CURRICULUM
VITAE
MICHAEL DUNCAN
Telephone:
020 8767 9956
e-mail:
mhd@globalnet.co.uk
LAST EMPLOYMENT
June 200 - September 2000 Project Manager with Confetti Network
Ltd (www.confetti.co.uk)
Working in the Product Development Department to identify and
implement new services on the confetti web site. Main responsibilities
included defining requirements for new projects, defining navigation
and user interfaces, liasing between designers, producers and
developers, managing development projects from initiation to launch.
Managing technical and user testing. On joining I created a system
for identifying, implementing and managing developments.
EMPLOYMENT
HISTORY
October 1997 to June 2000 Operations Manger with EMAP Construct.
- Responsibility
for identifying and implementing development.
- Responsible
for building, layout and updating of sites using HTML and web
editors.
- Responsible
for commissioning and editing large parts of site content.
- Partly
responsible for creating and implementing new services on site.
- Responsible
for design of all sites, building templates and maintaining
constant look.
- Responsible
for online marketing of site and increase of traffic. In the
month of January 1998 around 1,000 visitors came to the site.
This had increased to 24,000 in January 1999.
- Working
with marketing department to plan advertising campaigns in print
media.
- Working
as designer as part of a small team comprising an electronic
publisher, database administrator and myself to co-ordinate
effective strategies for the site.
- Involved
in planning to maximise revenue from the site.
- Working
with and advising other members of company on the best strategies
for maximising the potential of the internet for their magazines.
October 1996-October
1997
Drawings Editor for the Architects' Journal. EMAP Construct
Editing architectural drawings in Illustrator and Photoshop
July 1995-October
1997 EMAP Construct
Production
Executive/Graphic Designer.
Design and layout of marketing and promotional material. Layout
of reports and magazines.
Jan 1993-Sept
1994
Temporary secretarial assignments.
Feb-October
1992
Campsite Courier in the South of France.
1991-1992
Various community and youth theatre projects in Glasgow.
1989-1991
Freelance Stage Manager in theatre and television.
EDUCATION
1994-1995
London College of Printing, Elephant and Castle, London.
Diploma in Publishing in Production
1987-1989
Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
Diploma in Stage Management Studies
SKILLS
- Project
Management.
- Knowledge
of internet development, recruitment and business on the web.
- Excellent
knowledge of Apple MacIntosh and good knowledge of Windows.
- Excellent
knowledge of Quark XPress, Illustrator and Photoshop.
- Extensive
design and technical knowledge of the Internet including HTML
and related software.
- Marketing
skills related to the internet.
- Knowledge
of graphic reproduction using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
ACTIVITIES
AND INTERESTS
My interests
include walking, art and architecture. I also enjoy hill and rock
climbing particularly in the Lake District where I visit at least
once a year for this purpose. I am very interested in art design
and I enjoy learning about and working on design projects outside
work.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION
I speak French and am currently doing an evening course to improve
my German.
REFERENCES
Available on request
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