Emerging Technology Specialist / Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
- Current
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- VP, Product Management at G-Snap!
- Past
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- Sr. Product Manager, Social Platforms at Yahoo
- Consultant at Mediastrand
- Sr. Product Manager, Connected Life at Yahoo!
- Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo! Personals at Yahoo!
- Sr Director, Product Management (Search & Directory) at Walt Disney Internet Group
- Sr. Product Manager, GO Guides Community at Walt Disney Internet Group
- Sr. Product Manager at SGI
- Education
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- University of California, Santa Barbara
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Ramsey Ksar’s Summary
Objective
To work for an innovative consumer company eager to change the landscape by creating game changing products that leaves a positive dent on our world.
Summary of Strengths
- Product management expert with a successful track record at top consumer companies (Yahoo! and Walt Disney Co)
- Experienced with defining and launching successful social web applications and communities
- Seasoned manager able to consistently deliver inspired products through motivated, accountable team members
Ramsey Ksar’s Specialties:
product management, consultant, expertise in online communities & social networking, web applications, web marketing strategy, e-commerce (Miva) development, digital photography.
Ramsey Ksar’s Experience
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VP, Product Management
G-Snap!
(Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Doing whatever it takes to grow G-Snap! into the premier live bloging service for live events...including defining the product vision and roadmap, running the day-to-day operations, seeking new partners, users and customers and even a little engineering when duty calls. Ah, the startup life.
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Sr. Product Manager, Social Platforms
Yahoo
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
April 2004 — October 2008 (4 years 7 months)
- Defined and currently overseeing several of the core components of Yahoo’s upcoming release of a new open social platform enabling Yahoo! to regain its leadership status as the ultimate social destination.
- Coordinating across the Yahoo! product management teams in order to gather requirements, create the use cases and user flows, and build a product and platform that satisfies the needs of both our various business goals as well as 3rd party developers. To do this, I am involved heavily with Yahoo! Profiles, Yahoo! Address Book, Yahoo! Mail, and Yahoo! Membership.
- Advocate for Yahoo! users by bridging the requirement gap between several Yahoo! product management organizations and Yahoo! legal, privacy and policy. My goal is to ensure Yahoo! builds innovative and engaging products that are safe for kids and teens, honest in the data we collect, and at all times upfront and clear with our users. -
Consultant
Mediastrand
(Internet industry)
July 2000 — October 2008 (8 years 4 months)
Providing Fortune 500 product management and marketing experience to small businesses. Services offered include social networking/marketing, product management, e-commerce design and implementation, and more.
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Sr. Product Manager, Connected Life
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
October 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 4 months)
- Assisted in the definition and design of a yet to be released suite of next generation Yahoo! TV technologies. Actively managed a matrixed team of engineers, user experience designers, program managers, product managers, QA, and marketing to bring what will be a unique product to market.
- Awarded a division wide award for championing the first of its kind real time web and mobile application to remotely manage your digital video recorder (for the AT&T U-verse and AT&T Homezone products). Managed a small team of engineers, designers, program managers, and QA. Represented Yahoo successfully over several years in weekly AT&T partner calls, product releases, marketing promotions, and much more.
- Designed and rebuilt the My Yahoo! platform for Yahoo’s broadband partners (AT&T, Verizon, Rogers, and BT). Primary focus was on improving the overall user experience, optimizing the backend platforms, and creating new monetization mechanisms. -
Sr. Product Manager, Yahoo! Personals
Yahoo!
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
April 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 7 months)
- Successfully released 9 major Yahoo! Personals Search product initiatives within 15 months. Most notable functionality included a patent pending search algorithm and search refinement technology as well as a differentiated dHTML photo gallery for search results.
- Promoted from individual contributor to team manager where I built a team of 2 product managers focused on developing Yahoo! Personals’ Search and email marketing platform.
- Led the Yahoo! Personals Site Refresh project which consisted of 1) optimizing the site calls-to-action 2) enhancing sub-optimal user flows 3) transitioning the entire service to CSS, and 4) developing a site style guide enabling greater consistency across the service.
- Authored the Yahoo! Personals’ community-based project from the ground up. Defined product vision, authored MRD & PRD, and conducted a three tier research plan. -
Sr Director, Product Management (Search & Directory)
Walt Disney Internet Group
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — January 2001 (1 year 1 month)
* Managed Disney’s Web operations and personnel for Search and Directory business unit of the GO.com portal.
Responsibilities included owning PNL, success metrics, product management processes, business and product
plans, engineering release schedules, contract negotiations, vendor relationships, and future product roadmaps.
* Worked closely with all areas of organization – engineering, product managers, business development, sales,
ontologists, usability/design, and Disney executive management.
* Successfully re-launched all areas of GO.com’s search and directory product portfolio. Effort included re-working
Disney ontology, GO Guides, image search, GO Express (a meta search product), and advanced search.
* Negotiated key contracts with Microsoft, Intel, 3-COM, Netscape, and AOL/Netscape among others. -
Sr. Product Manager, GO Guides Community
Walt Disney Internet Group
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
June 1999 — January 2000 (8 months)
* Product managed GO Guides from alpha to launch. Drove PRD and schedule through to next iterations. Worked
daily with engineering to drive release dates and critical product features.
* Built GO Guides into 50,000 volunteers (within one year, became largest community directory) while simultaneously
growing a team to support the application and community.
* Wrote PRDs for future versions while managing current release, customer support issues, and product integrity.
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Sr. Product Manager
SGI
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
August 1995 — February 1999 (3 years 7 months)
* Led team of 5 product managers and engineers.
* Optimized OEM software products for the SGI platform targeted at the ISP market. Application areas included:
Internet messaging, web serving, e-commerce, application serving, news, and security.
* Developed SGI's desktop NT Internet publishing strategy. Included researching applications needed by the
publishing community, securing the rights to bundle, evaluating pricing strategies, and evangelizing the solution.
* Implemented channel product strategy aimed at decreasing product release costs and increasing revenues.
Ramsey Ksar’s Education
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University of California, Santa Barbara
BA , Math and Economics , 1991 — 1995
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