James
Henry
Olney

Me

TLDR;

I have experience in several key technologies and platforms coupled with experience leading pioneering projects for large clients.

History

Data Strategy Director at Havas Media Group

As Data Strategy Director for Group Data and Insight I continue to work on a number of interesting, significant and forward-thinking projects both for large clients and for the Havas Group itself - helping to develop, direct and future-proof the clients' and agency’s data strategy and development.

Recently this has allowed me to lead the data strategy roadmap for some large and progressive clients, whilst also looking at how the agency model has to adapt in this new world. This has led to some interesting client and agency consultancy work looking at how Havas Media will approach the next 3 years as well as how the shape of the agency will need to change in the short to mid term.

Senior Business Analyst at Havas Media Group

12 Months

Working for HMG has afforded me the opportunity to work on some very interesting projects for a very large forward thinking and progressive client.

I have been central in modelling the business case, implementing and finally launching a DMP and the subsequent strategy over the next 9 months. Ultimately this caused the client to completely rethink their marketing strategy. They moved away from 'campaigns' to 'always on programs of activity' combined with audience centric, people based, planning and media execution. I was central in defining ways of working and corresponding segmentation and data strategy.

I have also led the introduction and adoption of MCA into the organisation and agency. Through this the client has seen an evolution of how programmatic media is bought and measured in near real-time.

As clients' data needs have evolved so to do their data and measurement strategies. I have developed data strategies which are empowering the latest methods of buying media including applying data, forecasting and modelling from strategy through to evaluation.

Business Analyst at Havas Media Group

8 Months

Worked on a large client to introduce Multi-Channel Attribution with live BI marketing intelligence dashboards.

My responsibilities included:

• Communicating and introducing the concept of MCA to key client stakeholders
• Liasing with client-side technical teams.
• Presenting and leading on-site client workshops.
• Developing and proposing new reporting KPIs and BI Dashboards.
• Developing and implementing a roadmap for introducing attribution into BAU processes.

Senior Digital Analytics and Search Manager at Cogent Elliott

4 Years

At my position with Cogent Elliott, I developed and crafted the Digital Analytics, Search and Conversion offering from its inception four years previous.

My responsibilities included:

• Planning, specifying and implementing complex Web Analytics integrations for example Google Universal Analytics and IBM CoreMetrics.
• Planning, designing and measuring ABn/multivariate tests.
• Advising and wire framing landing page elements and CRO tests.
• Enabling the accurate collection of custom data sets from user interactions for further analysis.
• In depth research and competitor benchmarking used Experian HitWise and other industry tools.
• Analysing big data sets in order to analyse past activity in order to plan for future marketing activity.

Misc Freelance at Various

I have worn many different hats in my career —Technical Consultant, Digital Analytics Implementation Expert, SEO Executive, Digital Analytics Manager, Information Architect, Content Strategist, Conversion Expert, and I even built and managed what used to be Thailand’s largest property website, and even flew a helicopter!

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I worked with James for 4 years at Cogent Elliott and during that time it became evident that James had a very impressive knowledge and knack for all things search and conversion, PPC and analytics.

James is not afraid to get elbows deep in data and would often be found writing his own SQL queries to drill down into data. He has a keen eye for analytical detail and also a strong technical background which means he is comfortable wearing many different hats, from configuring Google AdWords campaigns to writing JavaScript tracking snippets for Google Analytics and everything in between.

James is also a great guy with a very personable nature, he is always willing to take time out to help others. I'd happily work alongside James any day of the week.

Owen Bush Senior Back-End Web Developer at Cogent Elliott

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