hi..

welcome to cookra v8

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

 

Models..

 

Prince2

 

Systems Architecture..

 

Security

Load balancing & scalability
Power management
Installation, monitoring & support

 

Development..

Adobe Creative Suite (All Applications)

ActionScript 2/3
Lingo
CSS / HTML / XHTML / PHP / JavaScript / MySql
E-Commerce
Photography

Digital Art