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Waterbeach, Gb

Waterbeach, Gb

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Accountable for the Technical Delivery of the English Technology Programmesand Projects for content solutions. Ensuring the optimumsolutions are delivered and that the benefits are achieved. Working closely withPlatforms/Projects Solutions Engineering, Technical Consulting and Analysis,Platform Operations and QA internally and with various Strategic Programmes,of which Technology is a significant element.

Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Organised and owned the Agile meetings and artifacts.• Encouraged and propagated the continuous use of the Scrum guidelines • Resolved impediments for the development team and worked with other Scrum masters to identify and manage dependencies. • Organized quarterly planning sessions to develop the backlog for each planning increment

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Owning and delivering a portfolio of technical work packages and releases centered on online products.• Project managing the build of Apps and LMS related materials.• Scrum Master for daily project stand-up meetings.• Producing and monitoring budgets and schedules.• Eliciting product requirements and managing technical design.• Working with the software development team to ensure products will deliver business requirements.• Coordination with the Quality Assurance team.• Supplier management.• Key point of contact for stakeholders in the relevant business streams.

Cambridge

A senior project management role at a world-renowned publisher, I work on multi-component courses with scheduling and budgeting oversight of English Language Teaching titles.• Maintain a portfolio of approximately 80 projects.• Formulate multi-million pound annual budgets based on the publishing plan.• Monitor and control procurement using SAP MM with a transaction sign-off limit of £15K.• Appointed to temporary Operations Manager for the Exams list area.• Consistently bring print and digital products in on time by creating and maintaining a schedule to meet editorial gateways, marketing requirements and publishing deadlines.• Review, define and document the specification for assets such as audio, video and artwork for print and digital products.• Devise and document asset creation workflows for Avallain authoring tool.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

I was an Operations Manager for Cambridge University Press with planning and budgeting oversight of the tiles on the Exams list. • Inputted into the annual publishing plan of the Exams list, ensuring project budgets were aligned with the P&L reports and work allocations did not exceed capacity. • Represented the production unit at planning meetings and was answerable to the key stakeholders on specifications, key milestones and budgets.• Exceptions reporting to the project board on a monthly basis.• Line-management, work allocation and the conducting 1-2-1 performance reviews.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Ely

Project managed all typesetting, cover design and printing.• Increased the number of published titles by 200%. • Saved the company in excess of £100,000 over two financial years by bringing outsourced tasks in-house.• Managed a portfolio of approximately 60 projects per annum.• Dramatically improved the quality of the product by introducing new guidelines and standards for typesetting, book cover and illustration creation. • Sourced new suppliers and negotiated reduced costs with existing vendors.• Hired and line managed 1 line report.• Designed and created branding for a new low cost/high margin book imprint.• Increased the efficiency of the InDesign to ePub conversion workflow.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• I was approached to guest lecture for a fixed term, teaching groups of 17-18 year olds.• Created lectures with activities and media content and uploaded this to the internal VLE.• Assisted students with their coursework, filming plans and marked their essays.

Penzance, Cornwall

Worked on numerous projects for corporate clients, including televisual graphics and DVD design for Sprout Media and corporate identity branding and website creation for Lapsley Housing.

Penzance, Cornwall

London, United Kingdom

A senior role encompassing DVD authoring and motion graphics designer working primarily with Spruce DVD Maestro, Apple DVD Studio Pro and Abobe Photoshop and After Effects. • Produced DVDs for a wide range of clients including Universal, Anchor Bay, Metrodome and Revolver.• Worked on projects that incorporated multiple language subtitles; multi-angle video and audio streams including Dolby 5.1 and DTS. • Hardware encoded video from Digi-Beta and DV to MPEG-2.• Video edited DVD menus, film trailers and EPK material.• Created corporate DVDs and VCDs for clients such as Carphone Warehouse, Barclays and Aviva• Video compression to web formats for clients such as Disney and Atari.• Managed the technical configuration of the video equipment, editing and authoring suites.• Responsible for training team members.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Hons, Communication And Media Studies, 2.1

Modules included: Film, Media, Cultural Studies, Psychology, Sociology and Video Production and Post-production (digital and analogue)..

A Level, Law, Politics, Psychology, C

Law A-Level; Politics A-Level; Psychology A-Level.