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

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Online Media

Websites

• My Company
• My Website

Grandin Donovan’s Summary

First generation digital native turned web professional. I build products that strive to balance user experience with the needs of all stakeholders.

I'm fascinated by the crisis the internet has created for traditional media. Only new models that respect interoperability, open standards, and attribution will help legitimize the potential of access and democratization. I want to help create these new models.

Grandin Donovan’s Specialties:

product management, web video, iterative development of large scale sites, interface design, functional specification and wireframing, site localization, partner relations, competitive benchmarking, writing and editing

Grandin Donovan’s Experience

• Product Manager

  Dailymotion.com

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Dailymotion is a web video platform and a ComScore and Alexa Top 50 site. We serve approximately 45 million unique users monthly. I am responsible for new feature planning and the product development lifecycle, including:
  - requirement collection from local and remote teams
  - use case definition, functional specification, wireframing
  - management of feature development, debugging, launch and maintenance
  
  Current and Ongoing Projects: roadmap management, site header, object revamps, wayfinding, pattern library definition, partner technical relations, training and technical support for international teams
  
  Past Projects: video player page, registration and authentication, OpenID, Facebook Connect, localization, content ingestion, language filters, comment localization

Grandin Donovan’s Education

• New York University

  BA , Honors English Major, Journalism Minor , 1998 — 2002

  Magna Cum Laude

Additional Information

Grandin Donovan’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Website

Grandin Donovan’s Interests:

new media, art and architecture, language and linguistics, cultural history, late antiquity and the Wandering Age, cities and urban history, food, traveling, sucking the marrow, generally

Grandin Donovan’s Groups:

•    FrenchWeb.fr - le groupe des professionnels du net francophone
•    Dailymotion
•    CDN Industry
•    NYU Alumni
•    OpenID Community Group
•    Semantic Web
•    Information Architecture Institute (IAI)
•    DataPortability Project
•    Streaming Media Professionals

Grandin Donovan’s Contact Settings

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• career opportunities
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• new ventures
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