March 2014 update of my resume.

1.
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@KevinjohnGallagher.com
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.

2.
Kevinjohn
Gallagher:
2
of
3
email@KevinjohnGallagher.com
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
silo’d
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
world’s
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.

3.
Kevinjohn
Gallagher:
3
of
3
email@KevinjohnGallagher.com
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:
I’ve
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