Jim Griffin

Jim Griffin
jim.griffin@gmail.com
(203) 434-4185
www.linkedin.com/in/jimgriffin

Jim is an accomplished, hands-on technology professional with a proven track record for developing IT strategy and architecture, web application development, leading, supervising, mentoring and motivating staff, project management, client and vendor relationship management, and communicating technology related business issues at all levels within an organization.

Business Skills
Staff Management, Mentoring and Retention, Budget Creation and Management, Vendor Selection and Negotiation, Business Development, Client Facilitation,Process and Procedure Analysis & Improvement, Policy Development and Implementation, IT architecture, IT Strategy, Project Management, Project Estimation & Scoping

Technical Skills
Unix, Linux, Solaris, AIX, Windows, Perl, CGI, PHP, XML, LAMP, DB2, Oracle, SQL, HTML, JavaScript, Apache, Tomcat, Java, WebSphere, WebSphere Portal, Resin, Red Hat CMS, Cisco, Checkpoint Security, Interwoven TeamSite, MediaBin, Digital Asset Management, Data Center Management,
Career History

Consultant, September 2008-Present

Industry: Interactive Technology & Marketing

Current Projects include:

· Technical lead and project management for ongoing enhancements and support of Microsoft SharePoint/MOSS 2007 extranet for a leading global business consultancy

· SEO analysis and consulting for global software and technology solutions provider and their business partners

· Technical Quality Assurance for e-commerce and television entertainment web properties

· Technical assessment and feasibility for video-on-demand digital asset management platform

Catapult Marketing, LLC, Westport, CT March 2008-Present
Industry: Online Promotions and Marketing Services
VP, Interactive Production
Responsible for development, oversight and management of the project management, production and technology groups within a start-up interactive agency (internet) division within an existing promotional marketing agency.
Direct Reports: 4, Indirect Reports: 5
·    Develop process and procedures for start-up interactive division
·    Hire outsourced internet technology partners to assist with client projects and support
·    Develop and manage internet and interactive freelance pool to assist with client projects
·    Oversight of internet production staff and resources
·    Projects include:
·    National consumer promotion for fast food franchiser Subway Restaurants, Subway Scrabble 2008
·    Development of rich media and social media applications (Facebook) for Pedigree Dog Food
·    Development of sweepstakes and promotional web sites for Cesar Dog Food and M&M’s
·    Building rich media applications for Intel destined for use in the retail environment as shopper marketing tools

CoActive Marketing Group (NASDAQ: CMKG), New York, NY 2006-2008
Industry: Online Advertising and Marketing Services
VP, Director of Digital Production
Executive responsible for managing the scoping, execution and delivery of all client web development, enterprise web applications and e-commerce implementations.
Direct Reports: 5, Indirect Reports: 20
·    Coordinate with client stakeholders to develop business, functional and technical requirements
·    Oversee technical leads to ensure technical architecture matched requirements
·    Manage PMO for delivery of client implementations
·    Enhanced client hosting operations, including 24×7 monitoring, helpdesk and support
·    Projects include:
·    Web based workflow and digital asset management (DAM) tools for a global enterprise software company utilizing J2EE and Artesia
·    b-to-b e-commerce website implementation utilizing MOSS 2007 and Commerce Server 2007
·    Intranet focusing on the launch and measurement of major corporate initiative performance for a global hotel chain
·    Consumer promotion and sweepstakes websites for numerous CPG brands and companies including: Kikkoman, Coty/Rimmel, Proctor & Gamble
·    Consumer registration and event RSVP management websites for global wine and spirits companies including: Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Jose Cuervo

A&E Television Networks, Stamford, CT 2006-2007
Industry: Television & Media
Interactive Technical Project Manager, Contract
IT project manager supporting the Internet Technology needs of the Interactive and Consumer Products departments.
·    Day-to-day Project Management of projects, primarily for the AETN consumer facing web sites, including www.aetv.com, www.history.com, & www.biography.com
·    Project management and technical oversight of multiple complex business-to-business applications for the AETN Consumer Products division, including e-commerce operations for store.aetv.com.
·    Managed the creation of standards and implementation for broadband video channels for AETN consumer facing web sites and syndication with content partners.
·    Managed the redesign, migration and re-launch of www.history.com from a proprietary CMS to Interwoven TeamSite.
·    Defined strategy and requirements for direct to consumer online video-on-demand and download-to-own implementation including content management (CMS) and digital asset management (DAM) systems and e-commerce systems
·    Managed multiple development teams spread across multiple geographic regions

