Kevinjohn Gallagher's Resume

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KEVINJOHN GALLAGHER Agile Business Transformation Consultant, bringing Project & Product Management expertise to top global brands such as Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, BP, BBC, and Samsung. Email: [email protected] Mobile: +44 7788 718382 Nationality: British and Irish passports Authorized to work in the EU and the United States of America Qualifications: Certified ScrumMaster Certified Product Owner Certified MSP: Managing Successful Programmes Certified MoR: Risk Management Prince2 Practitioner ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Agile Project Manager Scottish Enterprise: Manager of the Year Microsoft's MSDNAA 's "Reserved for Excellence" Award Multimedia Technology Management, Napier University. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: HighImpact agile contractor with a successful record of delivering highprofile largescale projects aimed at desktop, mobile and tablets; by utilizing Lean / Agile methodologies. 5 years at Project Director level successfully managing million dollar accounts for FTSE 100 and multinational corporations, by embedding a pragmatic Scrumbased Agile approach. 10 years Project Management experience delivering digital, web, mobile, video streaming, ecommerce, marketing, eCRM, consulting, open source and enterpriselevel CMS projects. 15 years as a proven Leader, with experience across digital, gaming, financial services, entertainment, education, technology, television, adult, FMCG, and notforprofit sectors. Excel at building senior stakeholder consensus, collaboration and influence at CxO level; to drive investment and excitement in the strategic vision and tactical initiatives. Creative problem solver with an engaging personality. Decisive troubleshooter, specializing in analyzing and successfully matching products, services, and processes with client needs. Extensive international experience, transitioning strategy into actionable deliverables for clients in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, North America and Western Europe. Uniquely combining a strong affinity for technology & an entrepreneurial business sense, with a verifiable record of delivering enhanced productivity and streamlined operations. Advanced knowledge of digital technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, .NET, ObjectiveC, Java, Ruby, & Flash). Has strength to propose technologyagnostic solutions. Dynamic and engaging presenter. Last keynote was at Harvard University.

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  • KEVINJOHN GALLAGHER Agile Business Transformation Consultant, bringing Project & Product Management expertise to top global brands such as Microsoft, Cisco, AOL, BP, BBC, and Samsung. E-mail: [email protected] Mobile: +44 7788 718382 Nationality: British and Irish passports Authorized to work in the EU and the United States of America Qualifications: Certified ScrumMaster Certified Product Owner Certified MSP: Managing Successful Programmes Certified MoR: Risk Management Prince2 Practitioner ITIL v3 Foundation Certified Agile Project Manager Scottish Enterprise: Manager of the Year Microsoft's MSDNAA 's "Reserved for Excellence" Award Multimedia Technology Management, Napier University. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: High-Impact agile contractor with a successful record of delivering high-profile large-scale projects aimed at desktop, mobile and tablets; by utilizing Lean / Agile methodologies. 5 years at Project Director level successfully managing million dollar accounts for FTSE 100 and multi-national corporations, by embedding a pragmatic Scrum-based Agile approach. 10 years Project Management experience delivering digital, web, mobile, video streaming, e-commerce, marketing, eCRM, consulting, open source and enterprise-level CMS projects. 15 years as a proven Leader, with experience across digital, gaming, financial services, entertainment, education, technology, television, adult, FMCG, and not-for-profit sectors. Excel at building senior stakeholder consensus, collaboration and influence at CxO level; to drive investment and excitement in the strategic vision and tactical initiatives. Creative problem solver with an engaging personality. Decisive troubleshooter, specializing in analyzing and successfully matching products, services, and processes with client needs. Extensive international experience, transitioning strategy into actionable deliverables for clients in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, North America and Western Europe. Uniquely combining a strong affinity for technology & an entrepreneurial business sense, with a verifiable record of delivering enhanced productivity and streamlined operations. Advanced knowledge of digital technologies (HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, SQL, .NET, Objective-C, Java, Ruby, & Flash). Has strength to propose technology-agnostic solutions. Dynamic and engaging presenter. Last keynote was at Harvard University.
