Tom O'Halleran
Employment History
Digital Project Manager/Product Manager
Inspired Gaming Group — until August ’08
Responsible for the delivery of projects (either from product creation to manageable product or content creation for an existing product) for the gaming, entertainment and advertising industry. All products and content connected to a private network, with multiple VPN links to online portals or the customer’s server—based applications. Projects were delivered using both Prince 2 and Agile methodologies depending on the project or customers requirements. The role included running multiple projects with up to 10 members in the team and⁄or multiple external teams integrating to complete a final product or content piece. This involved hitting delivery times as per projects needs and maintaining constant communication with the customer, as well as the project team and superiors.
Content Manager
Inspired Broadcast Networks — July ’03 til April ’04
This role involved the acquiring and managing of touch—screen video game content, for 8000 networked quiz machines found in pubs and arcades throughout the UK. This required the planning of monthly ‘menu’ releases containing new games and user interface assets to support these games. As well as managing the acquisition and contract negotiation of game/branded content. This also included building the ‘menu package’ (XML and file structure). Then the managing this package through multiple testing phases.
Other Employment History
Lifeguard — Leisure Connection Ltd — April ’01 until January ’03
Pool lifeguard during university holidays at Princes Risborough Leisure Centre.
Basketball Coach — Birmingham Bullets — September ’02 until June ’03
Level 1 coach for children with physical and behavioural difficulties at schools around the Birmingham area.
Snowboard Instructor — Wycombe Summit Dry Ski Slope — March ’00 until September ’00
Dry-slope snowboard instructor, providing group or individual tuition, at beginner and intermediate level.
Qualifications
University of Birmingham
— BSc Sports & Advanced Materials Science (2.1 honours)
Joint honours degree in sports science and advanced materials science, focused on development of new technologies for the sports equipment industry.
Aylesbury Grammar School
— 4 A—levels — Physics (B), Chemistry (B), Biology (B), General Studies (A)
— 11 GCSEs — A* to B various subjects including English and Mathematics
Previous employers
— Prince 2 foundation qualification
— Flash for beginners qualification
IT Experience
Advanced: Windows and Mac
All Microsoft Office suite including Project and Visio
Adobe Photoshop/Illustrator
Intermediate: Macromedia Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks
Quark
Final Cut Express
Beginner: Actionscript
XML
PHP
Oracle and MS SQL Databases
General Interests
I enjoy travel and have just come back from an eight-month trip around the world with my girlfriend. I also like to keep fit by playing a variety of sports, and try to spend time on extreme sports like snowboarding, surfing and scuba diving when I get the chance. I also love food and like to cook from scratch and go out and try new restaurants when possible. Finally, I enjoy working on my own graphic designs from photo editing to creating logos or my own web-sites.