Nicholas Roberts EMAIL: Nicholas@TheMediaSociety.org

Resume• Project Manager• Producer• Webmaster• Online Publisher

Date of Birth: 10 October 1972Age: 37Sex: MaleNationality: Australian

- Over 10 years as project manager, producer & webmaster in high-level web, media & IT roles - 3 years webmaster at Nationwide News Ltd (The Australian & The Daily Telegraph) - PRINCE project management training, certification and experience in News Ltd HQ in Sydney - 5 years local community, social justice and environmental projects

Career Details2010 - Founder and webmaster for PermacultureGroups (Drupal in Open Atrium) and the Permaculture NEWS Cooperative (Drupal in Managing News)•2008-2009 - Founder & Producer for Permaculture TV free video cooperative, filming at Klimaforum09 •2008-2009 - Researching global Permaculture Cooperative in Mondragon-style•2009 - Climate Camp Scotland media coordination;filming & edits, interviews & advocacy, Coal Health Study, writing. London Climate Camp video & filming 2009 – Web design: Red Moss Hotel www.redmosshotel.co.uk •2009 - Media producer; video filming and editing, websites, tech, wifi, 3G mobile networks Scotland Climate Camp, Coal Health Study•2009 - Founder of Gaia Permaculture permaculture worker-cooperate GaiaPermaculture.com•2008 - Founder & Producer for global multi-lingual video sharing website Permaculture TV•2008 - Project volunteer at European Social Forum, Malmo. Sweden; media center, documentation, language interpretation, research for organising an Australian Social Forum•2008 - Producer for science and sustainability web communications agency BoaB Interactive; www.BoaB.info• 2008 - Project consultant to The Byron Shire Echo newspaper with hyper-local news-web-print strategy, revenue model, system documentation• 2007-2008 - Web project manager for a travel industry portal; budget $500 000, 10 staff, 20,000 web-pages; www.stellaresorts.com.au• 2007 - Webmaster for Royal Australian Institute of Architects www.Architecture.com.au • 2005-2006 - Proprietor & manager of own micro-ecommerce & web hosting business• 2004-2005 - Project manager & webmaster for regional peak arts organization Octapod Association (running websites for This Is Not Art, Electrofringe, National Young Writers Festival, Sound Summit, Environmental Awareness Raising Festival) NSW Arts cultural audit, festival websites• 2004-2005 - Technical manager & webmaster for TIN Radio FM/online community radio• 2003-2005 - Project manager at digital multimedia agency: websites, TV, audio, DVDs, CD's, VB software development• 2000-2003 - Webmaster, producer & project manager at Nationwide News Ltd (The Australian / The Daily Telegraph etc) www.TheAustralian.com.au & www.dailytelegraph.com.au• 1999-2000 - Webmaster Meat & Livestock Australia• 1999-1998 - Web developer and designer in web, advertising and IT contracts London, UK (Guinness, Hewlett Packard etc)• 1997 - Web designer - Evatt Foundation etc

References Richard Pree, Former Newspaper Website EditorFormer News Ltd Multimedia EditorMOBILE: On Application

Will JoyIsnt Media General ManagerMOBILE: On Application

Paul Edgecumbe, CIO of NSW CommerceRetired News Ltd Group IT Director (1996-2003)MOBILE: On Application

Management, Content & Creative Skills

Projects & Management•Cross-Media Creative Producer•Project Management (Prince project management)•Change Management•Software Development management•Development, Production and Sales Budgets•Inter-Disciplinary Management (Cross-Functional)•Team Leadership•Virtual Teams or Collaborative Groupware•Knowledge Management

Content Management•Database and web-page content management•Categorization of content•Blogging

Creative•Multi-Media: Flash, Audio, Video, Slideshows•Cross-media creative: multiple platform media products within common brand•Written creative •Graphic: web-design, logos, multi-media •Internet Product Concepts & Prototypes•Mass-Multi-Media Concepts & Prototypes•Web Pages•Web Sites•Business Ideas•Digital Video

Communication•Verbal and Written Communication•Formal Documentation & Planning•Formal Change Management•Software Development Lifecycle Management•Software Design Methodology•Project Management (Prince and MS Project)•Media, IT and Business Strategy•General Problem-Solving

Consultation•Written Reports•Problem-Solving•User Interface•Business Analysis•Business Models•Software Design

