Joelle Nebbe

Current

Technical Architect at Optaros
Director at Nebbe Limited

Past

CTO at Foundography Limited
CTO at Nexus Business Media Limited
Director & Founder at Chapter Eight Ltd

Senior Architect at Regional Independent Media
Division Manager at Hans Huber AG
Internet Manager at Sprintel AG

see less...

3 more...

Recommended

7 people have recommended Joelle

Connections

203 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Joelle Nebbe’s Summary

Strong technology executive and transformational leader with a track record of building strong teams and outstanding products – and able to go hands-on as needed. 14 years business and technical experience growing internet businesses and internet services. 14 years hands-on development, architecture & infrastructure. 14 years team building. 8 years senior / executive level management.

• top analytical and problem solving abilities coupled with in-depth technical mastery
• strong leadership, team building and people management skills - especially with technical/creative teams but also operations and strategic leadership.
• outstanding organisational and process building skills
• strategic company and product development - especially in startup or growth mode
• dealing with change and harnessing disruptive technologies

Has worked in Switzerland, Germany, France and the UK - in french, english and german.

Fields of interest: online media, semantics and information management, community building, CMS, E commerce & logistics, search technology (especially vertical and semantic search), distributed systems, identity management, business intelligence...

Joelle Nebbe’s Specialties:

leadership, technology (internet/web), architecture, product management, development management, startup phases, business process, & operations, team and project turnaround, ecommerce, community building, international operations, web development, internet infrastructure, search technology, thinking environment and talent management, management team creation and coaching

Joelle Nebbe’s Experience

CTO

Foundography Limited

(Online Media industry)

March 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 3 months)

Foundography is an internal startup at Nexus Business Media aiming to become a significant player in b2b vertical search, using a pragmatic and open approach. It launched Q2 2008 in the IT vertical

key responsabilities: Project management, lifecycle management, supplier relationships, business plan, commercial strategy, business case, investor relations.

Technologies used: Autonomy, Verity, SOA, custom business logic in Java J2EE and C#, Jakarta / Tomcat, Velocity, Hibernate, .Net, XML
CTO

Nexus Business Media Limited

(Public Company; Publishing industry)

March 2007 — April 2008 (1 year 2 months)

Achievements: Full responsibility for all technology, IT systems and web development. Turnaround & Change management. Transition from print to digital, team rescue and rebuild, product and infrastructure rationalisation. Create and lead a team of 20 in multiple simultaneous projects, devise and launch a new 3 year strategy for 5 digital products (talkingretail.com, talkingmotors.com, harpers.co.uk, worldtravelguide.net, iwsc), train a new management team. Create products that quickly establish value (several of the created product were subsequently sold)

Technologies used: Perl, OO Perl, Mason, Java, J2EE, Struts, agile development / scrum, SQL Server, MySQL, Data Mining / OLAP, Linux, Solaris, Windows Server 2003, Apache, fastcgi, tomcat, Adtech, Hitbox hbx, AJAX, UGC, PHP, Drupal, Joomla, Alfresco, ASP .Net.
Director & Founder

Chapter Eight Ltd

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

August 2002 — October 2006 (4 years 3 months)

Creation of a successful internet business employing 20 people with over 100 clients and a strong product offering.

Achievements: After 4 years the company which is now a leading name in the North of England. The clients range from small retail businesses to corporate clients like Close Brothers and Gulf Oil

Responsibilities: Led technology and operations, pre sales, key accounts and online marketing. Created a redundant and automated infrastructure incl. CMS systems, enterprise grade e-commerce, logistics and stock management, newsletter management, SEO/SEM, domain names, analytics and more. Coached a team of developers, designers, and tech support.

Technologies used: agile / XP, Perl, PHP, high availability infrastructure, security including penetration testing, XML, XSLT, Postgres, syndication systems, systems integration, web services, SOAP, OLAP, python, Zope, plone, Linux, FreeBSD, Exchange, Postfix, IMAP, credit card processing, OLTP.
Senior Architect

Regional Independent Media

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Newspapers industry)

August 2000 — August 2002 (2 years 1 month)

Lead the technical team of 5 developers and 4 designers, incl. coaching, training.
Work with editorial and sales to deliver successful online platforms for the 12 regional websites
Support the sales and design operation in 9 centers across the country
Help set up and manage a mid-size fully redundant hosting operation (about 2000 websites)
Develop software used at group level for 12 newspaper websites and for third party clients - CMS and ecommerce platforms, community/interactive services (eg: egreetings, wedding planner)
Automation and infrastructure - analytics, advertising, content licensing
Division Manager

Hans Huber AG

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Publishing industry)

August 1996 — August 2000 (4 years 1 month)

Created and led the New Media division of Hans Huber AG, part of the respected publishing group Huber & Hogrefe, directly under the managing director. Devised a strategy to enable the group to extend their position as leading brands in medicine and psychology to the new media.
The work included hiring and coaching a team, creating and deploying business platforms for the entire group, developing partnerships and joint ventures, creating training programs, setting up a technical sales operations and more.
During her time at Huber & Hogrefe Joelle orchestrated the launch of many pioneering web sites and online information services - some of the first full text online journals in Europe, professional portals, bibliographical database outsourcing services etc. By 1999 our team was also one of the key VARs for professional online information services in Europe with as clients large universities, multinationals, research institutes etc. in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France.
Internet Manager

Sprintel AG

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 1996 — August 1996 (8 months)

Sprintel AG - project for the creation of a centralised support hot line business for ISPs all over the country. Set up a system of support, knowledge base etc. Got many major ISPs to sign up and either outsource their technical support entirely or use the service as a fallback for their own.