Jon Cotter

Digital Ninja

Greater Los Angeles Area

Current
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
Education
  • CERAM Sophia Antipolis
  • University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Harvard-Westlake School
Connections
460 connections
Industry
Online Media
Websites

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 2008Present (9 months)

    Product development and management

  • Director of Product Development

    Gorilla Nation

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

    December 2007July 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 2006December 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 1999September 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 1997July 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 , 19961997

    > 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 , 19911995

    > Minor in Sports Management
    > Captain, Triathlon Team
    > Chairman, RecCen Governance Board
    > Head Lifeguard

  • Harvard-Westlake School


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Jon Cotter’s Interests:

music, books, bikes, boards, mountains and oceans

Jon Cotter’s Groups:

Certified ScrumMaster

  •    CERAM Business School, Alumni
  •    Harvard-Westlake Alumni
  •    Product Management
  •    UCSB Alumni Association
  •    iPhone Developers - www.iPhoneintouch.com
  •    Gorilla Nation Media & Atomic Online Alumni

Jon Cotter’s Contact Settings

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