  • Kevinjohn Gallagher: 2 of 3 [email protected] March 2014 NOTABLE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT ROLES: Company: Fifth-largest company in the world; listed on the LSE, NYSE, and a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index. Multi-national, vertically-integrated, oil and gas giant. Budget: 75m+ Team size: 11 direct, 150+ total Agile/Scrum, Lean/Kanban Deliverables: Technology selections & migration; UCD & UX; business transformation & readiness. Technologies: Adobe CQ5, HTML5/CSS3, Java, Tomcat, Amazon AWS cloud, Akamai CDN, JIRA, Axure Advanced rapidly through a series of increasingly responsible positions within critical business and digital transformation programme; eventually leading the newly created Business as Usual division. Aggressively negotiated all technology, methodology and 3 rd party supplier selections; establishing a business-led alternative to the multi-round RFI/RFP for over 25+ enterprise-level procurement deals. Orchestrated the introduction of User Centric design, delivering an agnostic Design/UX framework used by multiple creative agencies and the Big 5 outsourced-development System Integrators. Substantially improved communications between silod business functions; pioneering new agile processes to reduce time to market for all Digital and Marketing communications by over 500%. Accountable for delivering a repeatable agile strategy that integrated with CxO reporting structures. Company: Worldwide Digital Agency of the Decade, with 12 offices in 4 continents, specializing in delivering innovative communications, consulting, and commerce solutions. Budget: 3m - 5m Team size: 4 direct, 30+ total Agile/Scrum & Waterfall Deliverables: Design & UX, Site build, CMS migration, responsive mobile site, mobile app, social apps. Spearheaded adoption of Agile to revisit under-estimated projects & identify point-of-failures. Consulted on business and technical requirements to define client-prioritized roadmap. Delivered a 5-point improvement plan, focusing on recruitment, training & skills development Led and managed a range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally. Company: Digital strategy & implementation arm of the worlds largest marketing conglomerate, with 250+ cross-functional staff, across 4 global offices, with $100+ turnover. Budget: 1.5 - 3m Team size: 5 direct, 20+ total Agile/Scrum & Waterfall Deliverables: Site design, UX & build, CMS migration, responsive mobile site, mobile app. Responsible for delivery of project work-streams against a multi-dependency project plan. Key Player in mapping of business objectives and client goals to an ever-changing roadmap. Standardized reporting and tracking of Risks and Dependencies to internal stakeholders. Company: The world's largest independent production company, with over 90 companies in over 30 countries, specializing in interactive programming for a modern multi-channel world. Budget: 1m - 5m Team size: 6 direct, 30+ total Agile/Scrum & Prince 2 Deliverables: Gambling software, Site redesign & build, mobile site, video streaming, social strategy. Enhanced market position by leveraging media, customer recognition & substantial revenue growth. Aggressively negotiated technical restructure towards automation and a custom CMS. Challenged to create & execute critical short-term projects for real-time user submitted content. Managed hosting infrastructure migration for all internal and external sites and hardware.
  • Kevinjohn Gallagher: 3 of 3 [email protected] March 2014 PROJECT & PRODUCT MANAGEMENT ROLES: I-Kos Project Manager (Senior) Jan 2014 - Apr 2014 Samsung Project Manager (Senior) Oct 2013 - Nov 2013 BP Head of Digital, Platforms & Tools Aug 2011 - Jun 2013 R/GA Project Manager (Director) Apr 2011 - Jul 2011 Possible Project Manager (Senior) Jan 2011 - Apr 2011 HWU Project Manager (Director) May 2010 - Oct 2010 The Guardian Project Manager (Senior) Feb 2010 - Apr 2010 Endemol Project Manager (Director) Apr 2008 - Oct 2008 BBC Producer Jan 2008 - Mar 2008 2m2r Head of Delivery & Operations Jan 2007 - Jun 2007 Grand Union Project Manager (Director) Aug 2006 - Dec 2006 Wunderman Project Manager (Senior) Jun 2006 - Aug 2006 Them London Project Manager (Director) Feb 2006 - June 2006 T101 Project Manager (Director) Jan 2005 - Jan 2006 AOL Project Manager Jan 2005 - Feb 2005 Microsoft Specialist UI / .Net Consultant Jun 2004 - Dec 2004 LBi Product Manager Nov 2003 - Jan 2004 Cisco Systems Project Manager (Senior) Jun 2002 - Aug 2003 British Government Project Manager (Senior) 2001 - 2002 2k1online Project Manager (Director) 2000 - 2001 NCR Project Manager 2000 Standard Life Bank Project Manager / PMO 1999 NON PROJECT-MANAGEMENT ROLES: Ive also worked with the following NMA top 100 digital agencies in non-project-management roles: AKQA, Equator, Realise, TechnoPhobia, Sequence, Pod1, BlackID, WhiteSpacers, DA group DISCLOSURE OF ONGOING BOARD POSITIONS: BIMA Executive Committee Oct 2013 - present Open Source Scotland Executive Chairman Aug 2011 - present Pure Web Brilliant Managing Director Dec 2008 - present GLOBALLY RECOGNISED CMS EXPERT: Adobe CQ5 - Customer Advisory Board member Drupal - CMS Association Board Nominee - lost out to CTO of WikiPedia Joomla - World Conference primary Keynote Speaker (Harvard & eBay) WordPress - Summit panelist - 100 thought-leaders invited to discuss the future of CMS. Salesforce.com - CMS (Site.com beta) roadmap consultant