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WORK EXPERIENCE
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Minekey, Sunnyvale, CA
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July 2007 - Present
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Evangelist / Product Manager
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- Serve as senior executive and lead product manager for iThink, a successful, top ranking social network appplication for several key platforms including Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, and hi5
- Built iThink social application from the ground up through the management of teams of local and international developers, devising community development strategies, coordinating usability tests and partnering with key platform representatives to execute launches
- Lead community development/marketing team to beat monthly user growth projections.
- Drive partnerships with 3rd party ad networks to monetize ad inventory.
- Promote awareness of iThink by attending social networking events like developer conferences and meetups.
- Present product discussions in weekly executive status meetings.
- Presented application to broader audiences at Plug and Play meetup.
- Drove addition of iThink presence by leveraging Twitter and GetSatisfaction to interact with users and monitor feedback.
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Hollywood.com, New York, NY
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January 2006 - July 2007
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Director of Internet Operations
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- Lead, develop and execute internet business strategies from conception to launch for the maximization of traffic growth and profit of Hollywood.com.
- Provide leadership and product vision to business development team, project management team and web developers to drive execution of new web site features and enhancements.
- Identified and presented opportunities at executive level to capitalize on user generated entertainment websites. Initiated and served as key contact person for negotiations.
- Managed acquisition and integration of competitor websites to build entertainment fan community spanning 500 fan sites contributing to 500,000 visitors a day.
- Created marketing and product requirements documents for new social networking features, which increased user registration rates by over 1000%.
- Serve as day to day contact for team of 500 webmasters. Provide 24/7 support and manage webmaster expectations with company goals.
- Initiate and is primary contributor on projects that include gossip blogging, live blogging from events, RSS integration, and SEO of Hollywood.com
- Produced a 35% traffic increase upon acquisition of self-launched company, efanguide inc.
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efanguide inc., Farmingdale, NY
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April 1999 - January 2006
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Founder / President
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- Founded and launched an entertainment fan community which grew to over 300 independent fan sites with a 45,000 member active forum and 350,000 visitors a day during the span of seven years.
- Administrated 10 dedicated unix web servers through several hosting partners to ensure reliability to visitors and webmasters.
- Responsible for balancing accounting records to ensure accurate financial statements.
- Strengthened internal marketing relationships with the entertainment industry including record labels and movie studios to find opportunities to promote releases through the fan community.
- Built customer relationships with ad networks such as 24/7 RealMedia, ValueClick, Yahoo, and Google.
- Served as key contact and negotiator with Hollywood.com which led to acquisition of the company.
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Greater Than One, New York, NY
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January 2004 - December 2005
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Email Marketing Coordinator
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- Coordinated between account management, creative and clients to deliver weekly and monthly email marketing campaigns
- Responsible for deploying, reporting and analyzing several hundred emails campaigns for clients including Abbott Labs, Genentech, NovoNordisk, NYU SCPS and Restaurant Associates.
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Game Post
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February 1998 - April 2000
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Founder / Editor
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- Founded and served as editor for video gaming web site. Managed team of staff writers responsible for daily news coverage of the video game industry and writing critical reviews of video games.
- Developed relationships with major video game publishers and developers to promote through website exposure.
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