Grandin Donovan

Current

Product Manager at Dailymotion.com

Past

Creative Manager, US at Dailymotion.com
Associate Editor at Refinery29.com
Investigator at Civilian Complaint Review Board (CCRB)

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Education

New York University

Connections

182 connections

Industry

Online Media

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Grandin Donovan’s Summary

First generation digital native and accidental web professional. My own life on the Internet - from AOL long distance dial-up to the current web iterations - gives me a sympathy for all levels of user experience. Design for the layman, accommodate the expert.

Grandin Donovan’s Specialties:

site localization, webapp testing and troubleshooting, competitive benchmarking, writing and editing

Grandin Donovan’s Experience

Product Manager

Dailymotion.com

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

October 2007 — Present (1 year)

Responsible for site feature planning and lifecycle: requirement collection, wireframing and use case specification, launch, maintenance and debugging. Current projects: site localization, content ingestion, client-facing technical relations, technical support for international teams.

Grandin Donovan’s Education

New York University

1998 — 2002

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Grandin Donovan’s Interests:

new media and its effects on cultural production, knowledge diffusion, and individual and group identities; the cloud, netbooks, utility computing and thin clients; history and human migration (archeology, linguistics, and molecular anthropology); frontiers and hybridization; city history of New York and Paris; aesthetics and political economy; calories and kilowatts; ancient trade routes; dead civilizations; ruined cities