Damon Billian

Past

• Senior Manager, Customer Evangelism at TokBox
• Director, Customer Evangelism at Mint.com
• Marketing Manager, Community at SimplyHired.com

• Marketing Manager, Community at PayPal/eBay
• Senior Manager, Online Communications and Marketing at PayPal
• Online Communications and Marketing Manager at PayPal
• Customer Service Manager at PayPal
• Coach Manager at Pacific Bell
• Major Accounts Service Representative at SNET

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Education

• De Anza College
• College Level Examination Program (CLEP)

Recommended

11 people have recommended Damon

Connections

387 connections

Industry

Internet

Websites

• My Blog

Damon Billian’s Summary

Professional experience:

-Four years of e-commerce experience at the world's leading e-commerce and payments provider

-Nine years of online community experience as both a participant and moderator

-Nine years of experience with various social media tools, including Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, and Community Forums

-Nine years of management experience, including 4+ years of Senior Management (Senior Manager, Director)

-Nine years of internet experience in various industries (e-commerce, e-payments, job search, personal financial services & communication)

-Six years of experience within a call-center environment.

-Familiarity with a number of CRM tools, including Salesforce and Zendesk

-Four years of basic SEO work


Primary goals:
1. To work in a challenging environment in a progressive industry.

2. To utilize cross-functional job skills in the areas of marketing, communications, and customer service.

Damon Billian’s Specialties:

-Guerrilla marketing campaigns and building brand equity

-Quantitative and qualitative analysis of marketing campaigns
and/or customer service response metrics

-Community Evangelism and Community Building

-Driving website traffic through other channels

-Identifying possible long-term operation or marketing issues

Damon Billian’s Experience

• Senior Manager, Customer Evangelism

  TokBox

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  July 2008 — July 2009 (1 year 1 month)

  Community Management
  Customer Service Development & Management
  Guerilla Marketing
  Product Feedback

• Director, Customer Evangelism

  Mint.com

  (Financial Services industry)

  October 2007 — July 2008 (10 months)

• Marketing Manager, Community

  SimplyHired.com

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

  June 2005 — August 2007 (2 years 3 months)

  Manage community forums; involved in content creation for forums and blog; SEO work; grassroots' marketing; and content manager (forums & assist with blogs). Work SMO, SEO & other Social Media tools.

• Marketing Manager, Community

  PayPal/eBay

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2003 — March 2004 (9 months)

• Senior Manager, Online Communications and Marketing

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2001 — July 2003 (2 years 1 month)

• Online Communications and Marketing Manager

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  June 2000 — July 2001 (1 year 2 months)

  Grassroots marketing on the internet; provide qualitative feedback and analysis to Executive Staff and product teams to help support/identify new product initiatives; identify product desire/wants; provide feedback to operations on customer-affecting issues.

• Customer Service Manager

  PayPal

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Internet industry)

  December 1999 — June 2000 (7 months)

• Coach Manager

  Pacific Bell

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SBC; Telecommunications industry)

  June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)

• Major Accounts Service Representative

  SNET

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SBC; Telecommunications industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years )

Damon Billian’s Education

• De Anza College

  N/A , Intercultural Communications , September 2004 — September 2005

  GPA: 3.875

• College Level Examination Program (CLEP)

  N/A , General Studies, emphasis on Social Sciences , April 1993

  Average percentile ranking: 90%

Additional Information

Damon Billian’s Websites:

• My Blog

Damon Billian’s Interests:

Asian American & Asian studies; Speak some Thai & Mandarin, as well as a limited amount of German, Laotian & Japanese (poorly!).

Damon Billian’s Groups:

•    KIVA
•    World Wildlife Fund
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Technology Marketing Community
•    eBay Employees and Alumni Group
•    Thailand Connection ราชอาณาจักรไทย \ Professionals and Friends
•    Photography Industry Professionals
•    Pre-IPO PayPal employees
•    Thai Professionals Group
•    Professional Photographers of America
•    Amateur Digital SLR Photographers
•    Photographic Society of America
•    Photo Marketing Association Member's Forum
•    Photographers on Flickr
•    JOBS IN APAC

Damon Billian’s Honors:

2004: Mentioned in the PayPal Wars book, by Eric Jackson.

2002: Focus of Business 2.0 magazine article in July edition.

1999:Quarterly Award for Management Effectiveness, Pacific Bell

1995: Quarterly Award for Outstanding Performance, SNET (SBC)

1996: Quarterly Award for Outstanding Performance, SNET (SBC)

1996: People's Choice Award, SNET (SBC)

Damon Billian’s Contact Settings

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