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Danny Barnett's web site

Danny Barnett's Web Site

Examples of my work

These are some examples of my extra-curricular and voluntary activities.
If you would like to get in touch with me about web design work,
please e-mail me at danny@dannybarnett.com
If you are looking for the victim support resource, please follow this link

Web sites

Here are some examples of the web sites I have designed. Click on a heading to find out more - click on the image to go to the site (page will open in a new window.)

Kosibah Creations Couture Bridal

Designer wedding gowns and couture evening wear from Kosibah Creations

Designer wedding dresses and couture evening gowns from Kosibah Creations.
The site is developed in Flash and HTML although there is also a content management system behind it written in PHP and MySQL. The slideshows are based on XML content. There is also a non-Flash version of the site for those people that don't have the most current version of Flash player installed. Great care is taken to ensure compatibility with w3c standards and the site is validated regularly.

Mahogany Model Directory

Mahogany Model Directory

The largest directory for models of colour in Europe.
This has grown to an enormous directory of thousands of fashion models and professionals. The site is completely managed through the content management system created in php and MySQL. Models can load their profiles, apply for jobs and post success stories. Model bookers can post jobs online and receive applications directly from the models themselves. There is an interface to PayPal for commerce transactions (applying for jobs, upgrading modelling profiles, advertising events and activating professional profiles on the site).

Yemi O by Kosibah

Fashion-forward but surprisingly affordable couture from Yemi O by Kosibah

Fashion-forward but surprising affordable couture from the Kosibah Creations studios.
Yes, OK, it looks very similar to the Kosibah Creations site. However, it is subtly different in its emphasis - concentrating on the designs that Yemi sells under the Yemi O by Kosibah label.
The hosting platform here allows me to deliver more content dynamically, based on php and MySQL. The slideshows are dynamically generated from XML content read into Flash by ActionScript 3.0.

Top Model of Colour

Top Model of Colour

The premier competition for discovering talented, non-white, models.
A sister site to the Mahogany Model Directory (MMD). Models with profiles on the MMD site can enter the competition.
The content encompasses sponsors, news stories, photo galleries, heats and the finals. The system is built in a combination of flash, php and MySQL.

London Gay Men's Group

London Gay Men's Group

A support group for HIV+ gay men.
I've volunteered a fair amount of time over the past six years or so in maintaining and funding the group's web site. The site allows the members to stay in touch with one another, create profiles and to keep records of their meetings. There are also options for forum discussions. The system replaced an e-mail mail list and provides a more secure record of the group's activities.
The site is written in php and MySQL.

Invitations, flyers, other

Apart from web sites, I sometimes get asked to design the odd invitation or handout/brochure. Here are some examples.
If you click on the image, you can see a better sized version. Note that the handouts are in pdf format and can be quite big.

Yemi's 40th birthday invitation

Yemi is 40 years old

I designed this party invitation for Yemi's 40th birthday

Another birthday invitation

Ubaid's birthday party

2006 seemed to be a year for designing birthday invitations.
This one was for my friend Ubaid.

Couture corsets for charity

Lace up to help out

Lace up to help out: charity campaign in support of Plan UK
Kosibah Creations has launched a range of couture corsets in support of development charity Plan UK's Because I am a Girl campaign. For each studio commissioned corset, Kosibah Creations will donate 10% of the purchase price to help Plan UK provide development aid to the world's poorest girls.
You can find more about the campaign and see more of the corsets on the Lace up to Help Out page on the Kosibah Creations web site
Please also visit Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign web site to get more information about Plan's work and to sign the pledge.

Danny, Yemi,Kosibah Creations: moving

Danny, Yemi and Kosibah Creations are moving

We bought a new house and studio for the company in 2006. As a bit of fun, I created this animated card to let people know that we were on the move.

Handout for Kosibah Creations

Designer wedding dresses from Kosibah Creations

Designer wedding dresses from Kosibah Creations
I designed this A6 handout for exhibitions that Yemi and I attend. It shows two of Yemi's most popular designs: one from the wedding gown collection, and one from the Yemi O by Kosibah range of affordable couture.

Directions to Studio 7, NW1 9TN

Directions to Kosibah Creations

Just some directions on how to get to Studio 7, 44 St Paul's Crescent, London NW1 9TN.
You can also find us on Google Maps.

My curriculum vitae

Would you employ this man? Some people have been foolish enough to do so ...

Summary

An experienced international departmental manager with strong technical skills.
Management skills: Program and project management, business analysis, budgeting and planning, people management, change management.
Technical skills: Systems analysis and design, object-oriented programming, web development, RDBMS development.

Education

1981 — 1985: BA Hons, Second Class,
Literae Humaniores, Magdalen College, Oxford
Final year options: Literature, Philosophy, and Philology and Linguistics.

