Jim Howard

Product Management Contracting and Consultancy

- Review of existing data and streaming contracts with legal and procurement teams. - Identify opportunities for Product Development by maximising use of data, content and video streaming contracts. - Working with Product, Data & Streaming platform teams in London and Gibraltar on internal roadmaps and priorities. - Working with external suppliers on understanding their roadmaps and the impact on internal projects.

- Working on a number of data and product development strategies of a new, key initiative for the Eurosport live video subscription service (App and OTT) - Identify key data dependencies such as suppliers, the Eurosport EPG and CRM. - This included reviewing data, domain models, vocabularies and and content dependencies within the business from broadcast, digital teams and internal systems.

Working with one of Datalanguage's key clients, Agrimetrics, to shape, define and develop a roadmap for an Agricultural Data Start-Up - building a new data platform and multiple front end products for the Agricultural industry.

As part of Google's Digital News Initiative, leading the Product work on "RoboBlogger" "The Daily Telegraph’s recent Euro 2016 coverage included use of the DNI-funded Roboblogger, which enables it to drop charts and rich infographics into live blogs using real-time data. " http://www.thedrum.com/opinion/2016/08/04/facebook-becomes-dominant-source-news-google-tries-make-friends-press

Responsibilities include: • Work with UX, editorial and visual design teams on redefining the audience-facing proposition on web and mobile • Developing overall roadmap for telegraph.co.uk/sport • Prioritising development for offshore on in-house development teams

Working with the Video Product team at Perform, focussing on: • Defining and communicating to the Product and Technical teams the new Video Framework - a key enabling project for audience-facing video products. • Ensured the core multi-site team, and the wider product and development teams, understood the overall business goals, and prioritised work accordingly. • Developing a longer term roadmap for the Video Framework, including LiveRail SDK integration.

Launched the mirror.co.uk World Cup 2014 proposition and the development of a new, enhanced live football product for Premier League coverage.

Working with the Product Director to redefine ePlayer, one of PERFORM's key products and a new, free-to-air, Sport Video streaming service.

This was a voluntary role I undertook for the youth and sustainable development charity, Raleigh International. Raleigh has 26 years of history providing adventurous and challenging expeditions for people from a variety of backgrounds and nationalities.

I was responsible for the procurement and installation of key pieces of technology and software in the News and Knowledge area of Future Media. This has enabled key BBC websites and mobile services (specifically for sport and the Olympics) to move towards a dynamic publishing infrastructure.