Mark Cohen

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• Technology Director - Classifieds at Fairfax Digital

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Mark Cohen’s Summary

Mark is a technologist with significant experience in IT leadership and management capacities. His most recent experience is in his current role as the Technology Director for the Classifieds Division at Fairfax Digital. this is both an operational and strategic role, providing guidance and general IT management to the Classifieds division, and to the technology teams within it.

Mark reports directly to the CTO, and is also part of the Classifieds Executive, aka the Classifieds Leadership Team, reporting to the Managing Director of the Classifieds division. His current goals involve an enthusiastic commitment to seeing his division succeed, and transforming his technology teams into a cohesive high-performance unit with a spread of available technical expertise

Mark is currently involved in strategically significant technology projects that will span divisions and geographic locations, as well as being responsible for the operational performance of a team of over 45 professionals. His team holds responsibility for a portfolio of enviable sites such as Domain.com.au, Drive.com.au and MyCareer.com.au as well as several other smaller sites.

Mark Cohen’s Specialties:

Technology management of large corporate divisions
Managing technical projects from start to finish using cross-functional teams
Vendor management - including geographically remote vendors
Solid industry knowledge of online media
Advocate of agile technical project management
Managing business, IT and vendor staff in a matrix management structure

Mark Cohen’s Experience

• Technology Director - Classifieds

  Fairfax Digital

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; FXJ; Online Media industry)

  February 2008 — Present (8 months)

  The role of Technology Director in the Classifieds division is primarily responsible for ensuring the organization's technology strategy is executed on, with as little impact on business continuity in the individual business teams as possible. This role was created in a corporate restructure which saw a set of smaller business units merged into one larger division with the intention of achieving economies of scale across the division and the organization as a whole

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