2006: First year Yoruba degree course, 86%
School of African and Oriental Studies, London
I completed the first year of the degree course in Yoruba as an external student at evening classes.

2006: First year Spanish, 82%
Birkbeck College, University of London

I attended evening classes

Skills and interests

Although my work is mostly managerial and analytical, I also enjoy the technical aspects involved in Web development and like to stay abreast of web technologies by dedicating some of my spare time to my partner’s web site (jQuery, php, MySQL).

I am a keen student of languages and have recently (academic year 2005 - 2006) completed part time evening courses in Spanish (Birkbeck College, London University) and Yoruba (School of Oriental and African Studies). I also speak good French.

I am an active volunteer for two organisations: Victim Support in Camden and Plan UK.

I enjoy classical music, opera, reading, gardening and going to the gym when I have time.

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Adobe pdf Danny Barnett's curriculum vitae in pdf format
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Contact me

If you would like to get in touch, please either e-mail me at danny@dannybarnett.com
or try my mobile: 07702 161223

My work history:

2002 - present: Program Manager, CIO Department, IBM

I lead a team of business analysts, user experience designers and testers who are responsible for requirements and customer interface on www.ibm.com/software.
We are responsible for enhancing and maintaining the IBM Software Group’s web marketing for products, solutions, services and driving revenue opportunities; the web site generates 25% of Software Group’s annual lead revenue and receives over 100 million visitors per year.

Achievements: During my time in this role, I have:

  • Implemented a programme of improvements using Web 2.0 technologies (XML, syndication, social media marketing, jQuery, community spaces using Lotus Connections) across the software site. Worked with other brands in IBM to share best practices and resources.
  • Defined the annual budget of $5m, business case and programme of activities to enhance the Software Group web site over the past three years.
  • Led the business analysis effort to deploy IBM Software Group’s web site and supporting maintenance tools in 60 countries and 20 languages across the world.
  • Proposed a solution for enhancing the online commerce experience for a new volume licensing program by introducing an online version of the marketing catalogue. I created the proposal, carried out technical feasibility studies, obtained business sponsorship for its content and acted as advocate for its implementation in support of a $70 million business.
  • Deployed an e-learning solution for IBM’s business partners using IBM/Lotus Learning Space. This was an opportunity to show the product in action prior to general release and I worked closely with the product development team to incorporate feedback from the pilot.

1996 - 2002: EMEA Applications Manager, Lotus

Lotus had been acquired by IBM in 1995 but until 2001 operated pretty much autonomously. I was originally hired to manage the development of application systems used by the Customer Support department. However, my role quickly expanded and eventually encompassed all the business areas of the Europe, Middle East and Africa operations of Lotus. Reporting to the IT Director, I managed an applications development team of 70 based in Dublin, London, Paris and Munich looking after the entire business cycle: product development, marketing, sales, order management, manufacturing, finance, customer support and HR.

Achievements: I accomplished the following:

  • Managed the transition to the euro for all of IBM Software’s systems worldwide. We managed this disruptive transition at significantly less cost to Software Group than other IBM divisions.
  • Responsible for the applications integration of Lotus Development EMEA into IBM in 2001, saving Lotus EMEA roughly $5m annually. Despite this being a period of some upheaval and uncertainty for my team, we achieved this with zero attrition.
  • Year 2000 project manager for Lotus EMEA encompassing business contingency as well as IT operations. As a result of my leadership in this area, I was honoured to receive the Lotus EMEA President’s Award in March 2000.
  • I redesigned and directed the redevelopment of Lotus EMEA’s financial data warehouse. The resulting system was so successful that we deployed it in Australia, Singapore and Japan and eventually to the wider IBM EMEA community.

1988 - 1996: PC Development Manager, Eurotunnel

I had responsibility for a team of application programmers based in France and Britain developing applications running on the PC platform, written in either Visual Basic or Holos. These included Decision Support Systems, the Executive Information System and various statistical modelling applications. All our applications were entirely bilingual.

Achievements: Highlights of my career at Eurotunnel:

  • Creation of Eurotunnel’s Executive Information System, covering all areas of operational and financial reporting. The system was written in Holos, reporting from a series of Oracle databases. I was also responsible for the routines that populated the underlying databases as well as the reporting applications themselves.
  • A number of decision support systems supporting detailed technical models in timetabling, capacity planning, treasury management (managing assets of £2 billion) and electricity consumption (this last model saved Eurotunnel £5 million in annual energy expenditure).
  • Definition of quality control processes and programming standards that we shared with and were adopted by many companies outside Eurotunnel.

Other work related experience

Chairman, Holos User Group: I was a founding committee member from 1991 and served as its chairman from 1992 - 1993.

Part time Urdu teacher, London Borough of Croydon: I was employed as a part time teacher at Adult Education evening classes between 1990 and 1992.