Engineer Manager

Location:

Los Angeles, CA

Posted:

January 02, 2013

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Chris Olson's ResumeEducation:University of Southern California, Class of 2011Concentration: EconomicsWork: December 2011 - Present, Los Angeles California.Operations Manager at Amplify LA. December 2011 - Present, Los Angeles California.Marketing ManagerProduct Manager at GetBonkers Inc. October 2010 - August 2011, Los Angeles California.Product ManagerHeader of Marketing at GoSave Inc. I build strategies for the GoSave.com. I instruct a team of developers on our current marketing/development initiatives in order to get the site organic visibility. The new site will focus on playing games, shopping online, and building reward points. I will continue to drive new traffic to the site while aiming for a high retention rate for current users., July 2008 - October 2010, El Segundo California.Worked as part of a growing online marketing team (currently 10+ members) that serves over 5,000 clients. My role was as a search engine marketing manager and social media marketing manager, working to maximize my clients profits by driving targeted visitors to their websites through a variety of online marketing methods. In addition, I continuously worked to ensure that our clients websites and experiences with our company are the best in the industry.

Responsibilities:

Search Engine Optimization

Pay Per Click Management

Social Media Marketing

Developing products to maximize exposure on social platforms.

Link Building

Keyword Research

Site Analytics and Reporting

Conversion Optimization and Design

Competitor Analysis

Marketing Consultation (retained over 150+ clients)

Marketing Sales

Project Management

Landing Page Design and Development

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Side-Projects: March 2011 - Present, Los Angeles California.Creator, Engineer & Designer. gives you the power to share & discover the products you love. builds the tools that help retailers establish a personal connection at the moments online when it really matters. Retailers will now be able to show the products that actually make sense to you and your style. I manage the overall design and development of this product. I prototype new features and deploy daily code for minor site bugs or errors. I am the only designer and engineer on this project so I am responsible for community management/feedback and also the overall growth of this product. (Mobile Web App) June 2011 - Present, Los Angeles California.Creator, Engineer & Designer. is a developing mobile concept for how people communicate and retain information. The original focus is on what people overhear in their day to day life. This idea is in it s infants stage so I manage the overall design and development of this product. This includes designing features in Photoshop as well as in the browser and then developing the code for those designs. I am the only designer and engineer on this project so I am responsible for community management/feedback and also the overall growth of this product. I am also researching HTML5 so that this application can take advantage of this new emerging markup.Internship, Fall 2006- February 2007, Santa Barbara California.I worked alongside the Volunteer coordinator to manage and schedule over 400 volunteers for the week long Film Festival held every year. As well as design a database for those volunteers and assisted the web developer of SBIFF.org., Summer of 2006 Cedar Rapids Iowa.Worked as a marketing intern. I specifically worked on a wiper blade project; this included designing an interactive Internet marketing strategy and magazine based marketing. This included designing mockups and final displays for wall and aisle displays in such retail stores as Wal-Mart, and AutoZone.Pro bono:, Summer of 2009 - Lead designer/developer and marketing manager.Extracurriculars:: 2 year member. Pledge Trainer 1 semester, Corresponding Secretary 1 semester.

USC Entrepreneur and Venture Management Association: 2 year member.DesignationGoogle AdWords, Qualified Individual, Google AdWords Professional, Google AdWords Sales Certified, Google AdWords Account Management Certified, Google AdWords Authorized ResellerProgramming ExperienceHTML(5), CSS(3), PHP, MySQL, jQuery & jQuery Mobile

Extras1st Place @ Bettworks/CoLoft Hackfest Santa Monica, California - August 2011Rules:Enterprise Software sucks, and if you're an engineer or product designer, we invite you to join this hackathon to reinvent business 2 business software. The goal is to take the complicated out of softwares like CRMs and project management tools and turn them in to simple, beautiful and usable products.Judges:Sizhao Yang: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-creator of Farmville and the technical platform for Zynga.George Ishii: Co-founder of BetterWorks. Co-founder of Yammer, and Geni. Early designer of Paypal.Josh Woods: Senior Engineer at BetterWorks. Co-creator of the Lotus Share platform, which powers the new Lotus Connections Files and Wikis components at IBM. 8 patents pending, and world programming finalist.Press: Social Media Week Interview Los Angeles, California - September 2011

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