John Gibson
**** ***** **** **** ***** ~ Tulsa, Ok 74132
OBJECTIVE
Senior-level position in digital media arena.
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Highly creative experienced digital media professional with success in a
variety of fields including business development, sales, customer
relations, management, marketing, hiring, recruiting and project
management. I consistently meet and exceed both personal and managed
business goals, doing so with an intelligent approach to management,
marketing and business development.
WORK EXPERIENCE
May 2008 - September 2009
Digital Media Product Manager ~ PennWell Publishing Corporation
? Develop and oversee detailed digital media business plans
? Communicate and present to senior executives, both internal and
external, including CEO
? Developed and managed projects from business plan
to implementation, including layout/design, production, Q&A, launch,
continuous phased updates.
? Established and implemented continued product support and review
standards.
? Was responsible for research/development of ideas for continuous
site improvement.
? Built relationships with current staff and clients in order to
help provide a better understanding of new media.
? Collaborate with customers, engineers and operations for RFPs,
new or one-off services
? Developed overall marketing plans and executed programs for each
product or service that fostered growth and maximized revenue.
September 2007 - May 2008
Operations Director ~ Estep Business Group
- Supervised and coordinated each division and the
corresponding projects
? Implemented a control standard for projects
? Coordinated onsite implementation of custom software
? Developed training standard for national expansion
? Established relationships with current customers and cold called
on prospects.
? Established and implemented market expansion plans for each
product or service.
? Was responsible for developing and implementing project
standards.
? Trained staff to build relationships with area industry leaders
and vendors in order to better understand the pulse of the industry.
? Created and coordinated programs for each division and product
to maximize revenue.
August 2005 - September 2007
Internet Advertising Project Coordinator ~ Tulsa World,
Tulsaworld.com, g
? Managed web-based projects from business plan to implementation,
including layout/design, production, Q&A, launch, continuous phased
updates.
? Work with the sales staff to develop strategies to
achieve digital media revenue goals
? Established relationships with current customers and cold called
on prospects.
? Established and implemented continued product support and review
standards.
? Was responsible for research/development of ideas for continuous
site improvement.
? Built relationships with current staff and clients in order to
help provide a better understanding of new media.
? Developed overall marketing plans and executed programs for each
product or service that fostered growth and maximized revenue through
various customer relations, social media, SEM and SMS.
August 2003 - September 2007
HotSpots Wireless ~ A Division of Estep Business Group
? Product development from inception to completion
? Established and implemented market expansion plan.
? Was responsible for developing and managing revenue and expense
budgets.
? Partnered with area industry leaders in order to better take the
product to market.
? Implemented sales staff and strategy.
? Developed overall marketing plans and execute programs for each
product that foster growth and maximize revenue through various
customer relations, products and promotions
? Tripled company net worth in three years prior to selling to
competitor.
October 2001 - August 2005
District Manager ~ Dealer Specialties, A Division of Trader Publishing
Supervised and provided staff coordination.
? Hiring, recruiting, training
? Kept one or more customer representatives in the top ten since
November 2001.
? Established and implemented market expansion plan.
? Was responsible for developing and managing revenue and expense
budgets.
? Built relationships with area industry leaders and vendors in
order to better understand the pulse of the industry.
? Maintained a 90% market saturation or above.
? Implemented sales strategy on various levels of business-to-
business sales.
? Developed overall plan and execute programs for all product that
foster growth and maximize revenue in my region.
December 1999 - June 2001
Customer Relations/Sales Consultant ~ Alliance Document Services
? Established relationships with current customers and cold called
on prospects.
? Increased current customers spending by 23%.
? Managed production time line.
December 1998 - December 1999
Production Manager ~ Lipper, A Reuters Company
? Implemented new data flow to print procedures.
February 1996 - October1998
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
September 1995 - May 1998 Seminole State College
~ Business Administration
September 2001 University
of Phoenix Online ~ General Business
Additional Seminars and Training
Dale Carnegie's Public Speaking, Leadership Training and Sales
Advantage courses
Developed graphic design and video editing for Internet
business's
Microsoft Word, Power Point, Excel, Photoshop, Premiere, ACT,
and other business and accounting software's.
Sales Management Training
SEO Best Practices
Electronic Marketing, email, SMS
Continued education in various e-business courses