Profile :: Edward Williams

Personal details
Name Date of birth Nationality Immigration status Location Tel Email	Edward Williams March 1968 British Hong Kong Permanent Resident Hong Kong +852 9195 1852

Career
2007-present	wwwins Consulting Hong Kong Ltd. Account Director Ion Global was aquired by Isobar in September 2007 and was integrated into wwwins Greater China. I continue my role within the company focussed on projects with Emirates Group. Working closely with Emirates staff, I work on long-term strategies for Emirates' various business units, with the projects I have been involved with having a strong focus on Information Architecture and Interaction Design, usually lasting 6-12 months.
2005-2007	Ion Global Ltd. Account Director Originally employed as Project Manager, I worked on various web projects for clients such as Tourism Austalia, KLM, CDC Corporation, Hong Kong Arts Festival and The Hongkong Shanghai Hotels. In 2006 I became Account Director looking after two main accounts, Peninsula Hotels and Emirates Airline, later focussing on just Emirates' projects.
2001-2005	Compelite Limited Project Manager Compelite is an IT company which provides web design, interactive CD ROMs, presentations, database design and programming, mass-emailing, online documentation systems, online surveys, Search Engine Optimisation, networking, computer support, training, web and email hosting and graphic and corporate ID design. I joined the company in 2001 as a Flash programmer, when there was only 3 members of staff. From that time I was heavily involved in expanding the business and growing the company to a stage where there were 21 people in the office. As Web Project Manager I was involved at all levels throughout the company, from liaising with clients, quoting, infomration architecture, liaising with designers and programmers, Art Direction, right through to hands on programming. I took on the role of General Manager on a frequent basis whenever the company owner was out of town.
2000-2001	Freelance Web Designer I resigned from P&T Architects in June 2000 in order to study web design more intensively. During this period I took a series of short computing courses, studied at home, and took on small freelance web design projects.
1999-2000	Computer Training During this period I attended night classes in computing and taught myself HTML, JavaScript, CGI and Flash Action Scripting.
1994-2000	P&T Architects and Engineers Head of Department Employed as in-house Modelmaker. Promoted to Senior Modelmaker, and then to Head of the Department of 10 modelmakers after 3 years. Work involved Project Management, organizing workshop and quoting on jobs. During this period we built models of some of the largest developments in the world, mainly in China and South East Asia.
1994	IMA (International Models Asia) Partner Set up IMA with three other partners, making primarily architectural models. Work involved organizing and setting up workshop, marketing and advertising, quoting, project management, client meeting and sourcing & purchasing of materials.
1992-1994	Miners Models, Hong Kong. Team Leader Duties included project management, delegation of work to team members, quotations and purchasing & sourcing of materials.
1992	Moved to Hong Kong
1991-1992	Freelance Modelmaing During this period I freelanced for a number of Modelmaking companies around London including; W.E.D Models Tim Weare & Partners Berry Place Models Kandor Models Atlantic Design
1988-1991	Tetra Associates, London. Initially employed in architectural modelmaking but crossed into modelmaking for still-shot advertising and set building.
1989	John Michael Design, London. Summer placement as Interior designer.

Education
1987-1990	Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication, London. BA (Hons) in Furniture and Related Product Design.
1985-1987	Medway College of Design, Kent. BTEC National Diploma in Design (3 Dimensional Product Design).
1984-1985	Medway College of Design, Kent. BTEC National Diploma in Design (Silversmithing).