Chris Vulovic

Current

CIO at Classified Ad Ventures

Past

CIO at realestate.com.au
CIO at Star Caster Network
Director, eCommerce at Cyberplex

Data Sales Engineer at AT&T

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Education

Australian Graduate School of Management

Recommended

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Connections

229 connections

Industry

Online Media

Chris Vulovic’s Summary

Chris has spent the last 15 years focusing on technology and internet strategies for rapid growth organizations.

Prior to her almost six years at the REA Group, Chris served as CIO at Star Caster Network in Los Angeles, CA; as Director, eCommerce at Internet consulting group Cyberplex and sales engineering positions with AT&Ts Global Services division in San Francisco, CA.

This career path has brought understanding of the full spectrum of online business; including infrastructure (data centres and hardware), development, usability, and business strategy.

Chris Vulovic’s Experience

CIO

Classified Ad Ventures

(Online Media industry)

February 2009 — Present (10 months)
CIO

realestate.com.au

(Public Company; REA; Internet industry)

January 2003 — September 2008 (5 years 9 months)

Since joining REA, Chris worked to transition a single website into a high performance international platform operating 22 real estate advertising sites in 10 countries with more than 8 million unique browsers per month. Growth from a peak of 2 million pages per day 2003 to 25 million pages per day in 2008.

Chris was most recently focusing on building a global publishing platform that allows scaling without requiring a correlation in the scaling of operational head count.

Her team of 180 people was responsible for all product development, corporate technical support and operation of all data centers.

REA Group sites include #1 real estate sites in Australia, #2 UK site, #1 Italian site, #1 Luxembourg site and sites in Germany, Belgium, Hong Hong, France and Dubai.
CIO

Star Caster Network

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Entertainment industry)

September 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 5 months)
Director, eCommerce

Cyberplex

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; CX.TO; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 1998 — August 2001 (3 years 6 months)

As Director, eCommerce acted as onsite program manager, managing all aspects of multi-million dollar development projects. Acted as virtual CTO for clients, responsible for everything from developing organizational infrastructure to hiring support staff.

Worked with the team to build the San Francisco division of the business building world-class Web sites for multiple Fortune 500 companies and high-profile start-ups, including Charles Schwab, Cisco Systems, Handspring, Gap Inc., Microsoft, Xerox, Sun Microsystems and 3Com among others. The San Francisco division of the business grew from 1998 revenues of $400K to $3 Million in 1999, and $15 million in 2000.
Data Sales Engineer

AT&T

(Public Company; Telecommunications industry)

January 1997 — January 1999 (2 years 1 month)