Martin Kennedy Email & Phone Number

Leighton Buzzard, GB

London Area, United Kingdom

• Working in the product innovations team to investigate AI structures and concepts that could be developed for the core Advertising solution and self-service. This involved working alongside the developers to create a.
• Working with the CTO, developers, and testers on a new subscriptions and nurturing SAS system development for digital, print, and sundry sales. This product included… Show more
• Working with the CTO, developers, and testers on a new subscriptions and nurturing SAS system development for digital, print, and sundry sales. This product included integrations with Paywalls, DMPs, Print distribution.

London Area, United Kingdom

• Led the deployment of a SAS CRM, advertising, production, and accounts receivable solution with numerous system integrations to Grupo Vocento in Madrid.
• Led the deployment of a SAS CRM, advertising, production, and accounts receivable solution in the London Evening Standard, Independent and Daily Mail group, and London Live, ensuring this deployment went live on time.
• Lead customer workshops and discovery sessions to ascertain and document ‘as is’ and ‘to be’… Show more
• Lead customer workshops and discovery sessions to ascertain and document ‘as is’ and ‘to be’ business workflow and process.
• Writing development specifications for core product development teams, and system integration developers.
• Working closely with the sales teams to provide detailed development estimations for prospective customers. Show less

London, United Kingdom

• Working in the agile product owner role. This role includes analysis and management of the development feature requests coming from the worldwide customer base and deployment teams. This role also involves the creation.
• Work with the CEO to roadmap and create a longer-term future vision of the product.
• Create and manage the development sprints for the software development team. This includes sprint velocity and burn-down analysis.
• Adoption… Show more
• Adoption of the scrum master role to ensure that day-to-day issues and obstacles do not impede the development team's progress.
• Perform customer business requirement analysis with key stakeholders, and lead requirement gathering workshops.

London, United Kingdom

• Lead and manage the successful deployment of a fully integrated SaaS digital and print advertising solution in News UK. This deployment included integrations with SalesForce.com, SAP sales ledger, DFP digital ad.
• Lead workshops to gather detailed business requirements from key stakeholders
• Provide guidance for the News UK business analysis team.
• Perform analysis on business process
• Developed data models for data… Show more
• Developed data models for data migration

Reading, United Kingdom

• Consultant for installations of a cloud advertising solution and integrated sales ledger to Bonnier across eastern Europe.
• Coordinate a development team in Finland to provide an integrated multi-currency sales ledger solution.
• Project manager and designer for providing bespoke software solutions to BBC worldwide (production copy flow management solution) and Trinity Mirror (integration with salesforce.com).
• Technical Consultancy for News International to design and develop a… Show more
• Technical Consultancy for News International to design and develop a real time PCI compliant, token based credit card payment solution (.NET web services development).
• Technical consultancy for News International to design, develop and deliver a solution to manage complex advertising contracts.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Demonstrator of imaging software and high end early SLR digital cameras for the high resolution imaging market.
• Field engineer working on the Installation and calibration of colour imaging solutions within companies creating high end glossy publications, brochures and advertising material.

Leighton Buzzard

• DEC mainframe software engineer (assembly language). This included working on software development projects for ZIANA wire agency (Zimbabwe), the launch of the Sunday Correspondent and the launch of the East African.
• Trainer on DEC mainframe fault finding and networking. This was a 3 week training course I designed and delivered to front line support engineers throughout the UK and central Africa.
• Installer of Category 5 Ethernet networks.
• Field… Show more
• Field hardware engineer fault finding on DEC PDP11 mainframes across the UK and central Africa.
• DEC mainframe installer for numerous customers including The Guardian, The Independent, The Racing Post, Ben Johnsons, The Irish Times, George Outrams, Southern Newspapers, The Daily Nation (Kenya) and Namibia Press.

Leighton Buzzard

• Machine code and assembly language programming of EPROMS for PC bootstrap programs.
• Fault finding to component level on Z80 chipset PC’s and data buffers.
• PC circuit production & flow solder machine operator.