David Beach

Current

• Founder at 12seconds.tv
• Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Travel at Yahoo!
• Board Member at Citizen Santa Cruz

• Co-Chair Search SIG at SDForum - Search SIG

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Past

• Senior Manager, Brickhouse at Yahoo!
• Director Product Management at Wink
• Senior Product Manager - Yahoo! Shopping at Yahoo

• EVP Creative Services at I-Storm, Inc,
• Chief Information Architect, Co-Founder at LVL Interactive
• Art Director at IUMA - Internet Underground Music Archive

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Education

• Brooks Institute of Photography
• De Anza College

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Connections

284 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• About David Beach
• My Blog
• My Video Status

David Beach’s Summary

My biography and resume can be found here:
http://www.itsbeach.com/blog/david_beach.html

David Beach’s Specialties:

Product management, information architecture, social media, social software, user experience, product design, graphic design, interface design, community development, management, photography, videoography, sound design, business bevelopment

David Beach’s Experience

• Founder

  12seconds.tv

  (Internet industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

• Senior Product Manager, Yahoo! Travel

  Yahoo!

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

  June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

• Board Member

  Citizen Santa Cruz

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

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Citizen Santa Cruz is an online citizen journalism community for Santa Cruz, CA.

• Co-Chair Search SIG

  SDForum - Search SIG

  (Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years)

• Senior Manager, Brickhouse

  Yahoo!

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

  July 2007 — June 2008 (1 year)

  Senior Manager of Products Yahoo! Brickhouse

• Director Product Management

  Wink

  (Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  June 2006 — July 2007 (1 year 2 months)

  Director of Product Management for wink.com - Wink is a social people search engine.

• Senior Product Manager - Yahoo! Shopping

  Yahoo

  (Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

  2001 — 2006 (5 years)

• EVP Creative Services

  I-Storm, Inc,

  (Public Company; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  1999 — 2001 (2 years)

• Chief Information Architect, Co-Founder

  LVL Interactive

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

  1995 — 1999 (4 years)

• Art Director

  IUMA - Internet Underground Music Archive

  (Internet industry)

  1994 — 1995 (1 year)

David Beach’s Education

• Brooks Institute of Photography

• De Anza College

  Film

Additional Information

David Beach’s Websites:

• About David Beach
• My Blog
• My Video Status

David Beach’s Groups:

Chair Person SDforum - Search SIG, Electronic Frontier Foundation, BayCHI

•    American Cancer Society Supporter
•    Santa Cruz Design and Innovation Center
•    Santa Cruz NEXT
•    Santa Cruz Tech
•    Yahoo Employees
•    Fans of Mashable
•    Yahoo Employees and Alumni Group
•    Internet Product Management Group
•    Information Architect, IA
•    Media & Entertainment Professionals

David Beach’s Honors:

Cool Site of the Day: IAMfree, IUMA, Burning Man Official Site (http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/), 1998 Addy Award, Best Online Marketing: Philips Nino Product Site, 1997 Adweek’s Agency of the Year, 2003 Search Engine Watch Awards: Best Shopping Search Engine, 2003 Webby Award: Product Customization/Personalization Yahoo!, 2007 Time Magazine’s Top 10 Site of the Year, Wink (#3)
2008 Crunchie Award - Best Bootstrapped Startup - 12seconds (Runner-up)

David Beach’s Contact Settings

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