Richard Giles

Current

Media Officer (Social Media Specialist) at CPSU/CSA
Committee: Marketing at AWIA
CEO at Recommendation Ventures Pty Ltd

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Past

Board Member at GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo
Senior Consultant at Clique Communications (Self-employed)
Author at Thomson Course Technology

Senior Account Manager at Sun Microsystems
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

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Education

Curtin University of Technology

Recommended

3 people have recommended Richard

Connections

459 connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Richard Giles’s Summary

Richard has been involved in the Internet since 1994 when he built corporate websites, lectured about ecommerce, and sold corporate Internet connections before anyone thought they were needed. He has since worked for Sun Microsystems, authored the Podcasting Pocket Guide and How to Use Flickr: The Digital Photography Revolution, an launched Scouta and Recommendation Ventures which were listed in BRW's Australia's Top 10 Web Applications.

Richard is now the Media Officer (Social Media Specialist) for the CPSU/CSA.

Richard Giles’s Specialties:

Recommendation technology, social media, online marketing, web 2.0, weblogging, podcasting and other emerging technologies.

Richard Giles’s Experience

Media Officer (Social Media Specialist)

CPSU/CSA

(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

July 2009 — Present (5 months)
Committee: Marketing

AWIA

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 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 (3 years 11 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.
Board Member

GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2007 — August 2008 (1 year )
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.
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
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.
Author

O'Reilly Media

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

Co-Author of Podcasting Pocket Guide
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)