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I am highly focused and motivated towards success in all aspects of my professional career. My background is in IT with sixteen years experience in the field. Over ten of these years have been within a project and product management capacity for companies such as Groupon, Paddy Power, Yahoo! and Microsoft. My work has spanned a diverse...

I am highly focused and motivated towards success in all aspects of my professional career. My background is in IT with sixteen years experience in the field. Over ten of these years have been within a project and product management capacity for companies such as Groupon, Paddy Power, Yahoo! and Microsoft. My work has spanned a diverse array of projects from games, software and online properties to advertising, mobile and print based media. Academically, I hold a B.Sc. First Class Honours Degree in Business and Information Technology from Trinity College Dublin.Product Development Project Manager @ The role involves managing all aspects of the delivery of multi-disciplinary and cross-functional projects within the Product Development Department of Paddy Power PLC with specialist focus in online mobile and system migration projects. The main duties include: · Project management of online development initiatives. · Working with Third Party vendors and Business Stakeholders to determine scope of work for projects and establish project plans. · Managing the project plan delivery by ensuring the milestones are adhered to. · Ensuring that all issues are addressed in terms of resolution. · Keeping all stakeholders up to date at regular intervals throughout the project lifecycle. · Ensuring that go-live for projects is effected, taking into consideration factors such as data migration, reporting services, end-user training etc. · Working with the IT department to ensure adequate infrastructure and support is available for project delivery. · Managing third party vendors in liaison with our legal, technology and business teams, ensuring that all contractual and SLA obligations are adhered to. From November 2011 to August 2013 (1 year 10 months) Product Manager @ As Product Manager, I was tasked with modernising and re-defining a newly acquired and well respected online product from concept through to re-launch. My passion for gaming and online media, along with superior project management skills and expertise in social media, significantly contributed towards the successful realisation of this online property as a Yahoo!7 product. The main duties included: · Managing hardware, data & user migration of newly acquired online & mobile property. · Defining use cases and scope for site migration & redesign. · Writing detailed product specifications to clearly define site requirements. · Leading design and development of online product for re-launch and ongoing evolution. · Collaborating on the marketing plan, including consumer proposition for social media. · Collaborating with engineering teams, ensuring product features are developed in a timely and responsive manner. · Delivering on project ROI measurements. · Securing product sponsors. · Working with Yahoo!7 partners as to future opportunities for product integration. From July 2010 to July 2011 (1 year 1 month) Sydney, AustraliaDigital Producer @ Hired on a contract basis to project manage a major website development and manage several client accounts' campaign work during challenging holiday transition period. Clients included: E-Trade, IAG, Qantas, Samsung, Westfield and Woolworths. From May 2010 to June 2010 (2 months) International Project Manager @ Project Manager for online, print and software based integrated global marketing campaigns. All projects involved the successful facilitation, localisation and deployment of several marketing campaigns simultaneously for Microsoft’s European, Asian and Australian markets. Here, I was a strong advocate of business process improvement, always seeking to improve on existing processes and systems as well as searching to innovate for new ones. Project Sponsors included: Microsoft Game Studios, Worldwide Retail Services, Mobile Communications Business and Windows Business Group. From July 2006 to September 2009 (3 years 3 months) Project Manager @ After successful realisation of several key accounts I was assigned to two of the company's largest accounts which had experienced difficulties during the previous year's project cycle. This turnaround was completed and became instrumental in the successful receipt of a large amounts of additional business from both clients. Clients included: Dell, Phillip Morris, GlaxoSmithKline, Vodafone & Hamline University. From December 2004 to May 2006 (1 year 6 months) Project Leader @ The role involved the planning, organisation and administration of all aspects relating to the work of a team of six multimedia developers, designers and testers. This included both proactive and reactive problem solving within the team on a range of matters from quality testing and process setting to hardware and software set-up. Clients included: GlaxoSmithKline, Oracle, Delmar Publishing, Mindleaders, Harvard Business School, ISI Learning, Nokia, PPI, Lowes and Cisco Systems. From February 2002 to November 2004 (2 years 10 months) Senior Graphic Artist @ The main duties included: · Responsible for team of 6 Graphic Artists. · Scheduling of DTP and graphics production. · Quality assurance of screen and print graphics. · Graphic Artist and DTP rep for ISO 9001:2000 quality initiative. · Process development & performance improvement. · Working closely with development team on process issues. From February 2001 to February 2002 (1 year 1 month) Graphic Designer @ Work was performed on a casual and part time basis. The main duties included: · Designing and maintaining site http://www.recirca.com · Magazine layout design using Quark Express and Photoshop · Work was done on a voluntary basis from home From October 2000 to February 2001 (5 months) Graphic Artist @ The main duties included: · Localisation of screen and print graphics. · Multimedia localisation engineer (Flash). · DTP operator (Quark, Framemaker). · Working as part of a team of 9. · Quality assurance / bug fixing. From December 1999 to February 2001 (1 year 3 months) B.Sc. Honours (1st Class), Business and Information Technology @ Trinity College Dublin From 2003 to 2007 Cambridge Diploma in Music Technology, Sound Engineering Module @ Waterford Institute of Technology From 1998 to 1999 National Diploma, Multimedia Applications and Development @ Waterford Institute of Technology From 1997 to 1999 Leaving Certificate @ Blackrock College From 1990 to 1996 Barry O'Sullivan is skilled in: Online Product Development, Business Process Improvement, Agile, SEO, Software Lifecycle Management, Technical Writing, Software Project Management, Project Planning, Stepwise Iteration Model, Waterfall Methodologies, Creative Problem Solving, Adobe Flash, XML, HTML, C++