Euro RSCG 4D (EuroNext: HAVS), Wilton, CT 1999-2006
Interactive Marketing Services Division of Euro RSCG and Havas
Industry: Online Advertising and Marketing Services

Software Engineering Manager, 2004-2006
Technology Lead for Client Web application development projects
Responsible for leading teams of engineers during all project phases from requirements gathering to development and support on key client web projects. Duties included staff supervision and mentoring, project oversight and client management. Projects spanned multiple industries including athletic footwear, automotive, software, telecommunications, casino gaming, finance, healthcare, non-profit, publishing and ecommerce.
·    Led project teams in the development of client web sites and web applications using both agile and iterative methodologies utilizing a combination of technologies including WebSphere, Resin, Red Hat CMS, Java, JSP, JSTL, Oracle, DB2, SQL, PHP, Perl, HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript
·    Managed support and maintenance of client web applications, which included regular contact with clients in both business and technology disciplines
·    Collaborated with business development teams for RFP responses for client and project acquisition
·    Collaborated with CTO to define company’s Portal Strategy and Vision
·    Prototyped portlet development using WebSphere Portal and BowStreet Portlet Factory for WebSphere

Systems Integration Manager, Euro RSCG Circle, 2000-2003
IT Manager, Wholly responsible for company’s Northeast regional day-to-day IT architecture, operations and support including staff supervision, purchasing, inventory, budgeting, client application support, customer service and data center operations, LAN/WAN architecture, network security controls and monitoring
·    Reduced company’s IT operating expenses by more than 30% over 3 years
·    Worked with CFO to reduce costs across enterprise which resulted in the consolidation of numerous data centers
·    Worked with CIO’s, CTO’s and IT managers from other LOBs to define global IT policies and procedures
·    Managed and coordinated integration of IT groups and infrastructure during mergers and acquisitions
·    Negotiated with vendors to reduce telecom expenses by 75% over 3 years
·    Developed, supervised and mentored multi-disciplined IT staff spread across regional offices
·    Managed support of systems and client applications in global data centers

Senior Unix Systems Administrator, Circle.com, 1999-2000
Lead Unix SA, managed all Unix and Linux operations
·    Project lead for Data Center move
·    Managed Unix operations encompassing over 50 development, staging and production servers
·    Developed and maintained policies and procedures governing Unix operations
·    Mentored junior staff

IBM, Software Quality Assurance, Consultant, 1998-1999
Industry: Software
·    Quality assurance testing for IBM WebSphere software development team
·    Developed test plans and use cases for IBM WebSphere Net.Commerce e-commerce platform
·    Architected & implemented multi-platform QA environment to help automate the deployment of new application versions

GE Capital, Web Manager, Consultant, 1997-1998
Industry: Finance
·    Intranet Development Team; responsible for all phases of web site development including content & requirements gathering, HTML & JavaScript development, internal testing and client acceptance testing and production migration
·    Developed interactive web based applications using Lotus Domino, including HR new hire workflow web application.

Education
B.A. – SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY
A.S. – Broome Community College, Binghamton, NY

Jim Griffin offers more than a decade of accomplishment-laden experience in the interactive marketing industry, providing leading-edge enterprise marketing technology solutions for clients across many different industry verticals.  A key strategic and tactical contributor is efforts that turned around CoActive Marketing Group, Jim brings valuable insight and knowledge regarding the leadership and management challenges faced by small start up and growing companies and brands.

Prior to joining CoActive Marketing Group, Jim grew in the interactive marketing technology field while managing and building client solutions for the History Channel during 2006 and Euro RSCG/Circle.com from 1999 to 2006.

Beginning his career as a web developer, Jim developed an interest in technology solutions and parlayed this interest into a systems administration and architecture role with a small but rapidly growing interactive marketing company. Demostrating initiative from the start, Jim quickly progressed into senior roles with progressively increasing responsibilities that included budget management, and staff recruiting, managing and mentoring.  As the company grew, organically and through mergers and acquisitions, Jim became responsible for managing several data centers and information technology across multiple offices throughout the country.

