LinkedIn: Jamie Grove

Current

Vice President E-Commerce at Highlights for Children

Past

Global E-Commerce and IT Manager at Mettler Toledo, Inc.
Owner and Principal at Dataferret, LLC
Internet Manager at Birmingham Steel

Internet Manager at Southern Natural Gas
Consumer Information Services at CompuServe

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Jamie Grove’s Summary

I build websites:

In order to build a great website, you need to understanding the visitor and the market. The technology comes along after that. This might sound strange coming from a technologist, but unless you know your visitors your site (content, e-commerce, social network, or otherwise) is sure to fail.

I believe that doing business online is about talking to your customers and reacting to what they have to say, but also using analytics to see what they really want.

A bit more about me:

Yes, my profile picture really is King Moonracer. You pay for the brain, vanity costs extra. Find out why, just paste the link below into your browser to visit my blog.

http://tinyurl.com/5qqvf9

Why you need great people:

Building a great website is about bringing together the right people, and sometimes it's about getting better technology too. But if you look at the really great sites, more often than not you'll find that their success is defined by empowering people in smart ways.

Fun is also an important element in running a successful web enterprise. Keeping the mood light and understanding that there is always room for improvement is key to building a strong and cohesive team. Without fun, it's hard to keep those great people around.

I've been lucky enough to work with some really wonderful people over the years. Together, we've done some amazing things.

Feel free to drop me a line. I always like hearing from people excited about building that next great site... jamiegrove [at] gmail [dot] com

Jamie Grove’s Specialties:

e-commerce marketing,IT management,contract negotiation, technology procurement, project management. Deep technology experience in web development.

MBTI personality type - ENTP
(http://www.personalitypage.com/ENTP.html,
http://www.typelogic.com/entp.html)

Jamie Grove’s Experience

Vice President E-Commerce

Highlights for Children

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Publishing industry)

February 2002 — Present (6 years 4 months)

VP E-Commerce 06/06-Current
Director E-Commerce 02/05-06/06
Director Web Development/Database Services 08/03-02/05
Manager Web Development 02/02-08/03

Principal architect for Highlights.com. Currently responsible for all aspects of E-Commerce marketing programs, including: paid search, shopping data feeds, email marketing, natural search, affiliate marketing, and lead generation. Also responsible for online merchandising, web creative, web analytics, and all technical aspects of the site.
Global E-Commerce and IT Manager

Mettler Toledo, Inc.

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; MTD; Mechanical or Industrial Engineering industry)

October 1999 — February 2002 (2 years 5 months)

Positions held concurrently:
* IT Manager North American Marketing organization
* Global E-Commerce Implementation Manager

Selection and implementation of Broadvision, Interwoven, and OpenText to fulfill global E-Commerce strategy.

Responsible for ongoing BaaN implementation, Business Objects integration, and custom laboratory software development. Primary architect for MyMT, a custom, web-based CRM package used by large field sales force.
Owner and Principal

Dataferret, LLC

(Internet industry)

May 1995 — September 2000 (5 years 5 months)

Web software development. Primary focus personal information management for telecommunications industry and general public use.
Internet Manager

Birmingham Steel

(Public Company; Mining & Metals industry)

April 1998 — November 1998 (8 months)

Internet and E-Commerce management for mini-mill steel operation based on Birmingham, Alabama. Duties included management of corporate website, EDI management, development of web-based plant performance monitoring software.
Internet Manager

Southern Natural Gas

(Utilities industry)

August 1997 — April 1998 (9 months)

Manager of Internet and Intranet for mid-sized energy company ($4B). Duties included management of public Internet website, development of power and natural gas trading software, development of strategy for corporate Intranet.
Consumer Information Services

CompuServe

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Internet industry)

December 1990 — August 1997 (6 years 9 months)

Held variety of positions related to customer support. This included consumer services, business services, call center management, electronic support management, and productivity software development.

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Jamie Grove’s Interests:

development patterns, programming languages, art, nature, running, lifehacker, 43folders, ted.com, writing fiction (two really awful novels so far, currently trying to complete the trilogy)