Freelance Senior Technical Project Manager London, UK
Experienced, Prince2 certified Senior Technical Project Manager with over 12 years in IT. An expert in online tools and technologies and experience working with both multi-national corporations and small businesses.
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| Hourly Rate / Cost: | £66.67 per hour |
| Daily Rate / Cost: | £500.00 per day |
| Available From: | Now |
| Seller ID: | 318670 |
CV (Curriculum Vitae) / Résumé
Successfully managed the build of the largest client-driven advertising initiative specifically for the UK MSN market at Microsoft, leading to a globally accepted SEO best practice across all MSN markets and submission of the site for industry awards.
Delivered a seminal project for the Wimbledon Championships, managing the official video on demand, live web and mobile streaming services, amongst other components. This resulted in the capture of tens of thousands paying subscribers globally and allowed for unprecedented worldwide viewing access.
Managed the full project life cycle for the official web site of Manchester City FC. This being the first project with a major new client, its successful delivery helped cement the new relationship.
Built official sites for the Louis Vuitton Cup in Auckland and the Chinese FA in Beijing.
Employment History
(Aug 2007 to Mar 2009)
Senior Technical Project Manager
LondonResponsible for delivering web sites, streamlining internal processes and managing initiatives designed to increase user engagement and page impressions on the MSN UK portal (http://uk.msn.com). Managed and worked with teams based in London, Dublin, Redmond, Budapest, Shanghai and Pune.
Projects included:
- Managed the pitch and build of a complex website with a 3D front end for a Ford Fiesta campaign worth over $500k. An important requirement from the client was that the Flash site was fully SEO friendly. Defined budget, schedule, milestone and resource plans and managed adherence to these plans: http://specials.uk.msn.com/ford-fiesta
- Delivered an application which ingested video feeds from the BBC and MTV for display on MSN Video. This was an important deal for the business, and senior management were very dependent on its success.
- Managed the build of an application which integrated with Live Messenger enabling users to share and discuss online video. This acted as a precursor to Messenger TV, http://messengertv.msn.com, a highly successful initiative.
- Managed the build of a re-usable quiz tool based on an award winning concept, encouraging user engagement and usage of Live Search This accounts for a great deal of page impressions on the portal. E.g. http://specials.uk.msn.com/MONEY/searchsupremoquiz.aspx
- Responsible for numerous other projects on the MSN Portal and for clients and partners including NHS, Xbox & eBookers
(May 2007 to Jul 2007)
Senior Technical Project Manager
LondonManaged the build of advertising web sites for multiple high profile clients. Gained experience with Webtrends and Omniture tracking in both HTML and Flash.
Projects included:
- Implementation of a viral advertising website used to promote a new ITV drama. Production was completed in an unprecedented 3 weeks for a project of this scale to meet the deadline, with the campaign proving a great success
- Launched a multi-lingual competition site for Magnum Ice Cream.
- Worked on the Vodafone account, supporting the creation of two websites.
- Technical advisor on multiple other projects.
(Jun 2004 to May 2007)
Technical Project Manager
LondonThis role involved managing the delivery of live and on demand video to web and mobile platforms, the creation of high volume web sites, international new media marketing campaigns, as well as developing applications using new technologies at the time such as Microsoft Vista gadgets and ASP.Net 2.0.
Projects included:
- Managed a ground breaking initiative which involved worldwide live streaming and video on demand for the Wimbledon Championships. Gathered requirements and worked with internal teams and multiple third party vendors. http://www.wimbledon.org/live
- Managed the gathering of client and user requirements, design iteration, integration with e-commerce partners and bespoke technical implementation for the creation of the official website of Manchester City FC. This led to millions of monthly page views and hundreds of thousands of unique monthly visitors. http://www.mcfc.co.uk
- Managed a successful international mobile marketing campaign, working with third party design, marketing and technical partners in China, leading to tens of thousands registered users. Involved managing the set up of a WAP site, registration forms, a quiz type competition, SMS messaging and video.
- Managed the design and delivery of a Vista gadget used as a demo by Bill Gates at the official business launch of Vista, as well as a product for multiple clients. Viewable at http://www.arsenal.com/news/arsenal-gadget and http://www.manutd.com/
- Managed the build of a system for the collection and collation of worldwide online votes for the Miss World beauty pageant.
Professional Qualifications
Prince2 Practitioner (2005)
MCSD - Microsoft (1998)
Education
(Jan 1993 to Dec 1997)
University of the Witwatersrand
BSc Computer Science - University of the Witwatersrand
Categories & Freelance Skills
IT & Internet
Categories
Skills
- .NET (Project Management - Microsoft)
- £1M to £5M (Project Management - Project Value)
- £500K to £1M (Project Management - Project Value)
- 10 to 20 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- 5 to 10 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- Application Migration (Project Management)
- Budget Control (Project Management)
- Campaign Management (Project Management)
- Change (Project Management - Process)
- Change Management (Project Management)
- Communication All Levels (Project Management)
- Content Management
- CSS (Project Management)
- Databases (Project Management)
- Design (Project Management - Process)
- Design (Project Management)
- Desktop Rollout (Project Management)
- E-commerce (Project Management)
- Excel (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Exchange (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Full Project Lifecycle (Project Management)
- Functional Documentation (Project Management)
- HTML
- Infrastructure (Project Management)
- Internet (Project Management)
- JavaScript (Project Management)
- Large Company - UK (Project Management)
- Leadership
- Legacy Migration (Project Management)
- Man Management (Project Management)
- Managing Suppliers (Project Management)
- Microsoft (Project Management)
- Multinational Organisation (Project Management)
- Multiple Projects (Project Management)
- Negotiation
- PowerPoint (Project Management - Microsoft)
- PRINCE2
- Private Sector (Project Management)
- Process (Project Management)
- Programme Management
- Project (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Project Initiation Document (Project Management)
- Project Management (Project Management)
- Project Value (Project Management)
- RAD (Project Management)
- SQL (Project Management)
- Staff (numbers) (Project Management)
- Technical Documentation (Project Management)
- Test Execution (Project Management)
- Test Planning (Project Management)
- Up to £500K (Project Management - Project Value)
- up to 5 (Project Management - Staff (numbers))
- Visio (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Web Services (Project Management)
- Word (Project Management - Microsoft)
- Workflow Modelling (Project Management)
- XML

