Experience

Key Production Group

• United Kingdom
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Production Account Manager

  • Jan 2020 - Present

  Production Account Manager at [PIAS] responsible for Bella Union, Rock Action and Speedy Wunderground labels, and artists Eels and The Cribs, amongst others. My role involves overseeing the manufacture of vinyl, CD, cassette and bespoke packaging, while liaising with and managing relationships between labels, artists, in-house departments and suppliers. Working under pressure in a fast-paced environment I am required to be disciplined, organised and to possess excellent time management skills… Show more Production Account Manager at [PIAS] responsible for Bella Union, Rock Action and Speedy Wunderground labels, and artists Eels and The Cribs, amongst others. My role involves overseeing the manufacture of vinyl, CD, cassette and bespoke packaging, while liaising with and managing relationships between labels, artists, in-house departments and suppliers. Working under pressure in a fast-paced environment I am required to be disciplined, organised and to possess excellent time management skills. In particular I: • Managed the production of Mogwai’s recent UK No 1 album, ensuring stock was delivered on time to UK warehouses despite the challenges posed by Covid and Brexit; • Managed the production of John Grant’s new album across all formats, developing design ideas with artist, label, designer and Key’s packaging specialist, and then working closely with European suppliers to make a complex specification into reality, to the great satisfaction of all involved. Show less Production Account Manager at [PIAS] responsible for Bella Union, Rock Action and Speedy Wunderground labels, and artists Eels and The Cribs, amongst others. My role involves overseeing the manufacture of vinyl, CD, cassette and bespoke packaging, while liaising with and managing relationships between labels, artists, in-house departments and suppliers. Working under pressure in a fast-paced environment I am required to be disciplined, organised and to possess excellent time management skills… Show more Production Account Manager at [PIAS] responsible for Bella Union, Rock Action and Speedy Wunderground labels, and artists Eels and The Cribs, amongst others. My role involves overseeing the manufacture of vinyl, CD, cassette and bespoke packaging, while liaising with and managing relationships between labels, artists, in-house departments and suppliers. Working under pressure in a fast-paced environment I am required to be disciplined, organised and to possess excellent time management skills. In particular I: • Managed the production of Mogwai’s recent UK No 1 album, ensuring stock was delivered on time to UK warehouses despite the challenges posed by Covid and Brexit; • Managed the production of John Grant’s new album across all formats, developing design ideas with artist, label, designer and Key’s packaging specialist, and then working closely with European suppliers to make a complex specification into reality, to the great satisfaction of all involved. Show less



Fortuna POP!

• Founder

  • Sep 1996 - Sep 2017

  Extensive experience of working in music through running my own independent label for 21 years, handling every aspect of creative and operational direction including manufacturing, distribution, marketing, PR, radio, tour management, digital strategy, budgeting, design, accounting and synchronisation. • Managed album campaigns, coordinating press, radio, physical and digital distribution and touring across different territories, liaising with UK and US press officers, radio pluggers and… Show more Extensive experience of working in music through running my own independent label for 21 years, handling every aspect of creative and operational direction including manufacturing, distribution, marketing, PR, radio, tour management, digital strategy, budgeting, design, accounting and synchronisation. • Managed album campaigns, coordinating press, radio, physical and digital distribution and touring across different territories, liaising with UK and US press officers, radio pluggers and booking agents, as well as promotional, retail and marketing staff; • Worked with artists, artist management, booking agents and European distributors to plan European tours and promo trips; • Built direct relationships with distribution partners in the US, Europe and Japan in order to leverage international promotional support for releases; • Worked closely with our digital distributor, arranging meetings with artists to plan digital marketing strategy and ensure artist buy-in; • Engaged radio pluggers, resulting in several singles being playlisted on BBC 6Music; • Managed social media engagement across Facebook and Twitter; • Managed all aspects of production from artwork and music masters through to manufacture of vinyl and CDs; • Commissioned the production of promotional assets such as videos and press shots, as well as the manufacture of CD promos, and delivered them to teams as required; • Regularly promoted gigs of up to 1000 capacity handling promotion, artwork, printing and distribution of posters and flyers, ticket sales and repping of shows; • Ran a four night festival every January at The Lexington called The Winter Sprinter, and an annual all-dayer at The Shacklewell Arms; • Provided label copy for licensing of tracks to compilations and for synchronisation deals; • Uploaded tracks and meta-data to The Orchard for digital sale; • Entered meta-data into the PPL and MCPS systems; • Wrote one-sheet press releases and sales notes for all record releases. Show less Extensive experience of working in music through running my own independent label for 21 years, handling every aspect of creative and operational direction including manufacturing, distribution, marketing, PR, radio, tour management, digital strategy, budgeting, design, accounting and synchronisation. • Managed album campaigns, coordinating press, radio, physical and digital distribution and touring across different territories, liaising with UK and US press officers, radio pluggers and… Show more Extensive experience of working in music through running my own independent label for 21 years, handling every aspect of creative and operational direction including manufacturing, distribution, marketing, PR, radio, tour management, digital strategy, budgeting, design, accounting and synchronisation. • Managed album campaigns, coordinating press, radio, physical and digital distribution and touring across different territories, liaising with UK and US press officers, radio pluggers and booking agents, as well as promotional, retail and marketing staff; • Worked with artists, artist management, booking agents and European distributors to plan European tours and promo trips; • Built direct relationships with distribution partners in the US, Europe and Japan in order to leverage international promotional support for releases; • Worked closely with our digital distributor, arranging meetings with artists to plan digital marketing strategy and ensure artist buy-in; • Engaged radio pluggers, resulting in several singles being playlisted on BBC 6Music; • Managed social media engagement across Facebook and Twitter; • Managed all aspects of production from artwork and music masters through to manufacture of vinyl and CDs; • Commissioned the production of promotional assets such as videos and press shots, as well as the manufacture of CD promos, and delivered them to teams as required; • Regularly promoted gigs of up to 1000 capacity handling promotion, artwork, printing and distribution of posters and flyers, ticket sales and repping of shows; • Ran a four night festival every January at The Lexington called The Winter Sprinter, and an annual all-dayer at The Shacklewell Arms; • Provided label copy for licensing of tracks to compilations and for synchronisation deals; • Uploaded tracks and meta-data to The Orchard for digital sale; • Entered meta-data into the PPL and MCPS systems; • Wrote one-sheet press releases and sales notes for all record releases. Show less



