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Remote

Project managing the development of a new disaster preparedness software tool for the CADRI Partnership, Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative.

Lindsay, Ontario, Canada

• developing and implementing digital engagement and content strategies
• leading internal and external projects, designing and developing games, applications, and content
• leading on project management, Prince2, Agile, Scrum
• writing user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira and managing workflows

Remote

Gathering requirements, systems planning, user journeys, user stories, to develop a disaster risk reduction tool for the CADRI Partnership (Capacity for Disaster Reduction Initiative).

Peterborough Ontario

• project managing a user-centric, audience-based redesign of the new website, writing user stories, user flows, wireframing, information architecture
• coordinating the delivery of online content for the website and other digital channels
• managing the courseware development team, coordinating illustrations, animations, instructional and interactive e-learning product design
• working in an Agile development Scrum team in the role of Product Owner, writing user stories and acceptance… Show more
• working in an Agile development Scrum team in the role of Product Owner, writing user stories and acceptance criteria in Jira and managing workflows
• Implementing new Agile processes around design and development of both courseware and website Show less

Toronto, Canada Area

• Managing online content and communication via ROM social platforms
• Collaborating across departments to ensuring consistent content and messaging
• Leading on the UX and content planning around a redesign of the ROM website
• Developing the Online Content Strategy in line with audiences and digital motivations
• Reporting on analytics, event tracking, KPIs and other metrics
• Overseeing work of and collaborating with the digital team

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• Management of the transformational Systems of Engagement which includes a large-scale re-development of the NGS website including integration of e-commerce, CRM, middleware, integration of legacy systems (LAMP stack.
• Product Owner within a Scrum team from UX and design to front and backend development, quality assurance
• Scoping and… Show more
• Scoping and developing user journeys and experience based on audiences and analytics
• Liaising with staff to gather requirements and conducting user research
• Writing user stories and acceptance criteria

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• In this role I managed, developed, and implemented a mass digitisation programme across the four galleries of the National Galleries of Scotland. This role included:
• liaising with other national collections to better understand their digitisation programmes
• procurement of photography equipment, studio kit, and recruitment of staff for the programme
• managing projects across departments including Curatorial, Registrars, IT, Digital Media, and Exhibitions
• developing the… Show more In this role I managed, developed, and implemented a mass digitisation programme across the four galleries of the National Galleries of Scotland. This role included:
• developing the technical processes for imaging the collections to interface with the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS), storage, drives, cataloging, metadata, and copyright systems

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• In this position I coordinated and project managed the internal RoS development team and created a plan for the implementation of the new IT system for the Land Registration (Scotland) Act 2012, which included:
• Scrum Mastering a team of ten, in a modern, agile, iterative, virtual server environment
• line management of the internal development team
• liaised with product owners to plan development backlog, user stories, and sprint work
• technical environment included Linux… Show more In this position I coordinated and project managed the internal RoS development team and created a plan for the implementation of the new IT system for the Land.
• technical environment included Linux, Ruby, Python, MongoDB, NoSQL, JQuery, Big Data, Twitter Bootstrap, automated testing, JIRA and Confluence, web application security, GIS

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

• (formerly the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - RCAHMS)Skills include:
• the use of PRINCE2 and Agile project management in a rapid development environment, usingScrum as a daily method of communication and planning
• working with clients to develop their requirements
• understanding audiences and developing user experience and journeys, and maintaininguser stories in a Product Owner role
• wireframing, and working with web designers… Show more (formerly the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland - RCAHMS)Skills include:
• wireframing, and working with web designers to develop responsive designs

• Conservation and Access Project, Glasgow School of Art (www.gsa.ac.uk)I oversaw the conservation program for the Charles Rennie Mackintosh furniture, the GSA textiles, the art on paper collection, the plaster casts and.
• organising the conservation program, liaising with project conservators and planning the movement of the collections to and from Scottish conservation studios, galleries, museums and new storage facilities
• maintaining the archives and collections budgets totalling £1.2m
• working alongside the curator, the archivist, and Estates to further develop the project
• chairing the Archives and Collections Committee and producing progress reports
• responsibility for the Hanwell Environmental Monitoring System

• In this position I was responsible for maintaining the archival collections, including the early Scottish map collection and implementing a move of the collections. This position included:
• preparing for the charity’s relocation to Perthshire, repackaging the collections into archival safe materials for storage
• managing all aspects of collection accessioning, development and integration, including the creation of electronic finding aids, and answering public enquiries
• … Show more In this position I was responsible for maintaining the archival collections, including the early Scottish map collection and implementing a move of the collections. This position included:
• conserving the glass lantern slide and glass plate negatives collections
• organizing the professional conservation and digitisation of the archives Show less

Applied Digital Geography And Gis

User Experience Design Circuit

Msc, Library And Information Studies

MLIS (Library and Information Studies, specializing in Archives)

Msc, Archaeology

Ba, Philosophy