Vincent Maher

Current

• Portfolio Manager: Social Networking at Vodacom

Past

• Strategist at Mail & Guardian Online
• Director at New Media Lab, Rhodes University
• Managing Director at Digital Commerce

• Technology Director at Bitr8
• Multimedia Director at VWV Interactive

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Education

• Rhodes University
• Rhodes University

Recommended

8 people have recommended Vincent

Connections

435 connections

Industry

Telecommunications

Websites

• My Blog
• The Grid
• Thought Leader

Vincent Maher’s Summary

Previously:

Strategist: Mail & Guardian Online
Director: New Media Lab, Rhodes University School of Journalism & Media Studies
Managing Director: Digital Commerce
Multimedia Director: VWV Interactive

Vincent Maher’s Specialties:

Online media strategy development, user interface consulting and production, database design, systems design, systems implementation, multimedia production, Flash development, PHP development, ColdFusion development

Vincent Maher’s Experience

• Portfolio Manager: Social Networking

  Vodacom

  (Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Responsible for social media product development and strategic partnerships at Vodacom, including The Grid, Gridstar, Vodacom Gaming Servers and Facebook Mobile Texts.

• Strategist

  Mail & Guardian Online

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Newspapers industry)

  December 2006 — July 2008 (1 year 8 months)

  Responsible for the development of the company's social media strategy and the creation of flagship sites like Amatomu.com, ThoughtLeader.co.za and the new M&G web site

• Director

  New Media Lab, Rhodes University

  (Higher Education industry)

  April 2004 — November 2006 (2 years 8 months)

• Managing Director

  Digital Commerce

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1999 — February 2004 (4 years 9 months)

• Technology Director

  Bitr8

  (Internet industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Responsible for overall technology strategy for the company, setting up US operations out of Scottsdale AZ and managing on-site web production projects in the US for various VC funded dotcoms before the crash. During the same period the company expanded into London and then crashed spectacularly at the same time everyone else did. Clients included Virgin Active UK, Audiomakers.com

• Multimedia Director

  VWV Interactive

  (Higher Education industry)

  1997 — 1998 (1 year )

  This was my first position out of university and my role was quite flexible. I managed a team of artists and developers who produced web sites for corporate clients including Nandos, Standard Bank Fund Managers, FNB, Datatec, Visa Gold Asia and others. For a while my time was dedicated to finding the new new thing and I also headed up a new initiative to produce emergency corporate sites within 24 hours. The team was jokingly called "the marines" and failed miserably because clients couldn't give us their requirements fast enough. I eventually left in a fit of rage (young as I was) because the company tried to give a personal project I had been working on with some colleagues to a client as a complete solution.

Additional Information

Vincent Maher’s Websites:

• My Blog
• The Grid
• Thought Leader

Vincent Maher’s Interests:

German techno, skateboarding

Vincent Maher’s Groups:

•    New Media Lab Alumni
•    New Media Lab Network
•    Social Media South Africa

Vincent Maher’s Honors:

SACEE Award for poetry, 1992
Association of Independent Publishers (AIP) Award for Newsroom Content Management Systems, 2005 (Nika)
Highway Africa New Media Innovation Award, 2007 (Thought Leader)
COMMS MEA Award for Best New Telecoms Product, 2008 (The Grid)

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