Al Baker 919-***-****
**+ years of SEO/SEM hands-on experience with different data sets: website data, e-mail marketing numbers, any kind of problem solving with data. Strong ability to contribute, engage, and participate in a team environment with personal goals for strong customer experience. Most of these years of experience have been customer-facing, helping small to medium business owners succeed. Project Management E-mail Campaigning Data Driven Problem Solving Customer Relationship Management Data Analytics SEO Tactics and Implementation Code Writing Skills: PHP, CSS, HTML, Bootstrap GoogleAd Expertise A/B Testing Professional Experience
ABConsulting Remote Sept 2008 – Present
Marketing Consultant/Contractor (www.abconsulting-online.com) I work with several companies ($150k -$12M revenues) providing various marketing services to help them gain exposure and manage their online presence.
- Complete management of online marketing strategies
- Web design, deployment and maintenance
- Management of PPC, Web content and testing of on-page elements
- E-mail marketing campaigns, start to finish (Constant Contact, MailChimp)
- Contact list management
- Optimization of Web site and help setting up online advertising
- Use of analytics to make business/marketing recommendations and decisions
- Case Studies: interviews with customers, writing and publication See my site for examples of my customer base and customer references. Modern Systems Inc. Raleigh NC 2002 – 2008
Marketing Manager, USA
BluePhoenix Solutions (NASDAQ: BPHX), now ModernSystems.com Directed and Implemented the Online Marketing Strategy:
- Secured, tracked and managed all online marketing and advertising activity
- Organized online lead generating events ($5k-20k/month budget); managed a team of 5-8 people: Live Webcasts, white paper management, e-mail campaigns, and press releases
- Managed an e-mail contact list of 10,000-20,000 for 6 years
- GoogleAds – increased the cost efficiency of GoogleAds each year, doubling leads and cutting the cost/lead by 50% over a 5 year period (annual budget of $80k/yr)
- A/B Testing: used GoogleAd traffic/tracking to constantly improve web site pages and page components
- Managed corporate web site in five languages
- Management of private contractors and vendors ($100k/year)
- Tradeshow project lead (Gartner conference, $200k budget)
- Produced and presented Quarterly and Annual reports to the Executive Management Team Education
Troy University – Troy Alabama
B.S. Business Management-Marketing
Google SEO Conference – 2005 – New York City
Went through the "Expert" track of this four day conference. Main Benefit: GoogleAd (PPC) management. The SEO sessions were not as good. MECLABS Institute
Marketing Experiments, Dr. Flint McGlaughlin
Attended a monthly webcast for three years. This is where I gained knowledge and expertise in A/B testing and using "test" pages to gauge landing page effectiveness. University of Alabama
Linquistics: Homeric and Classical Greek (one semester each) St Andrews University – Scotland UK
Ph.D. Ancient History