Jun 1996 to Jun 2000
Position: Senior designer
Roles and responsibilities:
• Designing CD ROM interactive interfaces
• 3D animation and illustration
• Design of printed training material
• Designing sales presentations
• Client liaison
• Team management of design team including project management,
training, recruitment and reporting to directors
Company: Freelance
Dates: 2000 - present
Position: Designer/Illustrator
Background: Over the last few years I have worked
on a few freelance projects in my spare time. These usually come
from personal contacts who I have previously worked with. Most of
these projects are website but I was also commissioned for a series
of 3D illustrations for Lucas Film. In all cases I worked directly
with the client from initial discussions though to delivering the
finished product.
Roles and responsibilities:
• Full web service from sale to delivery including:
o Interface design
o Functional specification
o Database design and integration
o Hosting and Domain sourcing
o Image sourcing
o Sales presentations and negotiations
• 3d Illustrations for Print
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