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Epping, Gb

Epping, Gb

Brighton, Gb

London, Gb

Sheffield, England, Gb

Sheffield, England, Gb

London, England, Gb

Lead a team of product managers, product owners, digital producers and web producers with support from the Digital Operations Lead to deliver a challenging digital delivery pipeline during a time of organizational change. Maintained motivation and delivery focus whilst developing standards and identifying key areas for improvement during a significant change in the key players at senior management level and through a merger.

London, England, Gb

Reviewed the UX approach for the product development of the standardized digital components, implemented profile selection standards and structured usability testing into the product development cycles. Worked closely with key stakeholders to determine the requirements for the Ecosystem project to identify a minimum viable solution and work closely with the Design UX Team to visualize concepts to achieve stakeholder agreement. Advised on delivery timeframes, risks and project personnel requirements to move the project forward. Re-organised the product team and identified gaps in the team which would enable a more efficient product development path. This involved bringing new talent into the project team/terminating existing contracts.

London, Gb

Working closely with Interaction Designers, Product Owners, Learning Experts, local Marketing & Sales teams and external UX Consultancies to ensure an in depth understanding of key markets, digital infrastructures and technological advancements and therefore a closer integration of the print and digital components of a course. Identifying areas where digital can enhance the course offerings to ensure a much more intuitive user experience for future publications.

London, Gb

Working closely with the publishing teams and the Head of Digital Product Delivery to scope new, up-to-date digital language learning products which correspond to both online and offline market and learning needs. Approaching these concepts using a user-centred approach based within the foundations of agile methodology. Working with the marketing teams and going on field visits to understand user traits and technology traits within education.Managing key members of the digital product delivery team to ensure current digital products are produced on time, to budget and agreed specifications.

London, Gb

Managing the Project Coordinators, working closely with Publishing teams to prepare briefs for the digital products and identify and specify new features required. Work closely with key stakeholders on Pearson's flagship digital incentive, MyEnglishLabs to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery of these online language learning products.

London, Gb

Responsible for the digital delivery of the entire Adult and Exams list. Responsibilities included creating and managing schedules and budgets as well as briefing in and out-of-house developers. This also involved an immediate need to standardise briefs and streamline the delivery of digital assets.

New York, Ny, Us

Post-production online editorial work on exam programmes such as FCE and TOEFLibt, as well as pre-production editorial work for digital component of the Primary English series for the Middle East.

Freelance development editorial work on the online Cambridge University Press, Touchstone series.

A BBC Data Protection online course which is mandatory for all BBC staff. This involved: liaising directly with the client on learner’s needs; authoring a treatment and video scripts to address these needs using video and online interaction; producing the graphic and look for the course; overseeing the production of the video and flash interactivity; building the course using the eLearning Publishing System Mohive.

Cambridge, England, Gb

Oversaw the content development and ensured quality control for a high profile government funded project (Open School for Languages) to engage secondary school children with languages. This role involved training authors and editors in a new initiative within online learning to develop innovative and engaging content in four languages (French, Spanish, German and Mandarin) at two levels (basic [national curriculum 1-2] and preliminary [national curriculum 3-6]).

Cambridge, England, Gb

Working with the authors, an online development team and audio / visual editor to implement the production of an online study skills programme (Cambridge Online Study Skills - COSS) aimed at first year undergraduates.

Cambridge, England, Gb

This role involved working closely with the EAP Director on projects such as the production of a specifically designed Diagnostic test as well as being responsible for carrying out the necessary preparation and organisation for a five-week Pre-Sessional programme. It also involved organising tailor-made external courses for non-Cambridge students. One such course was commissioned by the Canary Island Ministry of Education and involved liaising and negotiating with government officials, working closely with the teachers and the Director of the Language Centre to ensure a high quality course was delivered to more than 50 of their teachers (from both primary and secondary school backgrounds).

Cambridge, England, Gb

This high profile project funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) demanded high quality online courseware and tutor training for teachers of English across China in an integrated online with face-to-face learning methodology. This role involved liaising with a film crew, authors, designers and online developers to ensure that briefs and deadlines were met as well as proof-reading and editing materials, being aware of copyright issues, working to budget and at times advising the Director on the appropriate way forward. I worked closely with Tsinghua University, their partner universities, the Cambridge teacher trainers and the technical team both in the UK and in China to ensure that a teacher training programme could be delivered on time during the 18-month project. To this end, constant contact with my counterpart at Tsinghua University was a must to coordinate and organise the 20 Chinese teachers of English from across seven universities in China. This training was delivered through face-to-face sessions (both in Beijing and Cambridge) as well as online. In parrallel, I managed the production of high level English online, interactive, multi-media courseware for the Chinese academics we were working with. Both the training programme and the online courseware were developed following a thorough needs analysis and in depth discussions with our Chinese counterparts. In addition, a teachers’ online interactive module was developed to meet the needs of the programme. This role demanded high levels of communication, coordination and time-management skills as well as great sensitivity and diplomacy to meet the enormous demands and challenges of this government funded cross-cultural project. As well as working behind the scenes I was also involved in delivering part of the tutor training programme. The project was externally evaluated and concluded that ‘it has provided an example of a highly succcessful Sino-UK eLearning project’.

Cambridge, England, Gb

English @ Your Fingertips is online courseware to help teach English at three different levels (Intermediate, Higher and Advanced). I was responsible from the outset to ensure that the film production team understood and carried out their brief and to deadline. Often needing to negotiate actors, film locations, permissions, copyright and budget as well as, on occasion, working closely with the producer to re-negotiate the agreed filming schedule and content to better meet the demands of the project and marketing brief. Working closely with the project authors to deliver clear and helpful interactive, online activities which allowed learners to engage with the audio / visual material and develop their English language abilities through a series of interesting and useful online activities. My main responsibilities included working, at a distance, with a number of course writers and proof-readers, discussing the course content and implementing the schedule to produce over 340 hours of online activities. Everything was checked thoroughly and cross-referenced with the brief and existing course content. Where necessary, work was edited. I also liaised with the project’s design team in order to ensure that the courseware was given an appropriate identity, a suitable ‘look’. Furthermore, I worked very closely with the online developers from the development of the overall framework to ensure that the brief and deadlines were met. I proof-read all content and provided or commissioned necessary rewrites as appropriate. This project demanded excellent time management and communication skills as, at any one time, I was managing the workload and demands of more than 20 people located across the UK and abroad. Deadlines were tight and content had to be accurate, consequently an eye for detail was also crucial.

This job developed from formatting and designing materials in a variety of languages including French, German, Spanish, Swedish to coordinating and managing the workload of the in-house printer and the production and distribution of flag-ship publications in up to ten languages (including Mandarin, Japanese and Tagalog). The work involved liaising with both internal and external people (writers, designers, printers, photographers, distribution companies and tradeunionists), ensuring that everyone met their brief and deadlines as well as requesting quotations, negotiating budgets and making researched reccomendations. In the absence of the Web Manager, I updated the internet site using basic HTML. My other duties included supervising temporary workers, brainstorming, developing and producing exhibition displays and materials for political campaigns, writing meeting reports, initiating and developing an electronic database for a new electronic image storage and retrieval programme as well as maintaining stock levels of promotional items and publications.