Rik Peters

Agile Scrum Master, Project Manager, Head of Production at The Thought Yard
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North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, AU

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Mitchell Death

Having worked with Rik for close to 10 years originally at Wasabi Digital and then at The Thought Yard, I have seen him manage and deliver multiple concurrent projects at a masterful level. He has great skill at taking stock of a project, getting to the crux of what a client needs (guiding them when required) and expertly leading a team to meet their target deliverable. Able to remain calm and level headed under pressure, walk the tightrope of balancing both internal/production team and a clients needs at any point in the project, ensuring all parties are on the same page with aligned expectations and goals. All this while remaining a genuine likeable bloke. As a developer I can not express how important a good Executive Producer or Project Manager is in having your back to help you get your work done, and if in future I needed someone to have my back I would want it to be Rik.

Chris Lowe

I've had the pleasure of knowing and working with Rik for over a decade. He's cool under pressure, organised, friendly and effective. He's the best Executive Producer I've worked with and he's earnt my unreserved trust. I look forward to working with him in future.

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Credentials

  • Certified SAFe® 4 Scrum Master
    Scaled Agile Inc

Experience

    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Agile Scrum Master, Project Manager, Head of Production
      • Feb 2013 - Present

      The Thought Yard - Offers a range of digital production services to Australia's most highly regarded digital advertising and marketing agencies and direct to clients. My role is to manage all productions using internal and offsite resources as Head of Production and as our Agile Scrum Master for our larger projects. I bring together creative and development to produce unique and engaging works. We specialise in websites CMS, platform transformation, API integrations, campaign assets such as banners and mastheads, rich-media and gamification, specific bespoke tools such as calculators and other software assets. We produce websites as bespoke systems as well as Wordpress, Drupal, Kentico, Magento e-commerce systems and have produced experiential installation-based works. Services Include: Platform Integrations, Web development, Apps development, Games development, Gamification, Experiential Builds, Onsite Installations, Platform integrations, and other special projects. Happy to chat about any requirement - if we can't do it - we know someone who can. +61 415 947 877 rik@thethoughtyard.com.au

    • Uruguay
    • Advertising Services
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Production - Managing Producer
      • Feb 2010 - Jan 2013

      Wasabi Digital was a team of 25-30 highly skilled in-house creative and developer resources and a further 5-10 external specialist contractors. We operated as a digital production house covering overflow and projects a little too complex for internal teams for a number of tier-one agencies and clients. Works included campaign assets, websites, complex competitions, application builds, Facebook games and other online gaming platforms and digital initiatives. Wasabi Digital was a team of 25-30 highly skilled in-house creative and developer resources and a further 5-10 external specialist contractors. We operated as a digital production house covering overflow and projects a little too complex for internal teams for a number of tier-one agencies and clients. Works included campaign assets, websites, complex competitions, application builds, Facebook games and other online gaming platforms and digital initiatives.

    • United States
    • Animation and Post-production
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Head of Production
      • Jan 2008 - Dec 2009

      Rethink Studios was part of the Republic Group of companies. We held the account for Suncorp's Insurance company websites including AAMI, GIO, Insure My Ride, Just Cars, Apia as well as Zodiac (Inflatable boats, etc), Centrum, Advil and others for Pfizer. I particularly liked redesigning the GIO Insurance products, signup process with our lead CD and the Suncorp team... many, many dependencies in their forms, and more interesting than it sounds! Great people and good friends - supplying online digital production services and campaign-driven digital services to the insurance and medical industries.

    • India
    • Advertising Services
    • Project Director
      • Feb 2001 - Feb 2007

      Paperocket was a bespoke design and development agency specialising in website design and build, Flash applications, and animation work delivered to an online audience. Paperocket held clients from the Steyne Hotel, Contiki Resorts, 3 Business Mobile, Westpac, Macquarie Group, Westfield and produced a pilot for an animation series (we ran second!) We built multiple CMS systems in partnership and produced an array of visual and presentation products Paperocket was a bespoke design and development agency specialising in website design and build, Flash applications, and animation work delivered to an online audience. Paperocket held clients from the Steyne Hotel, Contiki Resorts, 3 Business Mobile, Westpac, Macquarie Group, Westfield and produced a pilot for an animation series (we ran second!) We built multiple CMS systems in partnership and produced an array of visual and presentation products

    • Senior Producer
      • Sep 1998 - Feb 2001

      I joined New Toys Multimedia as an Account Manager specifically for their radio station account - ARN. Within 6 months I was offered the opportunity to become a line producer for the AAMI Insurance website whilst maintaining the ARN accounts as a client-facing producer. At the end of 1999, I became a senior producer on the BATA account and senior producer to various smaller productions. Spike Networks acquired New Toys and during my tenure with Spike as a SAM to clients AP Tours, AAMI and BATA among others.

    • Electronic Publishing Manager
      • May 1995 - Sep 1998

      Australian Financial Press was owned by David Koch before he sold to Reed Publishing. I started with David as a rep on his Magazine 'My Business' and worked within the custom publishing division on larger accounts managing quarterly newsletters articles and printing for large insurance companies such as MMI, writing articles on technology for the magazines, and building the first animated banner ads. An opening became available for AFP’s Electronic Publishing Manager for mybusiness.com.au and mymoney.com.au I secured this position. During the period of managing these sites I was introduced to digital agencies and various web technologies and discovered a love for all things digital. I left AFP when my band 'The Search Party' was signed to Festival records and joined New Toys Multimedia shortly after.

Education

  • University of Sydney
    Certified SAFe® 4 Scrum Master
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  • BIS Shrapnel - Project Management Course
    Project Manger - Waterfall
    2000 - 2000
  • WEA
    MYOB for Business
    2002 - 2002
  • WEA
    Adobe Illustrator
    2003 - 2003
  • Tom Hopkins Sales Training
    1996 - 1996
  • Nailsworth Technical College
    1980 - 1984

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