Olly Pickard | Digital Project Manager
Career Summary
Over ten years experience in the web industry, starting in web design moving to development and finally project management, working with clients from a variety of sectors. Working on complex CMS driven websites, mobile applications and on going digital strategy solutions. Combining a technical background with industry insight and knowledge to deliver creatively inspiring and technically demanding projects.
Career History
Digital Project Manager
February 2010 to present - the OTHER media
- Project managing a variety of high profile clients, including, ECB, ZSL, Grosvenor Estate, Lord's Cricket, Ecover and others.
- Delivering creative and technically complex projects, from CMS websites to iPhone, Android and BlackBerry apps.
- Contributing to a successful pitch winning team, writing proposals and hitting invoicing targets. Managing and scheduling for multiple concurrent projects.
- Writing statements of work, project initiation documents and functional specifications, to delivering and supporting the launched sites.
- Using a variety of solutions including Microsoft Project and Basecamp, delivering projects using an in house Java CMS, Sharepoint and WordPress.
- Steering projects through the entire lifecycle including, user journeys, wireframes, information architecture, mood boards and design routes, interface (html, css, javascript), usability and accessibility, back end development and digital strategy, analysis and marketing (PPC and banner ad campaigns).
- Using waterfall and scrum agile Implementation of Prince 2 methodology and a strong knowledge of Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Identifying and resolving project bottle necks to ensure project deadlines and budgets are met.
- Working with clients to create digital road maps.
- Regular project and billing reporting to the board of directors.
Digital Project Manager - Fused Technologies/RSS Web
February 2007 - June 2009
- Leading a team of seven developers and designers, both in office and off shore, to create web based projects using classic ASP, vbscript, javascript, .Net 3.5, C#, XML, XSLT, XPath, SQL Server, (X)HTML, CSS, Google APIs and Yahoo! User Interface.
- Experience of working effectively with organisations from both private and public sector organisations, including Oxfam, Commonwealth Secretariat, Unity Trust Bank, Business Design Centre, Clarins, GMB and ASLEF trade unions.
- Product development of existing CMS and applications, including technical documentation and product testing.
Web Developer - Fused Group (formerly Poptel Technology)
March 2005 - January 2007
- Developing websites with ASP, vbscript, XML, XSLT, XPath and SQL Server using a proprietary CMS for clients, incorporating a variety of solutions including membership database integration, forums, dynamic form builder, blogs, syndicated content, events calendar, online shop, mailing lists, postcode and bank account checking.
- Working to deadlines on core software products and introducing new functionality.
Freelance Web Design and Development - Athens/London
September 2000 - February 2005
- Implementation, design and development of dynamic websites including database driven applications, graphic design and search engine optimisation.
- Creative solutions in deploying content management systems and secure, private member areas.
- Client liaison, communicating concepts, strategies and solutions in dual languages (English and Greek) and ensuring projects meet and exceed requirements.
Youth Leader - Greece, Athens
August 1999 - August 2000
- Team leading, events management and establishing new projects.
- Football coaching, running sailing experiences for young people and setting up and managing three youth groups.
Education and Training
Agile Scrum Master
September 2009
Qualified as Certified Scrum Master with the Scrum Alliance
Pharos Leadership Training
January 2008 - September 2008
Management and effective leadership
DeMontfort University, Leicester
September 1994 - June 1998
BSc Engineering IT
Interests
I enjoy working with people and keeping up to date with the latest digital developments. I keep fit and I cycle to work every day, play tennis at the weekends and go to the gym regularly, I spend winter holidays snowboarding. While living in Greece I learnt to speak, read and write the language and enjoy returning to Greece to keep my language skills current.
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