Projects
Leicester.gov.uk Re-Development
Skills and achievements include:
- Mind mapping entire project
- Consultations and Presentations at all levels
- Research lead
- Managed and delivered on time
- Delivered with success with no major bugs
- Managed under pressure
Improving web content
Skills and achievements include:
- Thorough research of identified areas of improvement
- Comprehensive solution offered
- Risks identified
- Clear, simple and attractive report compile for directors
- Non local authority trends researched
Elections 2007
Skills and achievements include:
- Working under pressure to immoveable deadlines
- Delivered on elections day on time
- Performed live with zero bugs
- Working out of hours to ensure success
- Concept designed to help promote leicester.gov.uk usage
Documentation Standards
Skills and achievements include:
- Design and implementation of project documentation
- Consistent content, layout and design
- Designed for use by team, suppliers and customers
- Reflect professional image
Website Marketing
Skills and achievements include:
- Designing marketing concepts (see poster above)
- Supplying marketing ideas for internal and external use
- Developed a marketing website and ideas for IT Awareness
- Ensured our quality and brand identity reflected on all output
Conceptual Project Management Software
Skills and achievements include:
- Understanding project life cycles
- Concept ideas on managing small projects in small teams
- Pro active, self motivated work
- Working out hours to self-develop skills.
insite / web - home of the webteam
Skills and achievements include:
- Marketing the team and their skills / services
- Leading by example - good practice on insite
- Leveraging web technology to communicate
- Lead the design and implementation of initial framework
Supervising and liasing
Skills and achievements include:
- Managing internal staff and suppliers
- Ensuring all parties understand each other
- Ensuring all output confirms to web team guidelines
- Managing supplier requirements and lead times
- Ensuring consistent communication and branding
Countless other projects
Plus many more self managed projects from websites, to online
services to brand identity - all delivered to customer needs,
on time and on budget.
Milestones
Web Manager (Acting)
- Managed a team of 7 people
- Key contributer to Web Strategy
- Project prioritising and scheduling
- Supervision of team members
- Coaching team members
- Negotiaton skills
- Decision making
Senior Web Developer
- Project managed leicester.gov.uk
- Researched / Solved improving web content
- Help promote and market events via web
- Implemented documentation standards
- Implemented guidelines
- Actively took part in various Project Boards
- Managed consultations
- Liaised with managers, editors, users, customers and suppliers
- Supervised team members
Lecturer (HNC/D Computing)
- Taught good practice of enterprise level software implementation.
- Handled groups of differing personalities and abilities
- Successfully motivated group and generated team spirit
- Managed student progress
- Managed effective course delivery
- Managed student administration
- Communicated technical concepts to novice audience
- One to one and one to many communication
Freelance Developer
- Self management skills
- Financial skills
- Self motivation skills
- Marketing skills
- Brand Identity / Quality Assurance skills
- Customer liaison
- Project management cycle
Advertising Agency
- Marketing skills
- Leveraging the web to promote products
- Leveraging the web to provide online services and money saving solutions