Richard King Email & Phone Number

Bromley, United Kingdom

Bedford, Uk

At Capita I worked on Reporting across all of their Education platforms, formulating a strategic approach to providing schools, colleges and multi-academy trusts with the information and insight they need to run day-to-day, while also gaining deeper insight into their businesses.

London, United Kingdom

Created a short- to long-term digital strategy for Hodder Education, while launching an online interactive assessment test series project and expanding and increasing the utility of their Assessment Bank application, thereby providing teachers with multiple tools to measure the progress of their primary school students.

London, United Kingdom

I worked on the core product that the business provides, making incremental improvements on the core application while also conceiving and developing new modules to match the business’ objectives. Key achievements include:- Developing a short and long term strategy for the business- Introducing and bedding in a Scrum-based Agile approach to software development- Delivering against tight timelines with very limited resource- Managing the Engineering side of the business until a CTO was found

Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom

Worked across a variety of different areas helping the Marketplace team to bring new trading partners onto the platform and give those partners the systems they need to trade effectively on the Tesco platform. Some of the areas that I was involved in were:- Building a portal for trading partners to manage their orders and products on the Tesco platform. This is a strategic priority for Tesco’s online arm, and will enable Tesco to bring on partners of all sizes and technical capability, thereby helping the Marketplace team expand the range of partners quickly and efficiently.- Working with Salesforce to provide the business development team with an effective tool to manage their pipeline of new trading partners.- Re-engineering the Oracle financial system used by the Marketplace team to ensure that the system is scalable and future proofed.- Creating the Marketplace’s development roadmap for 2015-16 by gathering and prioritising requirements from all areas of the Marketplace business.

Hatfield

Primarily focussed on rolling out existing and new HTML5 mobile applications to DT’s international footprint.- Rebuilt an existing mobile app to create a more efficient and streamlined experience for the end user while meeting the needs of 6 different international carriers across Europe- Rolled out the ‘Web n Walk’ platform to 2 different mobile operators in Austria and Luxembourg, meeting their specific needs and goals.- Worked on formulating and delivering on roadmaps for “Web n Walk” and other product initiatives for 2013 and 2014, focussing on refreshing existing products to meet customers’ changing needs as well as introducing new products to bring more value to both DT and the end user.

London, United Kingdom

Product development in all areas of telecommunications, including mobile and desktop software and hardware development.

Project and product management role for social network product on The Sun's website.

Product manager for a portfolio of products including Webmail. Included product development, working alongside the wider France Telecom group to create a joined-up product approach and strategy.Also acted as Child Protection Officer for the company, representing the business at an industry and government level.

During this period, my role at Freeserve varied widely. My key working areas were:Launch and ongoing operational management of Freeserve Forums, then subsequent re-branding to WanadooChild Protection Officer, representing Freeserve in two sub-groups of the Home Office's Task Force on Child Protection on the InternetCommunity Editor, responsible for maintaining and updating the Communicate channel on Freeserve's portalOperations Manager for Smartgroups, and Account Manager for Photobox, the provider of a highly successful digital Photos application

Product Manager for a mobile SMS-based shopping application. Included product development and project management, as well as operational, in-life management of the product and its customer service team.