Craig Cockburn
IT Professional, BCS Chartered Fellow
- Location
- London, United Kingdom
- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
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Craig Cockburn's Overview
- Current
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- Special Advisor for Digital Engagement at Global Marketing Network
- Project Manager at John Lewis
- Director at dotSCOT - Camapign for a clTLD for Worldwide Family of Scots
- Technical Project Manager at MyMarketingLife
- Founder at movejobs.com
- Director, IT Consultant, Programme manager at SiliconGlen.com Ltd
- Past
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- Principal Consultant at emergn
- DSDM Atern Project Manager at AXA Wealth
- IT Delivery Manager at Aviva plc
- Project Manager at News International
- Senior Project Manager at Directgov
- Project Manager at Tesco Bank
- Web Programme Manager at Vangent Ltd
- Programme Manager at NHS South of Tyne and Wear
- Project Manager at Houghton Mifflin Learning Technology
- Web Project Manager at Pocket Kings
- Project Manager at UK Government
- Project Manager at UK Government
- Project Manager at Elite Training and Consultancy
- CIO at CrowdSpirit
- Project Manager at Tesco.com
- Development Manager / Senior IT Specialist at visitscotland.com / ATOS Origin
- Senior Software Engineer at The Object Factory
- Co-founder and organiser at The Edinburgh Mod
- Director at Comann an Luchd-Ionnsachaidh
- Senior Software Engineer at Delphi Computer Consultants
- M.Sc. Student at Napier University
- Publisher at Scottish Guide to London
- Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Company Ltd
- Education
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- Napier University
- Edinburgh University
- Recommendations
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12 people have recommended Craig
- Connections
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500+ connections
- Websites
Craig Cockburn's Summary
Experienced Programme manager / senior project manager with a background in innovation, creativity and problem solving. See specialities below.
Interested in great opportunities that can allow me to make the most of my creativity, problem solving and business skills. 11 years experience as company director. Interested in work in London or telecommuting from London. Very interested in startups/ Web2.0/ search (formerly researcher for Techcrunch UK). Managing Structured Programmes (MSP) practitioner, PRINCE2 practitioner, ITIL V3 qualified.
Specialties
In 1989, won award for on-line job matching service
In 1990, invented a browser for consumers (Wikipedia: history of the web browser)
In 1992, wrote UK's first guide to getting on-line
In 1994, wrote the first on-line guide to Scotland
In 1994, First in Britain's first degree in Object Technology (M.Sc)
First prize winner in UK competition to improve the retail sector (2005)
Chartered Engineer. Chartered Fellow of the British Computer Society
Craig Cockburn's Publications
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Edinburgh Napier University Alumni News - The Red Triangle
- Edinburgh Napier University
- 2011
Authors: Craig CockburnArticle in Edinburgh Napier University's Alumni magazine concerning my projects for the office of No10 Downing St and the BCS award winning project for Southwark Council
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Estimating Software Projects
- Methods and Tools
- September 1, 1999
Authors: Craig CockburnA paper on estimating projects that use object technology
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A user friendly object oriented multi-media mail filterer
- Napier University M.Sc. Thesis
- February 14, 1994
Authors: Craig CockburnPublished in September 1996 and referenced at http://www.omgcorba.info/object-currents-announcementcall-for-papers-free-new-journal. However no longer online there, please use the link above.
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Computer Supported Cooperative Work (Groupware)
- Napier University M.Sc. research paper
- June 1, 1993
Authors: Craig CockburnPublished in 1993. Mentions the early days of the web, well before Netscape and Yahoo.
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HTML5
- W3C, The World Wide Web Consortium
- May 5, 2011
Authors: Craig CockburnListed in the acknowledgements section of the HTML5 specification. (not the actual author!)
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Email addresses of the rich and famous
- Addison Wesley
- May 31, 1994
Authors: Craig Cockburn, Seth GodinListed in this publication (not the actual author!). This was published in 1994 when there were 20,000,000 people online apparently. They published the top 1,000 "rich and famous" people online. I was listed as a result of my knowledge sharing on various forums at the time.
