James Herne

Experience

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  Porsche Tallinn

  Feb 2003 - Sept 2004

  Marketing & Sales
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  Sportauto.ee

  Oct 2004 - Feb 2015

  Sales, Marketing, Event organizer

  Sales and marketing of sports and luxury cars with focus on Porsche

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  Auto1

  Feb 2005 - Jul 2006

  Web Marketplace Development Manager
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  Stuttcars.com

  Dec 2011 - Oct 2020

  Product Owner and Editor

  Porsche info portal and used car marketplace. In addition to the product development, I wrote ~100 full length content articles. Stuttcars.com was bought by A07 Online Media (USA) in 2020.

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  Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications for Estonia

  Feb 2018 - Apr 2019

  Aviation Information Systems Supervisor, Analyst, Project manager

  Supervisor of Estonian civil aviation safety information system and project manager of the new system's prototype. The work consisted of collecting input from all departments including job shadow days with different future users to provide input for the nearly 200 html page prototype. I made UX suggestions, tested and verified the prototype. As another work, I made full UI mock-ups for a drone flight permit and traffic management system for mobile. I also took the initiative for open data.

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  Dev Reserve

  Oct 2020 - Jan 2023

  Product Owner

  IT HR startup. My contribution included financial plan, talking to future users, prototyping, writing development tasks, testing and marketing.

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  SMIT (IT and Development Centre at the Estonian Ministry of the Interior)

  Feb 2023 - May 2023

  Responsible for 112 emergency centre software

  I introduced product development principles: asked for measurable goals, took feedback from users every week, built team spirit, built ownership in team members. I also started techschool channel in SMIT. Beside 112, I was also responsible for 1247 state helpline software.

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  800EV.com

  Jul 2023 - now

  EV news editor and webmaster

  As a side project I created a CO2 calculator in JavaScript/HTML/CSS (https://800ev.com/co2calc). After creating the math for the calculator, it was life-changing for me to learn that burning 1 L of fuel creates more than a cubic meter of CO2. Imagine every driver driving 500.000 km during their lifetime - the amount of CO2 we put into the atmosphere is enormous. I became a sustainability advocate.For the 800EV.com main site I couldn't find a good mobile-first UI theme, but UX is very important, so I created a new clean WordPress theme in HTML/CSS/PHP. WP pages are automatically translated into 10+ languages thanks to AI setup. Show less

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  Insly

  Nov 2023 - now

  Software Project Manager + Key Account Manager

  The value of insurance becomes clear when it saves you. Insly is a proprietary insurance software company, with majority of the customers in the UK. Connect your internet sales channels via API to issue policies and handle claims. My role includes software development project management and Key Account Manager's roles. Plus, I'm the in-house Jira guy to turn to.