David Slade
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Executive skill set summary:
- Senior program and project management
- Strong enterprise website operations expertise
- Experienced team building and organizational planning
- Technology team management
- SEO and UI optimization
- Change Management and technical evangelism
- Broad knowledge of web technologies
- Statistical / quantitative analysis
- Technical due diligence review for M&A
Neutrino Solutions, Inc. - July 07 to present
President and Founder
- Online technology and organizational consulting:
- Organizational Development
- Online Technology Evaluation
- Merger/Acquisition/Divestiture
- Project/Program Management
- Search Engine Optimization Advisory
- Search Engine Marketing Advisory
- Clients:
- Volnay Europe B.V./3i - “Disentanglement Project”, which involved the defining and separation of all VNU Business Media Europe’s intellectual property, technical teams and assets. This involved 20 key migration/separation projects between various buyers/stakeholders, including NetMediaEurope, Incisive Media, Roularta Media Group and VNU Media.
- Online community site development (all in various stages of construction):
- barmano.com: Soft launched jan 08. A bar community site, with cocktail recipe, global bar/club guide and product directory. Other features soon to be announced. Due to officially launch end of May ‘08, It has already been featured in Yahoo’s business directory under “New and Notable”. With i18n in mind, the platform is now available in German, French and Spanish.
- findmrfixit.com: Launched dec 08. A full featured directory of home improvement and construction professionals. Being a market entry vehicle, it will expand to other features once the number of businesses listed has hit a critical mass.
- LessonsUnlimited.com: Launched May 05. Bringing (private lessons) teachers and students together. The current site (v1) was originally launched as side project, and then shelved. Currently developing v2, bringing a full redesign and UI update as well as rebuilding the core architecture to scale to new features.
VNU Business Media Europe – Paris, France May 05 to June 07
CTO, Online Technologies, VNUNet Europe
- Designed and implemented a multi-country project planning process
- Created a European centralized European team of Program Managers, Software Developers, Designers, Web Developers, Systems Administrators
- Directed development operations for dozens of websites across 9 countries (97.5M page views in May 2006 for the site network)
- Infrastructure consolidation planning, project to reduce number of data centers (from 4 to 2)
- Drove the definition and migration of online systems for each country/business unit to redundant, clustered architecture for all of Europe
European Project Leader, VNUNet Europe
- Centralized online technical resources from Spain and United Kingdom
- Kicked off downsizing number of technologies used (6+), and 3 different Content Management Systems
- Defined next-generation content publishing platform and CMS
Amazon.com, Inc., April 98 to Dec 04
Website Production Manager – Paris, France Oct 03 to Dec 04
Oversaw the end-to-end operations, development and localization of the Amazon.fr website.
- Managed the Editorial Content, Program Management, Quality Assurance, Web Developers and Translation/Localization teams (11 reports)
- Directed planning and delivery of both local and global projects, from operational and strategic perspectives
- Continued +90% on time initiatives delivery rate for the team
- Developed small project request channel while greatly reducing number of processes and work request forms previously needed, as well as shaving weeks off quarterly planning cycle
- Pioneered standardized documentation for Amazon’s search functionality for the first time leading to better global standardization of filtering and product line indexing
- Amazon.fr website consistently met the corporate 99.95% availability objectives
Group/Lead Program Manager – Paris, France Jul 01 to Oct 03
Oversaw the launching new website functionality and online retail stores, while focusing on making appropriate feature tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, and clear communication of goals roles, responsibilities and desired outcomes.
- Directed Program Management team (2-3 direct reports, plus temp project teams of 3-35 people)
- Drove the high level timeline, staffing and prioritization of local and EU projects
- Personally managed 12-18 local and global projects per quarter with +92% on time project delivery rate
- Launched project examples: new retail stores, real-time content publishing systems, marketing initiatives, website architecture and code migrations, streaming media integration for Music and Movie samples, 3rd Party seller platform, real-time product inventory display on site, Harry Potter release, etc.
Website Metrics and Usability Manager – Paris, France Aug 00 to Jul 01
- Responsible for data mining, retail report development and training
- Established European new feature analysis targeting the identification of “best fit” functionality for a given country
- Developed a performance scorecard for Sr. Management
QA/Deployment Engineer – Seattle, WA and Paris, France April 99 to Jul 00
- Lead the QA and Deployment of 5 new product line launches, as well as third Party Extranet (B2B) and Communities/Personalization features for the US site (Amazon.com)
- Selected as away team member (Lead Project Deployment Engineer) for the launch of Amazon.fr
- Created a local French QA and Deployment staff and structure, including the development of the first fully automated testing suite out of all the Amazon sites, thereby reducing the headcount needed to test and deploy the website
Technical Support Lead/Trainer, WW Customer Service Team – Seattle, WA April 98 to April 99
- Managed all facets of technical training, both US and International
- Acted as technical support trainer for German and British contact center launches
- Drove research and resolution of technical customer issues with development groups across Amazon
- Developed an intranet self-help pipeline for technical customer issues for Amazon’s global Customer Contact Centers, and used in online FAQs.
Microsoft Corporation - Redmond, WA Jul 97 to Jan 98
Program Manager/Contractor, Product Group Program Management – Information Technology Group
- Developed a new business and communication model for internal corporate software releases
- Helped streamline product feedback loop between End User Services and Worldwide Product Group
- Co-Authored Application Compatibility Awareness Initiative for internal rollout of MS products
- Vendor relations - Recruitment and management of Web/Intranet development vendors
Sisters of Providence Healthcare, Providence Medical Center - Seattle, WA June 96 to Sept 96
Business Analyst Intern, Medical Risk/Quality Management Department
- Consulted with Medical staff to find an efficient and cost effectiveness system for patient care
- Successfully evangelized redesigned patient care pathways to comply with accreditation standards
- Seattle Providence Medical Center successfully passed their review from JCAHO (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) Autumn 1997
Seattle Pacific University – Seattle, WA June 96 to June 97
ASSP Director of Student Resources, Associated Students of Seattle Pacific University
- Directed external relations (press releases, external organizations, and other Universities)
- Managed Central ASSP Office (11 staff, resource planning, IT and advisor to the core ASSP Budget) and to the campus publications (32 staff and budgets)
EDUCATION:
Seattle Pacific University
- Studied Business Administration and Psychology
- Emphasis on Industrial Organizational Psychology with a thesis on Computer Mediated Communication