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Project Manager Marketing

Location:
San Diego, CA, 92109
Posted:
March 09, 2010

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MICHAEL MATTHEW WEISFELD

**** ****** **. ***. *-*31

San Diego, California 92109

Phone: 240-***-**** email: **********@*****.***

http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelweisfeld

Michael Weisfeld is a Senior Online Marketing Strategist with over eight (8) years of experience in consumer

OVERVIEW marketing analytics, business process optimization, web application design/development, project

management, and team leadership. I have helped Fortune 3000 clients achieve marketing goals and new

levels of efficiency through investments in web technology.

I have lead solution option analysis, marketing roadmap initiatives, web development, and business process

alignment engagements with both government and B2B/B2C commercial clients. My consulting experience

consists of designing and deploying new business processes and supporting systems for leading clients in

industries including: Luxury Resorts, Travel, Non-Profit, Automotive, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REIT)

and Technology.

I have focused the past four (4) years of my career in the interactive marketing space, focusing on Search

optimization and internet brand development focusing on Social Media strategies. In addition, I am a

featured speaker at numerous Internet marketing conferences, including the Online Marketing Summit.

Industries Consulting Skills

AREAS OF B2B Social Media Marketing

B2C Search Engine Marketing

EXPERTISE

Non-Profit Business Process Design

Travel Website Strategy/Planning

Luxury Resorts / Hospitality Landing Page Optimization

Automotive Search Engine Marketing / Optimization

Retail Shopping Centers Business Intelligence (OLAP) Data Analysis

Marketing/Advertising Operational Optimization

Federal Government / Agencies Project Management Process Definition

eBusiness System Integration

High Tech

Project Administration Software Packaged Software

Workamajig (formerly Creative Manager Pro) Cavario (formerly SEMDirector) Marketing Action Platform

Microsoft Visio Cognos Business Intelligence

Microsoft PowerPoint (Expert) Content Management Systems

Microsoft Project Blue Martini

Jira Bug / Issue Tracking Day Communiqué

QuickBase Bug Tracking Drupal

iRise Rapid Prototyping Portal Technologies

Microsoft SharePoint

Plumtree

Oracle

Digital Asset Management Solutions

Titan Ticketing Solutions

WedsideStory Web Analytics

Omniture Web Analytics

Google Analytics

Radian6 (Social Media Monitoring / Management)

Tealim (Web Analytics)

University of Maryland, College Park, MD

Bachelor of Arts, Government and Politics (with Minor in Business Management)

EDUCATION

Graduation: May 1998

MICHAEL MATTHEW W EISFELD

In addition to the enterprise software listed above, I am versed in the capabilities of the following:

Microsoft SQL Server

TECHOLOGY

DTS / ETL tools

CONCEPTS / HTML

CAPABILITIES Flash

XML

FTP

Rational Unified Process / UML

I began speaking in early 2008 and really enjoy each opportunity. The represents my speaking career:

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) 2008 - San Diego, CA. – “Developing a Website Strategy”

SPEAKING

CAT eBusiness Global Summit Feb 2008 - Peoria, IL. – “Developing a Website Strategy”

OPPS ABM Spring Meeting 2008 - La Quinta, CA. - Social Media in Publishing

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) July 2008 - Milwaukee, WI. – “Website Strategy: Planning for your

Audience's Expectations”

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) July 2008 - Boston, MA. – “Website Strategy: Planning for your

Audience's Expectations”

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) July 2008 - Chicago, IL. – “Website Strategy: Planning for your

Audience's Expectations”

Business Marketing Association (BMA) Oct 2008 - Houston, TX. - Judge of Lantern Awards for B-to-B

marketing excellent in Houston and throughout the state of Texas.

Online Marketing Summit (OMS) Feb 2009 – San Diego, CA. – “Is Your Company Social?”

In addition, I have delivered the following webinars:

BusinessOnLine Social Media Series (Part 2 of 3) Nov 2008 – “Is Your Company Social?”

