
Director of Search at MediaVision
Cape Town Area, South Africa

Director of Search at MediaVision
Cape Town Area, South Africa
Started in a basic copywriting role within MediaVision, moving over within a few into SEM analyst role, which incorporated PPC and SEO.
Re-developed internal company processes and strategies allowing MediaVision to take full advantage of the ever changing SEM industry. Improved internal project/work quality and guidelines overall, as well as helping to spearhead new strategies and services which include online branding and online PR.
Appointed Director of Search for MediaVision in September 2008.
Specialist in SEO, natural/organic search. Experience in the Paid search side of SEM as well, specifically Google Adwords.
Training / process development for current and new employees related to the SEM industry and MediaVision services.
Driving internal developments within the Business, developing strategies for MediaVision, allowing the company to stay abreast with our services as well as creating processes for new services and solutions within the ever changing landscape of SEM.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Director of Search for MediaVision South Africa
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Broadcast Media industry)
November 2005 — September 2008 (2 years 11 months)
Production Manager, overseeing junior SEO analysts, Link Builders, Copywriters and the new division of Paid Search. Constantly developing new services and refining internal processes to ensure that all work is of the highest quality that MediaVision can offer. Pushing the creative boundaries of service offerings that the company can offer and ensuring that we are on par with other international search agencies.
Growing Search Engine Marketing company, with offices located in SA and the UK.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
April 2003 — November 2005 (2 years 8 months)
Initially started the despatch department, grew and developed that side of the business, then moved over to start the IT support side of the business. Training of 2 employees within that side of the business. Supported networks and accounting systems for various clients including retail outlets/NGO's and sales to government institutions.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Consumer Goods industry)
April 2003 — January 2004 (10 months)
Despatch Manager for the growing delivery department within Affirmative Computers. Built new processes and designed department to be expandable with help of senior management
Microsoft Systems Engineer Course 2000 — 2000
Qualified MCP for NT4.0, completed A+ course
gadgets, international news, foosball, music, search engine marketing
MCP Certified (June 2000)
Google Analytics Qualified (March 2009)