Joshua Eckblad

Current

• Senior PM at Nstein Technologies

Past

• Innovation Lab (Paris) at Print 3.0
• Consultant at Integrated Visions (London)
• Programme manager at Proximit (London)

• Project manager at AILink (Madrid)
• Project leader at NC State University (USA)

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Education

• North Carolina State University
• Franklin & Marshall College

Recommended

6 people have recommended Joshua

Connections

60 connections

Industry

Online Media

Websites

• CV en français

Joshua Eckblad’s Summary

+8 years building teams and managing a diverse portfolio of creative international projects, with profit & loss responsibility.

Joshua Eckblad’s Specialties:

Specialised in working in an international environment, building relationships, mentoring / consulting, strategic thinking, pitching creative ideas, helping people put technology to good use, and leading teams to work together to make complex products and services more useful and accessible to the customer.

Joshua Eckblad’s Experience

• Senior PM

  Nstein Technologies

  (Public Company; EIN.V; Computer Software industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 2 months)

  Managed semantic / text-analytics website projects with media groups in Paris and London.
  
  Led the orchestration of linguistic, creative, and development teams in Montreal, Toulouse, and London to deliver enthusiast taxonomies, automatic categorisation and identification of people/places/organisations, sentiment analysis, and front-office semantic search.
  
  Generated 500K € in revenues for professional services in 2008.
  
  My most recent projects designed to improve readership experience include Libération.fr, Groupemoniteur.fr, Independent.co.uk, Metro.co.uk.

• Innovation Lab (Paris)

  Print 3.0

  (Management Consulting industry)

  July 2006 — July 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  Media industry stake-holders united to pursue a portfolio of experimental new media projects including content personalisation, mobile devices, and media consumption trend-analysis.
  
  Description of the project in French:
  http://www.viddler.com/explore/xtof/videos/11/

• Consultant

  Integrated Visions (London)

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  December 2005 — June 2006 (7 months)

  E-government, knowledge economy consultancy practise in the Middle East.
  
  Managed relationship with our network of external knowledge economics experts.
  
  Co-ordinated teams in the USA, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia to publish
  “The State of Knowledge Innovation Zones” at the United Nations Summit on Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

• Programme manager

  Proximit (London)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2004 — November 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Managed marketing and new-product-development teams in UK and Bulgaria.
  
  Led product-research initiatives within media groups in Czech Republic, Germany and USA, working closely with IFRA consultants.

• Project manager

  AILink (Madrid)

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 2001 — October 2004 (3 years 3 months)

  Led professional services teams in Spain, UK, France, and USA.
  Overall responsibility for the successful implementation of web-based "software as a service" editorial solutions.
  
  Focused on working with the client to design and implement business process improvements and change-programmes.
  
  Clients include Le Point, Bayard Presse, Le Monde, El Corte Ingles

• Project leader

  NC State University (USA)

  (Higher Education industry)

  August 1998 — July 2001 (3 years )

  Led e-learning projects.
  Managed a team of university professors and computer scientists to design and implement distance learning initiatives.

Joshua Eckblad’s Education

• North Carolina State University

  history 1998 — 2001

  Graduated summa cum laude.
  Member of Phi Beta Kappa (academic honor society).
  Member of Phi Alpha Theta (history professional society).

• Franklin & Marshall College

  psychology, economics 1994 — 1997

  Launched student television station.
  Taught the maths to adult students in local school system.
  Filmed documentary videos about street children in Tanzania, Africa and battered women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Additional Information

Joshua Eckblad’s Websites:

• CV en français

Joshua Eckblad’s Interests:

reading the New Yorker, listening to NPR's On the Media, watching TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) podcasts, competitive alpine skiing, travel by train, Charlie Chaplin movies, documentary films, walking in Paris

Joshua Eckblad’s Groups:

•    The DEMO Conference
•    Les Explorateurs du Web
•    PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY Official
•    Text Analytics

Joshua Eckblad’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• career opportunities
• consulting offers
• new ventures
• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch