
Product Manager at Business Wire
Austin, Texas Area

Product Manager at Business Wire
Austin, Texas Area
I'm a new Austinite and a new father.
I work at Business Wire's San Antonio office where I am the Product Manager for EON: Enhanced Online News.
web business, usability, seo, efficient online marketing, providing value to clients, mining the Internet, awesome customer service, honesty, speed, Google-fu, ideas, good sense of humor, empty inbox (sometimes).
(Public Company; Public Relations and Communications industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
Product Manager for EON: Enhanced Online News, an online press release optimization and distribution service. Helping every business raise their presence online.
(Internet industry)
September 2008 — February 2009 (6 months)
Temporary contractor with duties that included sales and online marketing for a niche B2B marketing product.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
April 2007 — July 2008 (1 year 4 months)
Primary duties included increasing exposure to, generating revenue from, and supporting our two internally developed web services.
Asoboo.com is a mobile capable, multilingual social network launched in 2006 with tens of thousands of members.
Joblet.jp is a distributed job listing site and network launched in 2007 with a a cost-per-applicant model. Joblet has been has over 150 partner sites, has been used by over 200 companies, and currently processes over 1000 unique applicants a month.
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)
August 2006 — March 2007 (8 months)
I headed up Online Marketing and Promotion for GOL.com's English site and Piqniq.jp
I was largely responsible for growing Piqniq.jp from 0 members to almost 2000 in about 3 months solely though PR efforts and a limited advertising budget.
I also did Online Advertising Sales and Marketing Material creation for Piqniq.jp and was the English Customer Support Team Leader for a small support team with thousands of business and consumer ISP customers.
(Information Technology and Services industry)
March 2006 — August 2006 (6 months)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; E-Learning industry)
May 2005 — April 2006 (1 year )
-Illustration and animation using Adobe Illustrator and Flash
-Content creation for online English Tests
-Web-based private English lessons using Skype
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Publishing industry)
May 2003 — June 2004 (1 year 2 months)
-Led small sales team for advertising-driven free publication
-Managed quarterly publication and distribution
-Increased sales volume by 25% from previous year
Information Technology , Computer Science , 1998 — 2003
Special Japanese Language Course , 2000 — 2001
I attended Meikai University as an exchange student and was the first American student ever to enroll in the Intensive Japanese Language course.
http://www.meikai.ac.jp/english/index.shtml
The Internet, Tech Trends, New Things, Advertising and Marketing, Electronic and Indie Music, Rhythm Games, Japanese, Behavioral Economics, Modern Prefab housing, This American Life and other podcasts.
Google Advertising Professional Exam, September 2008
Apple Certified Help Desk Specialist (OSX 10.4), August 2006
I-Net+ Certification, May 2006
JLPT Level 3 Certification, December 2005
(JLPT 2 coming in the distant future)