Working for myself with the following clients: Kestrel Partners, Axon Publishing, Intercontinental Facility Services, Janet Sealy Partnership, Jardine Lloyd Thompson, Jordans Village Store, KieuLien, Verus Energy, Cornwall Park Homes

Project management of interactive projects with budgets of up to £50k for BT, Channel 5, P&G & BA.

Leading and motivating team members to meet quality requirements for deliverables and resolving conflicts within the project team.

Working with the Studio Managers to direct appropriate resources to assigned projects and ensuring accurate ‘actuals and booked’ reporting.

Project status reporting (internal and external) and creating and updating the project schedule
Managing and monitoring the project budget and invoicing of projects to ensure that invoicing is completed correctly and on time; ensuring that there is no unnecessary Work In Progress (WIP).

Liaising with the main client contact for the project, and managing conflicts with the client.
Managing scope of the project and negotiating change requests.

Obtaining timely signoff of deliverable, phase and final project acceptance documents.

Ensuring all deliverables meet quality expectations and are delivered in a timely fashion within the project budget.

Ensuring an accurate paper trail of work undertaken

Focussed on delivering a variety of web, online marketing and advertising projects working closely with Client Services for Brylcreem, 888.com, Nectar, Superdrug, Tesco Personal Finance and GE Money.

Responsible for supporting Client Services in the early stages of projects to help them win the business by providing assistance in developing project plans and costs for specific deliverables.

Worked closely with senior members of the Creative and Technical teams to finalise project plans and costs.

Booked and managed the appropriate resource with the Studio Manager once the cost estimates has been approved by the client.

Responsible for ensuring the entire project was delivered on time and on budget, and at the highest quality standards for client approval.

Providing regular updates to the client and maintained ongoing dialogue with Client Services to ensure good communication and that each project progressed well to a satisfactory conclusion.

Responsible for overseeing websites covering all business units of a large FTSE 250 and Benefit Communications sites for external clients (e.g. Dow Jones, GKN and Travis Perkins).

Resource manager for 3 web developers responsible for the maintenance of 20 existing websites and the company intranet, comprising over 2,000 pages. Line manager for 2 web developers. Project manager redesigning and creating new websites, utilising recently acquired APM skills. Developed a new ‘web strategy’ using this knowledge to implement the successful management and delivery of work to clients.

Introduced a new quality assurance system to ensure that the quality of our work was to the highest standard. All websites were XHTML Strict using CSS with JSP, ASP or PHP (with XSL and XML) and had a strong focus on accessibility, usability and the reusability of code. All new websites had to meet priority 2 of WCAG1.0 of the web accessibility initiatives. All new websites were integrated with FatWire, a complex content management system with an ‘in site’ editor and workflow system.

Projects included the redevelopment of the web modules for oPen and Classic, powerful pension software developed by Profund, to ensure they were accessible. Also responsible for the migration of all existing websites to a new server, and the setup of web servers. Was involved in the development of a new online quotation and purchasing ecommerce site for pet insurance.

Promoted in July 2004 from Web Developer to Studio Manager and responsible for managing 7 web developers. Projects involved the delivery of investor relations solutions for use on company websites often to tight deadlines. The largest clients included Reed Elsevier, GlaxoSmithKline, HBOS, BAT, BT, AstraZeneca and Friends Provident. Responsibilities included gathering requirements for projects, constructing and maintaining project timelines, project plans and site plans; forecasting availability and allocating resource to new projects based on timescales, technical requirements; tracking the progress of over 20 concurrent projects and reporting their status weekly.

Projects included managing the development of the new corporate website for Glanbia Plc; the Hemscott Investor Relations website and redesigning the Hemscott corporate website.
Provided technical consultancy and support to the sales team and their clients, liaising with a variety of different departments regularly to resolve queries. Responsible for making decisions on the cost of online solutions, based on complexity of the job, development time required and other possible factors. Took a key role in the development of a new investor relations maintenance team.

As a Web Developer created, redesigned and maintained dynamic tools in corporate websites for over 300 listed companies. Clients included Friends Provident, BT, AstraZeneca, Reckitt Benckiser and BAT amongst other FTSE 100 companies. Developed accessible pages using XSLT, XML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ASP and JSP.