Managing Director at CMS Professionals Ltd.
Montpellier Area, France
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- Managing Director at CMS Professionals Ltd.
- Owner at Drupaler
- Training Consultant/Trainer at NobleProg
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- Head of Product Development at Rareface
- Head of Product Development at Infield Parking
- Product Development Manager at Dow Jones Factiva
- Technical Project Manager at 2B Reputation Intelligence
- Technical Project Manager at Work Communications Ltd.
- Senior Web Developer at Work Communications Ltd.
- Web Developer at Park Human Resources
- Architectural Drawing Technician at InHaus Solutions
- Education
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- Hull School of Architecture
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Greg Harvey’s Summary
I am currently managing my London-based software development company, CMS Professionals, specialising in building "Web 2.0" sites, intranet/knowledge management tools and news/publication management tools, for companies of all shapes, sizes and budgets, predominantly using the open source CMS, Drupal.
Managing a small company involves wearing many hats, so I am a LAMP developer, Drupal specialist, "agile" project manager and development manager, when I'm not doing the accounts, employee reviews, pitching for business and teaching. *phew!*
I have a strong background as a Software/Internet Product Development leader. Management and development experience includes websites and software applications, managing full project life-cycle, multiple products simultaneously, managing development teams, outsourcing, development strategy and technology selection. At CMS Professionals I work hard to offer a range of services from full, end-to-end project outsourcing, to on-site consultancy. My goal is to see my business grow in to London's leading Drupal agency and provide a centre of excellence for this niche system.
Greg Harvey’s Specialties:
Drupal development, LAMP development, Web 2.0, web development, product specification, development management, project management
Greg Harvey’s Experience
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Managing Director
CMS Professionals Ltd.
(Internet industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
CMS Professionals Ltd. is my new UK-based private limited company. I hope, in time, it will grow and develop in to a Drupal development agency. It's early days, but business is good!
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Owner
Drupaler
(Internet industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
I am currently doing a mixture of LAMP development, Drupal development, intranet applications, Web 2.0 sites, consultancy, management and training as a sole trader for a number of organisations.
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Training Consultant/Trainer
NobleProg
(Higher Education industry)
November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)
As part of my sole trader activities, I represent NobleProg as a trainer, a sales representative and a project manager. I spend most of my time for NobleProg teaching Drupal or on site providing Drupal consultancy. I also teach several other courses, including HTML/CSS, JMeter, SQL, etc.
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Head of Product Development
Rareface
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year)
Rareface was one of the world’s leading providers of social networking software, responsible for such websites as the US-based NASCAR sensation, Infield Parking and Playboy UK’s unique and high-profile concept, creating a website where a modelling contest meets an online community, to name but a few.
Reporting to the company board and investors, in a consulting capacity, my role at Rareface is to keep development of all of our products on track, on time and to budget. As well as making recommendations on the future of the software, important technology choices and building and managing a development team, I also regularly meet clients and get involved in sales engagements. During my time here I have overseen the completion of the core product, guided its future development and introduced the organisation to other product/project management methodologies and development approaches they had not previously considered, thus facilitating a smoother and quicker development process. -
Head of Product Development
Infield Parking
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 2006 — November 2007 (1 year)
Infield Parking is a NASCAR community part owned by Rareface, running the unique Rareface social networking software package. The community has been hugely successful and boasts NASCAR's most popular driver, Dale Earnhardt Jr, as the company President.
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Product Development Manager
Dow Jones Factiva
(Internet industry)
February 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 11 months)
Factiva, a joint venture between Reuters and Dow Jones, are online media specialists providing paid-for news and business information to the world’s biggest companies, organisations and governments.
This role focused on ensuring the smooth roll-out of former 2B technologies on to Factiva platforms and controlling and advising on the future development of the Factiva Insight product range.
Responsibilities included writing and co-ordinating technical documentation, drawing up schedule of works for development, co-ordinating development, including key decisions on the prioritisation of requested features, and co-ordinating prototyping and proof of concept work for new software. I was also in charge of change management and version control for all team software and the first technical point of contact for Dow Jones hosting teams. Furthermore, my past experience made me a key liaison for all Insight products in CEMA, working extensively with global sales. -
Technical Project Manager
2B Reputation Intelligence
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
October 2004 — January 2005 (4 months)
Part owned by WPP Group’s flagship PR agency, Hill & Knowlton, 2B serviced some of the world’s largest corporations with products that delivered valuable and meaningful insights in to brand and product penetration worldwide. In January 2005 they were bought by Factiva to build on their ever-increasing product range.
Reporting to the Technical Director, this role spanned every area of 2B’s business, from sales to product development, delivery to support. I took global responsibility for administration and support of Hill & Knowlton’s Factiva account with over 500 users worldwide, was responsible for worldwide maintenance and user support for Hill & Knowlton’s Radar media monitoring software, had key involvement in product development for 2B’s Insight Stream media analysis tools (including hands-on software development) and also used existing channels of communication through the support network to consult with clients and sell new products. -
Technical Project Manager
Work Communications Ltd.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 2003 — September 2004 (1 year)
Following my success in charge of the Work web development team, and in response to demands from the rapidly growing sales teams for technical support when pitching for hi-tech business, I was promoted to Technical Project Manager for the company. This role was forged to fill a gap in Work’s client services wing. They needed a client-facing but technically savvy individual for new business, consultancy, client relationship and product delivery.
My duties included ensuring the quality of new media products, making decisions on new products and supplier partners, managing client relationships both on and off of projects, project delivery, timings and budgets, designing processes for product delivery and consultancy and project specification. I was also involved with pitching for new business and handling existing supplier relationships. -
Senior Web Developer
Work Communications Ltd.
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2001 — September 2003 (2 years 9 months)
Work Communications are one of London’s leading Recruitment Communications specialists. They started trading in October 2000 and since then have grown exponentially to be the 4th largest Recruitment Communications & Advertising Agency in the UK.
I was invited to join Work by the new Board when the business was still a small start-up (I believe I was the 8th person to join). They were impressed by my work at Park (where some of them were also Board members and former owners) and invited me to start the Internet team of their new advertising agency - a challenge I gladly accepted. Here I further expanded my knowledge of web development and relative technologies, heading up the Internet team for nearly three years.
My clients included Nestlé, Ford Motor Company (Jaguar and Land Rover specifically), Centrica Group (The AA and British Gas specifically), Accenture, London Ambulance Service and ntl, to name but a few. -
Web Developer
Park Human Resources
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
April 2000 — December 2000 (9 months)
Park represented my first job in London. The professional web development experience I gained at InHaus Solutions stood be in good stead and my Architectural background lent itself well to technical development in other areas. At Park I learned to use all the prevalent Internet software, and more - knowledge which stays with me today.
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Architectural Drawing Technician
InHaus Solutions
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Architecture & Planning industry)
September 1999 — March 2000 (7 months)
Having studied Architecture at degree level, my first position was as an Architectural Technician in a small practice. It was at InHaus where I learned some valuable lessons in detail work and the importance of high quality output in technical professions. I also did my first professional website design and development, as an offshoot from my usual duties as a Drawing Technician.
Greg Harvey’s Education
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Hull School of Architecture
Upper Second Class Honours , Architecture , 1996 — 1999
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