Head of E-commerce at Holiday Extras
United Kingdom
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- Head of eCommerce (New Business) at Holiday Extras
- Research & Development at Holiday Extras
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- Technical Consultant at Headshift
- Analyst Programmer at Simmons & Simmons
- Software Engineer at Artsoft Limited
- Database Consultant at Sherwood International PLC
- Programmer at TWEFS
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Neil Roberts’s Experience
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Head of eCommerce (New Business)
Holiday Extras
(Privately Held; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 10 months)
Currently heading up teams responsible for the following:
Search engine optimisation,Multi channel marketing,Copy writing,Email marketing, News & PR for 20+ websites. -
Research & Development
Holiday Extras
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)
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Technical Consultant
Headshift
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 2004 — January 2007 (2 years 4 months)
Headshift are the UK’s leading social software consultancy pioneering development of web 2.0 applications. They utilise the best ideas and tools to provide solutions for a wide range of public and private sector organisations.
Initially I was brought in as developer producing a number of award winning applications, later moving into a Technical consulting role.
I worked directly with clients to develop their social networking strategy while managing a small team of developers to build and maintain a range of scaleable and innovative solutions.
Technologies: Coldfusion, MS SQL, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, AJAX
Tool customisations: Confluence, Jira, MovableType -
Analyst Programmer
Simmons & Simmons
(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Law Practice industry)
June 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 5 months)
50 50 split between Business systems analysis and Development using Coldfusion and Oracle, HTML, CSS and Javascript.
The majority of projects centered around Intranet and Internet development, including Knowledge management systems, portal development, asset management and CMS. -
Software Engineer
Artsoft Limited
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
June 2000 — June 2001 (1 year 1 month)
I was a Software Engineer, providing software consultancy to a range of businesses mainly in the telecommunications industry, as well as developing in-house products.
The core of the development work involved was related to Oracle and a range of Internet technologies such as Coldfusion, Html and JavaScript. -
Database Consultant
Sherwood International PLC
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)
October 1999 — June 2000 (9 months)
During my time with Sherwood I was part of a technical development team on a pilot project for a major Swiss insurance company, the project was based in Zurich and involved working in a pressured environment, to and immovable deadline dealing with end users and business partners from multiple countries.
Technologies: Oracle, Solaris, Oracle forms v5 and PL/SQL. -
Programmer
TWEFS
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Insurance industry)
July 1997 — July 1998 (1 year 1 month)
I spent a year at the Society as part of my degree course developing Financial Management System as an Analyst/Programmer. Throughout the year I was involved in testing the computer system and programming in INFORMIX 4gl.
I was involved in a number of teams within the project including Management Information Reports, Customer Documentation and Transaction Processing. I was also involved in analysis of user requirements, performing software demonstrations and training new users.
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The Institute of Direct Marketing (IDM)
Neil Roberts’s Honors:
www.patientopinion.org.uk
Highly commended in the New Statesmen New Media awards 2006
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