Regional Interactive Director at LIN Television
Greater Boston Area
- Current
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- Regional Interactive Director at LIN Television
- Principal at Gaffney3, Inc. (Sole Proprietorship)
- Past
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- VP, Editorial, Technology and Production at Herald Interactive, Inc.
- VP, Technology and Production at Herald Interactive
- Executive Technical Producer at Herald Interactive
- Systems Administrator at The Boston Herald
- Education
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- Boston College
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William Gaffney’s Summary
Technical Strategist Achieving Real-World Solutions
Bill Gaffney is a senior technology strategist with 10+ years online experience. He has resigned from his role as vice president of technology, production and editorial for Herald Interactive to explore new opportunities with LIN Television as their Regional Interactive Director for east coast operations.
Bill is an experienced executive with a history of success in the promotion of strategic vision through the productive use of compelling content, sophisticated design and dynamic architecture. He has a proven record of goal achievement, cost savings and profitable execution of online initiatives.
* Application Design & Reengineering
* New Product & Service Roll-out
* Budgeting & Expense Control
* Contract / Price Negotiation
* Information Systems & Technologies
William Gaffney’s Specialties:
HTML, XHTML, XML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JavaScript, Document Object Model (DOM), Dynamic HTML (DHTML), PHP, PERL, MySQL, Concurrent Versioning System (CVS), Subversion, Apache, Linux, FreeBSD, osCommerce, phpMyAdmin, Joomla!, Drupal, Mambo, among others open source projects
William Gaffney’s Experience
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Regional Interactive Director
LIN Television
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
March 2008 — Present (3 months)
Working directly with the Internet teams, general sales managers, marketing directors and news directors in Austin, Buffalo, Portsmouth-Norfolk, Springfield, Hartford-New Haven, Providence and Mobile-Pensacola to identify and implement interactive campaigns for multiple web sites and new media platforms.
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Principal
Gaffney3, Inc. (Sole Proprietorship)
(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Online Media industry)
September 2007 — Present (9 months)
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VP, Editorial, Technology and Production
Herald Interactive, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2006 — March 2008 (1 year 10 months)
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VP, Technology and Production
Herald Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
June 2003 — June 2006 (3 years 1 month)
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Executive Technical Producer
Herald Interactive
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)
January 2001 — June 2003 (2 years 6 months)
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Systems Administrator
The Boston Herald
(Privately Held; Newspapers industry)
April 1997 — January 2001 (3 years 10 months)
William Gaffney’s Education
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Boston College
Bachelor of Arts, Literature, Philosophy, 1992 — 1996
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ThoseInMedia (The who's who in all the media markets) member
William Gaffney’s Honors:
2006 Webby Award, Official Honoree for BostonHerald.com, 2008 NEPA Award, 1st Place for the "Right-to-Know" category
William Gaffney’s Contact Settings
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