Project Manager with web, marketing, management, design and development skills. Would like to work with a skilled team on projects with an emphasis on user experience. Ran a high performance web department for over 4 years, with 11 years experience in the media entertainment industry ranging from television, to games and web. Currently employed at MobileMe in Apple, working on web and device applications. Encourage team building and personal growth of staff. Not averse to risk and performs well under pressure; highly driven to succeed. Excellent communication skills for both technical and nontechnical interaction.
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Productivity Software,
Cupertino, California
March 2008 – Present
Work with several teams of engineers project managing product line feature releases/maintenance and frameworks for MobileMe. Emphasis on managing large cross-functional deployments.
Currently EPM for shared client code, default sign-in, static pages, and Gallery products (visitor/owner client experience, Gallery server, phone web- site & iphone/ipad app). Also project manage SproutCore, the open source Javascript framework that MobileMe is built on. Organize cross-company multi-day SproutCore training and support other Apple software teams with feature requests and bug fixes.
Past products: Auth Server, Contacts application, and marketing pages.
Interactive Agency,
Vancouver, British Columbia
June 2007 – Present
Project managed various sized teams creating innovative web application and site product solutions for EA Sports and EA Games, my clients, at an Interactive Agency. Initiated and lead search engine best practices on the account and consulted client on technology set up, to meet search business objectives.
Duties: Brainstormed concepts; gathered requirements; defined scope and controlled changes; created schedule; managded risk; estimated then maintained project finances; managed production and delivery; and lead shared resource teams in parallel.
Responsible for: Meeting internal and external performance metrics, ensuring legal requirements and documents are complete; successful completion of all project deliverables; communicating to stake holders; and coordinating with third party vendors, studios and agencies. Also trained junior resources, streamlined processes and tracking, created project management templates and a widget catalogue.
Computer Software industry,
Vancouver, British Columbia
March 2003 – June 2007
Responsible for project innovation and completion for: 3 large public facing, multi-lingual product web sites; sister site; blogs; affiliate site support and company wiki-based extranet. Working for development company responsible for Paradise Poker (#1 online poker game in 2003). Managed components from transnational teams in offices across five countries. Created processes and implemented technologies for cross-team communication. Championed search engine optimization, standards compliance and usability initiatives cross-company.
Managed a small team of designers and developers in a fast paced, stressful environment. Supported marketing internationally with promotional web needs and live tournament content updating. Worked with support, database and IT teams to ensure relevant content for users. Created metric and SE reports for management and organized company events.
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Computer Game industry,
San Jose, Costa Rica
August 2001 – February 2003
Designed and built company intranet (125+ pages), and wrote customer service training materials and company policies for head office of ParadisePoker.com. Completed graphic work for marketing department ventures. Managed and executed projects for product web site with transnational team located across three countries. Procured servers, desktop systems and software. Windows 2000 MIS duties for customer service office. Created all office procedures and organized company events.
Entertainment Industry,
New Westminster, British Columbia
April 2000 – July 2001
Production managed two television show demos and coordinated production of a multimedia marketing CD. Managed two interactive Quicktime video projects. Prepared Creative Department progress reports. Managed 3rd anniversary event and broadcasting. Coordinated 1st spoken animation. Maintained community site and transcribed comic for accessibility readers.
Entertainment industry, Calgary, Alberta
May 1999 – June 1999
Production Manager for “Disposable Life”, independent feature length black and white film. Secured shooting locations and managed product/logo placement for promotional requirements. Created and managed staff contracts, permits and legal documents. Managed budget and financial records. Liaised with sponsors during production. Designed and created both the “Disposable Life”
and Pariah Entertainment
web sites.
Entertainment industry, Toronto, Ontario
July 1998 – August 1999
Ran mobile office (12 locations) for two seasons of “Exploring Horizons” traveling documentary, broadcast on Outdoor Life Network and Travel Channel. Researched locations and shooting events as well as organized promotional event filming. Logged tapes and translated English to French tape logs. On camera appearances.
Project Management Certificate, 2003 – 2004
Completed Project Management Certificate and Applied Technologies Specialization with Honours. Proud member of the "scope creeps".
Applied Technologies Courses:
BFA, Film Production, 1996 – 1998