MR ANDREA MORO
Language skill: English (Fluent), French (Basic), Italian (Mother tongue)
Personal statement
Passionate about new marketing tactics/tools, data and analytics, over the past 18 years I have gained a
substantial grasp of the entire digital ecosystem.
User's satisfaction finalised to acquisition, conversion and retention is my primary focus I pursue wearing
mainly the SEO hat, whose strategies are integrated with PPC, email marketing and social whenever
required.
Always striving for excellence, I do everything with dedication and devotion regardless I am working
independently or as part of a team. I love challenging the tools I use and also regularly benchmark my
progresses so to adjust the strategies used.
Immediately available due to redundancy, I would like to work in a dynamic, friendly and open-mind company
that genuinely believe in the web, and that could offer new opportunities to learn new things.
Awards
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2014 – IDM Diploma in Digital Marketing 2011, Google Analytics Qualification
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2009 - 2013, Google Top Contributor 2010, IDM Certificate in Digital Marketing
Core skills
• Conduct website audits, keyword selection, competitors research;
• Execute on-page (for both desktop and mobile) & off-page optimisation;
• Public relationship to improve brand awareness and manage online reputation;
• Setup and manage web analytics accounts finalised to CRO (Google Analytics, KissMetrics);
• Sketch wireframes and prototypes to improve the site Information Architecture;
• Implement A/B tests using tools like Optimizely;
• Multichannel SEO integration (e.g. PPC, email) and medium size PPC campaigns management;
• Create reports to discuss KPI and performances (using Excel or dashboards like Geckoboard);
• Coding skills for automating repetitive tasks and interacting with API (JSON/REST); competent in using
scraping tools for creating useful datasets;
Working Experience
Aug ‘14 – Feb ’15 Growth Hacker FOODit Ltd - London – UK
Worked with a vibrant food related SAAS start-up in a cross-functional role where testing and learning were
constantly blended to help growing the business.
Part of the product management team, I provided tactical support in a number of domains including SEO,
Social Media, Email marketing and conversion optimisation.
Achievements:
• Redesigned part of the customer onboarding process to facilitate restaurants websites activations;
• By fixing several SEO issues, organic traffic roughly increased by 10%;
• Designed and automated an internal performance dashboard using Geckoboard and Python;
• Implemented a Google Analytics roll-up account to collect traffic insights previously unavailable;
• Built prolific relationships with customers that were investing no time to grow their business online;
Jul 2013 – to date SEO Technical Specialist / Growth Hacker Freelancing
Devising SMEs with strategies to boost online visibility and organic traffic, using a closed loop methodology
to ensure constant deliverables and results monitoring proactively recommending customers whenever
required.
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Services offered:
• Websites in-depth analysis and audits (e.g. technical, keyword, backlink review, competitors)
• Collate and implement SEO plans that fits in multichannel strategies;
• Hands-on to support the technical implementation of strategies devised;
• Help the marketing team creating content both on site and social media;
• Use insights from the customer web analysis packages to implement behavioural marketing strategy;
• Support the conversion optimisation arranging usability tests and reviewing the user experience
workflow;
March ‘14 – August ‘14 European SEO Manager ServiceMagic Ltd - London
Responsible for the SEO operations of 4 websites operating in the UK and French market, including the
content marketing strategy and the copywriters team management. Managed the Google Analytics accounts.
Achievements:
• Collated over 150 SEO tickets; implementing of 45 of them resulted in a 2%
WoW organic traffic grow;
• Helped 1 French website to recover from Google Panda 4.0 penalisation
raised in May 2014;
• In tandem with the UX team I mocked up the new information architecture for
the French site;
• Created an automated Excel dashboard to properly track company KPIs;
• Coded a PHP solution for the WP sites implementing a proper taxonomy for
leveraging organic traffic;
Reason for leaving: Company relocated thus increasing commuting by 2 hours each way.
Jul ‘13 – March ‘14 SEO Manager W3DMUK - London
Outlined the SEO strategy and provided tech support for code re-factoring to improve organic performance.
Achievements:
• Compiled an SEO plan to facilitate customer acquisition on a site operating in 38 countries / 12
languages;
• Wrote over 100 technical AGILE SEO request of changes to re-align sites to SEs guidelines;
• Compiled a throughout analysis with recommendation to remove a Google Penguin penalisation;
Reason for leaving: Unable to execute the strategy because company did not provide resources.
