Carsten Cumbrowski

Current

Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur at Cumbrowski Consulting, LLC
Owner/Partner at Mediapolis, Inc.

Past

Senior Developer/Affiliate Manager at VisionOne, Inc.
SAP & Internet Consultant at VisionOne, AG (Switzerland)
SAP Consultant at PAS GmbH

Private at Bundeswehr (German army)
Associate at Herlitz

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Education

OSZ Industrie und Datenverarbeitung, Abt. I Berlin
Johann-Gottfried Herder Gymnasium Berlin
36.POS Berlin Alfred Kurella

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Carsten Cumbrowski’s Summary

I have over 7 years professional experience in the internet marketing business, including search engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) / PPC advertisement and affiliate marketing (from both sides, affiliate & merchant).

I have over 12 years of professional experience in programming and software development for the web and for the desktop.I learned my first programming language with the age of 12.

I am blogging about internet marketing, in particular affiliate and search marketing at ReveNews.com since July 2006 and SearchEngineJournal.com since October 2006. I also provide resources and tips via my website Cumbrowski.com. I am willing to take on internet marketing strategy consulting projects, if they interest me. I am only available part time and work from my office in Fresno/CA, with the option to travel to the client for meetings at the clients expense.

Carsten Cumbrowski’s Specialties:

Internet Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Marketing, Affiliate Management, Affiliate Program Implementation, Consulting, Web Development, SQL Server, Datafeeds

Carsten Cumbrowski’s Experience

Internet Marketer and Entrepreneur

Cumbrowski Consulting, LLC

(Marketing and Advertising industry)

August 2006 — Present (3 years 4 months)

Operator and owner of Cumbrowski.com, a resources portal for internet marketers, webmasters, web developers and DBA's. Articles, tools, news, podcasts, videos, books, services, calendar of events and other resources related to Internet and affiliate marketing, search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing (PPC/SEM) and web and database development (SQL server).

I also blog about issues, acomplishments and events in the affiliate and search engine marketing industry at my blog at ReveNews.com and as contributing editor at SearchEngineJournal.com.

I founded the company Cumbrowski Consulting, LLC in October 2007, right after I became permanent resident (got my Green Card).

Cumbrowski.com is not the core business of the company. The company acts primarily as an affiliate who promotes advertiser offers against a commission. Most advertisers are promoted via pay-per-click search engines (search affiliate), but the company also promotes some selected offers via a number of websites.
Owner/Partner

Mediapolis, Inc.

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

2002 — Present (7 years )

I am one of the partners of Mediapolis, Inc., which owns and operates the internet shopping portal and comparision shopping search engine ConsumerMatch.com and other internet properties. Mediapolis, Inc. also promotes advertiser offers via pay-per-click search engines.
Senior Developer/Affiliate Manager

VisionOne, Inc.

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

May 2000 — November 2007 (7 years 7 months)

Architect and head developer of the US version of the complete box office ticketing solution called "ShoWare".

ShoWare is compeltely web-based. It is hosted by VisionOne, Inc. for you using what is called: "ASP-Model".
Please visit www.ShoWare.com to learn more about ShoWare.

Head developer for the custom ecommerce solution for Beverages & more! Visit www.BevMo.com.

Affiliate program manager for the BevMo.com affiliate program via the Commission Junction affiliate network (between summer 2002 and April 2006).
SAP & Internet Consultant

VisionOne, AG (Switzerland)

(Internet industry)

April 1999 — May 2000 (1 year 2 months)

I worked half the time as internet consultant and web developer on several small and mid-size web projects for a number of clients.

I worked the other half of my time as SAP consultant. My main customer was the pharmaceutical company Roche at their head quarter in Basel where I worked for the internation SAP business application support team. I also did some basis-module support (user accounts and permissions mostly) for a small company in Zurich. I also managed and finished a small SAP interface project for the insurance company SUVA in Luzern.
SAP Consultant

PAS GmbH

(Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — April 1999 (7 months)

Consultant for the SAP Module FI. I got the once in a life time offer to work in the United States only weeks after I finished my 10 months military service in Germany and started working for PAS.

I accepted the offer under the condition to finish my current project for a client of PAS. It was accepted and I finished the with success the local currency change-over project for HRVet before I left the country.
Private

Bundeswehr (German army)

(Government Agency; Military industry)

January 1998 — October 1998 (10 months)

I served the 10 months mandatory military service at the German army. I completed my base training at an independent Panzerpionier company at the Theodor-Körner-Kaserne in Lüneburg and served the remainder of my time at the Zentrum für Nachwuchsgewinnung Ost in Berlin.
Associate

Herlitz

(Public Company; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 1995 — December 1997 (2 years 7 months)

I continued to work for Herlitz after I earned my degree in Business and IT. I started to work in the IT support for the departments Accounting, Controlling and Finances, which supported the SAP R2 modules RF, RK, RA and RM, as well as the mainframe terminals and Banyan Vines network Windows PCs and network accounts. In addition to that did I also support and developed in-house applications that were programmed in Foxpro 2.5 and Visual Basic 3.0.

After a restructure of the company did I move to the SAP support team and did SAP module support for SAP R2 and to some degree also support for the few SAP R3 test installations.

Carsten Cumbrowski’s Education

OSZ Industrie und Datenverarbeitung, Abt. I Berlin

Kaufmannsbrief (DV-Kaufmann) , Business and Computers , 1992 — 1995

The name of the education is "Datenverarbeitungskaufmann". "Kaufmann" means an education in the fundamentals of Economy, Business, Finance and basically all elements within the administration of a business. "Datenverarbeitung" means that the focus was also on IT, which extended the duration of the eduction by 6 month from 2 1/2 years to 3.
Johann-Gottfried Herder Gymnasium Berlin

Abitur , General Study , 1990 — 1992

Martial Arts: Kobudo and Karate

Activities and Societies:

Extended Lessons: English Literature, Computer Programming (Turbo Pascal), Chemistry
36.POS Berlin Alfred Kurella

Realschulabschluss , General Study , 1980 — 1990

Finished "Best in Class", but had to share this position with another student. Martial Arts: Judo

Activities and Societies:

Naturwissenschaftliche Schülergesellschaft (NSG) focus: Physics