Los Angeles Times Media Group Announces New Vice President of Software Engineering and Architecture
LOS ANGELES, August 7, 2007 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.
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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 www.latimes.com/mediacenter.
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