Jul ‘09 – Jul ‘13 Google Webmaster Top Contributor & Evangeliser Google – USA
A non-paid collaboration offered from Google to help evangelizing SEO best practices whilst moderating their
webmasters forum. Regularly liaising with users’ requests, user confidence level has been improved instilling
openness and transparency. Regular meeting with the Google’s Quality Search Team.
Jun ‘11 – July ‘13 Head of SEO Harvest Digital – London
Orchestrated customers’ SEO strategies and supported business development looking after the department
profitability. Hands-on responsibility for all deliverables for a year. Later built and structured a team of 5.
Achievements:
• Sage One ranked first page for non-branded keywords after 3 months with a £5K on-going campaign.
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• Stannah Stairlift organic exposure spiked up to 45 keywords with a n on-going monthly campaign of
£9k.
• Premier Bathroom customer base grew by 3%+ using a white-hat ethically driven link-building
campaign;
Feb ‘10 – Jun ‘11 Senior SEO Account Manager Universal McCann / Reprise Media – London
Managed a portfolio of international clients like Microsoft, Burberry, SunPower, Verizon and Exxon Mobil,
providing SEO guidance and hands-on activities on tight deadlines whilst managing a team of two.
Achievements:
• MSDN UK organic traffic grew by 150% with a £5K monthly link building campaign
delivered in 5 months;
• Burberry site migration to a new site whilst implementing the best SEO practices
with a £50k project;
Sep ‘09 – Jan ‘10 Senior Search Engineer Intelligent Positioning Ltd - Wheathampstead
Reporting to the SEO Team Leader, I supported blue-chip customers like AXA IM, Sky UK, Voicenet
Solutions and Borro by doing SEO audits and providing recommendations discussed face-to-face with
customers.
Other working experiences
Nov 2008 – Aug 2009 SEO Executive Internet 3C Ltd - UK
Apr 2002 – Aug 2009 Operations Director / Front End Web Designer Web-MA - Italy
Jan 2000 – Apr 2002 VB & Web Project Manager / Developer Spark - Italy
Dec 1998 – Nov 1999 Web Developer / Web Master Italian Foreign Affair Ministry Office - Italy
Apr 1998 – Nov 1998 NT System Administrator Senior Enel - Italy
Nov 1997 – Apr 1998 Hardware technician Siemens - Italy
Other I.T. Skills
Analytics & A/B testing: Google Analytics (Excellent), KISSmetrics, Heap & Optimizely (Intermediate)
Querying Database: Google BigQuery and SQL Server (Intermediate), Oracle (basic)
Social media tools: HootSuite, Buffer, IFTTT, Yahoo Pipes (Excellent)
Web development: HTML, CSS (Excellent) and JavaScript (Intermediate);
Web-site mock-up with Adobe Photoshop / Illustrator (Basilar);
Office suite: Microsoft Office and Google Docs (Proficient).
CMS and SSG: Wordpress (Excellent) and Drupal (Basic); MiddleMan and Pelican (Intermediate).
Coding: HTML & CSS (fluent), JavaScript (intermediate), Python and PHP (basic);
Microsoft .net and legacy technologies (intermediate);
Other skills: Windows PC and Server set up, repair and administration (Excellent).
Video editing with Adobe Premiere (Basic);
Configure and manage IIS and Apache web servers (Intermediate);
Education
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2013/14, remote one-to-one English lessons 1999/2001, 2004/08, WSI Language School -
• Italy
2013, Improving English Writing Skills course
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• 1997, Upper Intermediate English course –
2011/12, Toastmaster Conversation club
USA
• 2011, Google Analytics Individual Training
• 1996, I.P.S.S.A.R. Diploma (A Level) – Rome
• 2010/2011, IDM Marketing Course – London
(Italy)
Interests:
Food lovers and traveller, I’d like exploring new places and new gastro-delicacy, whilst taking photos and
leaving online reviews. I also like reading and going to the cinema.
I love talk about digital marketing and educate people about the web best practices, whilst evangelising SEO
throughout my blog, forums and related sites.
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