Commercial•NEIS Small Business Certificate•Entrepreneurialism•Intrapreneurialism (Entrepreneurialism within organization)•Metrics and Reports•Marketplace Benchmarking•Budgets and Accounts•Business Plans•Business Promotions•Software and Business Method Patent Applications

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Internet Technologies•HTML •DHTML •XHTML •WAP, SMIL •JavaScript •CSS•XML •XLink •XPointer •XSL •SMIL •Web-services

Web-Application Servers•DotNetNuke•Community Server 2•DotNetPanel•ColdFusion•JSP: Java Server Pages •ASP & ASP.NET: Active Server Pages •Content Management Server 2002•SharePoint Services•Rainbow portal•Biztalk 2003

Productivity•Web-based Groupware•Office 2003, 2005•Outlook 2003 •Visio 2003•Project 2003•Intranets: Sharepoint, Content Management Server

Servers•Windows 2000 & 2003 Servers•SQL 2005 & SQL 2000•IIS 5, 6•SharePoint 2003, SharePoint Portal Server 2001, SharePoint Team Services•Content Management Server 2002•ColdFusion•JSP: Java Server Pages •ASP & ASP.NET: Active Server Pages •Zope•Rainbow Portal

Programming•Visual Studio.NET 2005, 2003•Visual Studio 6•ASP•ASP.NET•C#

Web-Design•Dreamweaver•Frontpage •Visual Studio .NET 2005

Multi-Media•Flash•Real Media•Windows Media

•Vegas Video•SoundForge•Photoshop•Paintshop Pro•Dreamweaver

Recent Work History Project Manager / Isnt Media

Product Stella Group corporate travel ecommerce portal - managed development of website from specification to production:

• 3 brands, 3 portals• 20 000 Page Travel Portal• 40 page templates, 30 modules• AJAX Booking Matrix• My Bookings

Role • Project Manager• Project Planning, Tracking, Communications • Hand-on Project Management• Product Specification• User Acceptance Testing• Agile Programming Methodology

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Trac Project Management• Microsoft Project Management• Web Content and Ecommerce Management• DotNetNuke 4.8 (ASP.NET/VB.NET open-source content management)

NON-TECHSKILLS

• Project Management• Product Specification• Project Tracking • Product Documentation• User Acceptance Testing• Content Management• Search Marketing• Usability• Information Architecture• Stakeholder Management• Agile Methodology• Content management

Environment • ASP.NET, SQL, VB.NET, HTML, DHTML, Flash• DotNetNuke 4.8• Trac – project management• Subversion – source control• Cruise Control • Windows 2000 • SQL 2005

TIME-FRAME • September 2007 - March 2008

URL www.stellaresorts.com.au www.mantraresorts.com.au www.breakfree.com.au

Webmaster / www.Architecture.com.au

Product Royal Australian Institute of Architects www.architecture.com.au

• Australian national Architecture portal

Role • Webmaster

• Internet web content, graphic and design management• Intranet product & project management

Technical Skills • Web Content Management• Dreamweaver• Adobe Photoshop

Business Skills • Content management

Environment • Custom systems

TIME-FRAME • January 2007 – August 2007

URL www.Architecture.com.au

Proprietor / MediaEcommerce.NET

Product MediaEcommerce.NET : Ecommerce Community Network

• Ecommerce website and internet hosting NEIS small business

Role • Small business owner• Business plan and financials• Development of business model• Implementation of content and ecommerce management web system

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• Web Content and Ecommerce Management• DotNetNuke ASP.NET/VB.NET open-source content management system• ASP.NET, VB.NET• XML Data Formats• DotNetNuke• SQL 2000, SQL 2005• Windows 2003 Server

NON-TECHSKILLS

• Business Model• Marketing• Advertising• Content management

Environment • Managed Development of website from concept to production: • Web: ASP.NET, SQL, VB.NET, HTML, DHTML, Flash• DotNetNuke 4.3.4• Community Server 2• DotNetPanel• Windows 2003 • SQL 2005

TIME-FRAME • November 2005 - December 2006

URL http://mediaecommerce.netetc

Technical manager & announcer / TiN Radio

Product TIN Radio Webmaster, Technical Manager & Announcer

• Webmaster and Technical Manager for online and FM community radio station

Role • Technical Manager and Webmaster• Day-to-day management of radio station• Day-to-day management of website including streaming and FM broadcast

