Dave Roberts
Vice President of Engineering, Digital Products Division, American City Business Journals at American City Business Journals- Claim this Profile
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Erika Whitley
Over the 4+ years Dave and I have worked together, he has taught me so much. One of the most amazing things Dave possesses is the ability to have grace under pressure. When facing a serious technical snafu, he always conducts himself professionally but with a sense of urgency. He's a fabulous communicator and collaborator and is great at ensuring all the various teams within a division understand the technical ramifications related to building a product. Dave is also terrific at showcasing diplomacy in tough situations. He's incredibly organized and structured and truly understands project processes to build and launch quality and functional products. He's an all around great guy, super smart and most importantly, a lot of fun to work with :)
Jason Silverstein
(From ACBJ - 2015) It's hard to put into a small text field the impact that Dave Roberts has had on the businesses we've been in together, as well as with me personally. When you hire someone you can completely trust, it frees you to focus on other pieces of the organization. He has an incredible sense of when to bring you in, when to just get it done, and how to communicate across different disciplines when one team speaks tech and another may not. Over the last two places we've worked, he's become a trusted friend as well... someone also I look up to as a man who gets it. But since this is LinkedIn, just know that this man is a rock star VP of Engineering. (From the Observer - 2009) The biggest "recommendation" I can personally give is if you can honestly say you would hire someone again after working with them. You know their strengths, their personalities, and their styles. Not only have I already hired Dave to work with me again, I would do so repeatedly if the opportunity ever came around. He is a solid colleague, contributor, and industry leader. Not to mention, a guy of integrity. If you can't tell, I'm a big fan... consider this the highest recommendation.
Erika Whitley
Over the 4+ years Dave and I have worked together, he has taught me so much. One of the most amazing things Dave possesses is the ability to have grace under pressure. When facing a serious technical snafu, he always conducts himself professionally but with a sense of urgency. He's a fabulous communicator and collaborator and is great at ensuring all the various teams within a division understand the technical ramifications related to building a product. Dave is also terrific at showcasing diplomacy in tough situations. He's incredibly organized and structured and truly understands project processes to build and launch quality and functional products. He's an all around great guy, super smart and most importantly, a lot of fun to work with :)
Jason Silverstein
(From ACBJ - 2015) It's hard to put into a small text field the impact that Dave Roberts has had on the businesses we've been in together, as well as with me personally. When you hire someone you can completely trust, it frees you to focus on other pieces of the organization. He has an incredible sense of when to bring you in, when to just get it done, and how to communicate across different disciplines when one team speaks tech and another may not. Over the last two places we've worked, he's become a trusted friend as well... someone also I look up to as a man who gets it. But since this is LinkedIn, just know that this man is a rock star VP of Engineering. (From the Observer - 2009) The biggest "recommendation" I can personally give is if you can honestly say you would hire someone again after working with them. You know their strengths, their personalities, and their styles. Not only have I already hired Dave to work with me again, I would do so repeatedly if the opportunity ever came around. He is a solid colleague, contributor, and industry leader. Not to mention, a guy of integrity. If you can't tell, I'm a big fan... consider this the highest recommendation.
Erika Whitley
Over the 4+ years Dave and I have worked together, he has taught me so much. One of the most amazing things Dave possesses is the ability to have grace under pressure. When facing a serious technical snafu, he always conducts himself professionally but with a sense of urgency. He's a fabulous communicator and collaborator and is great at ensuring all the various teams within a division understand the technical ramifications related to building a product. Dave is also terrific at showcasing diplomacy in tough situations. He's incredibly organized and structured and truly understands project processes to build and launch quality and functional products. He's an all around great guy, super smart and most importantly, a lot of fun to work with :)
Jason Silverstein
(From ACBJ - 2015) It's hard to put into a small text field the impact that Dave Roberts has had on the businesses we've been in together, as well as with me personally. When you hire someone you can completely trust, it frees you to focus on other pieces of the organization. He has an incredible sense of when to bring you in, when to just get it done, and how to communicate across different disciplines when one team speaks tech and another may not. Over the last two places we've worked, he's become a trusted friend as well... someone also I look up to as a man who gets it. But since this is LinkedIn, just know that this man is a rock star VP of Engineering. (From the Observer - 2009) The biggest "recommendation" I can personally give is if you can honestly say you would hire someone again after working with them. You know their strengths, their personalities, and their styles. Not only have I already hired Dave to work with me again, I would do so repeatedly if the opportunity ever came around. He is a solid colleague, contributor, and industry leader. Not to mention, a guy of integrity. If you can't tell, I'm a big fan... consider this the highest recommendation.