EXPERIENCE

BusinessOnLine Senior Online Marketing Strategist San Diego, CA June 2007 – Present

BusinessOnLine is a premier integrated online marketing agency specializing in Search and User Experience. My role as a

senior strategist is a balance of account management and creative director to develop online marketing solutions for my

clients. My mission is to maintain an advanced and sophisticated understanding of internet marketing strategies and

capabilities from search engine optimization (SEO) to social media so I am able to match the right solutions to achieve

business objectives for my clients. Additionally, I am a senior level member of BusinessOnLine participating advisory board

meetings and serving as Director of the social media department. Lastly, I play an important role in BOL marketing

objectives by speaking at numerous industry conferences, authoring whitepapers and delivering webinars.

Client List:

> American Red Cross :: Web Development / Social Media Program

> RailEurope :: Strategy / Social Media Program

> Caterpillar (CAT) :: Strategy / Vendor Selection / Web Development / Usability Testing

> Veterinary Pet Insurance (VPI) :: Strategy / Vendor Selection / Web Development / Usability Testing

> Bumble Bee Foods :: Web Development / Social Media Program

Cavario (formlerly SEMDirector) Senior Consultant San Diego, CA Sept. 2006 – May 2007

SEMDirector software provides global enterprises with robust, proven and scalable solutions that maximize Return-On-

Investment (ROI) and Return-On-Ad-Spend (ROAS) for all online advertising and marketing programs delivering

competitive advantage, unparalleled visibility and robust analytics. These solutions and service offerings are modeled on

strategic and tactical Search Engine Marketing, online advertising and internet marketing needs as voiced by enterprise

customers providing. As part of the Professional Services team I was heavily involved in driving consumer demand,

determining the ROI of campaigns, and optimizing sites for increased natural rankings for our clients.

Products:

Paid Insight :: Search Engine Marketing (SEM) budget management and ROI analysis software

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Competitive Insight :: Search Engine results page (SERP) indexing software

Organic Insight :: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best-practice auditing software

Application Support / Project Management:

Post-sales implementation support of enterprise software. Tasks include:

Training end-user and stakeholders on software features and functionality.

Defining organizations budgeting hierarchy and performance reporting needs.

Assessing and optimizing Business Process flows.

Authoring of Help Documentation / Application Support Materials.

Requirements Definition / Product Management (wireframe, use case, usability testing).

Business Analyst / Consultant:

Leveraged SEMDirector software to provide clients with consulting services in the following areas:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices.

Return on Investment / Quality of Visitor Scoring of paid Search Marketing (SEM) initiatives.

Preferred landing page optimization and conversion strategy planning.

Client List:

> Intel :: SEMDirector Paid Insight / Competitive Insight

> HP (Performics, Demand Media) :: SEMDirector Paid Insight / Organic Insight

> Proctor & Gamble :: SEMDirector Organic Insight (50+ brands)

> Cisco:: SEMDirector Paid Insight / Competitive Insight

> First American (FARES) :: SEMDirector Paid Insight / Competitive Insight

> MGM Mirage:: SEMDirector Paid Insight / Competitive Insight

> Career Builder / Sologig :: SEMDirector Organic Insight

> Research in Motion (RIM) :: SEMDirector Paid Insight / Competitive Insight

> SignOnSandiego (Union Tribune) :: SEMDirector Organic Insight

Acquity Group Senior Associate Irvine, CA Nov. 2004 – Aug. 2006

Acquity Group is a privately-held consulting firm founded by seasoned consulting executives with a combined 60+ years of

professional service expertise. Acquity Group is a leading provider of business and technology solutions, recently named

one of Consulting Magazine’s 2007 “Seven Small Jewels,” a yearly feature spotlighting the top seven U.S. consulting firms

under $100 million in revenue.

Acquity Group provides management and technology consulting services designed to improve business performance. As a

consultant, I was part of multiple project teams delivering measurable results to top-tier organizations by streamlining

processes, fueling efficient internal collaboration and aligning systems for maximum revenue generation.

Client List / Engagements Timeline:

WYNN RESORTS LTD (NasdaqGS:WYNN) - BA / PM :: Interactive Marketing Roadmap

Wynn Las Vegas commissioned Acquity to assist in the development of an interactive marketing strategy and

implementation approach to achieve a personalized user experience for Wynn online guests. The project required

a current and future state analysis of the eCommerce capabilities by evaluating: the amenity booking engines;

retail, CRM and web analytics systems.

