Vincent Maher

Vincent Maher

Portfolio Manager: Social Media - Vodacom

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Current
  • Portfolio Manager: Social Networking at Vodacom
Past
  • Technology Director at Bitr8
  • Multimedia Director at VWV Interactive
Education
  • Rhodes University
  • Rhodes University
Connections
435 connections
Industry
Telecommunications
Websites

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 2008Present (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 2006July 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 2004November 2006 (2 years 8 months)

  • Managing Director

    Digital Commerce

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

    June 1999February 2004 (4 years 9 months)

  • Technology Director

    Bitr8

    (Internet industry)

    20002002 (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)

    19971998 (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.


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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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