Resume Thomas René Sidor Holger Danskes Vej 35 2th, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark mail@thomassidor.com mobile (+45) 27 34 86 36 skype thomassidor
Personal info Name Address Thomas René Sidor Holger Danskes Vej 35 2th 2000 Frederiksberg Denmark Date of birth January 10th 1983 Nationality Languages Danish Danish, English Phone no. E-mail address Skype (+45) 27 34 86 36 mail@thomassidor.com thomassidor LinkedIn Facebook linkedin.com/in/thomassidor/ facebook.com/thomassidor/ 2/10
Excecutive summary In brief Background E-commerce since 2010 Users and customers Strong e-commerce profile with a unique set of skills ranging from team leadership and business development to user experience design and deep insight into the technical specifics and opportunities. This with a clear focus on the people involved - from colleagues to end users. Experience gained from a background in Computer Science, as a freelance web consultant and as online strategist and practitioner within the travel industry. Since 2010, I have worked in the role as product owner of a major e-commerce platform with +250 million DKK in yearly revenue. During this time, I have gained experience in the facets of e-commerce management and development; from team leadership, project management and business development to user experience design and web technologies. I am an strong evangelist for keeping users and customers front and center in business development. And for achieving great results from excellent craftsmanship and pragmatic solutions. Strong skills include: Business development Project Management User Experience Design and Management Team leadership Stakeholder management Supplier management Developing and managing project roadmaps Creating business cases Transforming business goals into actionable projects Web technologies Writing techical specifications Working with business intelligence Working with remote teams Working with specialists 3/10
Work experience Part 1 of 2 2013 - present User Experience Manager FDM travel A/S User Experience team lead and product owner of the e-commerce platform. Reporting to senior management. Appointed to establish and lead a small User Experience team. The team is responsible for optimizing and developing the user experience and profitability of FDM travels e-commerce platform generating +250 million in yearly revenue. The team aims to promote best practice in e-commerce, work highly data driven and to deliver well-crafted solutions that support the business goals through excellent User Experience Design. As team lead, I have been a driving factor in projects both ensuring stakeholder buy-in as well as attending to the big picture both on an organizational scale as well as a market scale. Skills acquired: Team leadership Management reporting Sourcing Online strategy development Roadmap planning Web technologies Web analytics Wireframing AB-testing Working with specialists 2010-2012 1 Project Manager FDM travel A/S Project manager and User Experience Designer for FDM travels online platforms. Being part of the technical team in a sales and marketing department I have been working closely with specialists from all areas of the e-commerce profession as well as with project managers, senior management, developers and consultants. My main responsibilities have been project management, stakeholder management and hands-on work with user experience design. Skills acquired: Project management Stakeholder management Working with specialists Release planning Requirement analysis Supplier management Roadmap planning Web technologies 1 See linkedin.com/in/thomassidor/ for reccommendations and projects. 4/10
Work experience Part 2 of 2 2005-2009 2009 2007-2009 2005-2008 2003-2007 1 2 3 4 Freelance IT consultant Sidor Consulting, Self employed Primary clients listed below (items 2, 3 and 4) Needs analysis and general IT consulting Miljøpunkt Indre By-Christianshavn needs analysis, requirement specification, IT consulting, google maps, drupal, wordpress Project management, web development and usability Handicapportalen ApS project management, graphic design, web design, usability analysis, web development, interaction design, IT and web strategy, drupal Web development and usability Cell Biotech Europe A/S programming, ASP Classic, web design, usability, outsourcing, quality assurance, project management Operations and management center operator GlobalConnect A/S network monitoring, b2b customer support, debugging, sdh, foundry, ciena, transmode, cisco 1 2 3 4 Working with various small and medium size enterprises. Various tasks from needs analysis to communication with potential partners in regards to development of a mapping portal. Primarily doing project management, web design, usability analysis and requirement specification for subdivisions in the company. I have also gained experience in outsourcing management and general IT and web stragy consulting. Developing and designing an industry portal for companies in food stuffs. In the end, development were outsourced and my focus shifted toward usability analysis, interaction design, testing and quality assurance. 5/10
Skills and expertice Project management writing business cases, project planning, risk management, stakeholder management, estimation, requirement analysis Management and leadership team leadership, motivation, change management, strategy, market position, supplier management, business development E-commerce conversion optimization, analysis of user behaviour, google analytics, landing page optimization, unique selling points, SEO User Experience user testing, usability analysis, prototyping, split testing, UI, IxD, customer satisfaction Business data analysis key performance indicators, google analytics, trend forecasting, business intelligence Research qualitative research, quantitative research, statistics, experiment design Graphic design and web design adobe photoshop, adobe illustrator, adobe indesign, responsive web design Web technologies html, css, javascript, jquery, sql, c#, iis, load time optimizations, dns, caching, mobile, responsive Active years Skill and expertice level 2007 - present Expert 2010 - present Advanced 2010 - present Expert 2005 - present Advanced 2010 - present Expert 2004-2006 Intermediate to advanced 1998-2011 Intermediate to advanced 2002 - present Intermediate 6/10
Education and courses 2013 Leadership Tools Uption by Pia Torreck results, effeciency, goals, leadership, motivation, conflict resolution, performance, processes, personality types, meeting techniques, involvement, appreciative inquiry, goals, coaching 2012 Certified IT Project Manager Danish Technological Institute project management, risk management, stakeholder management, personal development, enneagram, meyers-briggs type indicator, motivation, negotiation, risk management, project planning, project initiation documents 2006-2009 1 Candidatus Scientiarum in Computer Science Cand.scient, Graduate in Computer Science University of Copenhagen, Denmark human-computer interaction, usability, interaction design, information visualization, qualitative and quantitative research, database tuning, distributed systems 2002-2006 2 Bachelor of Science in Computer Science BSc, major in computer science, minor in economics University of Copenhagen, Denmark programming, networks, operating systems, databases, microprocessor architecture, algorithms, micro and macro economics, business economics, algebra, combinatorics 1 Mainly doing research in human-computer interaction creating novel interaction techniques and information visualizations and testing them with qualitative and quantitative user tests. Title of master thesis: Interaction Design and Information Visualization for Wall-Size Displays with User Tracking. See pages 9 through 11 for documentation. 2 Basic education in computer science. Covering all topics from micro processer architecture to object-oriented programming. Minor in economics with courses in everything from micro economics to macro economics and economical history. 7/10