Craig Hogan

Current

SEO consultant at v-on ltd
Technology Partner at Z - Three
CTO at bizmoot

CTO at wemoot
Freelance: web developer at Kinetik Medical Devices Ltd
Freelance: web developer at Nelsons
Technology Partner at visalogic ltd
Director and founder at Chillfire ltd

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Past

Technology consultant at Crew Inc.
Freelance: Online Search Consultant at Looking Glass Fashion
Small Business Consultant at Finding max

Freelance: Web Developer at GH Ski-Board Ltd
Freelance: Web Developer at Cascade Resources Ltd
Freelance: Web Developer at Lambert Howarth Groupl plc.
IT manager at Globalvisas
System Engineer at London College
Expert at Hamleys
Sales at Elite Advertising
Regional Co-ordinator at Youth For Understanding

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Education

Falkenberg
Kamo High School

Recommended

3 people have recommended Craig

Connections

92 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Craig Hogan’s Summary

Web Developer and IT/Project Manager with a wide range of knowledge and skills. Very interested in asp.net and web technologies with special interest in new emerging microsoft technologies, Silverlight, AJAX,SQL Server 2008.
Experience in design/deployment and management of microsoft technologies.
In depth knowledge of business start-ups and technology migration projects.
I have scratch built a content management system called OCRE which is currently used on a number of websites, the next version of OCRE will be launched late in Q1 2010.
OCRE is built on the asp.net framework 3.5 and uses SQL 2005.
The latest addition to my web portfolio is bizmoot, a knowledge management tool allowing organisations to manage their shared knowledge between staff and collabrative partners.

Craig Hogan’s Specialties:

Asp.net web development (+7yrs)
, Windows network administration (+8yrs), SQL Server 2000-2008 (+8yrs), HTML & CSS (+7yrs), VB.net (+7yrs), Content management systems (+6yrs), Classic ASP, Visual Basic 6, Office relocation management, Staff IT/system Training, Running my own business (+3yrs), Business startup
, IT management, Infrastructure design and deployment, Antivirus/WSUS/MS Forefront/Vertitas (Symantec) Backup

Craig Hogan’s Experience

SEO consultant

v-on ltd

(Design industry)

August 2009 — Present (6 months)

V-on have recently launched their new website and I am helping them get the most out of it through good search engine optimisation and link building
Technology Partner

Z - Three

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

2009 — Present (1 year )

I setup and manage/support all of Z-three's IT systems for their London Office plus their remote warehouse in Woking.
CTO

bizmoot

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2009 — Present (4 months)

Bizmoot is a web based tool that allows the creation of a knowledge network so businesses can share knowledge/information within their organisation and across the internet to partner companies allowing greater collaboration and success.

Bizmoot builds on the public wemoot platform, which went live in February 2009.
CTO

wemoot

(Education Management industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

I am developing a new cultural community with Jorge Gonzalez, we cant say too much, but it will launch shortly, very exciting!
Freelance: web developer

Kinetik Medical Devices Ltd

(Medical Devices industry)

January 2008 — Present (2 years 1 month)

www.kinetikedical.com is built on the ocre cms platform, the site was designed by therefore.co.uk who are also the product designers for al of the kinetik medical devices
Freelance: web developer

Nelsons

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Alternative Medicine industry)

November 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

I have moved a number of sites for nelsons to their own windows 2003 server. Most of the sites were using opensource CMS (php), they now use OCRE (my own modular CMS platform) built on the .net framework (2.0).
Technology Partner

visalogic ltd

(Legal Services industry)

April 2006 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Managed the Design and deployment of all business infrastructure and systems for this business startup (April 2006).
I inherited a CRM written in MSAccess 2002 with a SQL 2000 database backend, however all other IT systems are developed in asp.net 2.0/vb.net with Visual Studio 2005.

The sales function of the CRM has been redeveloped to run as part of the intranet side of the web platform. The CRM, website and intranet site, corporate tracking site all run simultaneously off the same SQL database to provide transparency of the day-to-day business for staff, customers and business partners alike.
Director and founder

Chillfire ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2006 — Present (3 years 11 months)

IT consultancy services, specialising in small business (incl. new startups).
I specialise in business technologies and have developed our own Content Management System called OCRE which is built on the microsoft asp.net framework.
Technology consultant

Crew Inc.

(Hospitality industry)

June 2009 — October 2009 (5 months)

In charge of all IT systems, websites, hosted Sugar CRM, online marketing tools, ecommerce etc for Crew Inc.

Latest site www.crewmagazine.co.uk.
Freelance: Online Search Consultant

Looking Glass Fashion

(Apparel & Fashion industry)

October 2008 — April 2009 (7 months)

I am looking after all of the search engine and website optimisation for Looking Glass store. Form Pay per click campaigns to building strong natural listing results.
Small Business Consultant

Finding max

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )
Freelance: Web Developer

GH Ski-Board Ltd

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

June 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 4 months)

Designed and Developer www.ski-link.co.uk, moved old site from asp to asp.net 1.1.
Site uses first version of OCRE Content Management System.

Site incorporates: CMS, shopping cart, online invoicing, basic CRM, accounting reports, lead generation, booking form, enquiry form, SEO, PROTX merchant systems and MS Access.
Freelance: Web Developer

Cascade Resources Ltd

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Accounting industry)

August 2007 — September 2007 (2 months)

Developed www.poundss.co.uk for Cascade Resources Ltd, site runs on the OCRE platform my own Content Management Sysytem.

Site incorporates, Case studies, Testimonials, Email, Articles, CMS, SEO, Document store.
Freelance: Web Developer

Lambert Howarth Groupl plc.

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; LMBT; Textiles industry)

May 2006 — June 2007 (1 year 2 months)

Worked alongside the IT department at Lambert Howarth to add a CMS (OCRE) onto the back of their existing site.
The wsite was written in asp.net 2.0 and incorporates CMS, RSS feed aggregator.
IT manager

Globalvisas

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Legal Services industry)

October 2004 — April 2006 (1 year 7 months)

Managed all internal software and web development,
Hired and trained IT support staff
System Engineer

London College

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2002 — October 2004 (2 years 8 months)

Taught software and web development to international students.
Also supported 400 student PCs, domain and network infrastructure
Expert

Hamleys

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2001 — 2003 (2 years )
Sales

Elite Advertising

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1998 — 2000 (2 years )
Regional Co-ordinator

Youth For Understanding

(Non-Profit; 51-200 employees; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

1996 — 1999 (3 years )