Jim Parsons Digital Shoebox

     

During Cirque du Soleil's debut performance on US soil, under a 500 seat Big Top tent (Seattle Ackerly Field, July 5, 1987), I was lucky enough to be plucked from the audience by host, mime, busker, clown and actor extrordinaire David Shiner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Shiner_(clown). That's me in the grey fedora hat. Long story... but what a night.

Awesome.

Oh yeah, you know you want it...

via The Colbert Report

e: james.p.parsons [at] gmail.com  /  Toronto, Ontario, Canada  /  +1 . 416 . 323 . 9220  

Profile 

An experienced executive with a rich background in successful sales, marketing and business development strategy and execution. Media and Telecommunication markets are a passion with an emphasis on mobile technologies, social media business models, content distribution infrastructure and strategic partner acquisition and management. Fluent in all aspects of digital marketing services with a current focus on emerging opportunities in the mobile space. Known for entrepreneurial style, extremely positive attitude and sense of humor.

Experience

Co-Founder / Chief Marketing Officer, Swarmteams   Sept 2006 -- Present 

Served as co-founder / Chief Marketing Officer for Toronto and Belfast N.I. based Swarmteams, Ltd. A wireless mobile social networking core technology and marketing services firm. Responsibilities include all aspects of product management, business development, sales and marketing for a unified, 2-way, multi-channel global group messaging platform that enables cross-platform (web+mobile) engaged communities. Swarmteams. 

EVP Business Development, Mexens Technologies   Jan 2005 -- Aug 2006

Served as EVP Sales and Business Development for NYC based Mexens Technologies, home of "The Navizon Wireless Positioning System” for handheld devices. Responsibilities include all aspects of business development, marketing and sales for a revolutionary new technology (that blends GPS/WiFi/Cellular positioning technologies together) to deliver “location awareness” to handheld mobile devices (PocketPC's, Smartphones, Cell Phones and RIM devices). Navizon.

VP Business Development, Infosplit, Inc.   Nov 2002 -- May 2004

Served as VP Sales and Business Development for Infosplit, a small NYC based internet, geointelligence services firm (patent pending technology that can identify the geographical location of a web IP number to the zip/postal code level with a 99.9% level of accuracy). Responsibilities included all aspects of business development, marketing and sales for this advanced IP geolocation technology, focused on the needs of several industries (media, entertainment, gaming, search, etc.). Infosplit was profitable when acquired by Mountain View, CA based Quova which counts Google, Yahoo! and Microsoft as its customers. Quova.

EVP Sales & Business Development, Streamcheck   July 2000 -- Nov 2002

Served as Silicon Valley based, EVP of Business Development for Toronto based Streamcheck, a B2B, ASP, content delivery infrastructure, service and technology company, now the established global standard for Streaming Media "Quality of Service" (QoS) Metrics. Streamcheck served a wide variety of customers in the media and entertainment space. Key accomplishments included acquisition of customers such as CNN, MTV, AOL, MSNBC, Yahoo!, CNET and the BBC 

(Note: I was also an investor in Streamcheck along with Mark Cuban, founder Yahoo! / Broadcast.com). The company was profitable when acquired in July 2003 by of Santa Clara, CA based Keynote Systems.

Director of Business Development, Islip Media   June 1999 -- March 2000

Established several marketing, sales and channel development relationships for the distribution and sale of leading edge “Internet Video Search” technologies developed at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. Designed, implemented and executed a strategic partner plan which included successful C-level engagements with Microsoft and RealNetworks corporate headquarters leading to revenue objective attainment. 

Manager Strategic Channels, RealNetworks   Oct 1997 -- Feb 1999

Responsible for securing and managing strategic sales channel relationships with partners in the hardware, software, telecommunications and consulting domains. Implemented both channel and direct co-selling models with partners to consistently achieve revenue targets and management objectives. Key accomplishments included pioneering the promotion and sale of RealNetworks streaming media solutions through targeted Interactive agencies, specialty VAR’s and technology integrators throughout North America.

Channel Programs Manager - Publishing, Entertainment, New Media Markets, Apple Inc.  Feb 1994 -- July 1997

Focused on worldwide channel development and solutions marketing for Apple’s entire line of hardware and software technologies. Designed and implemented drove execution of Apple’s “Masters of Media” Solution Provider Program for dealers, VAR’s and consultants worldwide. Responsibilities included all aspects of channel program management targeted at digital publishing, entertainment and new media -- which have consistently been Apple’s most profitable market segments.

