Experienced Geospatial Product or Project Manager (johnfagan at gmail.com)
Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Member of the Steering Committee at The Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
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- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Geospatial Tech Lead and Project Manager at Multimap
- Web Developer at Safestreet.co.uk
- GIS Technician at Royal Borough of Kingston
- GIS Project coordinator at Geo Business Solutions
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- Kingston University
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John Fagan’s Summary
A member of the ‘original 10’ at Multimap, responsible for spatial technology which now serves more than 9 Million consumers and 1,000 enterprises. Bootstrapped Multimap’s Australian operation on own initiative. Multimap was acquired by Microsoft in December 2009. As a result I led Microsoft program to integrate Multimap and Bing Maps technology platforms. Experienced with working with in-house and remote Dev and Test engineering teams.
John Fagan’s Specialties:
- Mapping and Geospatial Specialist (GIS)
- Product/Project Management (Prince2 certified)
- Solution Architecting
- Software Engineering & Software Development life cycles
- Databases and SQL
- Business Requirements Analysis
- Line management and team motivation (CIPD)
- Creative thinking
John Fagan’s Experience
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Member of the Steering Committee
The Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
I volunteer as part of the Geocommunity conference team. The AGI Geocommunity conference is the largest geospatial conference in the UK. I am particularly proud of my involvement in defining a strategy to attract the “neo” geographer community to a conference which has historically been targeted at the traditional GIS community.
This involved creating a dedicated Geoweb stream and engaging with the neogeography community to encourage them to attend and present at the conference. This ultimately led to a growth of 5% in delegate numbers between 2008-2009. A significant achievement when most other conferences have seen declines of up to 40% during the recession. -
Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — November 2009 (2 years )
After Microsoft acquired Multimap in December 2007 I changed roles to a Program Manager. My particular focus over the 2 years has been technology integration involving many teams around the world in often ambiguous circumstances. I worked with Product Marketing, Sales, Customer Support, Operations, Engineering and Test stakeholders to prioritise and communicate project deliverables.
I designed and managed the program to replace the Multimap back-end geocoding, mapping and routing engines with that of Bing Maps. The program needed to roll out all changes without customer impact, which is particularly challenging given Multimap’s 12 year legacy of technology and customer implementations. The program was successfully launched and migration is on track to complete according to plan. -
Geospatial Tech Lead and Project Manager
Multimap
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2000 — December 2007 (7 years 6 months)
Being one of the original 10 who started at Multimap I have had many varied roles throughout my time. Initially I started as a GIS Developer/Cartographer, I then spent 2.5 years in Australia successfully setting up Multimap Australia before returning to London as a Geospatial Tech Lead and Project Manager. Most of my work has been working with engineering teams (in-house and offshore) related to application development and data processing pipelines for the back-end Mapping, Routing and Geocoding engines. However, throughout my time at Multimap I have been called upon for pre-sales consulting, request for proposal response, strategy, supplier negotiations, meeting Her Majesty The Queen and much more.
Proudest Achievements at Multimap
- Being a team player, being passionate and getting colleagues, customers, consumers excited about the industry and the possibilities
- Multimap Australasia – taking key role in establishing the first overseas office and establishing local partners (more below)
- Innovation – Multimap had an active innovation program. On initiation of the innovation program 60% of the approved innovation projects were proposed by me.
- Designing and building all of Multimap’s versions of its Map updates and rendering functions from the early days of on-demand mapping to the latest pre-rendered tiles for the Draggable Maps API
- Project Managing Multimap integration into theaa.com. Delivering 4 weeks ahead of schedule
- TrafficEngland.com – solely responsible for designing and building backend mapping engine for displaying latest traffic information from Highways Agency.
- Meeting the Queen at Buckingham Palace to accept the 2006 Queens Innovation award on behalf of Multimap. -
Web Developer
Safestreet.co.uk
(Internet industry)
August 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 5 months)
Building online e-commerce shops for small independent retailers using in-house template driven system
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GIS Technician
Royal Borough of Kingston
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
June 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Data capture and adhoc map production.
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GIS Project coordinator
Geo Business Solutions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1995 — June 1997 (2 years )
At Geo Business Solutions I was involved in various data-capture projects, including:
- Okavango Topographic map serious update using heads up digitising and in-field verification/ground truthing using GPS
- Digitising the entire Namibian farm boundaries (this hurt my back).
John Fagan’s Education
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Kingston University
1st class BSc Honours , GIS , 1997 — 2000
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John Fagan’s Interests:
When not working I like spending time with my family, surfing (waves as well as web), DIY, Heavy Metal and living in Norfolk
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Multimap
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