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Eat, Sleep and Drink Smoke Free
- Headway Books
- 1992
Authors: Craig CockburnReceived acknowledgement (not the actual author!): "It would not be possible to acknowledge the help and support of every individual and group who has contributed to this year's edition of Eat, Sleep and Drink smoke free, however special recognition is due to Craig Cockburn for his assistance in tracking down smoke-free pubs...." (I was campaigning on the national media on this issue at the time and later contributed to the Scottish parliament legislation consultation: http://archive.scottish.parliament.uk/business/committees/education/inquiries/gaelic%20language/D_Cockburn,%20Craig.pdf
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The UK Internet List
- Self
- June 26, 1992
Authors: Craig CockburnThe UK Internet List, Britain's first guide to getting online. Founder and editor. Ran this for 2 years to promote low cost internet access. The list was subsequently referred to by many computing magazines. See also http://www.limov.com/projects/inetuk-usenet-faq.lml
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Guides to Scottish and Celtic culture
- Self
- May 1, 1994
Authors: Craig CockburnIn 1994 I wrote and edited the soc.culture.celtic FAQ covering information on Scotland, Ireland, Isle of Man, Nova Scotia, Cornwall, Wales and Brittany. This was the first online guide to many of these countries/areas (including Scotland) and eventually reached a few hundred pages. It has been maintained to this day and a copy is held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The current version is at the URL above.
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Traditional Gaelic singing
- Self
- June 1, 1996
Authors: Craig CockburnArticle on traditional Gaelic singing, compiled with support from leading singers and academics.
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Agile: A 10 year retrospective on behalf of the BCS Agile Specialist Group
- Unicom Seminars
- April 19, 2012
Authors: Craig CockburnPresentation I gave at the Agile Westminster Conference. This is a ten year retrospective on agile on behalf of the BCS Agile Specialist Group of which I am a committee member.
Craig Cockburn's Experience
Special Advisor for Digital Engagement
Global Marketing Network
Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry
February 2012 – Present (4 months) London, United Kingdom
See http://www.gmnhome.com/pagebuilder.asp?id=658 for news release and details.
Project Manager
John Lewis
Partnership; 10,001+ employees; Retail industry
January 2012 – Present (5 months) London, United Kingdom
Working on an Intranet project for the The John Lewis Partnership
Director, IT Consultant, Programme manager
SiliconGlen.com Ltd
June 2001 – Present (11 years)
Self employed IT Consultant. I also manage the site www.siliconglen.com in my spare time. This leads to all sorts of interesting contacts and opportunities ranging from queries from the media, research for TV programmes, promotion of Scottish culture at home and abroad, research into email filtering and e-commerce opportunities, promotion of website usability and design standards. Development of the site has included employment of subcontractors for development work and International consultancy work. I fit this nominal work around my day job as a consultant for major clients (public and private sector) in the London area.
Invented the Broken Link Preventor
Principal Consultant
emergn
Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry
August 2011 – November 2011 (4 months) London / Warrington / Newcastle
Working as a Principal Agile consultant on the DWP Universal Credit Programme. This programme won "best use of agile in the public sector" at the recent Agile 2011 awards. I have worked on both documenting and improving the bespoke Agile implementation for DWP.
Agile Facilitator for telephony team, including BT, covering the contact centre infrastructure, IVR, Telephony business processes and updates into the IBM Rational suite (Rational Requirements Composer, Team Concert and Quality Manager.)
DSDM Atern Project Manager
AXA Wealth
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry
February 2011 – July 2011 (6 months) Basingstoke, Hampshire
Set up project using Agile DSDM to rollout DSDM, Team Foundation Server 2010 and business change within AXA Wealth using the AXA Wealth Website integration project as a pilot. An important part of this roll was coaching the team and AXA Wealth in general, in DSDM to incorporate better Agile practices.
Project manager responsible for managing the integration and rebranding of AXA Wealth websites following the transfer of business to Resolution / Friends Provident under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000.
Managed delivery team of 9 across business, development and test functions
IT Delivery Manager
Aviva plc
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; AV; Financial Services industry
December 2010 – February 2011 (3 months) Norwich, United Kingdom
Delivery manager for e-commerce related risk and regulation projects at Aviva, Norwich. Planned and coordinated deliverables amongst several IT project managers across the relevant Aviva portals for the general public, financial advisors, contact centre, and back end systems.
Ensured that supply and demand for project teams aligned with project plans and delivery dates to meet compliance deadlines for the FSA.
Liaised with project manager, IT manager and testing teams to compile plans, manage risks, issues, constraints, actions and dependencies.
Project Manager
News International
Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; NWS; Newspapers industry
August 2010 – November 2010 (4 months) London, United Kingdom
Project manager managing multiple agile workstreams using scrum, sprints, Jira Greenhopper to develop a multi-platform e-commerce platform for iPad, iPhone, desktop and browsers. Platform distributed content from multiple news publishers, magazine and video sources in the US and UK.
