Los Angeles Times Media Group Announces New Vice President of Software Engineering and Architecture
August 07 2007 - 2:08PM
PR Newswire (US)
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- The Los Angeles Times Media
Group today announced that Dr. Kamran Izadpanah has been named vice
president, software engineering and architecture for latimes.com.
In his new position, Izadpanah will be charged with determining the
processes, methods, technology and frameworks that will help to
restructure the company's overall interactive business. He will be
responsible for all software development and structural design,
while building a software engineering team that will enhance the
technical aspects of the company's multimedia products and
implement the processes and systems needed to deliver hyper local
content for readers, users and advertisers. "As the Los Angeles
Times continues to evolve and adapt in the digital marketplace,
Kamran Izadpanah will play a pivotal role in our ability to
innovate," said Scott Sullivan, chief technology officer of
latimes.com. "Kamran's vision and proven track record in developing
novel concepts and tools in the interactive space will prove
critical in establishing latimes.com as the dominant source for
news and information throughout Southern California." Before
joining latimes.com, Izadpanah served as the executive director of
software development at Edmunds.com. While there, he re-engineered
the publishing, search, advertising and data operations systems
that fed Edmunds, InsideLine and CarSpace.com. In addition, he
initiated the redesign of all the Web sites to improve search
engine performance and reorganized the product planning process to
improve revenue flow and organizational responsiveness, as well as
revamped the company's advertising engines to provide quasi
real-time feedback on ad sales. Izadpanah earned his doctorate in
computer engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, MO,
as well as an MBA from the Anderson Graduate School of Management
at UCLA. About the Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Times is the
largest metropolitan daily newspaper in the country, with a daily
readership of 2.2 million and 3.3 million on Sunday. The Los
Angeles Times and its media businesses and affiliates -- including
latimes.com, The Envelope/theenvelope.com, Times Community
Newspapers, Recycler Classifieds, Hoy, and California Community
News -- reach approximately 8.1 million or 62% of all adults in the
Southern California marketplace. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Los
Angeles Times, has been covering Southern California for over 125
years and is part of Tribune Company (NYSE:TRB), one of the
country's leading media companies with businesses in publishing,
the Internet and broadcasting. Additional information about the Los
Angeles Times is available at http://www.latimes.com/mediacenter.
DATASOURCE: The Los Angeles Times Media Group CONTACT: Nancy
Sullivan, +1-213-237-6160, , or Stephan Pechdimaldji,
+1-213-237-4791, , both of the Los Angeles Times Web site:
http://www.latimes.com/ http://www.latimes.com/mediacenter
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