Michael Johnson, MBT

Experience

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  The Natal Witness

  Jun 1986 - Feb 1988

  Deputy Chief Sub Editor

  Sub Editor on the metro daily The Natal Witness at the violent height of the disgusting South African apartheid era. Role entailed Editing, Sub editing, Layout and Copy tasting. Was appointed Deputy Chief Sub Editor just before I left the country to escape being drafted to attend a compulsory 3-month military camp. *Pietermaritzburg is here: http://goo.gl/maps/4rpLM

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  The Algarve News

  Mar 1988 - Dec 1988

  Editor

  I was the Editor of The Algarve News, a very small weekly English-language newspaper serving the Algarve province in the South of Portugal. Involved in all aspects of content creation and production, through to liaising with advertising and the press plant in Lisbon. Beautiful beaches, wind surfing, food, wine and jazz ... ideal place to retire, but not for someone at the start of their career. *Lagoa is here http://goo.gl/maps/tlxe6

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  The Canberra Times

  Mar 1989 - Jun 1996

  Sub Editor

  Sub Editor on metro daily The Canberra Times, including stints as World Page Editor. Job entailed, sub editing, layout and copy tasting. Was appointed the Editorial member of a multi-department project team charged with implementing full pagination using the SII CMS, and for preparing the Newsroom for full colour production to coincide with the commissioning of new presses. Reporting to the Editor and the COO, my roles included business process analysis, system testing and validation, writing training documentation, delivering training. Show less

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  Fairfax Media

  Jun 1996 - Apr 2009

  Reporting to the Group Managing Editor, I managed the portfolio of business improvement projects for Fairfax NSW Editorial Department. These included implementing a rostering system in newsrooms and press sites which reduced leave liability by 16% over two years. Reporting to the Sydney Morning Herald Editor, I delivered a 17.4% improvement in deadline management and press start times. I was SMH business owner for a project to migrate content management systems. Reporting to the Publisher, I chaired weekly meetings with the Production and Operational managers of all departments from advertising through to press and distribution, and managed business improvement projects that emerged from the meeting reports. Second level IT and Operational support for Newsroom management and Editorial staff. Included deployment, training and hardware/software setup roles in a project to migrate content management system from SII to CyberGraphic.

  • Managing Editor, Development

    Apr 2003 - Apr 2009

  • Production Editor, The Sydney Morning Herald

    Aug 1999 - Mar 2003

  • Editorial Technology / Editorial Operations

    Jun 1996 - Jul 1999
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  News corp

  Mar 2010 - May 2015

  I was a Project Manager on the Editorial business transformation side of "Streamline", a $60 million program that successfully revolutionised News Corp's newsrooms, editorial products, and management and operating models. The program delivered to Scope, Budget and Schedule at the end of June 2014.The Program implemented Eidos Methode and CHP content management technology to provide the multiple-media, multi-channel capabilities required to support significant Editorial process efficiencies and business transformation objectives. These included vastly improved content and product sharing across the national group, and easy collaboration for editorial content creators and producers who for many years had been siloed by disparate technologies and geographical and business organisational structures.I managed projects to a) re-engineer Editorial processes, b) implement a national standardised Target Operating Model in all newsrooms (with significant headcount reduction), c) develop a pool of Editorial subject matter experts to validate that the technical capabilities configured in Methode would support the new operating model, and d) I project managed implementation of the solution into The Australian - News' flagship masthead. Parallel Programs are running in News's UK and US operations. Show less

  • IT Project Manager, Advertising and Subscriptions systems

    Jul 2014 - May 2015

  • Project Manager, Editorial Transformation

    Jan 2012 - Jun 2014

  • Project Manager, Business Analyst, Trainer

    Aug 2009 - Jan 2012

  • Production Editor, and iPad Editor, The Sunday Telegraph

    Mar 2010 - Dec 2011
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  Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) Australia

  Jun 2015 - now

  Senior Project Manager - Business Transformation Focus

  Senior Project Manager, reporting in to the PMO