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• DotNetNuke ASP.NET/VB.NET open-source content management system• ASP.NET, VB.NET• DotNetNuke• SQL 2000• SAM Broadcaster• Linux Icecast Server• Mp3 Archive• FM Broadcast Production system

NON-TECHSKILLS

• Project Management

Environment Web: ASP.NET, SQL, VB.NET, HTML, DHTML, Flash• Windows 2003 environment• SQL 2000

FM Broadcast: FM Radio Station

TIME-FRAME • September 2005 - March 2006

Project manager & webmaster / CultureHunter.org

Product CultureHunter.org: The Hunter Valley Cultural Database

• Community sector website collecting and publishing profiles on People, Organisations, Businesses, Facilities, Projects, Events, Funding

Role • Project Manager and Web Developer• Development of website technology• Day-to-day management of website including a dozen editors around

Australia• Management of content

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• DotNetNuke ASP.NET/VB.NET open-source content management system• ASP.NET, VB.NET• XML Data Formats• DotNetNuke• SQL 2000, SQL 2005• Conversion of Access Database into multi-user web-database with approval,

role management, account profiles, interactive maps

Business SKILLS • Project Management• Media Contact: Radio and newspaper interviews• Web Development Website content management• Product Design• Business Model• Design Recommendations• Management Options

Environment • Managed Development of website from concept to production: • Web: ASP.NET, SQL, VB.NET, HTML, DHTML, Flash• Windows 2003 environment• SQL 2005

TIME-FRAME • September 2005 - March 2005• 6 months contract

URL http://www.culturehunter.org

Webmaster / This Is Not Art

Product National festival website

KEY STATS: 5000 000 hits since June 2005400 000 page views30 000 unique users

• This Is Not Art is a Newcastle-based festival that includes National Young Writers Festival, ElectroFringe, SoundSummit, Student Media Conference and a collection of smaller festivals

Role • Webmaster: development of website• Day-to-day management of website including a national dozen editors• Management of content

Technical Skills • Information architecture• ASP.NET, VB.NET• DotNetNuke• SQL 2000

Business Skills • Website content management• Client liason

Environment • Managed Development of website from concept to production during festival: built website using DotNetNuke .NET open-source content management system

• Web: ASP.NET, SQL, VB.NET, HTML, DHTML, Flash• Windows 2003 environment

TIME-FRAME • September 2004 – November 2005

Project manager / Digital Motion

Product Cross-media creative communications production house

• Digital Motion develops creative media solutions for business, government and individual clients. DM produces graphic, web and print design, video, CD-ROMs, DVDs, games, website applications and business software.

Role • Project and Product Manager for 6 months, managed 6 multimedia production staff

• Special Projects Manager: 6 months 100% on a software application, managed 4 dedicated developer staff

Technical Skills • Software Design Methodology• Multi-Media Production

Business Skills • Product Development • Business Development• Project Management

Environment • Managed Software Development Lifecycle: for 12 months duration (6 months part-time, then 6 months full-time) of a 3 person team including Business Analysis, Requirements Gathering, Project Management, Software Specification, Commercial and Patent aspects of project

• Print: Adobe Photoshop, Quark• Web: PHP, HTML, DHTML, Flash – Lube Mobile• Video: Full TV quality production suite Woolworths• Games: online Flash promotional games: Central Coast Health• CD-ROMs: cd-rom promotional items: Wyong Council• DVDs: Woolworths• Software Applications: VB 6 object oriented 3 tier business application. • Windows 2000 environment

TIME-FRAME • August 2003 - August 2004• 12 months contract

Webmaster / Nationwide News Ltd

• ROLE: NWN IT WebmasterDUTIES: Web-Consultation, Development, Administration

Duration: 2 years 6 months (28 months) 2-11-2000 to 04-07-2003

Companies I have supported the following News Ltd properties in my service as NWN Webmaster