Managing Director Canada, Aldus Corporation   1988 -- 1993

Established and managed the Canadian subsidiary for Aldus Corporation (PageMaker) pioneers in the field of Desktop Publishing technology. Contributions included “starting from zero on my kitchen table” through full P&L responsibility and management of a staff of seven that I recruited from Apple and Microsoft. Key accomplishment: increasing annual revenues from $300,000 to $6 million.

Education

• University of Western Ontario, Executive Marketing Program for Advanced Technology Business - April 1992 (London, Ontario -- Affiliated with INSEAD)

• Wilfrid Laurier University, Bachelor of Arts Program, Waterloo, Ontario -- 1988 

References available on request. 

Ever wonder how the U.S. government really works? Watch this and you'll know.

Funny, scary and true. In his inimitable style, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig delivers his "Change Congress House Party" presentation.

VERY positive message. VERY positive action plan. (roughly 30 minutes)

Go Larry! :-)

For more info visit http://change-congress.org/

Here's Cameron Sinclair's Live Tweet stream from Sara Palin's speech last night to the CLSA Investors Forum in Hong Kong.

Twitter: @casinclair -> http://twitter.com/casinclair  Web: http://www.cameronsinclair.com/ 

CNN: "Media shut out from Palin's Hong Kong speech" http://bit.ly/3vAg5

Tweet chronology runs from bottom to top of this post.

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• Palin shows picture of son on stage. Then exits. / half a minute ago from TweetDeck

• Palin - facebook is a success story of US ingenuity. Shows 'we still got it'. / 1 minute ago from TweetDeck

• Palin on Twitter - I love it! / 3 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin on Todd and schedule - 'i needed to have a wife' (ouch) / 5 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin - Chavez is Castro lite. We need to play hardball with Cuba / 6 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Government need to stay the heck out of salary decisions - palin / 8 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Local elected officials need to be heard. GOP will be re borne through locals - palin / 9 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin notes bush changed view on china - notes we are interconnected and need to put diplomatic pressure on china. Says taxing tires was bad / 11 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin says tea party movement are democrats and republicans and fighting the good fight. / 13 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin says us must recognize we must lead by example not words. Americans are suffering and frustrated dems exempt themselves from hlthcare / 15 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Last 20 min of Palins talk on china us relationships and free trade. Current US gov are anti-open and anti-growth -palin / 17 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• http://twitpic.com/isp4b palin wrapping up / 21 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin - notes Charter 08. Anyone! / 23 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin wrapping up saying local Chinese wanting more freedom in China. 'No one worrys about India and it's growth' / 25 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• China needs to ease off Taiwan and to back off supporting Sudan and Zimbabwe. Notes Tibet issue - Palin (on a tear) / 27 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin says China key to global push out of recession. China needs to be responsible stakeholder. (and free) / 29 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• We can help intergrate Asia and India -Palin. / 32 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Folks walking out on palin as she's running over Q&A time / 33 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• American military precense in Asia has allowed it to prosper - palin / 34 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• @Populista that was quote from palin / 35 minutes ago from TweetDeck in reply to Populista

• American defence of Asia has allowed it to prosper - Palin / 36 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin says Pelosi and liberals stopping Obama from making right decision to increase troops in afghanistan / 39 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin listing all deaths caused by twisted vision of terrorists. 'this is a war' - Palin suggesting the surge pushed the war out of Iraq / 41 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Palin says drill. Say death panels were a way to show mainstreet what is wrong w gov plans / 44 minutes ago from TweetDeck

• Death panels - governments not being honest. Can't increase healthcare and cut costs - Palin / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Palin wants 'all of the above' energy policy to ween ourselves off natural resouces. Says we need to 'drill' / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Natural gas IS the future - Palin / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Palin pro Nuclear and energy independance advocate. Tap the god given resources of America and not foreign entities. / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Cap and tax (trade) will cause unemployment. Say it will cost $1800 per Americans and cause no change. / about 1 hour ago
from TweetDeck

• Palin suggests GOP has sold out since Reagan and are as bad as the liberals. They lost principles. / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Palin suggests her cost cutting in the Governors house shows her fiscal conservative. / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Palin calls self common sence consertative - quotes Reagan and Thatcher as 'getting it right'. / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Fed is immoral - Palin / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

• Stimulus failed will keep unemployment high - Palin. / about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck

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