Once the interactive marketing roadmap was approved and adopted, I became a senior member of the Program

Management Office (PMO) responsible for defining various projects’ scope and implementation plan. The PMO

helped manage the development of affiliate marketing landing pages, email marketing solutions and integrated

booking engines. I worked closely with various graphic design firms and managed creative projects for content

managed experience sites, ecommerce transactional sites, and marketing landing pages.

Additionally, I facilitated a vendor selection process for replacement box office management software. The

engagement required defining an organizations current state, desired future state, and then matching these

requirements with the features provided by industry leading software companies. The result of the project was a

recommended solution to meet Wynn’s box office needs based on prioritized feature requirements, cost and

return-on-investment (ROI).

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Finally, I was the business analysis / trainer on a tiger-team charged with implementing a Cognos OLAP solution to

analyze the 2006 Wynn retail transactions. Our goal was to provide senior level retails staff with the consumer

analytics (CRM) they needed to better server their premier guest and drive marketing decisions.

MACERICH CO (NYSE:MAC) - Business Analyst :: Company Intranet Implementation

Performed business analyst and project manager roll for Oracle portal (10g) deployment. This project required

conducting departmental workshops to define portal requirements, metatags, taxonomy and user permissions.

Responsibilities also included managing technical developer’s priorities and time allocation. The goal was to

deliver a user-friendly and consumer-like user interface with the functionality of a corporate intranet powered by

Oracle technologies.

GENERAL MOTORS (NYSE:GM) - Business Analyst :: Content Management System vendor analysis

I worked closely with the client and vendor selection team to determine the documentation and information

presentation needs for the Web Content management (WCM) project. The goal of the project was to develop

presentations that could be used to support the WCM project. In addition, I supported a simultaneous project

involving global translation / localization services. The goal of the project was to distribute an RFQ to various

translation vendors and develop presentations that could be used to support the Translation services project.

Enterprise Rent a Car - Business Analyst :: IT Strategy and Portal

I worked as part of a team tasked with providing strategic support the Enterprise Rent-A-Car (ERAC) portal

planning team. The project consisted of 4 workshops designed to aid ERAC in developing the strategy or road

map for their enterprise portal-based Intranet. The workshops help formulate their business goals and determine

an action plan to achieve them. I played a key role as the Project Manager by coordinating the disparate team

and compiling and writing most of the content for each workshop. I also presented portions of the workshop

agenda when appropriate.

BearingPoint, Inc. Consultant McLean, VA / San Diego, CA July 2000 – Nov. 2004

BearingPoint (NYSE: BE) provides business-consulting, systems integration and managed services to Global 2000

companies, medium-sized businesses, and government organizations. As business systems consultant, I helped my clients

align their business processes and information systems to enable them to access the right information at the right time,

empowering them to achieve their desired business results and create enterprise value.

Client List / Engagements Timeline:

United States Navy NMCI Program - BA / PM :: Plumtree Portal Implementation

Designed Issue Management web-application used by 20 different organizations within the Navy Program

Executive Office – Information Technology (PEO-IT) and Navy Marine Corp Intranet (NMCI). The development

process adhered to the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and CMM level 4; including Use-case documents, Graphical

User Interfaces (GUI), end-state process diagrams, user guides and other supporting documentation.

In addition, I provided support for the Navy PEO-IT and NMCI portal powered by Plumtree software;

requiring content management, training and administration tasks as part of the West coast team

assigned to the Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)

Transportation Security Administration - BA / PM :: CFO departmental support

As a key member of the newly created Finance department, I performed content / project management web-

development functions on behalf of the Office of Finance and Administration for the Transportation Security

Administration (TSA). Task included: identified and organized content for posting to the Internet, Intranet and

Extranet for all functional areas within the Office of Finance and Administration; attended eGov strategy and

committee meetings to guide the development process; trained staff on TSA Intranet functionality; performed web

needs analysis for functional areas within the Office of Finance and Administration.

Social Security Administration (SSA) – Business Analyst :: Wireless Technology Strategy / Planning

Participated in the writing of a wireless Internet deployment strategy for the Social Security Administration (SSA).

