Eric Franklin

Current

• Sr. Product Manager / Wish List at Amazon.com

Past

• Director of Program Management / Recruiting at Blue Dot, Inc.
• Group Program Manager - Global Hardline Systems at Amazon.com
• Program Manager - Retail Expansion at Amazon.com

• Program Manager - Community Apps at Amazon.com

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Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz
• University of Washington

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog

Eric Franklin’s Summary

I have a number of years of ever-increasing responsibility and autonomy in the program and product management fields. I love working with teams to design and deliver exciting software products and web experiences.

Eric Franklin’s Specialties:

Community software, social networking software, online retail category expansion.

Eric Franklin’s Experience

• Sr. Product Manager / Wish List

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; AMZN; Internet industry)

  January 2007 — Present (2 years 7 months)

• Director of Program Management / Recruiting

  Blue Dot, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  May 2005 — November 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  Social networking software company.

• Group Program Manager - Global Hardline Systems

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  November 2004 — May 2005 (7 months)

  Manage a team of Program Managers dedicated to building "best of breed" shopping experiences at "Earth's largest e-tailer." Responsible for strategic implementations which improve the online experiences for our 40+ million customers and for doing them on the right timeline. Also responsible for recruiting, ongoing documentation, and escalation.

• Program Manager - Retail Expansion

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  October 2002 — November 2004 (2 years 2 months)

  Manage projects that greatly increase both breadth of available product lines and selection within existing product lines at Amazon.com.
  
  Responsible for collecting business and product requirements, owning product specifications, driving the product development schedule from design to release, making appropriate tradeoffs to optimize time-to-market, meeting goals, and defining roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes to cross-functional project teams. Works closely with software development, web development, site design, merchandising, and technology on product development and business requirements.

• Program Manager - Community Apps

  Amazon.com

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; AMZN; Internet industry)

  April 2001 — October 2002 (1 year 7 months)

  Program Manager for features related to "Customer created content." Technical account management of large asynchronous registry product.

Eric Franklin’s Education

• University of California, Santa Cruz

  BA , Literature - Modern Literary Studies , 1994 — 1998

• University of Washington

  1993 — 1994

Additional Information

Eric Franklin’s Websites:

• My Blog

Eric Franklin’s Interests:

Investing, Golf, Mountaineering, Snowboarding, and Reading

Eric Franklin’s Groups:

Mensa, Green Lantern Investment Club

•    The Personal MBA Community
•    Amazon.Com
•    Kindle Users

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