ERIC MELIN Cambridge, MA *********@*****.***
******@*****.***
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
BDR / SALES PROFESSIONAL
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.