Being solutions oriented, Jim became more actively involved in the software engineering aspects of the interactive marketing industry, including major contributions to Circle.com’s Dynamic Marketing Environment (DME), a marketing operating system that has been in use by by sales and marketing teams at IBM for virtual relationship management for almost ten years.

Throughout his career, Jim has had the opportunity to establish a strong network of contacts at advertising and marketing agencies and within the interactive and marketing departments of the clients he has serviced.

With a legendary heritage in brand strategy, national consumer promotion, customer marketing and integrated communications, Catapult is the marketing solutions agency that offers seamless integrated support across a wide arc of disciplines.

Catapult is a new name that represents new ideas. Catapult is an experienced company that has strategically evolved to better meet clients’ needs in a dynamic and fast changing marketplace – a new marketing organization for a new age.

Catapult Marketing is part of the D.L. Ryan family of companies.

‘mktg’ is a full-service marketing, sales promotion, and interactive services company that develops and manages integrated marketing, sales and promotional programs at both national and local levels for consumer product companies. Our Programs are geared towards growing incremental sales and profits for our clients by identifying and addressing key trade, sales and consumer trends. 

MKTG converts prospects into advocates, your brand needs break through creative that inspires the consumer. 
For nearly 30 years, we’ve been creating award-winning campaigns that transcend media boundaries. Whether it’s a buzz-generating viral campaign or an experiential program, ‘mktg’ creative connects with the heart and soul of the consumer.

A&E Television Networks (AETN) a joint venture of The Hearst Corporation, Disney-ABC Television Group and NBC Universal, is an award-winning, international media company offering consumers a diverse communications environment ranging from television programming, to home videos/DVDs and music CDs, to Web sites, as well as supporting nationwide educational initiatives.

AETN is comprised of A&E Network®, History™, History International™, Bio™, History en español™, Military History™,Crime & Investigation Network™, A&E HD™, THC HD™, AETN International, A&E IndieFilms™ and AETN Consumer Products.

With 118 offices in 42 countries, Euro RSCG 4D has an unmatched global capability to create integrated marketing programs. Bolstered by our network’s vast resources and discipline-specific expertise, Euro RSCG 4D seamlessly delivers communications that drive results across countries and cultures.

Euro RSCG 4D is the world’s largest Direct and Digital agency network, with unparalleled sophistication in the ability to Drivebrand experience and sales all built on an intelligent approach to Data that produces original insights, as well as accountable results.

And our thinking matches our structure.

We use data analysis and modeling to Discover what drives sales and builds brands, and develop brand strategy based on deep consumer insight. We create an interactive and ongoingDialogue with consumers in every medium. We Dramatizethe brand dialogue through the highest level of creativity. And we Deliver customer relationships that result in measurable and profitable growth.

We believe that some of the keenest insights come through unique proprietary research and strategic processes.

We recognize that in today’s interconnected world, strategic insights are only useful if they are accessible to the entire network-from planners to clients, from brand to consumer. Our strategic resource, S.T.A.R., provides an efficient and creative means to make these connections — continuously, productively, and instantly. 

Optimize marketing spend to add value.Our proprietary approach ties marketing spend to overall business objectives, delivering the optimum combination of channels and messages to maximize value. The starting point is identifying current customer value and planning for maximum growth. We integrate across-the-line activity with data from private and public channels into our planning process, to focus on those customer groups with the highest potential to add sustained value to the business. We can then target the media communications investment and manage it across the customer life cycle. Our improved customer understanding allows us to continually refine public and private media, and increase customer relevance and response.

Projectable market feedback — fast.Our innovative online research tool combines the flexibility of qualitative research with the reliability of a quantitative sample. It captures consumer reaction to multiple ideas, including concepts, offers, or messaging, allowing responders to add new ideas to the mix in real time. Analysis is performed instantaneously as data is collected, providing immediate results

Jim Griffin Graduated from Binghamton High School Class of 1992

Jim Griffin graduated from Broome Community College in 1994 with an Associates of Science degree in Communications/Media.

Jim Griffin graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oswego with a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in Broadcasting and Mass Communications.