Management of full development lifecycle of full rebuild and migration of web-site from .net 1.1 to 3.5
Bespoke ecommerce solution including monthly billing, price-plans and merchant services integration.
Full UI refresh up to accessibility, SEO and web security standards (HTML, CSS, Javacript / Ajax)
Web development in ASP.Net (C#), SQL 2005
• Back-office Windows applications and Web Services in C#.

Project Management:
* Management of full development lifecycle of £3m green-field web product reporting to Development Director
* Managing co-located development teams (Russia and in-house)
* Implementation of Scrum methodology, artefacts and intranet to support SCRUM and improve cross team communication.
* Rolled out Automated build and automated deployment solutions to support agile processes.
* Provided best practice to team on SEO, accessibility and internationalisation.

Development Management / Consulting:
* Advised Product Director on technical groups’ organisational structure and dynamics
* Drove changes in development practices across all development teams to support five-fold increase in development resource, international rollout and support agile development practices
* Drove improvements in testing and introduced automation strategies
* Rolled out new source-controls solution to support remote development teams, automated build solution and new deployment procedures across all projects
* Defined and drove rollout of development, test and deployment environment strategies
* Supplemented development skill-set; developing internationalisation support tools, SQL install scripts, best-practice guidance on developing accessible HTML and efficient JavaScript, developing SQL stored procedures and ASP.net pages.
* Review of enterprise stability and resilience with Architect and implemented action plan to improve.

Responsible for the delivery of European Homepages, My Yahoo, Billing and User Generated Content based products.
Reporting to European Director of Engineering to:
* Devised restructure of engineering group to maximise development efficiencies for regional and global scale. Restructuring development teams across 7 countries.
* Redefined and streamlined working processes within European development team and between Europe and International teams
* Introduction of Scrum methodologies
* Introduction of Agile Development practices
* Close mentoring of the project delivery of the new Yahoo Eurosport joint venture based in Paris.
* Consultative support to project management disciplines for Yahoo Advertising and Shopping (Kelkoo) products based in Grenoble, France and Yahoo News based in Munich, Germany.

Lead project to define, specify, implement and manage the development of multi million dollar worldwide content management solution for MSN:
* Gathered business requirements and priorities from 25+ markets
* Produced goals, objectives and functional specifications
* Managing up to 10 staff (development, test and project management)
* Delivered to 3 distributed enterprises in 3 regional datacenters, 25+ markets, 100 sites in EMEA region alone.
* Designed and delivered business support structure to support 30+ global markets
* Reviewed and drove implementation of new development and test processes
* Continuous development and upgrade programs

Also during this period, lead projects to deliver MSN’s Homepage and Channels in ~30 international markets (including Europe, Americas, Asia and Middle-east)

Project manager for founding web sites for Sky Television, HarperCollins, Speedo.
Project Manager for Sky News, Sport and Games sections for LineOne.
Project Manager / Developer for prototype web sites of: The Times, The Sunday Times and The Sun newspapers