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background


"When you have
   nothing else to do,
do something."

employment history

period company
apr 03 - jul 03
oct 03 - jun 04

DNA Consulting Ltd: Contract Project Manager
Responsible for all areas of Project Management, clients included the London Metal Exchange, Standard Life and Cheltenham & Gloucester.

Duties: Project costings, project planning, project initiation, project reporting, budget management, documentation, resource management, QA, working with various CMS's.

jan 98 - mar 03

Bluewave: Interface Development Manager
Responsible for all areas of Interface Development within Bluewave including:

  • Information architecture
  • Content specification and tracking
  • Usability
  • Client-side coding including XHTML, CSS, javascript, DHTML, JSP, ASP
  • Content population
  • Maintenance of web sites
  • Quality of web sites
  • Accessibility

Line management duties: recruitment; team building; appraisals; career development.

Production responsibilities: resource management and allocation; developing and maintaining processes and standards for building and maintaining web sites; awareness of status of all projects; time estimation; prioritisation; ensuring work produced is of a high quality; problem solving; hands on interface development work; project management; consultancy; proof reading; testing.

Strategy: overall strategy for the team in line with business objectives; evaluating emerging technologies; planning shape of team skills and availability to meet future demands; organising research and development or training activities within the team.

Sales process: evaluation of potential work; contributing to sales lead proposals and pitches; quoting time costs for proposals; proposal writing; attending client meetings.


jul 97 - jan 98

Bluewave: Receptionist & Interface Developer
Reception duties, HTML build, content population, basic javascript, photoshop, web trend reporting, liasing closely with web designers, web site maintenance.

dec 96 - jul 97

Computacenter: Rebates Analyst
Producing and distributing monthly reports to dealers and maintaining report database.
Running queries on sales made in order to claim rebates and special promotions from suppliers.

oct 95 - dec 96

Vales Truck and Van Centre: Service Receptionist
Administrative duties, invoicing, day to day running of front-desk including: liasing with customers and foreman; booking vehicles in for repairs or services; dealing with leasing companies; booking MOT's; raising job cards; taking payments; obtaining purchase order numbers from customers.



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