CGI

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager

  • Dec 2011 - Aug 2017

  Project Manager at the National Crime Agency (NCA): • Project Manager for a major IT upgrade project (£1m+) for the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Command (CEOP), from requirements to delivery, utilising the PRINCE2 methodology. Involved in every aspect of the project: managing business analysts and technical architects and working closely with the client's own technical authority to produce a design to meet complex security requirements; holding weekly progress meetings with the… Show more Project Manager at the National Crime Agency (NCA): • Project Manager for a major IT upgrade project (£1m+) for the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Command (CEOP), from requirements to delivery, utilising the PRINCE2 methodology. Involved in every aspect of the project: managing business analysts and technical architects and working closely with the client's own technical authority to produce a design to meet complex security requirements; holding weekly progress meetings with the client and daily stand-up calls with remote implementation teams to ensure delivery to time and budget; • Responsible for management of small to medium IT change projects from bid to implementation, including planning, financials and procurement. Implemented changes to mobile working in the areas of mobile devices that provided the client with greater agility at a time of change within their organisation. In addition I handled the monthly collation and upload of financial reports for all projects in the IT department (30+) in collaboration with the company’s financial controllers. Show less Project Manager at the National Crime Agency (NCA): • Project Manager for a major IT upgrade project (£1m+) for the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Command (CEOP), from requirements to delivery, utilising the PRINCE2 methodology. Involved in every aspect of the project: managing business analysts and technical architects and working closely with the client's own technical authority to produce a design to meet complex security requirements; holding weekly progress meetings with the… Show more Project Manager at the National Crime Agency (NCA): • Project Manager for a major IT upgrade project (£1m+) for the Child Exploitation & Online Protection Command (CEOP), from requirements to delivery, utilising the PRINCE2 methodology. Involved in every aspect of the project: managing business analysts and technical architects and working closely with the client's own technical authority to produce a design to meet complex security requirements; holding weekly progress meetings with the client and daily stand-up calls with remote implementation teams to ensure delivery to time and budget; • Responsible for management of small to medium IT change projects from bid to implementation, including planning, financials and procurement. Implemented changes to mobile working in the areas of mobile devices that provided the client with greater agility at a time of change within their organisation. In addition I handled the monthly collation and upload of financial reports for all projects in the IT department (30+) in collaboration with the company’s financial controllers. Show less



LogicaCMG Limited

• Ireland
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Project Manager / Business Analyst / Oracle DBA

