Authority Blogging & New Media Consultant, Job Search Expert and Community Builder
Israel
- Current
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- Founder and Senior Vice President at Share Select Media
- Past
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- Senior Project Manager & Internet Software Engineering Manager at Club Dial
- Web Development Manager at Club Dial
- Website Production Manager & Senior Web Developer at Amazon
- Web Developer at Amazon
- Education
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- McGill University
- The Hebrew University
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Jacob Share’s Summary
A consummate Internet professional since 1994 with far-reaching experience and success in authority blogging, social media, marketing, web development and e-commerce. I like to help people while doing things in a big way.
Jacob Share’s Specialties:
Community building, blogging innovations, engaging users, guerrilla marketing, traffic generation, seo copywriting, organizing chaos, simplifying complexity, facilitating dialogue between personal, technical and business users, leveraging open source technologies and monetizing the Web.
Jacob Share’s Experience
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Founder and Senior Vice President
Share Select Media
(Internet industry)
December 2006 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Share Select Media is an Internet media company specializing in building and growing authority blog-based communities.
• Created the critically-acclaimed JobMob at http://jobmob.co.il/ and nurtured it to becoming one of the biggest international job search blog-based communities on the world, on track to reach 2 million visits in 2008 while being recognized by sites like CNN/Sports Illustrated, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Jerusalem Post and many more.
• Innovated and developed Group Writing Projects at http://groupwritingprojects.com/, already recognized as the only blog of its kind on the Internet. -
Senior Project Manager & Internet Software Engineering Manager
Club Dial
(Internet industry)
March 2004 — April 2006 (2 years 2 months)
• Introduced game-changing business processes and tools to streamline project execution while dramatically increasing transparency in everyday work, allowing company executives to make better decisions.
• Directed all projects and activities of the Internet Software Engineering (ISE) team with an efficiency and effectiveness that convinced upper management to have the ISE team train other departments to use similar work practices.
• Achieved over 99% uptime for the company's e-commerce sites while on a shoestring budget. -
Web Development Manager
Club Dial
(Internet industry)
October 2002 — February 2004 (1 year 5 months)
• Hired and created the Web Development team (later the ISE team) to successfully modernize the company's Internet practices.
• Trained and supported over 100 internal users to increase their productivity by leveraging the many open source work tools provided by the Web Development team.
• Founded a business community for Club DIAL’s global partners - spanning 11 countries - around the Web Development team’s use of Internet technologies. -
Website Production Manager & Senior Web Developer
Amazon
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
January 2001 — August 2001 (8 months)
• Led the Website Production team in advancing and maintaining the Amazon.fr website - one of the largest e-commerce sites in the world at the time - while keeping an almost 100% uptime.
• Improved communication and cooperation by coordinating for the Web Development team (which included the Website Production team) all inter-departmental relations and activities with local editorial and design teams, Customer Service and Distribution Center contacts. -
Web Developer
Amazon
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)
February 2000 — January 2001 (1 year)
• Instrumental in helping launch Amazon.fr for August 2000 deadline by assisting the launch manager regularly, in particular with team communication issues.
• Increased sales by streamlining the design and code of localized product detail pages on the Amazon.fr website.
• Coordinated the Web Development team's inter-departmental relations with Books content editors and Netherlands-based Customer Service.
Jacob Share’s Education
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McGill University
B.Sc , Computer Science, Business Administration , 1994 — 1997
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The Hebrew University
Freshman Diploma , Natural Sciences , 1993 — 1994
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Jacob Share’s Interests:
Business: startups, new media, internet marketing. Tech: Internet, gadgets, convergence, open source, programming. Sport: Inline skating, weight training, hockey, rock climbing. Fun: mixology, music.
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