David Bock Email & Phone Number

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York, New York, United States

Having begun my tenure as an application developer, I progressed to roles of strategic leadership and responsibility, cumulating with my current role on the IT leadership team. Reporting directly to CIO, I help set the direction of IT technology and enterprise architecture while mobilizing a department of 50 systems developers as well as a team of database editors tasked with generating accurate, quality data and managing our audit program.Highlights of creating and maintaining product databases as primary drivers for sales and profitability include: As part of the paradigm shift in the book-selling business, I led my team to build out an eBook database system from scratch to fast-track introduction of B&N’s digital reader (NOOK) to the U.S. market. Revamping product data and search capabilities, our team facilitated online discovery and sales of books, video, music, home, office, and gifts. Focused on fueling sales, we developed a new merchandising database that connected products, which allowed customers to find more goods at a quicker rate. We also introduced primary business rules to improve website sales and profitability and later streamlined our website operation and increased merchandising opportunities. On the financial side, I saved $650K in yearly vendor costs through effective budgeting and vendor management.

Because of my hands-on background, I’ve had the joy of helping many team members find their professional footing. Leading by example, my teams have always taken on the tasks no one else wanted or worked in the off-hours. Even if it didn’t directly resolve problems, we all focused on sharing the burden. It gave a feeling of ownership to the entire team, especially when it came to sharing in our collective successes. Setting the foundation for B&N’s IPO success, I enabling expansion of website sales into music and video. By developing, coaching, and mentoring several next-generation business leaders within my department (e.g., technical, analytical, and leadership skills), we increased our workload and output.  I also assembled, mobilized, and scaled a top-performing team of category specialists and product experts, which was critical in improving product data and propelling sales.

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, United States

At MUZE (a B2B provider of media information, metadata, and digital preview samples that enabled search, discovery, and purchase of digital entertainment content), I built a comprehensive database for an interactive retail kiosk that contains every single book for sale in the U.S. Always ready to question and double-check work, I was able to come up with broad solutions to many problems, not just one-off fixes. (Muze purchased by Rovi April 2009)

New York, New York, United States

Transitioning to EMI MUSIC (one of the “Big 4” record labels in the music industry until its breakup in 2012), I built a reputation for delivering business solutions before other teams. Writing applications for EMI tape libraries, I built a library of all recorded music and traveled worldwide to install new software at EMI labels and studios.