Rob Barac

Current

Executive Producer at Tribal DDB
Freelance Digital Solutions Expert at Intersplice

Past

Senior Project Manager (Contract) at Tribal DDB
Digital Consulting (Contract) at Tipping Point
Account Director at Tipping Point

Account Director at MassMedia Studios
Senior Producer / Campaign Team Leader at MassMedia Studios
Senior Producer at MassMedia Studios
Business Manager | Marketing Manager at Atlantic Cedar Inc.
Producer at EuroRSCG
Contract Technical Producer at MLC
Contract Developer at BOC Gases
Developer at Singleton Ogilvy Interactive
Contract Interface Development Manager at Metiom (Westpac Banking Corporation)
Department Lead: Sitebuild at OVEN Digital
Corporate Pre-Sales Technical Support at Tech Pacific

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Education

Bishop's University
University of Sydney
University of Sydney

Spherion
Macquarie University
Marist Brothers Benedict College

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Recommended

14 people have recommended Rob

Connections

467 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

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Rob Barac’s Summary

I have been involved in Technology and Marketing since the late 90s with agencies such OvenDigital, Singleton Ogilvy Interactive, EuroRSCG, MassMedia Studios (developers of the Traction Digital CRM Platform) and currently DDB.

My experience ranges from Sales to Client Management and Project Management.

I am interested in business opportunities and prefer to be contacted via a current connection, however if you’ve read this far I will include my email address too as an Easter egg (rob.barac@gmail.com).

Rob Barac’s Specialties:

My specialties include:
1- Campaign Strategy
2- Account Direction
3- Production Management

Rob Barac’s Experience

Executive Producer

Tribal DDB

(Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

May 2009 — Present (8 months)
Freelance Digital Solutions Expert

Intersplice

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 1999 — Present (11 years )
Senior Project Manager (Contract)

Tribal DDB

(Public Company; OMC; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)
Digital Consulting (Contract)

Tipping Point

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2009 — May 2009 (3 months)
Account Director

Tipping Point

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2009 — March 2009 (3 months)
Account Director

MassMedia Studios

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2008 — November 2008 (8 months)
Senior Producer / Campaign Team Leader

MassMedia Studios

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; BLU; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2007 — April 2008 (6 months)
Senior Producer

MassMedia Studios

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

March 2006 — November 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Business Manager | Marketing Manager

Atlantic Cedar Inc.

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)

June 2004 — March 2006 (1 year 10 months)

I managed the fastest growing business unit within the company and also played a supporting role to the President in Operations and Technology Strategy.
Producer

EuroRSCG

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

August 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 2 months)

As a Digital Producer this signalled my return to Agency Life. While at Euro I worked on some of the agencies biggest clients and under an excellent Executive Producer was mentored in production management.

Clients included:
- The Northern Territory Tourist Commission
- Mitsubishi
- Suncorp

I moved from this role for the opportunity to work overseas.
Contract Technical Producer

MLC

(Insurance industry)

June 2003 — August 2003 (3 months)

This was a short term contract that straddled both development and management of 2 other developers and the formulation of documentation for standards and web compliance.
Contract Developer

BOC Gases

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BOX; Chemicals industry)

April 2002 — August 2003 (1 year 5 months)

I worked at BOC gases as a developer on the BOC intranet and extranet projects. The work that I did was primarily HTML/ASP coding but also involved Design and Flash development too.
Developer

Singleton Ogilvy Interactive

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

April 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 1 month)

I worked at SOI as a HTML/ASP developer on accounts such as Nokia and Nestle including integration work into Vignette.

My time at SOI was my first taste of working in a large Agency environment and saw me develop long lasting industry relationships that are still active.
Contract Interface Development Manager

Metiom (Westpac Banking Corporation)

(Banking industry)

March 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 2 months)

I managed a developer, designer and tester on the Westpac B2B project. During this time I worked closely with the project manager to ensure that front end coding standards were accessible and interfaced with an existing application that Westpac had purchased to manage its new business portal.

In addition to the management of my team the work also required hands on coding.
Department Lead: Sitebuild

OVEN Digital

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

November 1999 — March 2000 (5 months)

OvenDigital was my first web job and I was initially hired as a Junior HTML developer but was soon sent on assignment to NYC and Hong Kong (3 months in Hong Kong).

I worked with some incredibly talented people during this time and I learnt about the balance between business outcomes and fine web development.

I cut my web teeth at Oven and soon managed 2 other interface developers until the company folded in the DotCom bust.
Corporate Pre-Sales Technical Support

Tech Pacific

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 1998 — September 1999 (11 months)

I provided support and sales support within a call centre environment. My primary duties included recommending software licensing solutions for clients, acting as customer service, and recommending hardware solutions.

I realised that Call Centres were not for me.

Rob Barac’s Education

Bishop's University

BBA , Marketing and Management Science , 2005 — 2009
University of Sydney

Certificate , Key Account Management , 2008 — 2008
University of Sydney

Certificate , Strategic Marketing Planning , 2008 — 2008
Spherion

Adv. Certificate , I.T , 2000 — 2002
Macquarie University

BA , Linguistics , 1990 — 1993

Activities and Societies:

2SER FM - Hosted late night show on an ad-hoc
Marist Brothers Benedict College

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Australian New Media

Consultants Network
eMarketing Association Network
Australian New Media
Online Advertising Professionals
adtech Sydney
Fashion Marketing & Digital Media Group (FMG): A Meeting Place for Fashion & Marketing Professionals
Xpand Enthusiasts
Innovative Marketing, PR, Sales, Word-of-Mouth & Buzz Innovators
Digital Marketing
SuperGroup Founders
Change2
Masters of Customer Engagement
MassMedia Studios
Sydney bloggers
Executives @ Australian New Media