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Paul Lomax

Paul Lomax on LinkedIn

Photography

Some of my photography appears under the Creative Commons license on wikipedia:

Image:London_millenium_wobbly_bridge.jpg - featured in The Book of Lists - London and three-times Wikipedia: Picture of the Day
Image:Common_starling_in_london.jpg

If you use them, I'd appreciate it if you let me know

Many others are available on Flickr or DeviantArt

Professional Biography

Paul Lomax is Head of New Media at GMG Regional Media, a division of the Guardian Media Group comprising of two operating businesses: MEN Media, publishers of The Manchester Evening News and Surrey & Berkshire Media, publishers of the Surrey Advertiser.

Paul joined GMGRM in 2008 to run the digital unit with responsibility for digital sales, product development, strategy and ad operations across the portfolio of websites which include the Manchester Evening News, The Jobs Mine, The Homes Mine and over 20 local newspaper websites. He divides his time between MEN Media's head office in Manchester and his home in London.

Prior to joining GMG, Paul was Technology and Operations Director for nearly two years at Pod1 London, the UK’s fastest growing creative digital agency, renowned for its innovative and successful e-commerce websites for the high street fashion industry. As well as working more recently in news media, Paul spent nearly seven years at consumer magazine publisher IPC Media in a variety of roles including Digital Publisher and Internet Technology Manager, the latter running IPC’s 40-strong internal web design and development department, which he formed in 2002.

Paul has been responsible for launching literally hundreds of high-profile consumer websites and campaigns over the last 12 years with specialist experience in technology, usability, project management, product development, sales and marketing both in digital media, traditional media, agency and e-commerce arenas. Sites launched include household brands such as Marie Claire, Now, Country Life, Myla, Kurt Geiger and Jigsaw.

Before IPC, he was founder and managing director of Max Internet, a web design, build and hosting company based in his birth town of Stockport. Paul studied Computing and Information Systems with Management Accounting at the University of Manchester.

In his spare time Paul enjoys cooking, fine wine and dining, Manchester City Football Club, music, films, networking, spending time with his fianceé, Sarah, and occasionally finds time to blog on his site, twopointoh. He is often found in the middle of a book, usually about technology, management or history with the odd bit of fiction, and follows countless blogs on a variety of subjects. He is a published photographer, journalist, constant twitterer and social networker.

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 ===Photography===
 Some of my photography appears under the [[Creative Commons]] license on wikipedia:
-* [[:Image:London_millenium_wobbly_bridge.jpg]] - featured in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Lists-London-Nicholas-Rennison/dp/1841956767 The Book of Lists - London]
+* [[:Image:London_millenium_wobbly_bridge.jpg]] - featured in [http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-Lists-London-Nicholas-Rennison/dp/1841956767 The Book of Lists - London] and three-times [[Wikipedia: Picture of the Day]]
 * [[:Image:Common_starling_in_london.jpg]]
 If you use them, I'd appreciate it if you let me know
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 ===Professional Biography===
+'''Paul Lomax is Head of New Media at GMG Regional Media''', a division of the [[Guardian Media Group]] comprising of two operating businesses: [[MEN Media]], publishers of The [[Manchester Evening News]] and [[Surrey & Berkshire Media]], publishers of the [[Surrey Advertiser]].
-Paul Lomax is technical director at [http://www.pod1.com Pod1], the UK’s fastest growing web design and build agency based in London, and been professionally developing websites for over ten years. Paul joined Pod1 in July 2007 from [[IPC Media]], the UK’s largest consumer magazine publishing company, where he reported to the managing director as digital publisher. For the first half of 2007 Paul was responsible for strategy and new product development on a number of projects targeted at a mass-market female audience. He worked closely with IPC’s creative director to set the standard for NPD across the company, introducing user-centred design, [[information architecture]], [[web 2.0]] thinking and [[agile]] methodologies.
-Prior to this, Paul ran IPC’s 40-strong internal web design and development department, which he formed in 2002. During his tenure as internet technology manager, he introduced [[open source]] technologies, [[CSS]] and [[XHTML]] standards; designed IPC’s [[PHP]]-based [[content management system]]; and was responsible for launching over 50 websites including [[Marie Claire]], [[Now]], [[Ideal Home]], and [[Shooting Times]]. His most recent project was to relaunch the [[Country Life]] website, re-positioning it as a premium property portal. This site was built on a new [[Symfony]] framework based platform, with Paul getting involved in the open source Symfony project, co-developing its revolutionary output escaping security system.
+Paul joined GMGRM in 2008 to run the digital unit with responsibility for digital sales, product development, strategy and ad operations across the portfolio of websites which include the [http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ Manchester Evening News], [http://www.thejobsmine.co.uk/ The Jobs Mine], [http://www.thehomesmine.co.uk/ The Homes Mine] and over 20 local [[newspaper]] websites. He divides his time between MEN Media's head office in [[Manchester]] and his home in [[London]].
-Paul joined IPC in 2001 and his first major project was to act as technical architect, senior sys-admin and lead-coder for [[NME]].com, migrating the site from [[Oracle]] / [[Vignette]] to a high performance [[mySQL]] / [[perl]] platform, saving literally millions of pounds. Before IPC, he was founder and managing director of Max Internet, a web design, build and hosting company based in his home town of [[Stockport]]. Paul studied Computing and Information Systems with Management Accounting at the [[University of Manchester]].
+Prior to joining GMG, Paul was Technology and Operations Director for nearly two years at [http://www.pod1.com Pod1] London, the UK’s fastest growing creative digital agency, renowned for its innovative and successful e-commerce websites for the high street fashion industry. As well as working more recently in news media, Paul spent nearly seven years at consumer magazine publisher [[IPC Media]] in a variety of roles including Digital Publisher and Internet Technology Manager, the latter running IPC’s 40-strong internal web design and development department, which he formed in 2002.
-In his spare time Paul enjoys cooking, fine wine and dining, Manchester City Football Club, music, films, networking, spending time with his girlfriend, Sarah, and occasionally finds time to blog on his site, [http://twopointoh.co.uk twopointoh]. He is often found in the middle of a book, usually about technology, management or history with the odd bit of fiction, and follows countless blogs on a variety of subjects. He is a published [http://paullomax.deviantart.com photographer] and [http://www.webuser.co.uk journalist].
+Paul has been responsible for launching literally hundreds of high-profile consumer websites and campaigns over the last 12 years with specialist experience in technology, usability, project management, product development, sales and marketing both in digital media, traditional media, agency and e-commerce arenas. Sites launched include household brands such as [http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/ Marie Claire], [http://www.nowmagazine.co.uk Now], [http://www.countrylife.co.uk Country Life], [http://www.myla.com Myla], [http://www.kurtgeiger.com Kurt Geiger] and [http://www.jigsaw-online.com Jigsaw].
+Before IPC, he was founder and managing director of Max Internet, a web design, build and hosting company based in his birth town of [[Stockport]]. Paul studied Computing and Information Systems with Management Accounting at the [[University of Manchester]].
+In his spare time Paul enjoys cooking, fine wine and dining, [[Manchester City Football Club]], music, films, networking, spending time with his fianceé, Sarah, and occasionally finds time to blog on his site, [http://twopointoh.co.uk twopointoh]. He is often found in the middle of a book, usually about technology, management or history with the odd bit of fiction, and follows countless blogs on a variety of subjects. He is a published [http://flickr.com/photos/paullomax photographer], [http://www.webuser.co.uk journalist], constant [http://www.twitter.com/paullomax twitterer] and [http://www.linkedin.com/in/paullomax social networker].