Christophe Nau - Consultant Online Advertising

since march 2012

Google Germany GmbH (Hamburg, Germany)
Senior Customer Solutions Consultant

Advising Google's top-tier publisher clients across Europe in architecting and implementing complex ad-serving and RTB programmatic platforms (including private ad exchanges)

august 2008 - march 2012

Reference letter

DQ & A (Hamburg, Germany and Voorburg, Netherlands)
Manager Technical Consultancy

technical consultancy around ad serving technologies:
- integration of new ad concepts, targeting capabilities, rich media solutions, video advertising (DoubleClick In-Stream and VAST-compatible ad servers)
- ad server set-up and configuration. Trainings and product presentation
- troubleshooting with creatives and campaigns (Dart for Publishers, Dart Enterprise, AdTech Helios, Adition)
- support the DQ&A Sales forces for pre-sales meetings with customers

august 2005 - august 2008

Reference letter

Lycos Europe (Guetersloh, Germany and Yerevan, Armenia)
Director Ad Technologies

Team responsibility of 10 persons (6 in Germany and 4 in Armenia)
Responsible for all technical ad operations for Lycos Europe Network (5 countries, 6 billion ad impressions per month)
- customization of the Dart Enterprise ad server (DoubleClick) and peripheral tools to meet Lycos requirements
- interface with the financial system (SAP) and the Lycos user database
- development and maintenance of the Lycos page tagging system
Responsible for the integration of new ad concepts, targeting capabilities, rich media solutions, video advertising
Responsible for the technical support for Sales Operations and Ad Management (troubleshooting with creatives and campaigns)
Technical integration of partners (Google, Meetic, Yahoo...) into the Lycos Network

october 2004 - august 2005

Lycos Europe (Guetersloh, Germany and Yerevan, Armenia)
Senior technical specialist AdServer

recruitment and management of the team in Armenia (profiles, job interviews and selection of candidates)
customization of the DART Enterprise ad server and development of peripheral tools (Sales reporting system, interface with the financial reporting tool SAP...)

january 2001 - october 2004

Lycos Europe (Paris, France)
Project Manager

development of the Lycos Memberpages across Europe (8 countries)
responsible for the development of new ad formats on the Lycos Member pages. 300 million ad impressions per month.

march 2000 - january 2001

MultiMania (Paris, France)
Project Manager

responsible for the development of the internal search engine (4 million. queries per month. Solution based on Verity K2
development of the directory of member pages (PHP, MySQL)

march 1998 - march 2000

Lincoln Systems (Boulogne Billancourt, France)
Internet Developer

Responsible for the conception and development of the extranet of the Interventional Cardiologist Group of the French Cardiologist Society. (Perl, IIS, Access Database)
Development of several online solutions to collect medical data (Medtronic Labs, Cordis Labs, Hospital Lariboisière)

march 1995 - august 1997

Circonscription de Gendarmerie de Bordeaux
Second Lieutenant

second-in-command, reporting to the Commanding Officer of the "Centre de Renseignement et d'Opérations". Responsible for the department "Cartography" (3 persons).
aide-de-camp to the General officer commanding the "Région Atlantique de Gendarmerie"

july 1994

June 1994 Master's Degree (NVQ 5 ) in Organic Chemistry (with honours) University of Bordeaux, France

Ad Serving Technologies:

Extensive knowledge of several ad servers and closely related products: DART Enterprise: callouts, creative plugins, architecture, migration, integration of Dent with external systems (SAP, Revenue Science, Wunderloop...), Dart for Publishers (both Legacy and DFP by Google - campaign booking, reporting, APIs), AdTech Helios, Adition, E-Planning, SmartAdServer.
Very good knowledge of several DoubleClick Products (In-Stream, Ad Exchange, Boomerang for Publisher, Spotlight...)

Web technologies:

Online Video:

Extensive knowledge of the Brightcove platform (Brightcove Studio, Player and Media APIs, integration with DoubleClick In-Stream)

Groups and Associations:

Active member of the AdMonsters Group since September 2005. AdMonsters is the only professional association exclusively dedicated to leaders in online advertising operations and technology
Member of the "European DART Enterprise User Group".

Professional objective