Kevinjohn Gallagher,

Kevinjohn Gallagher,

Bsc MT, ACP, MMCP, MFD, Prince2

Address: 41 Meadowfield Avenue

Edinburgh

EH8 7NW

29 Furlong Road

London

N7 8LS

Mobile: 07788 718382

E-mail: cv@kevinjohngallagher.com

D.O.B: 22nd November 1978

Degree: Multimedia Technology Management, Napier University.

Qualifications: Prince2 Management Methodology

Allaire Certified Professional

Macromedia Certified Web Professional

Macromedia Certified Flash Developer

Macromedia Certified Professional

Scottish Enterprise: Manager of the Year

Microsoft's "Reserved for Excellence" for MSDNAA Web Services

Over 15 years experience working in cross-functional teams as a technical expert.

Detail-orientated, IT Specialist; with a strong background in Web Development, User Experience, Project Management, Consultation and Internet-related technology.

Distinguished performance over ten years in both private and public sectors; specialising in building Client relations through continued objective analysis, communication & consultation.

Dynamic, award-winning career, reflecting pioneering expertise in Internet-based multimedia solutions; offering a rare combination of N-tier architecture experience from multiple perspectives.

Comprehensive development skills across the front and back-end range; focusing on the open source and OOP orientated market in the last 5 years.

Proven leader with a strong entrepreneurial spirit; displays a real strength for identifying and encouraging talent by building and motivating teams to work cooperatively to achieve goals.

Expert in the design, development and delivery of cost-effective, high-performance technology and communications solutions to meet challenging business demands.

Major roles detailed below. Experience of smaller roles available on request:

Pure Web Brilliant Director and Developer January 2009 – Dec 2009

- Carved out business model based solely on PHP-orientated sustainable open source technology.

- Hand coded solutions and additions to the WordPress and bbPress cores.

- Promoted the use of reusable OOP classes to speed up development time and reduce bugs.

- Developed and documented coding standards for web page development.

Endemol Project Manager January 2008 - Oct 2008

- Led tech-heavy cross medium projects for major brands such as Big Brother, Deal or no Deal & the BBC.

- Responsible for Full Life Cycle, prioritizing and scheduling briefs from multiple sections.

- Managed infrastructure migration including all external internet sites, the intranet, hardware, and servers.

- Ran critical short term projects, with heavy weighting towards user submitted content (Texts and Video).

Personal Project s Developer January 2007 - Jun 2007

- Overseeing the end to end delivery of key user-centric systems, ensure all objectives fulfilled.

- Nurtured multi-national teams, developing in PHP based Web 2.0 using agile & scrum techniques.

Full Six Agency Development Manager August 2006 - Nov 2006

- Integrated Development and PM role in a senior capacity with abundant stakeholder management.

- Ensured momentum of project by providing direction, by absorbing many different personalities & roles.

- Quantified web 2.0 initiatives and their use, when faced with the re-purposing of client goals, needs,

requirements and issues across an ever changing roadmap on high profile public facing websites.

Them Agency Project Manager April 2006 - Jul 2006

- Emergency PM to oversee integration of new management team and structure, from Director level down.

- Initiated full Agile methodology to revisit under-estimated project plans that had a single point of failure.

- Recruited 3^rd party partners and freelancers on varying contracts to ensure projects met given deadlines.

- Coordinated consultation with clients, AM’s and board members to capitalize on given opportunities.

T101 Development Manager January 2005 - Feb 2006

- Applied leadership & motivational skills to raise team enthusiasm for critical, yet non-principal projects.

- Oversaw the design, development, support & infrastructure teams; with direct reports & personal reviews.

- Delivered a doubling of market Share that saw online number & log-ins per minute triple.

- After initial analysis, defined technical and business procedures for restructuring workflow through UML.

- Controlled all interaction with 3rd party vendors including tenders, specifications, and actualization.

Microsoft Specialist UI.Net Developer July 2004 - Dec 2004

- Building Microsoft’s pioneering C# Content Management System; used on MSN and partner websites.

- Involved in Architecture of control-based C#, to allow multi-developer integrated component creation.

- Designed dHTML interaction using advanced XML data-islanding, AJAX only CSS based expressions,

multiple client-side dialogs, and client-side WebService proxies to reduce the number of user postbacks.

Cisco Systems Lead Developer July 2002 - Sept 2003

- Facilitated recruitment of resources. Orchestrated daily team meetings and one-on-ones to ensure

personal development plans were being met. Devised training procedures to promote continued growth.

- Communicated value of user tracking and initialized analysis of website interaction.

- Coordinated development and site restructure towards automation, including transfer to in-house CMS.

British Government Lead Developer August 2001 - Jan 2002

- Developed a new .NET framework back-end for the Scottish Executive using VB.net & C#, while in beta.

- Liaised with clients, stakeholders, partners and 3^rd parties to ensure Project Plan was properly managed.

2001online.net Hands-on Development Manager 2000

- Mentored junior members in skills development. Formulated print & online advertising campaign.

Beechwood Web Team Manager 1999

- Converted client remit to procedures for team. Instigated testing & market research into usability.

Arcas Web Team Leader 1998 - 1999

- Increased involvement in Client Facing & Project Manager, and use of dHTML, multimedia & CD-ROMS.

Web Concepts Web Developer 1996 - 1998

Web apprenticeship (HTML, JavaScript, Perl & image manipulation). Increasing Client interaction.

Skill Set:

HTML 10+ years

JavaScript 10+ years

CSS 10+ years

XML 10+ years

SQL 10+ years

PHP 10+ years

ASP/.Net 10+ years *

Flash/AS1/AS2 10+ years *

* It should be noted that my knowledge of the very latest version for each of these software releases is limited. I have a fundamental grasp of the technology, but haven't had a need to use the cutting edge versions for a considerable number of years.

C/C++/Java 0 years **

** While having worked with and around compiled technologies for the majority of my web career, I want to stress that I am not a developer in the old-fashioned sense, and have no ability nor desire to become one.

Links:

The following list is the last 10 websites on which I worked that are currently public facing.