Jon Cotter

Current

Product Design and Technology at Estalea

Past

Director of Product Development at Gorilla Nation
Director of Development at Gorilla Nation
Guy who did stuff at Cotterpop

Web Monkey at Smith & Jones
Director of Product Development at Medicine Planet Inc
Technical Director at Impact Design

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Education

CERAM Sophia Antipolis
University of California, Santa Barbara
Harvard-Westlake School

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Jon Cotter’s Summary

End to end digital product development experience, from video to audio to internet to wireless.

Jon Cotter’s Specialties:

advertising, audio, video, mobile, content management, syndication, maintenance, documentation, acquisitions, due diligence, agile development, rapid growth

Jon Cotter’s Experience

Product Design and Technology

Estalea

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Product/process/platform design and management at a start-up incubator.
Director of Product Development

Gorilla Nation

(Privately Held; Online Media industry)

December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

Managed development of the company's first BI solution to see into over 5 billion monthly ad impressions.

Managed development of a custom campaign management system integrated with DFP, Salesforce and Great Plains

Managed development of Springboard, a brand-able content syndication platform

Built an Ad Sales production team and managed development of the MidTail Toolbox
Director of Development

Gorilla Nation

(Online Media industry)

January 2006 — December 2007 (2 years )

Managed and grew a small team to 25+ employees, interns and contractors. Introduced performance bonus system and opened a new office

Managed development of Quizilla.com (sold to Viacom)

Managed the Atomic Online division in multiple roles

Led web projects in advertising, audio, video, mobile, content management, development, syndication, maintenance, documentation, acquisition, and due diligence

Development in Perl, PHP, MySQL, Python, C++, VB/ASP, Ruby, Flash and Java
Guy who did stuff

Cotterpop

(Online Media industry)

June 2003 — December 2005 (2 years 7 months)

Sole proprietorship working on a variety of audio, video, web and software related projects
Web Monkey

Smith & Jones

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2002 — May 2003 (1 year 1 month)

Worked on a variety of e-commerce web development projects.

Projects included: Nevada Museum of Art, Mt. Rose Ski Tahoe, Carson City Visitors Bureau, Incline Village Convention and Visitors Bureau, Hyatt Regency Lake Tahoe, Hyatt Regency Chicago, Embassy Suites Resort.
Director of Product Development

Medicine Planet Inc

(Online Media industry)

December 1999 — September 2001 (1 year 10 months)

Built a development team from scratch at the height of "the boom"

Oversaw development of a suite of wired and wireless medical information products
Technical Director

Impact Design

(Media Production industry)

December 1997 — July 1998 (8 months)

Responsible for all technical concerns for an award winning new media design start-up

Produced Adobe's trade show demos for Acrobat, AfterEffects, PageMill and Photoshop

Jon Cotter’s Education

CERAM Sophia Antipolis

MBA , International Business , 1996 — 1997

Class Representative

Intern projects with Alcatel and Bay Networks on EMEA marketing strategies for ATM and ADSL products
University of California, Santa Barbara

B.S. , Aquatic Biology , 1991 — 1995

Minor in Sports Management
Captain, Triathlon Team
Chairman, RecCen Governance Board
Head Lifeguard
Harvard-Westlake School