CEO at Recommendation Ventures
Perth Area, Australia
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- Board Member at GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo
- Committee: Marketing at AWIA
- CEO at Recommendation Ventures Pty Ltd
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- Senior Consultant at Clique Communications (Self-employed)
- Senior Account Manager at Sun Microsystems
- Author at Thomson Course Technology
- Author at O'Reilly Media
- Partner Account Manager at Sun Microsystems
- Systems Engineer at Sun Microsystems
- Account Manager at Access One
- Account Manager at Microweb
- Technical Support at Hutchison Telecom UK
- Education
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- Curtin University of Technology
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Richard Giles’s Summary
Richard Giles has over 15 years experience in the technology industry. An Australian web pioneer in the early-nineties, he later worked for Sun Microsystems for nine years. He has since authored two books, won awards for podcasts, consulted, and spoken to a variety of organizations about the emerging Internet. Richard is the CEO of Recommendation Ventures, which provides a recommendation engine to retail, media, and content web sites.
Richard Giles’s Specialties:
Recommendation technology, social software, online marketing, web 2.0, weblogging, podcasting and other emerging technologies.
Richard Giles’s Experience
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Board Member
GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo
(Information Technology and Services industry)
2007 — Present (1 year)
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Committee: Marketing
AWIA
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)
The Australian Web Industry Association represents businesses, individuals and students involved in the web industry and aims to:
Further the advancement of the web industry within Australia; Educate the general public about the role of professionals in the web industry; Foster greater ties with like-minded organisations. -
CEO
Recommendation Ventures Pty Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
Recommendation Ventures provides a recommendation engine web service for retail, media, and content web sites.
The recommendation engine is used to power Scouta, an online audio and video recommendation system, and IceTV Recommendations. -
Senior Consultant
Clique Communications (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Information Technology and Services industry)
January 2006 — December 2006 (1 year)
Consulting to organisations about new media.
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Senior Account Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2003 — January 2006 (2 years 7 months)
Managing relationships with major customers.
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Author
Thomson Course Technology
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; TOC; Publishing industry)
2005 — 2006 (1 year)
Author of How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution
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Author
O'Reilly Media
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
2005 — 2005 (less than a year)
Co-Author of Podcasting Pocket Guide
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Partner Account Manager
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
July 2001 — June 2003 (2 years)
Working with all of Sun's Partners, including System Providers, System Integrators and Independent Software Vendors, to assist them in all facets of selling solutions based on Sun infrastructure.
Responsible for day to day tactical work with all Partners, including configuring, quoting and selling solutions.
Developing training for all partners on Sun products and tools.
Visiting end users with partners to help sell Sun solutions.
Working closely with all partners to develop strategic initiatives, including marketing, business plans, programs, bundles, and go to market solutions.
Developed an extensive partner network throughout Perth. -
Systems Engineer
Sun Microsystems
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SUNW; Information Technology and Services industry)
December 1996 — June 2001 (4 years 7 months)
Worked with Sun's Account Managers to sell solutions to end users and assist key partners from a technical perspective.
Worked closely with customers to develop system architectures to solve their business issues.
Built demos and pilots to demonstrate Sun solutions.
Configured hardware and software for Account Managers for sales proposals. -
Account Manager
Access One
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
June 1996 — September 1996 (4 months)
Responsible for developing new business with corporate accounts in Perth.
Developed sales initiatives to encourage new business.
Wrote proposals for major corporations focusing on the advantages in using the Internet for their business. -
Account Manager
Microweb
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
December 1995 — May 1996 (6 months)
Developed and marketed Internet based solutions for national accounts.
Assisted Managing Director with solution selling to new prospects.
Designed and launched an Intranet solution for a national printing franchise.
Generated positive publicity with a website for missing persons in conjunction with the Western Australian Police Department, gaining exposure on three commercial television networks. -
Technical Support
Hutchison Telecom UK
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Telecommunications industry)
October 1990 — October 1992 (2 years 1 month)
Richard Giles’s Education
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Curtin University of Technology
BCom, Marketing, Information Technology, 1993 — 1995
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Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA)
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