Computer Expert Looking for Work - URGENT!

[RichBurley]

A friend of mine, Lee, who is a computer genius, has been made redundant, with his team, in the last 48 hours. He is looking for work. Like myself, he is based in the East Midlands.

I can find out a bit more about his epxertise, but he is desperate to find work; he has a mortgage to pay! If anyone can help, PM me asap!

[Obiwonkeyblokey]

HI Rich

i think it will help his case if you can find out a little more about what specific skills he has, as the title computer expert may not help everyone.

Give him a buzz and ask him to write a paragraph that you can post on here, also get him to post his CV straighht onto www.jobsite.co.uk and www.jobserve.com , that may help with getting the phone ringing.

[jamesuk28]

Also post this in the PH jobs section, and possibly the computer section to, if you have not already done that. Hope he gets something fast.

[RichBurley]

Lee now has explained his talents as follows:

I've just noted down a few points about my current role.

I work in a co-ordination/management role as an Online/Web Specialist, backed by my previous technical experience.

Degree: Business Information Systems
8 years commercial experience

Current position: Technical Co-ordinator working for Vodafone in the Online Business Unit

Responsibilities for:
Development on vodafone.co.uk
Domain control and management - working in conjunction with legal and marketing
Vodafone branded microsites
Third party development
Process creation and management
Co-ordinating internal development teams

Key activities/decision areas:
Translating business needs into content requirements
Communicating needs to development team, producing scales of work
Co-ordination point between business stakeholders and production/release teams
Cross-functional co-ordination, management of approval processes
Ensure alignment with brand guidelines

Skills:
PHP, ASP, HTML, SQL (MySQL & MSSQL), CSS
Database design and development
IA, UE, usability/accessibility
Presentation and reporting
Excellent written and verbal communication
Knowledge of online technology and its application
Experience of large corporate working and management of third party suppliers

I am a key influencer aiming to ensure quality, consistency and commercial effectiveness.


If anyone knows of a suitable role, then please PM me, and I will pass on the information. Lee comes with my personal recommendation.

Richard

[Lurking Lawyer]

RichBurley said:

I am a key influencer aiming to ensure quality, consistency and commercial effectiveness.

I'm sure your friend is very good at what he does but if I saw a CV with that kind of management-bks-speak in it, I'd have a laugh and then probably bin it!

Maybe it means something to someone in his particular market sector but, to me, it's just a load of trendy jargon that tells me nothing about what he does or his skillset.

Anyway, that's just a particular bugbear of mine - don't pay any mind to me Hope he finds something soon

[johnbear]

Your friend is an IT Project Manager. 8 years is a long time to have not progressed to a more senior level. He's now in no mans land in the IT world.

The difficult decision for him is deciding between PM or development. Development teams are always going to more techie than him so will give him a hard time particuilarly the dev managers. If he's still aren't great it could be difficult.

If it's PM then he'll need to show some experience with Prince2 or Agile methodologies. I've yet to see pure Prince2 work well, but I have seen Prince2 work well from the PM methodology prespective coupled to DSDM for the development methodolgy.

Oh, I always reckon it takes about 6 weeks to get a job and 3 interviews.

I've got a killer CV with the right keywords that he could use as a template if you're interested; never failed. Just drop me a PM.

[Piglet]

Lurking Lawyer said:

RichBurley said:

I am a key influencer aiming to ensure quality, consistency and commercial effectiveness.

I'm sure your friend is very good at what he does but if I saw a CV with that kind of management-bks-speak in it, I'd have a laugh and then probably bin it!

Maybe it means something to someone in his particular market sector but, to me, it's just a load of trendy jargon that tells me nothing about what he does or his skillset.

Anyway, that's just a particular bugbear of mine - don't pay any mind to me Hope he finds something soon

I know what you mean LL but I'm guessing you work for a law firm and to be fair we are a long way behind the rest of the business world!! I left the commercial world in 1999 to go into law and my law firm is just about starting to recognise the things that the global company I worked for in 1999 was talking about then!!

[spikeyhead]

Lurking Lawyer said:

RichBurley said:

I am a key influencer aiming to ensure quality, consistency and commercial effectiveness.

I'm sure your friend is very good at what he does but if I saw a CV with that kind of management-bks-speak in it, I'd have a laugh and then probably bin it!

Maybe it means something to someone in his particular market sector but, to me, it's just a load of trendy jargon that tells me nothing about what he does or his skillset.

Anyway, that's just a particular bugbear of mine - don't pay any mind to me Hope he finds something soon

I'll interpret it for you.

It means he's got an ego which may or may not be matched by talent.

an alternative translation is:-

I'm great at writing meaningless phrases that initially sound good but are in fact random selections of bullst and buzzwords.

[johnbear]

That's what IT is built on

Edited by johnbear on Thursday 20th March 20:38

[ukvoyager.info]

Go easy on the guy! Just look where he has come from.

Has your man ever thought of trying his skills on his own venture?

[DonnyMac]

I own Mobile Business Magazine which reported on this yesterday - http://www.mbmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_c...

Anyhow, the guy's CV reads right for what he does - can you ping me salary expectations.
Cheers,
Don

[spikeyhead]

DonnyMac said:

I own Mobile Business Magazine which reported on this yesterday - http://www.mbmagazine.co.uk/index.php?option=com_c...

Anyhow, the guy's CV reads right for what he does - can you ping me salary expectations.
Cheers,
Don

Is anyone else having problems getting this website to work?

[DonnyMac]

working fine - it's on the front page at www.mbmagazine.co.uk but will only stay there for a week.
D.

[RichBurley]

Hey guys; the chap has had the mis-fortune of being made redundant. I've posted on here in case anyone can help with regard to another job; it's not a post with the heading "please criticise my frieind's abbreviated CV as much as possible".

If anyone knows of anything going, then please, let me know. I've linked him into this thread, so I'm sure that he'll appreciate anything positive at this hard time...

[27tim]

Hi - If he wants to do a project while he's looking for a job I have something where I need a man with some of his skill set. I can promise it'll be different to the Vodafone job though ;-)

PM me if you're want details before I throw it up on elance and brace myself for the onslaught.

Cheers

Tim

[MarkoTVR]

What type of employment is he interested in? Permanent or contract?

[Scraggles]

website works - Vodafone Cuts 450 Newbury Jobs so guess a glut of IT staff around there

[erdnase]

27tim said:

Hi - If he wants to do a project while he's looking for a job I have something where I need a man with some of his skill set. I can promise it'll be different to the Vodafone job though ;-)

Why do I have an image of some scam, involving taking 0.0001p from everyones bank accounts?