Jason Buck

Current

User Experience Specialist at Directgov

Past

Expert Witness at Goodhand and Forsyth
Relief Global Intranet Manager at Rolls-Royce plc
Information Architect at Hyper Happen

Information Architrect / User Experience Designer at Dare
Information Architect at Profero
Intranet consultant at Pitney Bowes
MCR / e-Commerce expert affiliate at CVL
Information Architect and Designer at The Economist Group
Candidate at JFL
Web Editor at IBF - Intranet Benchmarking Forum
Intranet Project Manager at Financial Times
Communications and web consultant and professional (Self-employed)
Global Intranet Webmaster at Rolls-Royce
Intranet Coordinator at Rolls-Royce
Communications consultant (Self-employed)
Web / graphic designer at MCI WorldCom
Web editor at MCI WorldCom

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Education

The Nottingham Trent University
Orleans Park

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Jason Buck’s Summary

An accomplished creative Information Architect (IA), User Experience Designer (UXD) and Interaction Designer (IXD) with 10 years in online and digital, both client side and agency.

Experienced with running full life cycle projects and providing skill within existing teams.

Excellent stakeholder management and User Centred Design (UCD) evangelist, matching creativity with adding value to organisations.

Jason Buck’s Specialties:

- Full project life cycle for online programmes
- User experience design (UXD)
- Information architecture (IA / IXD) and usability
- Strong interpersonal, facilitation and presentation skills
- Strong interest in social media, Web 2.0 and virtual communities

Jason Buck’s Experience

User Experience Specialist

Directgov

(Government Administration industry)

September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Designing UCD solutions and UCD insight workshops for internal and external stakeholders for Directgov and Government departments, including:

- The Ministry of Justice
- DEFRA
- Job Centre Plus
- Department for Education
- Pension Service
- Directgov extranet
Expert Witness

Goodhand and Forsyth

(Legal Services industry)

September 2008 — September 2008 (1 month)

Expert witness report commissioned for court case, based on personal knowledge, experience and examination of evidence.
Relief Global Intranet Manager

Rolls-Royce plc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; RR; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

August 2008 — September 2008 (2 months)

22,000 online users; presences in UK, mainland Europe, USA. Content ranges from standard public access to military restricted engineering data. Undergoing global improvement programme

- Managing the R-R global intranet while permanent position is resourced
- Extension of previous permanent role for Rolls-Royce (see below)
Information Architect

Hyper Happen

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)

• First round of site map and wireframesand recomendations, to focus requirements and drive decission making
• Site will support high-profile nationwide youth football initiative, involving major sponsors and football celebrities
• Social networking, video sharing, upload and display of performance data collected from biometric devices. Delivered to desktop, mobile and desktop widget
• Launching nationwide pilot in 2009, global launch in 2010
Information Architrect / User Experience Designer

Dare

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

July 2008 — July 2008 (1 month)

• IA and Interaction Designer for new Barclays loan consolidator tool (launching 2009)
• IA for new Sony Ericsson Xperia phone product launch microsite: http://www.sonyericsson.com/x1
• Wireframes for new Barclays (and Norwich Union) Life Insurance product (www.barclays.co.uk/insurance/life-insurance-summary)
• Wireframes for Sony Rolly UK product site: http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/rolly-dancing-mp3-player
• Wireframes for Vodafone Live Music and review of voting process / experience to increase unsatisfactory rates of confirmed votes
Information Architect

Profero

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2008 — June 2008 (1 month)

Redesign IA, site map and content recomendations for Astra Zeneca e-Marketing extranet.

Wireframes for online campaign for Learning Skills Council: http://inourhands.lsc.gov.uk
Intranet consultant

Pitney Bowes

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PBI; Business Supplies and Equipment industry)

December 2007 — May 2008 (6 months)

Consultancy to assist Pitney Bowes 'International' (UK, Europe + ROW)with connecting with main business intranet programme.

Defining, engaging and skilling a community of intranet publishers within the International part of the business within the context of a global intranet transformation project.
MCR / e-Commerce expert affiliate

CVL

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

March 2008 — April 2008 (2 months)

Multi-channel retail benchmarking report (commissioned by CVL).

150 page report to examine 5 top UK general merchandise retailers, benchmark their performance across online / in-store / telephone and catalogue channels, identify innovation and common features.

For internal and external use.
Information Architect and Designer

The Economist Group

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Publishing industry)

October 2007 — January 2008 (4 months)

Redesign of information architecture for global intranet, governance modelling and stakeholder management.

Followed by creative design for new visual identity and user interface (UI).
Candidate

JFL

(Online Media industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Web Editor

IBF - Intranet Benchmarking Forum

(Internet industry)

September 2007 — October 2007 (2 months)

Management of internet site (www.IBForum.com) and blog (http://www.intranetlife.com/intranet_benchmarking_for).

Writing, editing news articles and site updates.
Intranet Project Manager

Financial Times

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; PSON; Newspapers industry)

March 2007 — August 2007 (6 months)

Bottom up IA, creative design, stakeholder management, governance modelling and project management of full life cycle.
Rationalised current numerous intranets and intranet-like applications.
Design and launch new global intranet within 4 months.
Communications and web consultant and professional

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)

March 2007 — March 2007 (1 month)

Contracting, freelancing, speaking and training in online, digital and communications industry (ongoing).
Global Intranet Webmaster

Rolls-Royce

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Airlines/Aviation industry)

July 2005 — March 2007 (1 year 9 months)

- Leading operational management of Rolls-Royce global intranet.
- Raised ranking position from to 8th from 36th against FTSE 100 and public sector equivalent peers in independent benchmarking.
- Responsibility for identifying and overseeing 15 intranet managers and extended global community of ~350 intranet publishers.
- Identification of costs and waste reduction through increased effectiveness and efficiency, with a 56% waste reduction as result of intranet improvement activities.
Intranet Coordinator

Rolls-Royce

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Aviation & Aerospace industry)

March 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 5 months)

- Information Architect and web producer for new global intranet subsite.
- Defining requirements through user / stakeholder interviews, card sort and wirefames development and paper prototyping.
- Creation and facilitation of community of practice of web editors and web managers, to further continuous improvement, increase individuals’ capabilities and overall user experience.
- User behaviour advisor for project team investigating learning styles (Myers Briggs) in context of online and offline communications.
Communications consultant

Self-employed

(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Public Relations and Communications industry)

January 2002 — March 2004 (2 years 3 months)

Various assignments for SMEs and startups including:
- Requirements definition, heuristic evaluation, and IA for website design
- Integrated marcomms planning and delivery
- Copywriting and script writing
- Visual identity and print design
Web / graphic designer

MCI WorldCom

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MCIP; Telecommunications industry)

April 2000 — December 2001 (1 year 9 months)

Management of UK and Finnish internet presences.
Web editor

MCI WorldCom

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MCIP; Telecommunications industry)

March 1998 — April 2000 (2 years 2 months)

Defining requirements and design of intranet subsites
Heuristic reviews and proposals for improvement for existing subsites
Hard copy newsletter writer / editor; occasional print and poster design

Jason Buck’s Education

The Nottingham Trent University

BA Hons , Contemporary Arts , 1993 — 1996

Majoring in visual art, performance art and music
Orleans Park

1982 — 1987