  • Feb 2003 - Nov 2011

  Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 Project Manager at Ofcom Managed a small team in upgrading a number of SQL 2000 database applications to SQL 2005, delivering the project to schedule. Feb 2007 – Sep 2010 Project Manager / Business Analyst at Ministry of Justice • Documented the existing Business Intelligence architecture, identified the key issues and developed a Business Intelligence Roadmap to enable better use of data; • Coordinated the implementation of an IT Training… Show more Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 Project Manager at Ofcom Managed a small team in upgrading a number of SQL 2000 database applications to SQL 2005, delivering the project to schedule. Feb 2007 – Sep 2010 Project Manager / Business Analyst at Ministry of Justice • Documented the existing Business Intelligence architecture, identified the key issues and developed a Business Intelligence Roadmap to enable better use of data; • Coordinated the implementation of an IT Training Suite running several of the client’s applications on a single desktop, while managing the relationships with the client, the infrastructure contractor and other third party suppliers; • Led a small team in transitioning a large management information data warehouse system to a new platform in a data centre, upgrading the Oracle database and application server version. Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Project Manager / Business Analyst at British Council Managed transition programme, collating reports from PMs into a weekly progress report and chairing a weekly progress meeting with the client. Performed an analysis of helpdesk call volumes and made recommendations for their reduction. Feb 2003 – Jan 2006 Project Manager / Oracle DBA at Ofcom • Responsible for requirements analysis and estimation for a major request for change to the key licensing system; • Project management of a phase of RFCs, including full life-cycle responsibility for complex changes to key functionality in Oracle Forms and PL/SQL; • Development of estimates and a plan for implementation of Disaster Recovery; • Project management of a team of 10+ consultants migrating the Oracle Front End of three of major systems from client-server to web-deployed. • Responsible for the day-to-day UNIX and Oracle DBA support for two major Ofcom Discretionary projects inc. daily back-ups, general server maintenance, basic DBA tasks. Show less Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 Project Manager at Ofcom Managed a small team in upgrading a number of SQL 2000 database applications to SQL 2005, delivering the project to schedule. Feb 2007 – Sep 2010 Project Manager / Business Analyst at Ministry of Justice • Documented the existing Business Intelligence architecture, identified the key issues and developed a Business Intelligence Roadmap to enable better use of data; • Coordinated the implementation of an IT Training… Show more Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 Project Manager at Ofcom Managed a small team in upgrading a number of SQL 2000 database applications to SQL 2005, delivering the project to schedule. Feb 2007 – Sep 2010 Project Manager / Business Analyst at Ministry of Justice • Documented the existing Business Intelligence architecture, identified the key issues and developed a Business Intelligence Roadmap to enable better use of data; • Coordinated the implementation of an IT Training Suite running several of the client’s applications on a single desktop, while managing the relationships with the client, the infrastructure contractor and other third party suppliers; • Led a small team in transitioning a large management information data warehouse system to a new platform in a data centre, upgrading the Oracle database and application server version. Jan 2006 – Jan 2007 Project Manager / Business Analyst at British Council Managed transition programme, collating reports from PMs into a weekly progress report and chairing a weekly progress meeting with the client. Performed an analysis of helpdesk call volumes and made recommendations for their reduction. Feb 2003 – Jan 2006 Project Manager / Oracle DBA at Ofcom • Responsible for requirements analysis and estimation for a major request for change to the key licensing system; • Project management of a phase of RFCs, including full life-cycle responsibility for complex changes to key functionality in Oracle Forms and PL/SQL; • Development of estimates and a plan for implementation of Disaster Recovery; • Project management of a team of 10+ consultants migrating the Oracle Front End of three of major systems from client-server to web-deployed. • Responsible for the day-to-day UNIX and Oracle DBA support for two major Ofcom Discretionary projects inc. daily back-ups, general server maintenance, basic DBA tasks. Show less



Computer Management Group, Inc.

• United States
• Information Technology & Services

• Technical Team Leader

  • Dec 1998 - Jan 2003

  Technical Team Leader at Radio Spectrum International • Team Leader of a small team (4 consultants) to promote technical excellence within RSI: defined roadmap for Application Server Architecture; Reverse engineered databases and generated scripts using Oracle Designer; Provided Technical Assurance. • Team Leader of project to integrate two major licensing systems from analysis and design to implementation. Development of a new Spectrum Pricing system. Involved at all stages of… Show more Technical Team Leader at Radio Spectrum International • Team Leader of a small team (4 consultants) to promote technical excellence within RSI: defined roadmap for Application Server Architecture; Reverse engineered databases and generated scripts using Oracle Designer; Provided Technical Assurance. • Team Leader of project to integrate two major licensing systems from analysis and design to implementation. Development of a new Spectrum Pricing system. Involved at all stages of the system lifecycle, playing a major role in the requirements definition and analysis stages. Show less Technical Team Leader at Radio Spectrum International • Team Leader of a small team (4 consultants) to promote technical excellence within RSI: defined roadmap for Application Server Architecture; Reverse engineered databases and generated scripts using Oracle Designer; Provided Technical Assurance. • Team Leader of project to integrate two major licensing systems from analysis and design to implementation. Development of a new Spectrum Pricing system. Involved at all stages of… Show more Technical Team Leader at Radio Spectrum International • Team Leader of a small team (4 consultants) to promote technical excellence within RSI: defined roadmap for Application Server Architecture; Reverse engineered databases and generated scripts using Oracle Designer; Provided Technical Assurance. • Team Leader of project to integrate two major licensing systems from analysis and design to implementation. Development of a new Spectrum Pricing system. Involved at all stages of the system lifecycle, playing a major role in the requirements definition and analysis stages. Show less



Logica

• Canada
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Developer / Team Leader

  • Nov 1991 - Nov 1998

  Worked on various Logica projects doing IT development work in Oracle Forms and Reports, PL/SQL, Pro*C, DEC Rally, Pro* FORTRAN and Pro*COBOL, before becoming Team Leader at British Gas Service Application Maintenance Support managing development, configuration management and testing teams to deliver fixes and large-scale enhancements, including Y2K compliancy, Oracle Forms migration and SQL performance tuning. Worked on various Logica projects doing IT development work in Oracle Forms and Reports, PL/SQL, Pro*C, DEC Rally, Pro* FORTRAN and Pro*COBOL, before becoming Team Leader at British Gas Service Application Maintenance Support managing development, configuration management and testing teams to deliver fixes and large-scale enhancements, including Y2K compliancy, Oracle Forms migration and SQL performance tuning.