Product Manager
(2014)

Vanguard consulting is a management consultancy owned and operated by multimillionaire John Seddon, an outspoken critic of government reform and a pioneer in a form of systems thinking known as the Vanguard Method.

Due to an ever increasing national and international audience Vanguard decided that they would build an e-learning website (The Vanguard Method), with a focus on providing knowledge to academics and admirers of the Vanguard Method while supporting existing clients.

With Vanguard having no prior knowledge of digital  I was employed as Product Owner to undertake the management of this new e-learning website, its development and a wide spectrum of additional duties.

From the start this was emphasised as a big project and with a budget of 350K the reality of its scale was soon realised.

Unlike previous projects this was to be a build from the ground up, requiring my involvement at every stage of development, this included:

• Purchasing servers & locating data centres

• Managing domain names

• Site design & content management

• Recruitment & team management

This proved to be a fantastic experience, allowing me to utilise my current web skills and attain fresh knowledge in addition to an acquisition of new skills including: recruitment, purchasing and budget management.

In terms of structure the website was split into two areas; a free area (open to all) and a subscriber area.

Both offered a vast array of content; all produced in-house under my management and promoted a heuristic method of learning entwined in a highly usable interface.

The images below are examples of the Vanguard e-learning platform
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