Improving the presence of the academic departments and course provision at the Reading campus of TVU website. This involves improving the quality of the content (text and graphics) so that prospective students have enough information to make an informed decision on where and what to study. Checking, and amending where necessary, legacy content/sites for inclusion into new updated site, avoiding duplication of information across pages and sub-sites. The overall aim is to create a more engaging website for TVU Reading, showcasing student work in general for Reading and specifically, for the academic departments and their key subject areas.

Main Skills Employed: HTML,, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Stakeholder Management, Content gathering, CMS Editing, Copy writing.

Migrating content from Army CMS over to RedDot7 CMS (internet). Creating mock up templates of site in Photoshop and Powerpoint, to show relevant stakeholders the proposed site architecture, prior to live development. Overall web management and daily maintenance of the ITG website including content editing/creation and design work as and when required. Also updating the ITG presence on the Defence Intranet and Sharepoint sites as and when required.

Main Skills Employed: Photoshop, HTML, RedDot7 CMS, Army Content Management System (ACMS), Sharepoint, CSS, Adobe Creative Suite (Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Acrobat).

Project management and overall ownership of the live! TBA music proposition. Wire frames created with Visio and Photoshop to show user journeys for the live! TBA project, and other ad Hoc projects as and when required. Responsible for updating the home page and key category pages of the Vodafone live! WAP portal site. Main focus on monitoring consumer activity on the portal on a daily basis and translating that into revenue-generating promotions. Close working relationship with Business Partners, Internal Stakeholders and Commercial Team to make sure correct content is being promoted at all times.

Main skills employed: XML, CMS (bespoke), Adobe Photoshop, XML Spy, WAP stats tools (bespoke), MS Office, Visio (for Wire framing). Note: 50% of job role involved project management of the live! TBA music proposition.

Management, maintenance and development of the IBM Global Services and IBM Business Consulting websites for EMEA. This involved daily meetings with the website owners to prioritise the work schedule. Worked closely with the IBM approved external design agency, marketing department, brand co-ordinators, corporate webmaster and fellow colleagues to ensure that all work was relevant and adhered to the latest web standards.

Main skills employed: HTML, CMS (Fatwire, Teamsite), CSS (used on one off campaign pages out of CMS), Watchfire Web QA (link checking etc), FTP, Adobe Photoshop, UAT, web stats tool (Surfaid), MS Office, use of various tools (e.g. Bobby) to ensure W3C accessibility/usability standards were met.

Write news items, technical bulletins and press releases for upload onto Technology intranet site.

Main skills employed: HTML, Frontpage, Adobe Photoshop, FTP, MS Office.

Planning, creation and project management of various user guides, sales literature, technical bulletins and price comparison tables etc. Used Adobe Framemaker and Corel Ventura for most of these tasks. Early exposure to XHTML and XML. Used Adobe Photoshop, Corel Draw and Fireworks for graphics work. Tight publication deadlines meant effective project management skills were necessary.

Main skills employed: XML, XHTML, Illustrator, Framemaker, Corel Ventura and Photoshop.