David Porter

Current

Search Engine Quality Judge at Yahoo!

Past

Curriculum Manager/Instructional Designer at Independent Contractor (Self-employed)
Independent Contractor at The Mosaic Company
Curriculum Manager at 360training

News Services Product Manager at Hoovers.com
Manager at Waldenbooks

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Education

The University of Texas at Austin

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Connections

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Industry

E-Learning

David Porter’s Summary

Years of progressive experience in Online media as a product manager, Online editor, and curriculum manager. I have developed and produced subscription products and custom content relating to business news and company information, and have created and managed government-regulated occupational licensing and continuing education materials. My proven research, writing, editing, and verbal skills enable me to take complex concepts and convey the information in a clear and concise manner to any audience.

David Porter’s Specialties:

Research, especially in social and political issues.
Member of the American Sociological Association.
Writing, editing, e-learning.

David Porter’s Experience

Search Engine Quality Judge

Yahoo!

(Public Company; YHOO; Internet industry)

May 2009 — Present (7 months)

Metro Facets, Stopwords, TAU, Relevance Testing, for Yahoo! search engine.
Curriculum Manager/Instructional Designer
Independent Contractor (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; Design industry)

2008 — May 2009 (1 year )

I am currently working contract jobs. If you are interested in having me work on your project please send a detailed description of the project (including an estimate of how long the job will last).
Independent Contractor

The Mosaic Company

(Privately Held; E-Learning industry)

2007 — 2008 (1 year )

My position at Mosaic was as a contract worker designing Web-based courses for the energy industry. I developed everything from highly technical courses that taught gas tapping and plugging to courses for a wider audience that educated electricity sellers and buyers about the transition in Texas from a Zonal Energy Market to the new Nodal Energy Market.
Curriculum Manager

360training

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; E-Learning industry)

April 2005 — June 2007 (2 years 3 months)

As curriculum manager I guided the flow of our work product by assigning projects and assisting and directing writers in their search for information. I also worked closely with clients in order to meet their expectations on custom courses . To ensure timely delivery of exceptional courses I performed project management duties such as coordinating the content development tasks with the multimedia, marketing, and regulatory departments.
News Services Product Manager

Hoovers.com

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Market Research industry)

July 1998 — September 2001 (3 years 3 months)

I broadened our product offering and increased usefulness of Hoover's Web site to our subscribers by identifying beneficial information and then writing and creating innovative business-news related features such as Hoover’s Daily Scoop, Executives on the Move, and industry-specific newsletters read by 90,000 subscribers.

I helped design a custom, automated news product that covered 300 industries. Coordinated work between our news content vendors, application service provider, and Hoover's technology department to run the automated news product and evaluated and recommend content partners and distribution partners.
Manager

Waldenbooks

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

1994 — 1998 (4 years )

Manager of retail store with over $2 million a year in revenue. I managed a team of about 15 salespeople and a shipping and receiving department.

David Porter’s Education

The University of Texas at Austin

Sociology , with a Minor in Business Management

Activities and Societies:

Member of the American Sociological Association