Erika Whitley
Over the 4+ years Dave and I have worked together, he has taught me so much. One of the most amazing things Dave possesses is the ability to have grace under pressure. When facing a serious technical snafu, he always conducts himself professionally but with a sense of urgency. He's a fabulous communicator and collaborator and is great at ensuring all the various teams within a division understand the technical ramifications related to building a product. Dave is also terrific at showcasing diplomacy in tough situations. He's incredibly organized and structured and truly understands project processes to build and launch quality and functional products. He's an all around great guy, super smart and most importantly, a lot of fun to work with :)
Jason Silverstein
(From ACBJ - 2015) It's hard to put into a small text field the impact that Dave Roberts has had on the businesses we've been in together, as well as with me personally. When you hire someone you can completely trust, it frees you to focus on other pieces of the organization. He has an incredible sense of when to bring you in, when to just get it done, and how to communicate across different disciplines when one team speaks tech and another may not. Over the last two places we've worked, he's become a trusted friend as well... someone also I look up to as a man who gets it. But since this is LinkedIn, just know that this man is a rock star VP of Engineering. (From the Observer - 2009) The biggest "recommendation" I can personally give is if you can honestly say you would hire someone again after working with them. You know their strengths, their personalities, and their styles. Not only have I already hired Dave to work with me again, I would do so repeatedly if the opportunity ever came around. He is a solid colleague, contributor, and industry leader. Not to mention, a guy of integrity. If you can't tell, I'm a big fan... consider this the highest recommendation.
Experience
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American City Business Journals
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United States
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Book and Periodical Publishing
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200 - 300 Employee
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Vice President of Engineering, Digital Products Division, American City Business Journals
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Mar 2010 - Present
ACBJ publishes 43 metropolitan business weeklies, including the Atlanta Business Journal, the Puget Sound (Seattle) Business Journal and the Houston Business Journal. The company’s digital content has 365,500 daily unique visitors and garners more than 60 million page views per month. - Lead a 15+ member engineering in maintaining a strategic vision for ACBJ’s technologies. - Create opportunities for growth through coaching and promoting members into leadership roles. - Assist division in budgeting for engineering resources and infrastructure needs. - Bridge gaps in division’s product management umbrella. Assist where/when needed for new, proposed or overloaded product/project needs. - Help manage the adaptive process of implementing and maintaining an agile/kanban work environment. - Assist cross-division leadership in assessing technology needs/requirements. - Directly report to the CTO and participate in divisional decision-making processes. - Code R&D projects to assess viability before handing to Product/Engineering. Recent Accomplishments - Managing ongoing efforts to move bizjournals.com platform into Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Assisted project team in an in-depth SEO analysis of bizjournals.com. Resulting changes have improved indexing and established positive search signals and rankings. - Provided initial R&D to build and deploy Facebook Instant Articles in 3 markets to monitor revenue and traffic outcomes. - Assisting Ad Operations in exploring and implementing efficient “header bidding” technologies to improve programmatic ad delivery. - Created an Adobe InDesign Extension called One Publish that ties print design application to CMS. - Moved ad delivery architecture to Google Publishing Tags (GPT). - Launched ACBJ’s native iOS news app. App has a 4+ rating. - Launched a proprietary CMS that reduced workflow times by 50%. Show less
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charlotteobserver.com
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Charlotte, North Carolina Area
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Director of Development
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Dec 2006 - Feb 2010
- Responsible for the front and back-end code for the newspaper's main brand charlotteobserver.com - Implemented the online portion of the newspaper's “media neutral” content system - Rebuilt charlotte.com into charlotteobserver.com as part of a 2008 redesign - Finalist for E&P's 2009 ‘Best Newspaper Affiliated Web Site with over 1 million uniques’ - First place (2009 & 2010) in the North Carolina Press Association ‘Best Website’ category - Worked with newsroom staff to improve user experience, editorial presentation and workflow - Managed more than 40+ vendor relationships, including host providers and DNS management Show less
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The State Newspaper
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United States
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Newspaper Publishing
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100 - 200 Employee
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Online News Editor
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Jan 2002 - Dec 2006
Responsible for the 24/7 operation of the newspaper's major brand, thestate.com from both an editorial and development perspective.* Principal liaison between the newsroom's online operations and the editors and writers. * Attended all budget and planning meetings for daily, enterprise and feature content.* Lead contact on all editorial efforts that involved an online component or content.* Created and launched multiple niche sites around various topics/communities.* 2003 Knight Ridder Excellence award winner for 'Technology Innovation.' Show less
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Online News Producer
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Mar 1997 - Jan 2002
Entry-level position in the world of online news. * Responsible for managing the daily editorial content of thestate.com* Completely rebuilt the newspaper's automation (print->online) systems when it became apparent that corporate would not.
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Knight Ridder Digital
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Columbia, South Carolina Area
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Online Producer
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1998 - 2000
Handled the overnight and daily news production cycle. Created content, posted breaking news, planned online story coverage. Handled the overnight and daily news production cycle. Created content, posted breaking news, planned online story coverage.
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Education
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1987 - 1991
University of Dayton
Bachelor's Degree, Political Science -
1987 - 1991
University of Dayton
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science and Government
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