Senior Director of Product Management at Yahoo!
Greater Los Angeles Area
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- Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Open Strategy at Yahoo!
- Lecturer, Annenberg Program on Online Communities at University of Southern California
- Past
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- Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Application Platform at Yahoo!
- Senior Product Manager at Yahoo!
- Product Manager at The New York Times Company
- Product Manager at Sprint PCS
- Product Manager at NBC Internet
- Associate Producer at Snap.com
- Education
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- Goldsmiths College, U. of London
- University of Kansas
- Princeton University
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Cody Simms’s Summary
I have focused on distribution, publishing and openness at Yahoo! since August 2005. I have worked in interactive media since 1999, including positions at The New York Times on the Web (nytimes.com), Sprint PCS, NBC Internet, and Snap.com.
I am always interested in learning about new companies or trends that are redefining media and content distribution.
Cody Simms’s Specialties:
Product Management, Content Distribution, Community
Cody Simms’s Experience
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Senior Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Open Strategy
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
March 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)
Direct product management and design activities for the Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS), which is rewiring Yahoo! to 1) establish a single social graph across Yahoo! and 2) open Yahoo! to developers like never before. Direct responsibilities include product and design teams managing the global rollout of Yahoo! Social Platform including Profiles, Connections, and Contacts (Address Book) Platforms and APIs; the Yahoo! Updates Platform; the Yahoo! Application Platform including OpenSocial implementations; and the Yahoo! Developer Network. Responsible for the open developer interfaces for these as well as the integration and rollout of these elements across global Yahoo! web properties.
For more details on Y!OS please see: http://tinyurl.com/69z6er -
Lecturer, Annenberg Program on Online Communities
University of Southern California
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; USC; Higher Education industry)
February 2007 — Present (2 years 6 months)
Direct MA students through their final project, wherein they group into teams that must each conceptualize, scope, define, design, develop and launch an online community website.
Previously: Advisor and Fellow to the program (February 2007 - August 2007) -
Director of Product Management, Yahoo! Application Platform
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2007 — March 2008 (9 months)
Directed product and engineering for distributed applications including MyBlogLog and BrowserPlus. Initialized product management efforts for the Yahoo! Application Platform.
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Senior Product Manager
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Online Media industry)
August 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 11 months)
Managed Yahoo! Publisher Network, Yahoo!'s distributed ad network for medium and small publishers.
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Product Manager
The New York Times Company
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; NYT; Online Media industry)
September 2003 — August 2005 (2 years)
Managed the nytimes.com online help wanted classifieds at http://jobmarket.nytimes.com, including the consumer jobseeker site as well as the business-to-business classifieds products and self-service ad systems.
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Product Manager
Sprint PCS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; FON; Telecommunications industry)
July 2001 — August 2002 (1 year 2 months)
Managed content catalogue and content vendor relationships with Disney, EMI, Sony, Sega, Jamdat and others for Sprint's first mobile ringtone and video game download platform.
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Product Manager
NBC Internet
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; NBCI; Online Media industry)
January 2000 — May 2001 (1 year 5 months)
Managed site operations -- including product development and content programming -- for NBCi Local, a national network of online city guides with a content syndication partnership across NBC local television affiliate station websites.
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Associate Producer
Snap.com
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Online Media industry)
August 1999 — January 2000 (6 months)
Managed content inclusion into Snap.com search engine in the Travel vertical. Snap.com was acquired and became NBC Internet.
Cody Simms’s Education
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Goldsmiths College, U. of London
MA , Transnational Communications & Global Media , 2002 — 2003
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University of Kansas
BA , Chinese Language / History , 1995 — 1999
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Princeton University
Certificate , Intermediate Mandarin Chinese , June 1997 — August 1997
Princeton in Beijing - intensive Chinese language program in Beijing, China.
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