Jon Cotter

Current

Product Guy at Estalea

Past

Director of Product Development at Gorilla Nation
Director of Development at Gorilla Nation
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 Guy

Estalea

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

November 2008 — Present (9 months)

Product development and management
Director of Product Development

Gorilla Nation

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

> Managed development of an advanced hierarchical web based reporting system to see into 5 billion monthly ad impressions.
> Managed development of a custom campaign management system integrated with DFP, Salesforce and Great Plains for end to end workflow scaling
> Managed 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

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; 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
> Led web projects in advertising, audio, video, mobile, content management, development, syndication, maintenance, documentation, acquisition, and due dilligence
> Development in Perl, PHP, MySQL, Python, C++, VB/ASP, Ruby, Flash and Java
Director of Product Development

Medicine Planet Inc

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; 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

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; 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