Richard Cook

Current

Senior Project Manager at SPIL GAMES

Past

Project Manager at SPIL GAMES
Project Manager at 3 Circles Media Internet BV
Senior Flash Designer (Freelance) at 3 Circles Media BV

Project / Studio Manager at Cookra
Lead Interactive Designer / Developer at Brand New Day
Illustrator & Web designer at NWM Brand Development
Macromedia Director (Lingo) Developer at Empire Design London
Ada Developer / Recruiter at GEC

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Education

HND Multimedia Design
University of Plymouth
Plymouth college of Art & Design PCAD

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Richard Cook’s Summary

I am an internationally experienced Senior Project Manager with a proven track record of hands-on success in creative development and account management with blue chip global organisations, developing high-level business strategies to consistently improve and increase business functionality, profile and effectively provide stable on-line services

My experience includes project and programme management, web / print design, E-commerce, on-line gaming, strategic planning, marketing, brand development, advertising, HR & career development, training, budgeting, Prince2, Scrum & Agile.

My key achievements include:

Creating high profile interactive media packs for Disney / Pixar including DVD & CD Rom press kits.
Developing a unique, browser based, on line games platform attracting over 1 million participants.
Being responsible for designing media support posters for major films including Spiderman the Movie.
Coordinating and creating viral promotional campaigns raising profile for major film releases including Monsters Inc, The 51st State, Enigma the Movie, Atlantis Lost Empire, Jeepers Creepers.
Building an on-line multi-language website for KillySport & NevicaCare including CD catalogue.
Increasing branding & web awareness for Podia Group and Camper & Nicholson Yachting.
Creating E-Commerce website and portal for Successories the US motivational product group.
Developing the academic website for Bicton College to include full intranet capabilities.
System development for Typhoon Euro-fighter (GEC Avionics).
HF / VHF / UHF / Microwave communications for military & commercial sectors.
London Underground signal systems.

Richard Cook’s Specialties:

Skill Set..

Risk evaluation & shock analysis.
Project exposure SEO.
Team construction & work load deployment.
Long / Short term / Critical planning.
Liaison & customer support.
Global team organisation and monitoring.
Recruitment and HR.
Purchasing.
Design & production experience.

Adobe Creative Suit (All Applications)

ActionScript 2/3.
Lingo.
CSS / XHTML / PHP / JavaScript / MySql.
E-Commerce.
Photography / Digital Art.
DeviantArt: http://cookra.deviantart.com.

Richard Cook’s Experience

Senior Project Manager

SPIL GAMES

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

October 2009 — Present (2 months)

Responsible for the Spil Games portal development roadmap and Project Management Teams.
Project Manager

SPIL GAMES

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

August 2009 — October 2009 (3 months)

Cuurently involved in the development & training of Agile / Scrum methodology within the development & operations teams at Spil Games in Hilversum, The Netherlands.
Project Manager

3 Circles Media Internet BV

(Broadcast Media industry)

2008 — 2009 (1 year )

Casual game development for Social Networks (Hyves.nl, Facebook.com, Myspace.com).
Development of browser based real-time multiplayer games.
Managed Python/Twisted, Flash & HTML, Illustrators and Support teams.
Most successful project has over 1,000,000+ plays per week on Hyves.nl.
Senior Flash Designer (Freelance)

3 Circles Media BV

(Design industry)

May 2008 — August 2008 (4 months)

Created OOP based games in Flash for Social Networks (Hyves.nl, Facebook.com, Myspace.com).
Actionscript 2/3.0, Javascript, XML, Python & Twisted Integration, CSS and XHTML.
Adobe CS 3 / 4.
Project / Studio Manager

Cookra

(Design industry)

March 2005 — June 2008 (3 years 4 months)

Corporate identity / branding, add campaigns, virals and marketing services.
Managed Front-end / Backend Development teams.
Client liaison, planning, support, motivation, HR and budgeting.
Lead Interactive Designer / Developer

Brand New Day

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

February 2003 — March 2005 (2 years 2 months)

Corporate identity / branding, add campaigns, virals and marketing services.
Managed Front-end / Backend Development teams.
Client liaison, planning, support, motivation, HR and budgeting.
Illustrator & Web designer

NWM Brand Development

(Design industry)

March 2001 — February 2003 (2 years )

Corporate identity / branding, add campaigns, virals and marketing services.
Development of rich-media Websites and Print media such as Brochures and other POS.
Created online games, E-Commerce, portals, intranet & extranets and brand awareness sites.
Macromedia Director (Lingo) Developer

Empire Design London

(Design industry)

2001 — 2001 (less than a year)

Viral & Advertising for the film global industry.
Interactive CD-Rom development for the Press (EPK’s).
Created video and image embedded systems for massive deployment across the globe to support film releases such as Monsters Inc, Spiderman the Movie, The 51st State, Enigma the Movie and many more.
Ada Developer / Recruiter

GEC

(Design industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year )

Freelance Ada developer. Developed & Recruited programmers for Typhoon Euro-fighter.

Richard Cook’s Education

HND Multimedia Design

1998 — 2002
University of Plymouth

Bsc , MediaLab Arts , 1999 — 2001
Plymouth college of Art & Design PCAD

Access , Media Production , 1997 — 1998

Study into the production of media. Included Film/Tv Production, Internet & New Media, Print & Design and Art History. Photography & Sound Engineering.

Course enabled entry into The University of Plymouth.