Jason Ferris

Past

• Project Manager at Victorian Government Solicitor's Office
• Online Strategy and Development Consultant at Australian Unity
• Web Consultant and Developer at Environment Protection Authority Victoria

• Web Developer at RMIT University
• Web developer at Travel Promote
• Web Developer at Bush Branding & Marketing

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Jason Ferris’s Experience

• Project Manager

  Victorian Government Solicitor's Office

  (Government Administration industry)

  October 2008 — July 2009 (10 months)

  Project lead for a large, first of its kind, Australian Government project i.e. Design, development and roll-out of a web application to manage the procurement of legal services for Victorian Government departments and agencies.
  
  • Functional specification development
  • Vendor assessment and selection
  • Software fit assessment
  • Contract negotiation
  • Scheduling
  • Risk management and mitigation
  • Issues management
  • Impact assessment and change management
  • Project communications
  • Stakeholder (internal and external) & expectation management
  • Vendor management
  • User Acceptance Testing
  • Solution assessment against requirements
  • Sign-off
  • Project handover for transition to business as usual
  
  Web Manager Role
  • Provide leadership, mentoring, training and supervision to staff
  • Manage redevelopment of the VGSO intranet
  • Manage the ongoing design, development and maintenance of VGSO’s external websites
  • Work with Marketing team to improve ROI for web assets
  • Work with IT and Document Systems teams on systems integration

• Online Strategy and Development Consultant

  Australian Unity

  (Privately Held; Insurance industry)

  August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)

  Redevelopment of health insurance / ecommerce website
  
  • Oversee final stages of project to ensure functional/design specifications and business requirements are adhered to.
  • Manage development workflow
  • Work with multiple internal and external stakeholders and suppliers including IT, digital companies and agencies.
  • Identify and manage risks specific to the online environment
  • Review web metrics, and conduct market and competitor analysis
  • SEO analysis and recommendations

• Web Consultant and Developer

  Environment Protection Authority Victoria

  (Environmental Services industry)

  September 2007 — July 2008 (11 months)

  Development of externally hosted intranet:
  • Requirements analysis and specification
  • Web development
  • Content Management System deployment and customisation
  • PHP, CSS, HTML Coding
  • Software training
  
  Information architecture:
  • Content inventory / Site mapping
  • Wireframes
  • Form abandonment analysis
  • Audience definition
  • Scenario development
  • Taxonomy
  • Redevelop sitemap
  • Web development
  • Analytics
  
  Business case development for implementation of a Content Management System (CMS):
  • Process analysis and mapping
  • Requirements analysis and specification
  • Business impact assessment
  • Risk assessment
  • Functional analysis and fit assessment
  • Timeline
  • Budget
  
  Website maintenance and development
  • ASP, CSS, HTML
  • Content management
  
  Search Engine Optimization
  • Web traffic analysis and reporting
  • Content and code optimization
  
  Multimedia
  • Online video

• Web Developer

  RMIT University

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

  • Development of an online balloting/survey application
  • Content Management Systems deployment and customization
  • Design and Templating
  • PHP, CSS, HTML Coding and Bug fixing
  
  Consulting / reporting
  • Process analysis
  • Technology and systems
  • Organizational analysis
  
  Stakeholder management
  
  Search Engine Optimization
  • Web traffic analysis
  • Content optimization
  
  Multimedia
  • Online training videos
  
  Documentation

• Web developer

  Travel Promote

  (Internet industry)

  2005 — 2006 (1 year )

  Web Design
  
  • HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript
  • Design / layout
  
  Web application development
  
  • Online help / ticket system
  • Live help / instant messaging system
  • E-commerce
  
  Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  
  • Keyword research
  • Content and code optimization
  • Traffic analysis
  • Competitive analysis
  
  Technical Support
  
  • Virus / spyware removal
  • Registry optimization
  • Software installation / updating
  • Data backup and restoration
  • Software training

• Web Developer

  Bush Branding & Marketing

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2001 — 2005 (4 years )

  Project management
  • Pitches and quoting
  • Manage web team
  • Assign tasks
  • Work with 3rd party vendors
  • Stakeholder management
  • Budgeting
  
  Web design / development
  • HTML, PHP, CSS, Javascript
  • Design / layout
  
  Web application development
  • E-commerce
  • Content management systems (CMS)
  • Mailing lists
  • Message boards / forums
  • Intranet / groupware
  • Photo galleries
  • Project management applications
  • File / document management
  • Webmail
  
  Online marketing
  • Email newsletters
  • PPC advertising campaigns
  
  Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  • Keyword research
  • Content and code optimization
  • Traffic analysis

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