Freelance New Media Project Manger / Producer / Consultant
London, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Project Manger / Producer / Consultant at Freelance (Self-employed)
- Past
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- Production Manager at Oil Productions Ltd
- Product Manager at Moo Print Ltd.
- Senior Content Producer, New Product Development at BBC
- Education
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- Bournemouth University
- University of Oxford
- Kent Institute of Art and Design
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Kim Plowright’s Summary
I have over five years experience of creating high quality, user-focused websites within a large public service media organisation.
I have a strong perspective on the problems of representing traditional media brands in an interactive environment, and can translate possible solutions to those problems into language that both a software engineer and a busy TV producer can understand.
The emergence of 'social software' and 'Web 2.0' technologies suggests that there is a rich opportunity in providing tools and experiences based around media consumption that are both useful to the people using them, and to the companies providing them.
I can help to make those products that people will want to use.
Kim Plowright’s Specialties:
Expertise:
Making Websites.
- Editorial strategy and production
- Design direction
- Product development
- User-centred experience design
A good understanding of:
- design, usability, accessibility and navigation issues,
- client side technologies,
- when to call in the heavyweight techies.
Kim Plowright’s Experience
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Project Manger / Producer / Consultant
Freelance (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Internet industry)
April 2009 — Present (8 months)
Currently working for Six To Start producing/project managing the online portion of a cross-platform project for Channel 4.
Also available for consultancy around product development and production of new media projects, with experience in the space where interactive entertainment, social media, games and television/video meet. -
Production Manager
Oil Productions Ltd
(Online Media industry)
July 2008 — April 2009 (10 months)
Currently producing/project managing a large cross-media entertainment project, 'Routes' http://www.routesgame.com/ commissioned by Channel 4.
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Product Manager
Moo Print Ltd.
(Privately Held; Printing industry)
May 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 3 months)
- Creative lead for community aspects of new feature development, products and function of moo.com.
- Co-ordination across technical, marketing and design teams
- Driving force behind new product strategy and execution: leading a small autonomous team in order to extend moo.com's consumer offer by growing new and innovative community and content properties. -
Senior Content Producer, New Product Development
BBC
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
October 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 8 months)
Responsible for
- Product development
- Internal communications and knowledge management
- Audience insight
- Market analysis and marketing coordination
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Snr Content Producer / Project Manager
BBC
(Public Company; Internet industry)
July 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 4 months)
Lead on Content Management System Project in BBC Interactive Drama and Entertainment; strategy, requirements gathering, workflow analysis, working with technical consultants and specialists and liasing with other areas across the organisation.
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Senior Content Producer, www.bbc.co.uk/comedy
BBC
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
January 2003 — July 2004 (1 year 7 months)
Editorial lead on the BBC Comedy website www.bbc.co.uk/comedy managing team of four.
Re-steered and redesigned the site; streamlined the operations behind the site in line with reduced funding, worked alongside TV teams to produce high-profile brand support sites such as www.bbc.co.uk/theoffice and www.bbc.co.uk/abfab
Launched the BBC comedy guide, a bespoke CPS-backed site with information about every TV comedy ever shown in the UK from 1936 to the present day.
Helped clarify rights issues around inclusion of archive video clips on bbc.co.uk, via the BBC rights group and the Writers Guild.
Drove adoption of simple lightweight blogging tools to keep sites fresh, and to publish RSS feeds. -
Senior Content Producer, bbc.co.uk/cult
BBC
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
July 2002 — December 2002 (6 months)
Editorial lead on bbc.co.uk/cult, including bbc.co.uk/doctorwho
Worked on the BBC's first aquisition of third-party TV programmes for exclusive online broadcast ('Roobarb and Custard', plus additional material around Stephen Spielberg's 'Taken').
Oversaw production on several made-for-web animated dramas. -
Researcher / Assistant Content Producer / Content Producer, bbc.co.uk/cult
BBC
(Public Company; Online Media industry)
September 2000 — July 2002 (1 year 11 months)
Editorial production on the BBC Cult and Dr Who websites; promoted within team over the course of employment.
Tasks included researching and writing content, production of original video pieces for the web, simple animation, image editing, design and code of sites, line management of more junior members of the team.
Produced a three-camera live outside broadcast for the web from Douglas Adams' memorial service. Designed, coded and wrote all content for the Hitchhiker's Guide website.
Became known as 'BBC Bagpuss Expert' - which has lead on to minor media notoriety. I'm proud of this; who wouldn't be? -
Assistant, BBC Films
BBC
(Public Company; Media Production industry)
September 1998 — September 2000 (2 years 1 month)
Personal/Administrative assistant to three Production Executives within the BBC's theatric feature film production department.
Arranged clearances for non-theatric festival screenings of archive productions.
Screen credit on David Hare's 'Via Dolorosa' (Dir. Steven Daldry).
