cookra v9
So welcome to my part of the world wide web..
My name is Richard Cook and I'm a British Expat working as an Internet Project Manager in Amsterdam.
I am responsible for a team of developers who make online multiplayer games. Organisational planning is focused across three main departments Sales, Backend Development & Frontend Production.
Our games have just hit an all time high with the most successful reaching well over 1,000,000 plays a week..
Background..
10 years of production specialising in design, production and deployment of new media applications.
Project Management for 7 years working on a variety of contracts from New-Media productions for Hollywood Blockbusters to E-Commerce solutions for medium to large based companies.
Past Projects & Clients include..
Disney & Pixar: Monsters Inc (Web / DVD), Disney: Atlantis the Lost Empire (DVD), Buena Vista: Enigma the Movie (Web), Momentum Pictures : The 51st State (Web), FHM Magazine (Web), Marvel Comics : Spiderman the Movie (Print / Web), Killysport (Web), Hyves Games (Web)..
Specialties
Management..
- Risk evaluation & shock / impact analysis
- Long / Short term / Time Critical planning
- Project life cycle - initiation to completion
- Progress & evaluation including UAT and rollout phasing
- Documentation & statistical analysis
- Asset organisation / security and team based data storage
- Global team organisation & 24hr time management
- Project exposure SEO
- Client liaison & customer support
- Team development & recruitment
- Purchasing
Methods..
- Prince2
Systems Architecture..
- Security
- Load balancing & Scalability
- Power management
- Installation, monitoring & suppor
Development..
- Adobe Creative Suite (All Applications)
- ActionScript 2/3
- Lingo
- CSS / HTML / XHTML / PHP / JavaScript / MySql
- E-Commerce
- Photography
- Digital Art
