Andrew Thompson Email & Phone Number

Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent

Pan-divisional management and administration of 'supply-side' digital services for the organisation.Planning and resource allocation with respect to divisional projects.Development and management of a portfolio of suitable web-development services vendors; stewardship of contracts and relationships.Support of business unit marketing staff vis-a-vis trending technology and its application within their areas.In-cooperation with business units, determination and delivery of requirements, specification and live products.Strict observance of department and organisational 5 Year Plan objectives (growth, margin improvement, stability).Preparation of regular progress reports to CIO and Business Units.

Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent

Head Office - New Hythe - Kent

Custodian of KM web presence. Ongoing creative and commercial development of Kent Online; news, Motoring, Jobs, Free-ads and Property websites.Management of design and development team.General resource available to both Editorial and advertising departments to facilitate process improvement and realise commercial opportunities.Design, creation, project management and development of existing KMG radio station websites, including work to unify the KM-fm brand.Kent Messenger Group intranet; creation, continued development of this information system in support of the organisation.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Responsible for the NovaPlex brand and the design and creation of all customer facing material; printed, presentation and digital. Copywriting and editing of this material, including product documentation.Design and technical development of the Novaplex website and customer support systems.Design and creation of web-based Product installers, on-line registration and password systems Involvement in fee-earning work; web interfaces onto corporate systems.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Responsible for supporting the creation, rollout and subsequent development of all creative and technical elements of a global process Improvement programme.As a dedicated resource to CEO, HR director and training consultants in the development of the package, managed multimedia subcontractor through pilot stages and reviews to final delivery; this included video production work.Provided technical support for the rollout and maintenance of this material throughout the group.Designed and developed extensive supporting intranet site. Hand-coded HTML, Javascript, CSS.Management of internal BAe subcontractor delivering back-end programming for browser-interfaced database as an integrated section of the site.Design and artwork of various handouts and other training aids to accompany the Workshop material and brand the programme. Managed to external printer.

Rochester, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing 5-strong Graphics Services team for ‘Avionic Systems’ Division of BAe Avionics Group.Design, Creation and successful implementation of a departmental work-flow /tracking system created in MS Visual Basic/MS Excel for this department.Close work with marketing/PR functions, creation of product support and promotional literature for multi-million pound avionics hardware. Creative input into product visualisation and design.Involvement with Marconi Avionics ‘Capabilities’ multimedia CD in readiness for the 1988 Farnborough air show. Helped with the development of the material and managed divisional content to sub-contractor.