• The Australian: Webmaster for 2 successful website design launches• The Daily Telegraph: Webmaster for 2 successful website design launches• The Sunday Telegraph: consultation• News Magazines (Donna Hay, Inside Out): intranet service, page archive service• Cumberland Newspapers Group (Lake Macquarie Advocate, etc.): page archive service• News Ltd Group Business Units (Group ITT, Group Creative, Global Archives etc.)• News Interactive (Interactive division): content management system colloboration• Nationwide News Ltd Business Units (Editorial, Advertising, Marketing, Circulation

etc.): ongoing service• News Source (News Corp Global Ecommerce Archives): The Australian online archives

first version• Developed and Administered Group Services: intranets and web-based knowledge

management services

Internet and Mass-Multi-Media Products Delivered during 28 months

• Free-to-Web Masthead Websites: www.DailyTelegraph.com.au : advice, strategy, technical oversight, project management of masthead websites

• Free-to-Web Masthead Websites: www.TheAustralian.com.au : advice, strategy, technical oversight, project management of masthead websites

• Online Advertising Systems: prototypes for web-newspaper advertising systems• Newspaper Production Automations: Election Feeds, Data-Feed Driven Sections: Election

2001 was feed direct froom AEC to News, faster web-service than AEC website• Newspaper Input Production Automations - Internet-Cyber-Mainframe: Online

Advertising: group proof of concept• Newspaper Output Production Automations - Internet-Cyber-Mainframe: Mainframe-

Cyber-Internet- Electronic Archives: production page archive service designed and

maintained. Millions of XML, PDF and JPG images of newspaper pages. Searchable etc• Online Audio-Video and Animation Multi-Media: The Australian Multi-Media• Pay-per-View Ecommerce Services: The Australian Online Archive• Online Subscriptions Systems and Campaigns:• Electronic Archives: production, core business newspaper Page Archive: 40 publications

including The Australian and The Daily Telegraph• Intranet-based Content and Knowledge Management Services: Intranets: Sharepoint

2001, Content Management Server 2002, Biztalk 2001, SQL 2000, ASP and ASP.NET, Visual Studio .NET 2002. Languages: ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, SQL, XML, XSL, HTML, PDF.

• Cross-Media Creative Unit: proposal to executives• Mass-Multi-Media Publishing Framework: proposed mass-multi-media publishing product

prototype design methodology

Online Advertising Systems

Product Online Advertising SystemsOnline Booking and Delivery of Ad Material via Internet into Cyber and Mainframe

Role • Project Management• Team Leader• System Architecture• Problem Solving• Negotiated Software and Consulting Supply (Microsoft Consulting Services)• Business and System Requirements Analysis• UI Design and Interface Programming• Programmed EAI• Documented system and project• UAT• Operations

Owners Advertising, Advertising Production

Users Ad Suppliers

Environment • Cyber• Mainframe• Biztalk Server• Visual Basic 6• ASP.NET• XML, XSL, TXT• PDF• EPS• SQL Server• Windows 2000 Server

Free-to-Web Masthead Websites: DailyTelegraph.com.au

Product DailyTelegraph.com.auFree-to-Web Newspaper Masthead Website

Role • Internet Strategy• Start-up consultation and planning• Ongoing web-design consultation and programming• Commercial and web user experience problem-solving

• 3rd

-party engagements• Quality control

Owners Daily Telegraph Editorial

Users Website Users

Environment • Vignette• Oracle• Apache• Java Server Pages• HTML• CSS• Email

URL http://dailytelegraph.com.au

Free-to-Web Masthead Websites: TheAustralian.com.au

Product TheAustralian.com.au Free-to-Web Masthead Website, window to online subscriptions, place-an-ad, online archives, multi-media, online promotions

Role • Internet Strategy• Consultation since launch in 2000• Designed, developed and project managed supporting services: online

subscriptions, online archives, online multi-media, online promotions• User Interface consultation and programming • Information Architecture consultation

Owners • Editorial• Marketing• Advertising• Circulation• Newsource (global archives)• NewsAdvantage

Environment • Web-based Content Management & Publishing • Java Server Pages & News Interactive’s CMA• Vignette • Oracle

URL http://theaustralian.com.au

Online Audio-Video and Animation Multi-Media: The Australian Multi-Media

Product The Australian Multi-MediaOnline Audio-Video and Animation Multi-Media. Flashed-based high-quality slideshows, audio-visual and video features

Role • Conceived and developed business model, sold business idea to editors, enterprise

• Produced multi-media with editors, journalists, marketers, creative and designers

