Ljiljana Evans's Email Addresses & Phone Numbers

I have a key interest in project and program management within an Internet Media /IT environment, bridging the gap between technical, creative and commercial requirements and merging experience from the corporate, private and public sector. Keen to find a challenging role working within a progressive organization offering early responsibility in return for expertise, tenacity, and innovation to...

I have a key interest in project and program management within an Internet Media /IT environment, bridging the gap between technical, creative and commercial requirements and merging experience from the corporate, private and public sector. Keen to find a challenging role working within a progressive organization offering early responsibility in return for expertise, tenacity, and innovation to achieving goals and objectives.

Experience:

• 8 years experience as an IT Project Manager in the corporate, private and public sectors.

• 4.5 years of experience in web development, working as a Production Manager/Webmaster and as an Integrator/Web Developer for the Walt Disney Company.

• 1 year of Product Management experience working on Software development projects and

• 1.5 years of Programmer/Software Engineering experience working on a variety of commercial software projects.

Specialties:

Management skills:

• Project Management – practice PRINCE 2 & Agile methodologies(Scrum Master - certified), ITIL v2 Certified

• Communication, Organizational, Interviewing, Training

Technical skills (understanding of):

• HTML/DHTML, JavaScript, Shell scripting, JSP, JAVA, C++, Databases (Oracle-SQL), Human–Computer Interaction, Computer Graphics

• Environment - Windows NT, UNIX, SSADM

Language skills:

• Fluent in oral/written English, Serbo-Croat, understand Macedonian, Slovenian, Bulgarian & RussianSenior Project Manager @ Portfolio of projects:

o The Hub, new company-wide intranet and collaboration platform (managed content migration from old platform to new, its upgrade and data centre move; shut down of legacy platform led to $400K savings a year, 65K users converting to the Hub, all the above carried out with support of 15 team members)

o Transfer of TR websites to TR platform from the 3rd party

o Updates to TR Services (Factiva service and Service Forum)

o Clarity upgrade to v.13 and PPM Tool Search for TR

o Integration of an acquired company’s Billing & Credit Management into TR’s billing process model by moving from Great Plains to TR SAP. Enabling faster integration of an acquired business through modeled approach

• Managed introductions and retirements of TR services

• Managed 3rd parties (JIVE, Perficient, Dow Jones, CA) and stakeholders globally

• Responsible for SOWs($200K), proposals, budgets, planning, reporting, in line with TR standards

• Mentored colleagues globally on the PM best practice and methodologies

• Drove collaboration with PMs via webinar on “The Hub for PMs” – turnout of 150 colleagues

• Active participant of TR’s PM CoE and the Hub Advocate

• Tools utilized : The Hub/Ms Project/Webex/Skype/Gtalk/Bugzilla/, and MS Office suite From April 2012 to Present (3 years 9 months) London, United KingdomProject manager @ Public Sector:

•Delivered multiple projects through full project life cycle for Hammersmith and Fulham Council

•Portfolio of projects worked on for service improvements to the Council:

o Website and applications development

o Software, telephony and network upgrades

o Implementation of new technology for a library

o Implementation of standards across the Council

Private Sector:

•Responsible for the McDonald’s UK online account and delivering time-sensitive, monthly online promotions.

•Responsible for all third-party engagements/deliveries from brands such as Coca-Cola, DreamWorks, Disney, Warner Bros, Cadbury, WHSmith, including online brand management for McDonald’s

•Worked closely with McDonald’s Senior Account Managers to develop an online strategy that followed McDonald’s Corporate strategy (revealed at the annual Supplier’s Conferences in Lisbon, Warsaw) From July 2006 to March 2012 (5 years 9 months) Project Manager @ From 2008 to 2012 (4 years) Product Manager @ •Delivered software development projects through full life cycle. Major projects include :

o Implementation of bespoke Open Source CMS system for the UN & government-run authorities

o Implementation of Search Engine for the Government / Bank &Legal companies

•Final decision making in forming a set of functionalities for the releases of a Search engine product, combining product development path, competitor analysis and clients’ feedback

•Worked closely with Technical, Sales and Account Directors on delivery of bespoke products for clients

•Built and maintained successful client relationships through negotiating the best solution for the clients

•Set up processes for project delivery (internally & externally) and built documentation to support the product From May 2005 to June 2006 (1 year 2 months) Production Manager @ Production Manager/Webmaster position(2002-2004):

•Managed, monitored and deployed top European and American Disney sites.

•Major projects include:

o Games (Toontown) , Promotions (releases from Film Factory, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, DisneyChannel) and Minisites (Jungle Book2, Atlantis, Lion King, Nemo, Brother Bear, Disneyland Paris Europe, Aladdin)

•Formed and maintained successful day-to-day relationship with internationally based developers and internal clients - Disneyland Paris, Buena Vista Home Ent. (Europe), Disney Parks & Resorts (N&S. America), Buena Vista International (Europe & Middle East), Disney Channel (Europe & Japan)

•Implemented infrastructure for project delivery and performance evaluation, approved by Management

•Trained key Disney clients and provided technical support and supervision of developers and their projects

•Provided quarterly reports to Disney Business Units and documentation on Production, Webmasters’ solution, Technical Specification and training for internal and external purposes

Application Integrator position (2000-2002):

•Scheduled integration work with producers and legal representatives for over 30 sites worldwide.

•Built, integrated and improved Graphical User Interface of Disney’s International User Registration database, powerful CRM tool that contains the personal data of 3 million members worldwide.

•Researched and implemented different character sets, including Unicode (double byte code) used for Japanese, Korean and Chinese websites. Evaluated products such as: DMW, Photoshop, Fireworks, Ms Word (IME feature) for double byte integration. From May 2000 to December 2004 (4 years 8 months) Bachelor of Science, Computer Science @ Queen Mary, U. of London From 1995 to 1998 Ljiljana Evans is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, SDLC, Integration, ITIL, Project Delivery, Project Management, Product Management, JavaScript, Unix, Software Development, Java, Management, Web Development, Team Management, Windows NT