The project entailed conducting a scan of current and future developments in wireless technology and its potential

impact on SSA’s delivery of electronic services and information. In addition, the analysis performed a statistically

valid study to determine the current and potential demand for this service of wireless applications and made

projections for the future. Finally, the report outlined potential cost and benefit the agency could expect from

implementing a wireless initiative. This included documenting the expansion to their hosting environment to

include the middleware necessary to provide for the dynamic translation of their existing web content for wireless

devices.

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) - BA / PM :: Cognos Data Analysis

Oversaw the development team charged with creating, posting, maintaining and enhancing On-Line Analytical

Processing (OLAP) static and dynamic reports powered by Cognos, Inc software. The reports provided analysis of

over $11.4 billion in funding and 71,000 housing units and were produced both in hard copy and web enabled

formats. This process included administrating a SQL Server 7.0 database and creating, posting, maintaining and

enhancing On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) static and dynamic reports powered by Cognos, Inc. Business

Intelligence data modeling software and Microsoft Access 2000. The resulting 2000 page quarterly report

provided valuable financial and production information allowing for effective management of the multi-billion dollar

grant program.

> Additional Tasks / Responsibilities:

Managed a team of Server Administrators, Web Programmers, and Report Developers tasked

with creating and maintaining a web-based Grants Management system for government client

utilizing an ASP interface, MS SQL 7.0 transactional database and Cognos reporting tools.

Documented HOPE VI grant lifecycle using Visio; Current state / Future State / Gap Analysis.

Administered demonstrations of web-based Grants Management system to over 50 end users

Additional Client List:

National Oceanic Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) :: Knowledge / Skills Assessment Software

National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) :: Biometric Security Evaluation

Davis & Associates, Inc. Senior Information Analyst Washington, DC Jan 2000 – June 2000

Davis & Associates is a revenue maximization firm, based in Washington D.C., responsible for analyzing and reporting

utilization statistics data leading to the determination of a Medicaid reimbursement rate for eligible facilities such as schools

and hospitals. I served as the Senior Information Analyst and Information Technology representative for data gathering

and relationship-building with contracted hospitals and clinics.

Project Management:

Managed data for contracted projects, including coordination of requests and receivables

Developed status reports informing the project team and senior staff of analysis results

Served as Information Technology representative for data gathering and relationship building with clients

Data Administration:

Manipulated and formatted service data to meet Medicaid billing requirements for claims submission

Analyzed service utilization data to determine reimbursement rate for cost reports used in revenue

maximization projects

Technological Advisor:

Participated on advisory team to develop a customized billing software program used at client sites

Advised senior staff of technological capabilities and strategies to achieve project goals

Performed hardware inventory on remote sites and assessed technological capabilities

Ætna U.S. Healthcare Information Specialist Greenbelt, MD Oct 1998–Dec 1999

Aetna is one of the nation’s leading diversified health care benefits companies, serving members with information and

resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range of traditional

and consumer-directed health insurance products and related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral

health, group life, long-term care and disability plans and medical management capabilities. The customers include

employer groups, individuals, college students, part-time workers, health plans and government-sponsored plans.

As a member of a call center Command Center, I utilized call management software to view, extract, analyze, trend and

report statistical information pertaining to the Customer Service department's 40 active telephone lines. With this data, I

maintained daily, weekly and yearly statistical information used to track trends, forecast staff requirements, and provide

other performance information for the service center based on statistical information generated by the call management

system (Lucent's CentreVu Supervisor). This also included monitoring and analyzing all incoming telephone traffic (2 million

calls annually) to the Member / Provider Service department utilizing a call management system (Lucent's CentreVu

Supervisor). My analysis lead to the development and implementation of corrective action strategies and optimized staffing

schedules for 120 service representatives to ensure daily service goals were met.

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> Additional Tasks / Responsibilities:

Researched, coordinated and managed all departmental Y2K contingency staff and workload

planning, in cooperation with corporate guidelines.

Identified need for improved information collection and analysis, leading to the design,

administration and staff training on various databases utilizing LAN capabilities and MS Access.

Authored instructional manuals and trained staff on new software and functionality.

Defined, developed, and provided analysis to drive the decision-making process and support

business operations for internal and external customers.

COMPUTER SKILLS

Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista and Office 2000/XP/2002/2007 Suite

Software: Microsoft Word; Excel; Access; PowerPoint; Outlook; MS Project; Visio

REFERENCES

Available Upon Request

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