Randy Stewart (206) 629-8743 jobs@stewtopia.com Seattle, WA OBJECTIVE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Since 1995, my passion has been conceptualizing and creating compelling consumer Internet products & services. These products have run the gamut from personals, online retail, community building to communications. EXPERIENCE ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2009 - Present Cheezburger Seattle, WA Product Manager - Relaunched iOS & Android applications to rave user reviews and increased usage. - Led migration of Cheezburger Network Sites from Wordpress to a native platform. - Integrated Facebook registration into Cheezburger accounts. - Built and managed virtual goods program. - Incorporated game mechanics into site activities to onboard and promote desired activities. - Responsible for planning, prioritizing and implementing new features, bug fixes and user interface. - Worked with distributed development teams and managed outside agency work. - Created the user experience design for most projects. - Managed project work utilizing Agile & Lean methodologies. 2007 - 2009 Boxbe San Francisco, CA VP of Product - Drove product requirements and marketing strategy to grow Boxbe’s member base. - Designed viral mechanisms into core product to increase Boxbe's growth. - Led multivariate testing efforts to assess and iterate copy/UI of website. - Led expansion of Boxbe into Gmail, Google Apps and AOL Mail. CFO - Responsible for planning, creation and execution of financial plan. - Doubled company financial runway through a mixture of HR and operational cost reductions. - Coordinated HR functions, payroll, taxes. Senior Product Manager - Led relaunch of Boxbe including new design, features, and workflows. - Refocused product on protecting existing email addresses, resulting in big increase in growth. - Coordinated and crafted messaging language. - Deployed, wrote Wordpress based blog. - Managed Boxbe social media presence, monitoring and response. 2005 - 2007 Stewtopia Seattle, WA Social Media Strategist - Provided consulting services for growing internet companies. - Developed engagement and retention system recommendations for social media sites. - Created strategic social media and relationship marketing plans. - Clients included Wetpaint, Boxbe, and other early stage Web 2.0 internet companies. 2004 - 2005 Shopping.com Brisbane, CA Product Manager - Epinions - Responsible for planning, prioritizing and implementing new features, bug fixes and user interface. - Responsible for increasing quantity and quality of product reviews. - Responsible for growing bottom line revenue. - Wrote and implemented new business plan for Epinions. - Wrote product requirements documents for business plan. - Launched RSS feeds of reviews. - Launched Epinions message boards to facilitate intra-community communication. - Integrated Shopping.com search into Epinions to increase accuracy and reduce duplicative engineering. - Planned quarterly member chats and bi-coastal meet-ups to promote member contribution. - Created and enforced policies regarding site usage. - Created year end gift program for most prolific members. - Implemented Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for internal and external tools. - Streamlined numerous intensely manual processes. 1999 - 2001 Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA Product Manager, Computers and Electronics Shopping - Responsible for features, functionality and merchandising of site. - Coordinated business development, engineering, sales, marketing and graphic designers to build, deploy and maintain product. - Created central hub for product specs, marketing text, reviews and sales. - Maintained relationships with numerous content providers and merchants. - Directed engineering to create data aggregation tools for computers and electronics data pages. - Efforts led to creation of standard data format for all Yahoo! Shopping product categories. - Hired and trained data aggregation team to collect and clean data from data providers and manufacturers. - Created data driven product merchandising efforts to increase overall sales - Helped acquire and integrate a small company (VivaSmart) to build out computers, electronics and video games product data pages. - Worked with data team to collect page view, sales and user tracking stats. - Improved product quality by monitoring usage and feedback. - Used collected data to help merchandising teams create ads. - Tools created by team used by all of Yahoo! Shopping. 1996 - 1999 Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA Lead Surfer - Computers and Internet - Created and maintained ontology and web site additions of Computers and Internet categories of the Yahoo! directory. - Developed a deep database of computer reviews and product information for use in Yahoo's Computer Buying guide. - Hired and managed intern to aid in computer review and product information collection. - Created and maintained ontologies for many Yahoo! Properties, including Yellow Pages, Groups, Locals, International Properties, Chat - Documented ontology philosophy and rules. - Managed category reorganizations. 1996 - 1998 Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA Lead Surfer - Surfer Training - Trained all incoming Yahoo! Surfers (~60 people). - Led creation of surfer training program. - Reviewed and refined surfer training with each iteration of new surfers. - Cross-trained other departments (Product, Engineering) in editorial philosophies and rationales. - Created training guide used worldwide to train new Yahoo! Surfers. - Worked with surfing specialists to document all subjects in the Yahoo! Directory. - Coordinated collection of surfing guidelines into a cohesive guide used by worldwide surfing teams. - Assisted IT department in transitioning Surfing team from Linux to Windows NT. 1996 Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA Surfer - Categorized web sites. - Created ontology for web sites. Summer 1995 Match.com San Francisco, CA Marketing Intern - Created email and newsgroup marketing campaign that targeted professional women. - Maintained computer networks and supported marketing team's laptops. 8/1994 - 5/1995 Telecommunications Department - Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH Teaching Assistant - Assisted in creating curriculum and teaching Internet, WWW university class. - Assisted in editing the academic version of The Whole Internet by Ed Krol. SKILLS, TECHNOLOGIES & PROJECTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Product Management - Agile, Lean & Waterfall Methodologies - Social Media - Blogging, Social Networks, Podcasts, Video, Twitter - Internet Technologies - XHTML, CSS, PHP, RSS, Wordpress. - Multivariate testing - Applications - Adobe Photoshop, OmniGraffle, TextMate, Microsoft Office, Lightroom, Keynote - Operating Systems - Fluent with MacOS X and Windows EDUCATION & INTERESTS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Bowling Green State University - Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with emphasis in International Business - Minor in Telecommunications - Chief Technical Officer for Undergraduate Student Government - led efforts to get $10 million grant to upgrade campus computing facilities. References available upon request.