Managed on and off-shore streams: Day CMS and US based Kyte video and Dow Jones (Factiva)
Senior Project Manager
Directgov
May 2010 – August 2010 (4 months) London, United Kingdom
Managing significant web projects at Directgov - the official UK government website for citizens. Work included the Spending Challenge website for the office of No10 Downing Street - peak traffic approx 400,000 page views an hour Please see the "publications" section for further details on this project.
Also project managed the delivery of an accessible video player
Project Manager
Tesco Bank
Public Company; 501-1000 employees; TSCO.L; Banking industry
March 2010 – May 2010 (3 months) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Managing the web element of 3 projects in the financial services sector (insurance). Left to live and work in London for personal reasons.
Web Programme Manager
Vangent Ltd
Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry
September 2009 – March 2010 (7 months) London, United Kingdom
Web Programme Manager running 10 projects (inc two project managers) to bring radical improvement and transformation change to a public sector website and associated services (parking portal, revenue and benefits, online services, improved usability, design refresh, replacement CMS).
This programme between Vangent and Southwark Council subsequently won the "IT Project Team of the Year" award 2010 from the BCS and Computing in the "Project Excellence" category.
Programme Manager
NHS South of Tyne and Wear
Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry
August 2009 – September 2009 (2 months) Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Recruited to lead the rollout of SharePoint 2007 across the PCT to 4000 users and to investigate future opportunities with SharePoint 2010. Initiated programme to achieve this, wrote project plans and PID, engaged with customers and external vendors and had a significant amount of hands-on experience with Sharepoint 2007. Unfortunately this assignment was ended due to a restructuring and a change in the nature of the work. Positive references available.
Project Manager
Houghton Mifflin Learning Technology
Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Education Management industry
May 2009 – August 2009 (4 months) Ireland
Contract Project Manager working for the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt publishing house managing software releases to the American K-6 educational market. These products help children with their reading in English and Spanish.
Project Manager
UK Government
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
September 2008 – December 2008 (4 months) London, United Kingdom
Web Project manager based at BERR, Westminster, London managed a project for a major UK government web portal and infrastructure selection and migration, using PRINCE2 and OGC standards
Project Manager
UK Government
Government Agency; 10,001+ employees; Government Administration industry
February 2008 – May 2008 (4 months) London, United Kingdom
Project Manager, based in Whitehall. Successfully managed and implemented a Web 2.0 portal for the CIO council (Cabinet Office) on the Transformational Government programme. This was a secure portal for use by CTO/CIOs within the civil service as well as leading representatives from industry bodies (e.g. IAP, Intellect)
CIO
CrowdSpirit
Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry
October 2006 – July 2007 (10 months) France
Crowdspirit aims to revolutionise the supply chain by crowdsourcing manufacturing and making it easier for customers to get the products they want to market faster.
Listed in the Techcrunch40. CEO wanted the team based in France so we parted company in 2007. Crowdspirit deadpooled in April 2011
Project Manager
Tesco.com
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; TSCDY; Retail industry
January 2007 – February 2007 (2 months) London, United Kingdom
Project manager for Tesco.com to redevelop the company's grocery website, the most successful grocery site in the world.
Development Manager / Senior IT Specialist
visitscotland.com / ATOS Origin
Government Agency; 501-1000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry
February 2000 – November 2006 (6 years 10 months) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Roles I have had include:
E-commerce technical lead. Promoted to development manager. Led the team to deliver e-commerce for the Scottish Tourist Board. Chief technical contact for due diligence during transfer to the private sector.
Joint development lead for team of 12 across many major high profile deployments.
Managed recruitment, hiring and dismissing employees, clarification and estimates for internal and 3rd party work.
Support Team lead. In charge of technical testing, setup and configuration of development and test environments and change control. Promoted to test manager. Led the company's UAT and technical testing activities for 5 years across many small and major releases. Received thanks from the CEO for the deployment of the company's biggest functional upgrade.
From 2002-2006 this project was a joint venture PPP with ATOS Origin,
Senior Software Engineer
The Object Factory
April 1997 – February 2000 (2 years 11 months)
This organisation specialised in consultancy and training for Object Technology. To support this they developed a product for more accurately estimating the time, effort, resources and development schedule for Object Oriented software projects. I was the chief user interface designer on this project and also developed the interfaces to third party products. We were a Rational partner and I worked closely with Rational in developing an interface to their modelling tool. I saw this product through many releases and developments. Although a highly innovative product and extremely useful, the company was forced into liquidation by the investors approximately 18 months after I had left for career reasons. Anyone still interested in the product should now contact tassc-solutions.com who took over the liquidated assets.
