Mobile Product Manager at Six Apart
San Francisco Bay Area
Mobile Product Manager at Six Apart
San Francisco Bay Area
Expertise in Mobile, Communities, Internet and Media areas. In S.F since Jan 16th.
International product/project management:
- Mobile services (SMS, WAP, i-mode, MMS, mobile clients, games, logos, ringtones).
- Communication tools (Mail and Instant Messenging).
- Multi-modal communities (blog, chat, etc.).
- Premium Services (application development, partner integration, customer services training).
BizDev:
- Mobile service providers.
- Mobile carriers deals (MVNOs and MNOs).
Interested in:
- E-business.
- Mobile.
- Web 2.0.
- Communities.
Mobile products/contents/services, online communities, premium services, international product/project management.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Define and drive Six Apart's mobile strategy in the US, Europe and Asia.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; YHOO; Internet industry)
July 2005 — December 2006 (1 year 6 months)
Being Yahoo! Mobile Product Manager means having the responsability for everything related to Mobile in France. The sentences below explain what my business week looks like:
- Be the single point of contact both for french and european teams.
- Determine local strategy (in touch with the global and european teams) and select best partners.
- Manage the Yahoo! Mobile web site (integration, promotion, marketing, customer care, legal, providers, etc.).
- Increase the Mobile Internet (WAP) offer and audience.
- Create new SMS and MMS services.
- Lead the discussions with mobile operators, MVNOs, retailers and OEMs.
- Evangelize the product/marketing/sales teams.
- Coordinate local activities for Yahoo! Go, Yahoo! Ready and FIFA Mobile.
- Develop a mobile client offer (Yahoo! Messenger on i-mode).
- Answer to journalists and participate to mobile events/conferences.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Telecommunications industry)
May 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 2 months)
Project/product manager in charge of multi-modal (web and mobile) products dealing with community (blog, chat, etc.).
- Orange Blog (Web, WAP, OML, SMS and MMS),
- Orange Zapzone, teen community (Web, WAP, OML, SMS and MMS),
- NRJ Blog (Web and i-mode),
- EU program against cigarette (Web).
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
July 2000 — May 2004 (3 years 11 months)
Project Manager on various local and global products/services:
- AOL Mobile on WAP, first non-operator portal in 2000,
- AOL Mail on i-mode in Nov 2001,
- AOL Premium Services billing system, an integrated payment methode allowing users to be billed on their AOL's bill,
- 20 partners plugged to AOL Premium Services,
- PC2SMS (from the AOL client to the mobile) and AIM2SMS (from AIM to the mobile, with the way back) services, based on AOL Premium Services.
MS/MSc - MA equivalent, Economics, Management, Information System Management, 1994 — 1997
Physics 1993 — 1994
Web 2.0, gadgets, videogames (PC, DS, PSP, PS2...), football (soccer in US), music, geek stuff, networking, food (french, thai and italian), technology, books (Tolkien, Herbert, Gaiman, Eddings), debates, personal improvement.