Experienced Geospatial Product or Project Manager (johnfagan at gmail.com)
Norwich, United Kingdom
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- Program Manager at Microsoft
- Member of the Steering Committee at The Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
- Geospatial Tech Lead and Project Manager at Multimap
- Web Developer at Safestreet.co.uk
- GIS Technician at Royal Borough of Kingston
- GIS Project coordinator at Geo Business Solutions
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- Kingston University
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John Fagan’s Summary
A member of the ‘original 10’ at Multimap, responsible for spatial technology which now serves more than 9 Million consumers and 1,000 enterprises. Over 14 years experience within the Geospatial industry, specialising in Product and Project Management and technical leadership for high availability/high volume online mapping solutions. Led integration program for Multimap and Microsoft Bing Maps spatial technology platforms. Passionate team player, who is excited to be involved in an industry that has seen major adoption and innovation in the last 5 years.
John Fagan’s Specialties:
- Mapping API's and Geographical Information Systems
- Product/Project Management (Prince 2)
- Solution Architecting & Technology Integration
- Software Engineering & Software Development life cycles
- Business Requirements Analysis
- Line management and team motivation
- Innovation and creative thinking
John Fagan’s Experience
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Program Manager
Microsoft
(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)
December 2007 — November 2009 (2 years )
Key Responsibilities:
- Integrate Multimap and Bing Maps spatial technology platforms involving multiple global developer and test teams in often ambiguous circumstances
- Prioritise and communicate integration workstreams working with Product Marketing, Sales, Business Development, Test and Engineering stakeholders and utilising extensive customer metrics
- Design and manage program to replace the Multimap back-end geocoding, mapping and routing engines with that of Microsoft Bing Maps
- Complete integration without technical or commercial customer impact or loss or revenue
Key Achievements:
- Multimap and Bing Maps technology integration program successfully launched and migration on track to complete according to plan
- Project to deliver in excess of £1,500,000 of savings -
Member of the Steering Committee
The Association for Geographic Information (AGI)
(Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2008 — September 2009 (1 year 9 months)
Key Responsibilities:
- Set the program and agenda, with the Geocommunity conference team, for the largest geospatial conference in the UK
- Define a strategy to attract the web mapping community to a conference which has historically been targeted at the traditional desktop GIS community.
Key Achievements:
- Established and Chaired a Geoweb stream dedicated to the web mapping community leading to a 5% growth in delegate numbers (08-09) whilst other conferences attendance has declined by up to 40% -
Geospatial Tech Lead and Project Manager
Multimap
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
July 2000 — December 2007 (7 years 6 months)
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead a team of engineers (in-house and offshore) supporting application development and spatial data processing pipelines for the Mapping, Routing and Geocoding engines.
- Prioritise feature development, working with Product Marketing and Sales to meet B2C and B2B customer needs
- Member of the Economics and Architecture virtual team – Led by the Chief Architect.
- Provide technical leadership for pre-sales consulting, request for proposal response and strategy
- Manage technical relationships with software and data suppliers
Key Achievements:
- As one of the original and long standing members of the Multimap team, I played a key role in building the company from London based start-up with UK focus, to global company and ultimate acquisition by Microsoft
- Proposed 60% of approved innovation projects within Multimap’s innovation program,
- Designed and managed the creation of vector and raster data processing pipelines to build global tile caches to support the Static Maps and JavaScript API
- Technical lead for successful integration of custom spatial data into standard Multimap products for blue chip companies; Yell.com, The AA, Her Majesty's Land Registry, Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, Unwired, New Zealand Post
- Accepted 2006 Queens Innovation award from Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace on behalf of Multimap
Business Development, Multimap Australasia, Sydney - 2002 - 2004
- Working independently, bootstrapped the Multimap Australian operations in Perth, Western Australia.
- Established map data partnership with PSMA Australia and Terralink New Zealand
- Established local reseller in Western Australia, resulting in a client base within the Real Estate sector
- Launched, alongside MD, Multimap Australasian head office in Sydney in 2004
- Provided Pre-sales support and won major accounts including Yellow Pages New Zealand and Hotel booking service wotif.com -
Web Developer
Safestreet.co.uk
(Internet industry)
August 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 5 months)
Building online e-commerce shops for small independent retailers using in-house template driven system
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GIS Technician
Royal Borough of Kingston
(Government Agency; Government Administration industry)
June 1998 — September 1999 (1 year 4 months)
Data capture and adhoc map production.
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GIS Project coordinator
Geo Business Solutions
(Information Technology and Services industry)
July 1995 — June 1997 (2 years )
At Geo Business Solutions I was involved in various data-capture projects, including:
- Okavango Topographic map serious update using heads up digitising and in-field verification/ground truthing using GPS
- Digitising the entire Namibian farm boundaries (this hurt my back).
John Fagan’s Education
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Kingston University
1st class BSc Honours , GIS , 1997 — 2000
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John Fagan’s Interests:
When not working I like spending time with my family, surfing (waves as well as web), DIY, Heavy Metal and living in Norfolk
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Multimap
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