About me

I'm a senior product lead coming from creative background. Winner of Silver Award for data visualisation (Information is Beautiful, 2013) and multiple Drum and Lovie Digital Media awards while a product lead at Clavert Foundation ().

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Current job specs:

Team size to manage. Circa 5 people (designers, developers, QA, devOps, SEO, junior management/marketing).

Location: remote.

Mode: part-time for longer roles: 3-4 days/wk, full time for short contracts.

Work eligibility: I'm a British citizen, which means the right to work in the UK. Also, happy to explore my legibility to work in your country if it's not the UK (I've had some experience with US-based companies, etc.)
Interests: digital publishing and online media (current affairs, science, think tanks, not for profit). B2B, including sales and finance.

Duties:
- 30% project management (design, development, UI/UX, QA, devOps) including planning and job estimations (Gantt charts and other WBS).
- 30% technical writing (requirements, user stories, meeting minutes, documentation, reports).
- 30% research (concept development, wireframing, user journeys).
- 10% various (system administration, work with marketing on strategy, SEO, QA).
Skills
- design/creative background (15 years in publishing and online media, ).
- 4 years of recent experience as a product owner ().
- Agile/scrum, gitHub flow and CI/CD, project management tools (Jira), documentation tools (Confluence), basic devOps reporting (AWS).

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Projects and achievements

Achievements
- Information is Beautiful design award in 2013 for design and illustration when working at The Guardian.
- Multiple awards in the sphere of digital media when working at Calvert Foundation: Drum awards (Best Designed Site 2020 and 2021; Best Specialist News Site 2018, 2020, 2021; Best Local/Regional News Site 2021) Lovie award: Best Lifestyle Site 2020.
Projects successfully completed while at Calvert:
- ElasticSearch integration (managing back end, UX and front end. Search results, filtering, production of custom category pages).
- Migration of website from managed hosting to public cloud AWS (infrastructure as code, CI/CD, gitHub, Jenkins, Cloudflare).
- Migration of company's old physical servers to Google Team drives (including staff onboarding, backup policies and user management in G Suite).
- Delivery of the Calvert Journal Film Festival 2021 (management support throughout the project lifecycle including integration of film festival platform, ticket sales, landing pages and support with managing film database).

Skills

Business Analysis, Creative Direction, Illustration, infographics, Product Design, Teaching / Lecturing, Team Management, Writing

Sector Experience

Charity / Not for profit, Computing (Software), Creative Services, Education, Information Technology, Media, Non-profit, Production, Research & Development, SAAS

Awards

Information Is Beautiful, Lovie Award - Silver, The Drum Award

Clients

Accenture Business Service for Ultilies, Google, gov.uk, IBM, Kantar, NBCUniversal International, Pearson, Royal bank of Scotland, Royal society of chemists, Sony, The Guardian, The New York Times, Timeout, TNS, Unilever, United Nations

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Availability
Looking for work
Achievements
Top 25 Product Development Manager Project featured:Accenture - Energy Access infographic
on 7th October 2013
Contract
Perm, Freelance, Temp-Perm, Part time, Remote
Location
London, United Kingdom
Skill Level
Senior
Languages
English, Russian
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