Niclas Westling Email & Phone Number

Waverton, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Australia www.wespro.biz (2015 - Present):- Business Transformation, News Corp- Consultancy services Digital Transformation, Agile deliverySweden, Wespro AB (2013-2014):IT solutions advisor, and IT support services for SMB marketDelivered Wordpress based websites for SMB marketAustralia, Wespro Pty Ltd (2007-2012):Delivering Project management and consultancy services. Examples of consultancy work done:- Online strategy prepared for small organisation- WCM (CMS) investigating a range of products and recommending a solution to the client.- eCommerce solutions and vendor assessments.

Sydney, Australia

Vice President since November 2016.Also providing IT advisory services to the Board.

Sydney, Australia

* Business Program Manager - Strategic transformation projects within Advertising Sales.* Program Manager NewsXtend, Digital Marketing. Development projects improving NewsCorp's Salesforce and Cloudsense implementations.* Program Manager at News Digital Networks Australia (News DNA). Improving reporting and stakeholder communication for a large number of project and BAU initiatives for some of the largest websites and mobile apps in Australia. Aligning with PMO processes. Mix of light touch and hands-on approach, depending on project management capability in the respective projects.* Business Transformation of Community papers in Victoria (Leader). Managed shut down of publications, coordinating people, sales, IT and logistics changes consolidating services. May-July 2016* Program Delivery, Change from CareerOne to SEEK. Print as well as online. IT, Marketing, Sales, Change. June - Dec 2016* Program Delivery, Ad Sales migration. IT, Sales, Change and budget Management. Successful delivery on-time and below budget. Aug '16-Oct 17'

Sydney, Australia

Agile delivery lead overseeing ABC News website improvements.Managed agile team delivering ABC News into the proprietary Apple News format.

Sydney, Australia

Managed program with a range of activities related to digital web. Preparation of digital marketing strategy recommendations, replacing a legacy web system with an Ektron based WCMS platform, integration with key business applications and go-live of first set of corporate pages. Separate sub projects delivering:1. Web Front-end including Web design, front-end code. External vendor managed2. Infrastructure, hybrid on-premise and cloud hosted. Internal project team managed.3. Content production. Copy preparation, image sourcing and translations.4. Web Back-end, configuring an Ektron WCMS, development of templates. External vendor managed.5. SEO optimisation. Keyword analysis, input to IE and business taxonomy. External vendor managed.6. End to end testingSpecific program management tasks including Business case, Program Management plan, Time schedules and budget. Stakeholder communication, steering committee meetings and status reporting. Document management using Sharepoint. Vendor management.

Stockholm

Contracting for TUI Nordic / Fritidsresor

Stockholm, Sweden

Managed the delivery of iOS and Android smartphone Apps for the Nordic market from initiation to handover to operations. These apps went live late June 2014 and supported 4 languages. The project included integration of backend systems, new APIs, external vendor management and outsourced development teams. Coordination of IT, Marketing, Sales and Customer Service.Following the App launches I've been managing projects around new Web Search technologies and PIM (Product Information Manager).

Sydney, Australia

Program Manager for a major program, Unify, consolidating and redesigning Web and m-Sites for Metro Mastheads Herald Sun, The Telegraph, Perth Now, Courier Mail and Adelaide Now. Also incorporating (migrating) community newspaper websites into the chosen Fatwire CMS platform.The PM role included full financial responsibility including budget forecasting and tracking, coordination of design and User testing, Roll-out planning including training and go-live activities.

Sydney, Australia

Project Managed the Web development part of the Paid Content Program including:- Network wide specification phase- Usability testing- CMS, Fatwire development- Quality assurance through SIT, UAT and BRT- Successfully led the launch of The Australian Website digital subscription capabilities (Oct '11)- Successfully led the Web & m-site implementation of Herald Sun digital Subscription launch (Mar '12)

Scrum Master / Project Manager for two parallel Telecom projects;- Messaging platform development integration project to a major Telco client. Internal team of Rails developers plus integration communication with client and content providers. - Mobile web development of a betting application (SportsBet), including WebKit and standard mobile UI

Leading the development of an exciting new retail on-line business, treeet.com.au, including Customer service, Content suppliers, Logistics, Marketing and Website development.

Project managing a new IP based broadband service "Foxtel Download". Led the project from scoping through to development and testing.

Product Development Manager, PDMManaging multiple development projects end to end, in the areas of:- CMS, Editorial and Publishing Tools.- Business E-mail solutions, BlackBerry and Ericsson based- Entire new set of Cap Pricing Plans- Campaign Management- Mobile Website Billing Integration

Program manager within Optus mobile area for: - Content Management System (Documentum based) - MyZooNow, advanced application for presenting content and user specific information on a mobile phoneLed these two programs through to launch (Nov 05) and further with continued improvements and tuning of the services.

Project Managing a number of projects in the areas of Sport (Led the IT launch of Three Football videos), Betting, Portal development.Feb '04: taken on Program Management of managed sites, m-sites (3rd parties mobile web sites adapted to 3G within Three).

International Programme Manager working for Ericsson responsible for O&M RNC & NodeB (3G) development. 40+ project members (Sweden & Netherlands)Experience gained managing larger team of developers working with UML, Java, OO, XML, Corba using a structured project management methodology (PROPS).

Project manager working for Ericsson.Responsible for System Design, RNC (3G)

Worked with infrastructure development for ADSL/Broadband/IP Networks in a role of team leader initially and later as Line Manager for a group responsible for development of Billing and Customer Support systems

Project managing major upgrade to the voice mail system, including integration between Mobile and fixed line systems.Actively led vendor negotiations and managed Feasability phase to completion.

Project manager responsible for Voice and Fax mail platforms within the GSM and NMT mobile networks (MobilSvar and Faxlåda). Vendor management, requirements management and liason with operations and product management were important parts of this role.

Responsible for parts of characteristics and system dimensioning for the AXE-N platform. Further developed methods for estimating manufacturing costs for components of the system. Learned a lot about ATM switches and some useful lessons around OO design and real time performance.Promoted to role as Team leader

Programmer (Plex, C, Assembler)within real-time distributed OS of PABX MD110. System design using SDL. Also responsible for PC based tools.