Mike Darnell

Current

• Project Manager & Marketing at Semantinet - Headup
• Social Media Marketing Chair at World Usability Day
• Web design, social media, & online marketing consultant - volunteer at Shatil - the New Israel Fund's training center for NPOs

• Lecturer for the department of Industrial Design at H.I.T - Holon Institute of Technology
• Lecturer at HIT - Holon Institute of Technology
• Lecturer at HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
• Lecturer at HIT Holon Academic Institute of Technology
• Web, social media, & online marketing consultant at The Jerusalem Business Development Center - MATI
• Freelance consultant at Mike Darnell

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Past

• Creative Director at Oleh
• Chief designer at Speakitz.com
• managing owner at Tria design studio

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Education

• Hadassah College

Recommended

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Connections

193 connections

Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Mike Darnell’s Summary

Positions I currently hold:

> Creative director at Oleh Technologies.

> Faculty member at the HIT's School of Design.

> Consultant at MATI - the Jerusalem's Business Development Center.

> Consultant at SHATIL - the New Israel Fund's NPO empowerment center.

> Social media marketing chair for World Usability Day.

> Digital artist.

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Positions I held in the past:

> Partner in social website Speakitz.

> Founder of Tria Design Studio.

> Lecturer at Hadassah college's industrial design department.

> Partner in the Campus nightclub.

> Infantry captain in the IDF.

Mike Darnell’s Specialties:

Consultation regarding open source platforms & social media marketing
Design for usability and ROI
Corporate identity design.

Mike Darnell’s Experience

• Project Manager & Marketing

  Semantinet - Headup

  (Internet industry)

  December 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)

  --- Project manager ---
  Responsible for managing the companies publishers' widget.
  Product definition, pilot coordination, user experience, evaluation, etc.
  
  --- Marketing ---
  Business intelligence and community management:
  http://twitter.com/headup
  http://blog.headup.com

• Social Media Marketing Chair

  World Usability Day

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 5 months)

  Social media and online advertising consultant.

• Web design, social media, & online marketing consultant - volunteer

  Shatil - the New Israel Fund's training center for NPOs

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  July 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)

  Advising NPOs on social media, online presence, increasing web site traffic, user interface and experience and open source resources

• Lecturer for the department of Industrial Design

  H.I.T - Holon Institute of Technology

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2006 — Present (3 years )

• Lecturer

  HIT - Holon Institute of Technology

  (Educational Institution; 201-500 employees; Design industry)

  October 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

  I teach a course in Foundations of Design at the HIT. The course is for first year students of all design disciplines and covers the basics of composition, color, 2D & 3D form, pattern, texture, etc.
  Visit the course blog at: http://hit-foundations-of-design.blogspot.com/

• Lecturer

  HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• Lecturer

  HIT Holon Academic Institute of Technology

  (Marketing and Advertising industry)

  2005 — Present (4 years )

• Web, social media, & online marketing consultant

  The Jerusalem Business Development Center - MATI

  (Management Consulting industry)

  January 2004 — Present (6 years )

  Advising businesses on:
  
  - Brand development online
  - Web design
  - Usability and user experience
  - Web site traffic growth and statistics analysis
  - Web based technologies and products and open source resources.

• Freelance consultant

  Mike Darnell

  (Internet industry)

  January 2002 — Present (8 years )

  Freelance online consultant

• Creative Director

  Oleh

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  August 2007 — December 2008 (1 year 5 months)

  Brand development, web site and platform Graphic User Interface, Advertising. Supervision of creative department and it's realtion to all other branches of the company.

• Chief designer

  Speakitz.com

  (Graphic Design industry)

  2006 — 2007 (1 year )

• managing owner

  Tria design studio

  (Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2002 — August 2007 (5 years )

  Founder and principal of Tria Design Studio dealing in commercially oriented graphic design and websites

Mike Darnell’s Education

• Hadassah College

  Industrial Design 1997 — 2000

  Involved in student activities

Additional Information

Mike Darnell’s Interests:

internet, website building, web design, website promotion, online marketing, networking, design, culture, electronic music, etc.

Mike Darnell’s Groups:

HIT - design school, MATI, GBN, BNI

•    Venture Capital Cafe (+5000 Members)
•    E-Commerce Network
•    The Recruitment Network
•    Technology For Marketing & Advertising
•    Marketing Communication
•    In-Video Advertising
•    Adver-Thai-sing
•    I Want To Live In Thailand
•    The Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute
•    Thailand IT Community
•    GLITNER
•    Career Connect Thailand
•    IT SOFTWARE CAREERS ASIA
•    Project, Product & Program manager In Israel
•    REALCOMMERCE JOBS IN ISRAEL
•    IVC Network: Israel High Tech and Venture Capital
•    Thailand Business Network
•    Social Media Networking - Israel
•    Treepodia - Smart Video Platform for Online Retailers
•    Rossking Media Pty. Ltd. Group
•    Israel Marketing Professionals (IMP)
•    Hitech Startups and Entrepreneurs Israel
•    Jobs in advertising - Thailand
•    Premium Headhunting Thailand
•    Thailand Jobs Network
•    Thailand Technology Professionals
•    Kenshoo Jobs (Israel, UK, US)
•    User Experience Manager in Israel

Mike Darnell’s Honors:

2008 - Featured artist on Jewcy.com
2008 - My print "Adam and Eve" has won a Silver Cup at Noenga.com
2005 - Representatives of "Design 2005" in Jerusalem

Mike Darnell’s Contact Settings

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