Commercial Development Manager at ninemsn
Sydney Area, Australia
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John BouAntoun’s Summary
A technologist with a knack for just "making it work" for business and a passion for getting the most out of my team members.
I have extensive experience building software development teams, able to use my technical, process and people management expertise to engineer an environment that fosters high-performance.
I come from a Computer Systems Engineering background having learned to work independently in my early freelance days. This strong technical independence has been re-enforced through my contributions to the open-source community over my development career.
Early on I discovered a passion for management which started with consulting positions focusing on project management but has then blossomed more deeply into people management and high-performance team leading with a dash of business discipline.
John BouAntoun’s Specialties:
Performance Team Leading
People Management
Project Management
Business Process Engineering
Systems Design
John BouAntoun’s Experience
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Commercial Development Manager
ninemsn
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Head of the Commercial Development Team at ninemsn, responsible for all strands of commercial delivery for the entire business.
The Commercial Development Team at ninemsn caters to the entire business with delivery grouped into the following 5 pillars:
- Commercial Web Delivery
- Commercial Mobile Delivery
- Mobile Gateway
- Content Syndication
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Platform Development Manager
ninemsn
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
February 2009 — July 2009 (6 months)
Promoted to the Development Manager for the Platform Development Team, tasked with amalgamating all the different platform development teams from all the different ninemsn businesses.
The ninemsn Platform Development Team is responsible for developing and delivering all of ninemsn's platforms; online web and marketing, mobile web and marketing and content syndication. -
Senior Program Manager
ninemsn
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
May 2008 — January 2009 (9 months)
I was promoted to Senior Program Manager in the technology and development department of ninemsn, responsible for servicing both the creative services team, nine pixels, and the mobile marketing team, 5th Finger. nine pixels and 5th Finger both work directly and indirectly with clients delivering content integration and interactive cross-media solutions, with 5th Finger focusing on the mobile market.
As a Senior Program Manager I was responsible for managing the development team and all technical aspects of project delivery, constantly in direct contact with the clients and third party vendors. I was also responsible for the technical and operational direction of the greater nine pixels campaign team, having had to nurture the adoption and ongoing use of applicable project management and software development methodologies and implement effective process management. -
Program Manager
ninemsn
(Privately Held; Online Media industry)
December 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 5 months)
When I joined ninemsn I was made the Program Manager in charge of ninepixels, the newly created in-house creative agency. I was able to take my consulting and freelance experience and apply it to the building this new team by focusing on both the technical and operational aspects of the team.
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Contract Systems Architect / Tech lead
RogenSi
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
July 2006 — December 2006 (6 months)
My main focus while at Rogen this second time was to re-invigorate the development team, enhance the CCMS and related systems (mentioned below) and extend them to accommodate functionality available in the a newly merged company’s systems.
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Senior Consultant
Epicor
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; EPIC; Computer Software industry)
October 2005 — July 2006 (10 months)
My main focus at Epicor was to manage implementation projects for Epicor’s clients while still maintaining a technical and hands on role. Epicor used a signature Project Management methodology based on PMI to manage its implementation projects. As a Senior Consultant at Epicor I was in direct contact with high stakes clients, often delivering projects on site and managing the entire implementation team.
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Systems Architect / Tech Lead
RogenSi
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)
November 2001 — September 2005 (3 years 11 months)
Initially brought across as a Systems Architect to build an in-house project accounting and client management system, I ended up working in a role more akin to Technical Lead than just a Systems Architect.
As with most in-house systems the development phase of the project did have to come to an end, which is the main reason I chose to move on.
John BouAntoun’s Education
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University of Technology, Sydney
BE Eng, CSE. Dip Eng Prac , Computer Systems Engineering, Information Management Systems , 1996 — 2001
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John BouAntoun’s Groups:
Contributed to open source project; pptp client (windows vpn connectivity)
Contributed to open source project; mono (an open source implementation of the .Net framework)
Contributed to open source project;l monodevelop (gtk# based .Net IDE)
Cobtributed to open source project; rockbox (mp3 player firmware)
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ninemsn alumni -
Digital Media Group - Australia and New Zealand
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