Tom Cochran
CTO at Atlantic Media
- Location
- Washington, District Of Columbia (Washington D.C. Metro Area)
- Industry
- Publishing
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Tom Cochran's Overview
- Current
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- Chief Technology Officer at Atlantic Media
- Past
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- Director of New Media Technologies at The White House
- Chief Technology Officer at 720 Strategies
- Senior Software Engineer at Blue State Digital
- Web Software Developer at AC Technologies
- Business Systems Analyst at American Management Systems, Inc
- Web Administrator at Vanderbilt University Economics Department
- Sales Agent at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
- Education
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- Vanderbilt University
- Recommendations
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6 people have recommended Tom
- Connections
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500+ connections
Tom Cochran's Summary
Tom is the Chief Technology Officer at Atlantic Media, publisher of The Atlantic, Quartz, Government Executive and National Journal. As CTO, he is charged with leading the successful execution of business strategy through industry-leading digital and enterprise technology.
Prior to joining the Atlantic Media, he was the Director of New Media Technologies for the White House, leading the team to provide a secure, stable, and scalable infrastructure across all White House digital properties, enabling the amplification of the President’s message. At the White House, his team was responsible for architecting the technology behind the “We the People” petition application, connecting the public directly with the Administration.
Tom Cochran's Experience
Chief Technology Officer
Atlantic Media
September 2012 – Present (9 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Director of New Media Technologies
The White House
January 2011 – August 2012 (1 year 8 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Chief Technology Officer
720 Strategies
August 2006 – January 2011 (4 years 6 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Senior Software Engineer
Blue State Digital
August 2004 – August 2006 (2 years 1 month) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Web Software Developer
AC Technologies
October 2003 – August 2004 (11 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Business Systems Analyst
American Management Systems, Inc
July 2000 – October 2003 (3 years 4 months) Washington D.C. Metro Area
Web Administrator
Vanderbilt University Economics Department
May 1999 – May 2000 (1 year 1 month) Greater Nashville Area
Sales Agent
Northwestern Mutual Financial Network
May 1999 – August 1999 (4 months) Greater Nashville Area
Tom Cochran's Publications
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Personal Information Is the Currency of the 21st Century
- All Things digital
- May 7, 2013
Authors: Tom Cochran -
Email Is Not Free
- Harvard Business Review
- April 8, 2013
Authors: Tom Cochran -
Why Developers Need to Love Media
- Digiday
- March 18, 2013
Authors: Tom Cochran -
Data as Media Game-Changer
- Digiday
- January 15, 2013
Authors: Tom Cochran
Tom Cochran's Patents
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System and method for online feedback
- United States Patent Application 20040030697
- Filed August 2002
Inventors: Tom Cochran• Designed and developed unique online feedback mechanism, enabling users to instantly send comments with a pointer reference to the originating content and store them in a central database
• Created back-end web application to provide full administrative interface with feedback database -
Content management system
- United States Patent 6,356,903
- Issued June 2002
Inventors: Tom CochranServed as Prototype Developer
• Developed prototype content management system to automatically publish MS Word documents to the Web instantaneously and integrated web-based front-end allow remote site management
• Tested prototype content management system, enforced code standard, and formulated change management procedures prior to implementing production system
Tom Cochran's Education
Vanderbilt University
Tom Cochran's Skills & Expertise
- Social Networking
- Software Design
- Database Design
- Process Improvement
- IT Management
- Web Development
- MySQL
- HTML
- Leadership
- Team Leadership
- Agile Methodologies
- Cloud Computing
- Software Development
- CMS
- CSS
- Business Analysis
- User Experience
- PHP
- Entrepreneurship
- Project Management
- Mobile Applications
- SQL
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