Philip Maher

Current

Founder at Intuitive Investments

Past

Director of Interactive Strategy at RH Donnelley
Director of SEO at LocalLaunch
Owner/Founder at WebThority (Sole Proprietorship)

founder at sfnitelife.com
Business Analyst at Adteractive
Software Developer at H5 Technologies

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Education

Illinois State University
Crystal Lake Central HS

Recommended

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Industry

Internet

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Philip Maher’s Summary

Internet expert specializing in online revenue generation through search engine optimization (SEO), paid media (SEM), email campaigns, and keyword analysis.

Avid reader of bleeding-edge technology, business development, and internet marketing materials; plus a gifted software engineer and fluent in J2EE, Java, Struts, JSP, DHTML, javascript, CSS, SQL, PHP, MySQL, TCP/IP Stack, Apache/SourceForge/Slashdot aware. WebmasterWorld Member since 2002.

Software: Custom Crawlers/Robots/Spiders (Email and Web).
Expertise: Search Engine Algorithms, Bulk Email, Search and Email Spam Filters.

...Built and maintained profitable websites and search engine marketing campaigns for clients and internal Webthority content sites.

...Taught large companies online marketing, including SEO, SEM, and Email.

...Grew client and internal websites through proprietary online marketing methods and maintained large email distribution lists.

...Optimized PPC search engine marketing campaigns increasing profit by 30%.

...Wrote custom SQL scripts to mine database for criminal spam affiliate activity.

...Managed affiliate program publisher and merchant accounts, rectifying discrepancies in cost per action (CPA) network.

...Responsible for interviewing and hiring key talent to implement a custom enterprise application from patented algorithms.

...Architect of complete enterprise products using; J2EE servlets, MVC (Struts), JSP, and EJB with Oracle and MYSQL, supporting WebLogic and Jboss, w/Solaris.

...Created a custom web publication system cutting daily production time from 2 hours to 15 minutes by using data parsing processing techniques.

...Assembled a team of four employees to intern under my supervision in publishing a Online Newspaper in 1998.

...Formed an organic online marketing campaign that increased web site hits from 300,000 to over 2 million a month.

Philip Maher’s Specialties:

Web Development, Online Marketing, Search Engine Optimization, Entrepreneur, Startup Experience, Software Engineering, Link Campaign Management, Email Distribution, Online Strategy, User Interface Design, Web Trafficking, Teaching Search Engine Marketing Technology, SEO, SEM.

Philip Maher’s Experience

Founder

Intuitive Investments

(Internet industry)

July 2009 — Present (6 months)

Intuitive Investments is a domain holding and asset management group.
Director of Interactive Strategy

RH Donnelley

(Internet industry)

December 2007 — June 2009 (1 year 7 months)
Director of SEO

LocalLaunch

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

October 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 3 months)
Owner/Founder
WebThority (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

January 2002 — October 2006 (4 years 10 months)
founder

sfnitelife.com

(Internet industry)

2000 — 2006 (6 years )
Business Analyst

Adteractive

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

January 2003 — January 2004 (1 year 1 month)
Software Developer

H5 Technologies

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 2000 — June 2002 (2 years 1 month)

Philip Maher’s Education

Illinois State University

Bach , Telecommunications Management , 1995 — 2000
Crystal Lake Central HS

1991 — 1995

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Philip Maher’s Interests:

seo, search engine optimization, marketing, skiing, surfing, boating, snorkeling, table tennis, disc golf, golf, software development, history, treasure hunting, metal detecting, tennis, websites, internet