Ginger Koolick

To provide effective website and application strategy, project management and writing/editing to help businesses succeed.

Project Management, Team Leadership, Business/Marketing Strategy, Research, Writing/Editing, Web 2.0 Technology, Social Media, Web Usability/Accessibility, XHTML, XML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, CGI/DBI, Apache Server Admin (hosting), Database Design/Development.

Solving business problems by using the web to encourage actions that bring rewards to my clients. Committed to creating excellent experiences, meeting business goals, and providing superior customer service. Act as a Project Manager for in-house teams or rally my own team for project execution.

Website Design and Development, Business Analysis, Project Planning, Project Management, Website Analysis Reports, Information Architecture for Websites, Technical Requirements Development, Web Standards and Internet Best Practice Consulting, Social Media Strategies, Technical and Professional Writing, Document Editing

Management of New Media projects and resources (including HR) to meet the learning, marketing and media objectives of University of Saskatchewan faculty, students, campus community and external customers.

As part of the software selection committee for the Hannon Hill Cascade Content Management System collaborated with IT professionals across campus to select a product to meet the needs of a diverse and complex group. My team successfully piloted the CMS using new U of S branding to re-engineer the Office of the President and five other senior executives' websites to launch only 2 months after installation. Within 10 months, we redesigned, migrated and deployed an additional twenty-five functional websites within the system.

Management of Systems Administration: Managed Systems Administrators for both Windows and Linux servers. This included set up and management of hosted clients, development domains, interactions with other campus servers (including Adobe Flash Media Streaming Server) and an Event Registration System using point of sale e-commerce transactions.

Project Management of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL): TEL is a digital pedagogy initiative funded by Campus Saskatchewan. Responsible for management of 15 projects funded at $650,000.00 annually (over 3 years) as well as 50 legacy projects. Project work consisted of development of online courses developed for delivery via learning management systems, animations, online video and web based applications. Stakeholders include students, faculty, Program Manager, Manager of Production Services, instructional designers, graphic designers, animators, video and audio production staff, Blackboard (LMS) and web developers.

Project Management of Web Development: Lead generation, sales of all new media fee-for-service projects, business analysis, requirements definition, proposals/estimates/quotes, customer relationship management throughout the life cycle of each project and ongoing maintenance (approx. 200). Notable projects: http://usask.ca/, http://lightsource.ca/, http://vido.org/, http://police.saskatoon.sk.ca/. Note: Project Management/Development used waterfall method, with the exception of the creation of one of the Pathology online games using an Agile approach.

HR Management of New Media Staff: Hire, interview, conduct annual reviews, recommendations for salary adjustments and lead New Media staff (12).

Committees: Copyright Committee, Digital Archive/Federated Digital Resource Committee, PAWS (University Portal) Advisory Board

Director, Project Development: Marketed to prospective clients, proposal and grant application writing, developed specifications for new client projects and enhancements to existing systems, created and refined internal management systems.

Production Manager: Management of hundreds of web based application projects from initial concept to launch. Advised corporate clients regarding Internet and Investor Relations best practices and supervised the re-engineering and maintenance of large and complex websites such as http://www.PotashCorp.com and http://www.Cameco.com. Leadership of employees and off-site contractors (programmers, graphic and Flash developers, system administrators). Trained employees and provided professional development mentoring. Conducted progress, hiring, and terminating interviews. Lead application design and development in the creation of internal production management system (Khara). Lead design and development of company intranet. Developed company standards, training manuals, employee policies and procedures. Research, writing and editing (proposals, technical training materials/manuals, technical articles, website content, news releases, marketing materials, analyses and reports).

New Media Developer
Development of website projects scope and specifications. Scripting and databases (design and development) for websites using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, PHP, ASP, PERL, SQL, MySQL, ColdFusion. Linux server configuration to host websites. Prepared and analyzed logs for website statistics. Developed training materials and instructed clients in website updating. Prepared documentation and materials for users.

Organizer of Saskatoon BarCamp, SaskInteractive, Organizer of SW4 (Saskatoon Women of the World Wide Web), #yxe Marketing Network

Successfully Managing Agile Projects
Hannon Hill - WCMS Software Training
ScheduALL Enterprise Resource Management
Windows NT 4.0 Server Administration
Management Information Systems
Accounting Certificate