Co-founder and organiser
The Edinburgh Mod
October 1995 – April 1999 (3 years 7 months)
Relaunched the Edinburgh Mod in 1997, the main competition for the promotion of Gaelic language, culture, literature and music for adults and children. In rewriting the 100 year old rule book on how Mods were run, we gave the Edinburgh Mod a much greater emphasis on performing in the traditional Gaelic style. Organised fundraising events including hiring artists, press releases, TV publicity.
Senior Software Engineer
Delphi Computer Consultants
Public Company; 10,001+ employees; Automotive industry
February 1996 – April 1997 (1 year 3 months)
This small company was based within NatWest Markets in Edinburgh, the investment banking arm of one of Britain's largest banks. We provided inhouse development and support to Natwest markets for Oracle applications running on Solaris. Separately we developed applications for other financial houses such as the Association of Investment Trust Companies including a database to manage their IFA contacts.
M.Sc. Student
Napier University
Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry
February 1993 – April 1994 (1 year 3 months) Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Mature student studying for Masters degree. As part of this degree I undertook research work at the University of Washington, Seattle. As part of my thesis, I implemented a platform independent front end to a multimedia e-mail client. This introduced MIME e-mail to the University. The thesis also specialised in the enhancement of Object Oriented methods and software usability and won me the class medal. Following the M.Sc. the University hired me on a temporary basis to teach other M.Sc. students. My thesis was subsequently published in the US by the SIGS group and 10 years later was still being asked for and used as a reference work by other students.
Publisher
Scottish Guide to London
August 1991 – December 1992 (1 year 5 months)
Founded newsletter for Scots in London. Set up distribution, publication and sponsorship. Received support from some of the biggest bands in Scotland and from the Scottish media. Promoted events, societies, news, clubs, campaigns, etc. Handed over coordination end Dec 92 upon my return to Scotland where I was involved with a similar publication in the Edinburgh area.
Software Engineer
Digital Equipment Company Ltd
September 1987 – December 1992 (5 years 4 months) Reading, United Kingdom
Managed the technical certification of Digital's biggest customers worldwide and the approval for Digital to support their X.25 networks. Mostly major banks, country networks, large telecoms companies etc. Wrote part of the DECnet software - the backbone for the world's largest networking company. Migrated from there to EDI - Electronic Data Interchange, forerunner of E-commerce.
Craig Cockburn's Skills & Expertise
Craig Cockburn's Certifications
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Chartered Engineer
- Engineering Council
- September 2005
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Chartered IT Professional
- British Computer Society
- September 2005
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PRINCE2 Practitioner
- APM Group
- License P2R/287317
- May 2008 to May 2013
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Managing Structured Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
- APM Group
- License MSPR/34467
- February 2010 to February 2015
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ITIL V3 Foundation
- APM Group
- March 2010
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DSDM Atern Certification
- APM Group
- License DSDM/000910
- November 2010
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PRINCE2 Foundation
- APM Group
- May 2008
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Managing Structured Programmes (MSP) Foundation
- APM Group
- License MSPR/23621
- October 2008
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Professional Scrum Master
- scrum.org
- December 2011
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Chartered IT Professional Fellow
- British Computer Society
- March 2012
Craig Cockburn's Education
Napier University
M.Sc., Object Technology
February 1993 – February 1994
Won class medal and distinction and had a great time.
Activities and Societies: Undertook lecturing to other M.Sc. students as part of the degree. As part of thesis, undertook research in Seattle, Washington. Main emphasis of M.Sc. was on the Internet, software usability, portable code and enhancement of Object Oriented analysis and design. Thesis subsequently published by SIGS group in the US.
Edinburgh University
B.Sc. (Hons), Computer Science
October 1983 – June 1987
Distinction in Artificial Intelligence
Craig Cockburn's Languages
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English
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Gaelic
(Professional working proficiency)
Craig Cockburn's Additional Information
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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Mensa, Chartered Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS), Member of the Chartered Management Institute., Scottish Folk music, BBC research, Scots in London
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- Honors and Awards:
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Programme manager, "IT Project Team of the year" award 2010 from the British Computer Society
M.Sc. Distinction and Class Medal Napier University 1994 (Object Technology).
First prize, national retail competition for technology ideas.
2nd Prize "Young Programmer of the Year" (UK competition)
Runner up "Who wants to be an entrepreneur (Scotland wide competition for entrepreneurs)
Top 10 Finalist Internet Works Magazine competition, top 10 e-commerce ideas in the UK
Received certificate of Employee involvement from the founder and President of Digital Equipment Corporation.
Berkshire Enterprise Agency award for Internet based job matching service (1989).
Listed in "E-mail addresses of the rich and famous" (1994)
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