Stuart Patterson

BSc. (Hons), MSc. IT, MBCS, CITP

Freelance Web Designer / Entrepreneur

Professional Summary


My name is Stuart Patterson and I am a Certified Entrepreneur specialising in Custom Website Design, eCommerce Business Websites  and Digital Marketing. I live in the Occitanie region of South West France.

I design and build websites and online business solutions based on Content Management Systems for my growing number of online clients. I provide professional web design and development solutions based on my past experience of working with global Companies.

Skills Summary

  • Website design using WordPress Content Management System
  • Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
  • Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
  • Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • User experience & user interface design (UX/UI)
  • Responsive designs
  • Webhosting using Virtual Private Servers (VPS) running Ubuntu operating system (OS)
  • Digital Marketing & Social Media Marketing

Experience

L’homme de l’ecosse Carcassonne Area, France | December ’14 – Present

Freelance Web Designer / Digital Creator

  • Designing and building websites and business solutions for my growing number of online clients. I provide professional web design and development solutions based on the WordPress Content Management System. 
  • Implementation and management of Virtual Private Servers to provide fast and efficient hosting solutions for demanding eCommerce websites built with Woocommerce.
  • Online entrepreneur involved in Affiliate marketing, Email marketing, Social media marketing, Customer relationship management (CRM) and Search engine optimisation (SEO).

MacLellan GmbH Limoges Area, France | July ’13 – December ’14

Principal Consultant

  • Business networking and development. Program and software development project management, covering all aspects of Plant Lifecycle Management (PLM), including stakeholder coordination, business analysis, requirements engineering, budget, schedule and quality aspects.
  • Specialising in AVEVA Enterprise Solutions for Information Management, Plant Engineering and Design.

Alstom (Switzerland) Ltd Baden, Switzerland | January ’11 – June ’13

Project Manager, P3DM Business Projects

  • Worked with the Program Manager to define priorities and budget for projects and functionality to be executed and for the overall program.
  • Ran complex projects from kickoff, through design and development, to production. 
  • Defined project requirements and planned project lifecycle.  
  • Defined and formally acquired resources and schedule for project implementation.
  • Created strategies for risk mitigation and contingency planning.
  • Planned and scheduled project deliverables, goals and milestones.
  • Directed and oversaw project engineering team and managed conflicts within group.
  • Performed team assessments and evaluations.
  • Efficiently identified and solved project issues. 
  • Enforced rigorous scope change control process.
  • Served as primary communication point with the project stakeholders, making sure their interests are reflected in the project and negotiating changes in relation to budget and schedule.
  • Managed Business Technical Team for project.
  • Obtained customer acceptance of the project deliverables.
  • Applied of the P3DM project toll gated quality process.
  • Acted as a process owner for ICQ on projects.
  • Ensured that all operations under area of responsibility were conducted in accordance with the Environmental, Health and Safety instructions and its associated legislation.
  • Assisted with the implementation of Microsoft Enterprise Project Management.
  • Assisted with the definition of System Architecture using the Zachman Framework principals.

Academic Education

  • B.Sc. Hons (Open) | The Open University
  • MSc (Information Technology)  | University of Liverpool
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