Greetings… My name is Sam Barnes and I’m a UK-based Web Project Manager at Rawnet.com

I’m so passionate about web project management I can often be seen making an unwitting victim’s ears bleed within ten minutes as I drive home my thoughts on running web projects. Although sometimes begging me to stop, out of pure enthusiasm I will continue to talk about the methodologies, techniques and values I sincerely believe in when it comes to web project management.

Have you read this already and thinking “Sheesh, skip to the end…” Why not read the long version?

My responsibilities at Rawnet include:

• Delivering website and web application projects on time, on budget and to the agency’s very high standards
• Primary liaison between client and in-house management, creative and technical teams
• Project estimating and proposal writing
• Site information architecture design (Sitemaps, wireframes and user workflows)
• Creative and functional specification production
• Search Engine Optimisation consultancy
• Developing new web project management processes for the entire project lifecycle

My mission at Rawnet is to help take the agency to the next level on the web project management side of things by creating solid, scalable and flexible processes that result in; the production team working more efficiently, projects continuing to go out on budget, on time and with agency-wide pride and with clients feeling like Rawnet has provided a valuable service and far exceeded their expectations!

Although a project manager now, my technical background has given me commercial experience in the following areas:

• XHTML/CSS (Pre-emptive note to developers, there’s nothing that can’t be built in XHTML Strict!)
• PHP/mySQL
• Adobe Photoshop
• CMS Strategy development
• E-mail marketing
• Web accessibility and usability
• Web metrics analysis

As well as a being a web project management freak, I am also a self-confessed web junkie and when my Internet connection goes down I can often be found adopting the foetal position, whimpering in the corner of the room, a truly broken man, and unable to answer any general knowledge questions without Google. (Update: I have since resolved this character flaw with an iPhone.)

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Or take a look at some of the web projects I’ve worked on »