• Managed stakeholders, marketed internally• Archive and ecommerce strategy

Users Broadband Users

Environment • Flash 5 & 6 • News Interactive Website• Photoshop 6 and Image Ready• HTML• Vegas Video

Online Subscriptions Systems and Campaigns: The Australian Email and Web Subscriptions

Product The Australian Email and Web Subscriptions (Rounds 1-4)Web and Email based online subscription system that has evolved into a full credit-card enabled system. Internet-Call-Centre-Mainframe-Internet integration automation

Role • System Architecture, Problem Solving• Programming• Inter-departmental team development and co-ordination• Campaign and Project management• Quality control• User Experience, Information Architecture, Interface Programming• Planning

• Management of 3rd

party agencies

Owners Marketing, Circulation, NewsAdvantage (call and contact centre)

Environment • News Interactive’s web forms and web servers• Advertising agencies• Email broadcaster• Email Servers• Email and Office Automation• Email Responses and FAX Responses• Mainframe

URL http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/homedelivery/

Pay-per-View Ecommerce Services: The Australian Online Archives

Product The Australian Online Archives powered by NewstextOnline text story ecommerce archive restricted to The Australian

Role • Designed Business Model for The Australian silo which became business model for entire archive of 135 publications

• Designed v1 UI• Interface Programming• Coordinated Newstext, News Interactive, Marketing, Editorial

Owners The Australian Editorial, The Australian Marketing, Newsource

UsersWebsite users

Environment • Verity Search Engine• Newsource ecommerce engine• ASP• SQL• Windows NT

URL http://theaustralian.com.au/archives

Electronic Archives: Page Archive

Product Page ArchiveElectronic Archive of every page printed in every publication in Nationwide News and Cumberland Newspaper Group. Pages are represented as print quality PDF’s, data-rich XML’s and thumbnail JPG’s. Stories and Ads can be found by browsing, navigating with pull-down menus, searching the PDF or XML data. 1.2 million files, 500GB of data.

Role • Webmaster• Business Analysis• Interface Design• Internet Programming• UAT• Graphic Design• Documentation• Planning• Commercialization

Owners News Source

Users • Editorial• Advertising• Call Centre• Librarians• Data-Feeds• Archive Re-sale• Masthead Websites

Environment • Cyber pages output into Page Archive • XML of layout, advertiser, editorial, images references

• PDF: print quality• JPG: thumbnail• XSL Style Sheets• Windows 2000 Server• Terabyte Server moving to SAN• DT Search• NT Security

Content and Knowledge Management Services

Product Knowledge and Content Management Services

Role • Coordinated News Ltd SharePoint Rapid Deployment Program, implementing 1000 licenses in 4 sites

• Installed and configured while in RC2• Research and Development: SharePoint for News Content Management Tool• Interface Programming: Designed UI, look and feel, logos, managed

graphic and web designers • Information Architecture: categorization, folders, document types,

templates• Knowledge Management: corporate and departmental taxonomies,

categories • UAT: security, usage• Operations

Users Departmental, Divisional, Inter-Divisional and International

Environment • Internet Explorer and Office XP• SharePoint Portal Server SP2• SharePoint Team Services• Content Management Server 2002• SQL 2000

Print-Electronic Hybrid Products: The Australian Political Almanac

Product The Australian Political AlmanacBook and Website hybrid product. i.e. Buy the book and get access to constantly updated material online

Role • Business Analysis and Business Model• User Interface Design• Information Architecture

Owners Editorial, Enterprise

Users Political class

Environment Quark News Interactive’s Content Management Application

Education

Project Management Prince Plus Project Management Certificate

IT Professional EducationSydney University, Australia Ecommerce Distributed Systems Personalised Documents

Publishing Professional EducationThe London School of Publishing, Notting Hill, UK Editorial

HSC of 448, TER of 98.35 Top 1.65% in NSWSt Francis Xavier College, Newcastle, Australia 4 Unit Math Related English Academic Excellence (College Prize)

Physics (1st

in form College Prize)

Chemistry (2nd

in form)

Ancient History (1st

in form College Prize) Computing

KarateBrown BeltOkinawan Goju-Ryu

Work Sustainable Agriculture EducationCrystal Waters Eco-Village, Melany, Queensland Permaculture Designers Certificate

ExperienceABC Radio, NewcastleNBN TV, NewcastleThe Star newspaper, Newcastle