Agile Product Management
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- Product Manager at MaestroConference
- Business Development Director at green21media
- Past
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- Freelance Marketing Director at Bob Gower Consulting
- Director of Design at San Francisco Examiner
- Design Director at Circle.com
- Design Director at Interactive Bureau
- Editorial Design Director at Metro Newspapers
- Education
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- Presidio School of Management
- Prescott College
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Bob Gower’s Summary
Current 24/7 focus is getting MaestroConference off the ground!
Bob Gower’s Specialties:
Agile, Scrum
Marketing Communications
Social Media
Sustainable Business
Bob Gower’s Experience
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Product Manager
MaestroConference
(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)
January 2009 — Present (7 months)
www.maestroconference.com
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Business Development Director
green21media
(Broadcast Media industry)
October 2008 — Present (10 months)
green21media is an interactive, multi-platform Initiative that focuses on the issues and opportunities related to sustainability. Our mission is to raise awareness, deepen knowledge and inspire change on a personal and societal level.
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Freelance Marketing Director
Bob Gower Consulting
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 2003 — January 2009 (6 years 1 month)
I help businesses generate revenue by developing a consistent and focused marketing presence.
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Director of Design
San Francisco Examiner
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)
January 2001 — April 2003 (2 years 4 months)
Redesigned and reformatted the newspaper from a traditional broadsheet to a tabloid. Brought the project in under budget and on time (4 months —something of an industry record). The project resulted in an immediate circulation growth of about 30%. The paper is still a tabloid and currently enjoys a circulation well more than double it’s pre–redesign numbers.
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Design Director
Circle.com
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Worked as a visual designer and information architect on web projects for a diverse set of clients including Discovery Channel, Newsweek.com, MSNBC.com, AOL and HBO.com. Served as lead on two notable projects:
— Elance
Lead Interaction Designer: Created many of the interaction design protocols still in use by this popular freelance job search engine.
— The Planet Project
Lead Interaction Designer: “The Planet Project: Your Voice Your World”, was the largest real time online poll in Internet history. The 8-language web site was visited by 1.6 million people from 241 countries who answered more than 28 million questions. Underwritten by 3-Com and Palm, and executed by Harris Interactive, the project generated 781 million media impressions worldwide. -
Design Director
Interactive Bureau
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
January 1999 — January 2000 (1 year 1 month)
Worked as a visual designer and information architect on web projects for a diverse set of clients including Discovery Channel, Newsweek.com, MSNBC.com, AOL and HBO.com.
IAB was sold and changed its name to Circle.com (see above). -
Editorial Design Director
Metro Newspapers
(Newspapers industry)
January 1996 — March 1999 (3 years 3 months)
Managed the visual presence and weekly production of this company’s three largest properties. Redesigned all three resulting in a 25% increase in readership.
Bob Gower’s Education
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Presidio School of Management
MBA , 2004 — 2006
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Prescott College
BA , Philosophy , 1986 — 1988
