ERIC MELIN Cambridge, MA ad4ci6@r.postjobfree.com

617-***-**** www.ericmelin.com

@ericmelin

Executive Summary:

Seasoned Sales & Marketing Executive with over 15 years of organizational leadership, P&L Management, SEO/SEM expertise, online/ ecommerce expertise across dozens of industry verticals. Internet Expert seeking fast-paced, challenging employment at an industry leading hyper-growth firm. Expect to combine finance & entrepreneurial skills with technical expertise, to enable continued success. Fully mobile and able to manage large distributed teams. Available Immediately to travel up to 50 % and/or relocate with preference for Boston, SF, NYC, and DC respectively. Extensive full-time Software Sales & Business Development roles.

Sales Quota Obsessed, results-driven & award - winning Business Development Professional with experience leading corporate marketing for multimillion-dollar companies across diverse industries. Recent titles: VP, Marketing & VP, Business Development in enterprise technology.

Refined interpersonal skills and a respected leader of creative teams, marketing teams, technology divisions and corporate communications departments. Conceptualize and orchestrate marketing campaigns that effectively reinforce and build brand images.

Owner or Co-Founder in numerous successful startup businesses generating dozens of jobs and millions in revenue. Currently volunteer- ing with philanthropist.org - a SaaS-based social enterprise (Founder & CEO). Recent experience with a Saas (Software as a Service) business with 200,000 daily website visitors. Developed & implemented numerous monetization strategies.

Serial Entrepreneur passionate about Entrepreneurship, Early-stage Innovation & Venture Capital: Judge, Advisor, or Mentor in multiple World Leading Business Plan Competitions, including: ITEC 50$K at Boston University, Judge for Business Plan Competition sponsored by Google & Kauffman Foundation, Judge for Business Plan Competition sponsored by William James Foundation, Judge for Business Plan Competition: MassChallenge World's 1# Startup Accelerator, Judge for Business Plan Competition: The Social Equity Venture Fund. Harvard Business School

(Recruiting Partner) - Job Fair Employer/ Participant. Operate a startup incubator/ accelerator called "The Market Accelerator" Professional, reliable, trustworthy, hard-working, highly autonomous and ambitious. Expert in the technical, conceptual and content development of sales-driving collateral. Proven ability to drive record-high sales & marketing KPls campaign response-rates and ROI. Professional Experience

5/1999 - present

(part-time volunteer work)

Co-Founder & CEO

PHILANTHROPIST.ORG

Cambridge, MA

Not-for-Profit Social Enterprise

2010-2012

Co-Founder/CTO

LINGERIE PLANET, INC

Lynnfield, MA

E-Retail & Apparel Business

6/2010 - present

Founder & CEO

POSITIONCLICK CORPORATION

Boston, MA

Full-service advertising agency

special Focus on SEM

(Search Engine Marketing)

1997-2007

Founder/CEO/CTO

SPIDERSPLAT/OPTEY, INC

Boston, MA

SEM Agency & SEO Consultancy

2009-2010

VP/Marketing

PLANET, INC

Waltham, MA

Lifestyle Shoe Retailer

2012-2013

Co-Founder/CEO

BEER BITES, LLC

Portsmouth, NH

The Ultimate Bar Snack

2014 - Present

Founder/CTO

POPUTRUST

Portsmouth, NH

People Search Engine

Associations

PHILANTHROPIST.ORG Executive Director (Part-Time) of Volunteer-based NGO in Cambridge, Mass. Corp Active, FT

Active, PT

Acquired W2 K1

199*-****-**** 200*-****-**** 200*-****-**** 200*-****-**** 200*-****-**** 201*-****-**** 201*-****-**** 201*-****-**** Education

Newburyport High School

newburyport.k12.ma.us

Boston College

www.bc.edu

Boston University

www.bu.edu

Cato University

www.cato.org

Harvard University

www.harvard.edu

MIT

www.mit.edu

- (National Honor Society)

Newburyport, MA

- Chestnut Hill, MA

- School of Management (Finance & Entrepreneurship) Boston, MA

- Bastiat Scholarship for Study of Liberty (Non-Degree) Washington, DC

- Adult Continuing Ed & Extension Classes (Non-Degree) Cambridge, MA

- Adult Continuing Education Classes & Lectures (Non-Degree) Cambridge, MA

Relationship Manager

Business/ Finance:

Blooming Terminal, MetaStock, Personal Stock Monitor Gold, Quickbooks, Freshbooks, Money, Business Plan Pro, Smart Business Plan, Socrates Fox Pro Database.

Programming Languages:

PHP5, MySQL, HTML, DHTML, C++, JAVA, ASP.NET, JAVA Applets, JAVA Beans, Java Script, Visual Basic 6.0, Visual C++ 6.0, JavaScript, COBOL, ActiveX, VXML, XML, FLASH, ASP, CGI Scripting, LAMP Stack, FTP/SSH, Git/SVN, HTML5, CSS, jQuery, Magento, RackSpace, HostGator,etc.

Skills

CRM, Sales & Sales Automation Software:

SalesForce.com, SugarCRM, other CRMs

Marketing Automation (Marketa/ Pardot)

Marketing Strategies & Campaigns

Sales & Go-To-Marketing Strategies

P/L, ROI & Budgetary Planning

Platforms & Ecosystems:

MS Windows 95/3.1 /NT 8/7 /2000/98, UNIX (Solaris 2.x, Linux, AIX), MS-DOS, Sun Solaris, Netware, Macintosh. Microsoft:

MS Office 2013/2007 2003/2000/97 (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook), MS Draw, MS Project, FrontPage. MS Visual Studio 6.0 (Visual Basic, Visual C++, Visual lnterDev, Visual SourceSafe, Visual J++), Microsoft Dynamics, EMC Documentum, Visual SourceSafe.

Graphic Design:

lmageStyler, PhotoShop,Acrobat, After Effects, Premiere, Illustrator, DreamWeaver, Flash, Director, Dynamic Gil Generator, Authorware, Freehand, Fireworks, Homesite, Cold Fusion Studio & Cold Fusion Server 4.0. Quark 4.0, QuarkXPress, lmageReady, Paint Shop Pro, Corel

Draw 9, Bryce 3d 3,4.0D Studio Max, Liquid Motion, Design CAD 3d, AutoCAD rl 4, AutoCAD 2000.

CMS:

Drupal, Wordpress, CVS, CVN, Social Media, Google Docs, Google Analytics.

SEO/SEM/E-Commerce:

Visual Route 2.0, Hot Dog Pro, PC Anywhere 9, Java Developer, Java Buttons, MS Explorer, Chorome, Open Cube, Extractor Pro, TELNET, Virtual Server Administator, Web Position Gold, Net Submitter, PostOffice, Wolf Pack, DynIP, Perseus Survey Solutions.

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