I’m struggling a bit at the moment so self-indulgent as it is I just needed to document the things I’ve done in the last couple of years that I am proud of to remind myself that I am not always quite as useless as I currently feel.
So this is a reminder to Future Matt that you →
- Setup & managed ONS Digital blog
- Commissioned the first ONS Infographic guidelines
- Organised Data Storytelling conference
- Curated Digital festival (in-house)
- Commissioned and launched Visual.ONS
- Hired 10 staff
- Promoted 10 staff
- Hired ODI for Discovery work
- Hired CX Partners for UX/pattern library alpha
- Did procurement for Alpha & Beta projects
- Product managed Alpha → Live for new ONS website
- Gave 20+ internal talks
- Spoke at 10 web conferences
- Sponsored Open Data Camp, UK Govcamp, Gov Camp Cymru, National Hack the Government and Accountability Hack
- Got to final of Civil Service Innovation Challenge
- Got to final of St Davids Innovation Awards
- Passed three Service Assessments
- Helped recruit the eQ team
- Set up the internal User Researcher programme (including hiring Joe Leech to mentor)
- Led a truly ‘users first’ project for the first time
- Worked in the open from the start to the finish
- Helped build a team culture to be proud of
- Ran a truly agile project end-to-end
- Launched new ONS website
- Helped make /data a real thing
