Dirk Lester

Current

• New Media Marketing & Communications at The Mud Room

Past

• New Media Marketing Director at cavalryHR
• Copywriter & SEO Consultant at Aurora Information Technology, Inc.
• Copywriter and SEO Consultant at Virtual Line LLC

• Copywriter & Content Optimizer at Spectrum Communications
• Copywriter & Content Optimizer at Norvax Inc

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Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York
• Georgetown University

Recommended

1 person has recommended Dirk

Connections

15 connections

Industry

Internet

Dirk Lester’s Summary

FADE IN:

Thunder, a sporadic bursting gale and the blood-burnt twilight, washed a young man now known as Dirk Lester ashore, at Rio de Janeiro, nearly a decade ago—two days into a particularly debauched Carnival, with two 7.62 millimeter slugs and a curare-tipped dart in his back, ten-thousand francs and a flask of single malt scotch in his hip pocket and of course little or no memory of a past life. His love of both comic books and films began right then and there—when, as fate would have it, he was forced to dispatch one of several would-be assassins by garroting him with an illusive copy of Deadly Hands of Kung Fu # 57, then hide out for several long months in a bedraggled movie palace run by a formally black-listed ex-stuntman—who carefully coaxed the younger man back to full health while holding him hostage to screenings of nothing but obscure Euro-spy flicks, B-grade monster movies and Sam Peckinpah inspired Japanese samurai films twenty-four hours a day . . .

TO:

Following his daring escape from that mad, though well-intentioned, stuntman’s clutches, Dirk gradually wandered northward, reeducating himself at Georgetown University’s Georgetown College and Columbia University's School of the Arts, and at an eclectic assortment of occupations ranging form the sublime …Greenpeace Organizer, Child Welfare Advocate, Newspaper Reporter … to the patently ridiculous … Personnel Bodyguard, International “Currier,” a brief stint as a “Corporate Spy” inside Ken Starr’s infamous Kirkland and Ellis to the pretty darn enjoyable ... Comic Book Writer, Entertainment Industry Futurist, founding host of the MovieWeb.com column "The Daily Spin," and co-author of the 2006 book Science Fiction America. Currently, he walks the Earth sharing the Zen of SEO, SEM, SMM, SMO, PPC, VMM, OPR and New Media Marketing & Communications with Ad Men and entrepreneurs from Chicago to Shanghai.

…TO BE CONTINUED

Dirk Lester’s Specialties:

Copywriting
SEO
SEM
SMM
SMO
OPR
VMM
New Media Marketing & Communications

Dirk Lester’s Experience

• New Media Marketing & Communications

  The Mud Room

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  August 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  Designed and directed SEO/SEM campaign that includes:
  
  o PPC Management
  o Affiliate Marketing
  o Business Blogging
  o Social Media PR and
  o Content Optimization

• New Media Marketing Director

  cavalryHR

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  April 2007 — August 2007 (5 months)

  Designed and directed SEO/SEM campaign that includes:
  
  o PPC Management
  o E-mail Marketing
  o Article Marketing
  o Business Blogging
  o Affiliate Marketing
  o Directory Submission
  o Social Media PR and
  o Content Optimization

• Copywriter & SEO Consultant

  Aurora Information Technology, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 2006 — February 2007 (4 months)

  o Article Marketing
  o Copy Writing
  o Directory Submission
  o Social Media PR and
  o Content Optimization

• Copywriter and SEO Consultant

  Virtual Line LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  May 2006 — September 2006 (5 months)

  o Directory Submission
  o Article Marketing
  o Copy Writing
  o Business Blogging
  o Social Media PR and
  o Content Optimization

• Copywriter & Content Optimizer

  Spectrum Communications

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 2006 — May 2006 (4 months)

• Copywriter & Content Optimizer

  Norvax Inc

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Insurance industry)

  December 2004 — February 2006 (1 year 3 months)

Dirk Lester’s Education

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  MFA, Film (screenwritting), 1997 — 1999

• Georgetown University

  1992 — 1997

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