Millen Shah

Current

• Search & Taxonomy Manager at Businesslink.gov.uk
• Product Manager - Search and Taxonomy at Serco Group plc

Past

• Information Analyst at Ask.com UK
• Knowledge Analyst at Jane's Information Group
• Data Standards Manager at Jane's Information Group

• Content Editor at Jane's Information Group
• Paralegal at HM Customs & Excise

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Education

• Brunel University

Connections

126 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Millen Shah’s Experience

• Search & Taxonomy Manager

  Businesslink.gov.uk

  (Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  Businesslink.gov.uk is the UK e-government web portal offering support and advice to businesses. The portal is provided by Serco on behalf of HM Revenue & Customs.
  
  I have strategic direction and operational management of:
  - site search design, functionality and innovation
  - organic search engine optimisation
  - search analytics
  - browse tools, eg taxonomies, ontologies
  - metadata standards

• Product Manager - Search and Taxonomy

  Serco Group plc

  (Internet industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

• Information Analyst

  Ask.com UK

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; IACI; Internet industry)

  May 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Key responsibilities:
  - testing online and offline relevance ranking algorithms for natural organic results for the UK Global and Local index,
  - management of search results for UK news search channel
  - quality testing of content within the UK indexes,
  - providing analysis to improve performance of natural search functions
  - blocking adult content from appearing in clean partitions.

• Knowledge Analyst

  Jane's Information Group

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Services industry)

  November 2006 — April 2007 (6 months)

• Data Standards Manager

  Jane's Information Group

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Services industry)

  April 2002 — November 2006 (4 years 8 months)

• Content Editor

  Jane's Information Group

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Services industry)

  December 2001 — April 2002 (5 months)

• Paralegal

  HM Customs & Excise

  (Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Law Enforcement industry)

  1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Millen Shah’s Education

• Brunel University

  LLB , Laws , 1996 — 2000

  Activities and Societies:

  Brunel Student Law Society, Student Industrial Society, Brunel Badminton Club

Additional Information

Millen Shah’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Millen Shah’s Groups:

•    Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo
•    Search Engine Land
•    SearchEngineWatch.com Forums
•    The Flag and Bell IT Networking Group
•    ASK.COM
•    Online Information & IMS Exhibition and Conference
•    Enterprise Search Engine Professionals
•    BCS Information Retrieval Specialist Group

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