CEO, Firewatching Media
Japan
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- CEO at Firewatching Media, LLC
- Past
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- Director, Product Development at Covario, Inc. (formerly SEMDirector, Inc.)
- World Travel at Planet Earth
- Solution Architect at Document Sciences
- Consultant at Teamwork Solutions, Inc.
- Education
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- University of California, San Diego
- Franklin University
- The Ohio State University
- Toyama Daigaku
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Ray Grieselhuber’s Summary
Founder & CEO of Firewatching Media, a startup that provides digital marketing solutions to Fortune 500 / Topix 100 / Nikkei 225 companies in Japan.
Marketing Executive and Entrepreneur. Innovator in automated technology to promote global brand presence through search, social media and mobile channels.
Ray Grieselhuber’s Specialties:
Interactive marketing automation and optimization, Japan, Enterprise SEM / SEO, web analytics, custom search, text & rich media analytics technology, product strategy and development.
Ray Grieselhuber’s Experience
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CEO
Firewatching Media, LLC
(Marketing and Advertising industry)
February 2008 — Present (1 year 6 months)
Firewatching Media provides technology and consulting solutions to agencies and large brands who are interested in managing large marketing campaigns across multiple channels, online and offline. Clients and partners are primarily global firms with large operations in Japan and Asia. Key areas of expertise are search marketing (SEM / SEO at massive scale), mobile, and social media with a focus on brand promotion.
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Director, Product Development
Covario, Inc. (formerly SEMDirector, Inc.)
(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)
February 2006 — February 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Head of Product Development and QA operations. Built engineering group from the ground up to a team of 20 architects and engineers. Authored 2 patents: 1) link classification to derive competitive intelligence and 2) an automated SEO analysis and optimization score. Designed and built the original automated SEO / SaaS platform, still in production today.
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World Travel
Planet Earth
(Entertainment industry)
February 2005 — January 2006 (1 year)
Traveled around the world for almost a year. Visited Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Thailand, Cambodia, Dubai, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia, Italy, and France.
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Solution Architect
Document Sciences
(Public Company; 51-200 employees; DOCX; Computer Software industry)
February 2003 — February 2005 (2 years 1 month)
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Consultant
Teamwork Solutions, Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
June 2001 — January 2003 (1 year 8 months)
Designed and led the development of a J2EE-based web portal that integrated with enterprise groupware solutions and secure instant messaging systems. Created a rapid application development framework for instant messaging bots for use within enterprises to accelerate delivery of corporate intelligence to real time speeds.
Ray Grieselhuber’s Education
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University of California, San Diego
Marketing, Data Mining, Finance, Photography, Spanish 2003 — 2007
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Franklin University
B.S. , Computer Science , 1999 — 2001
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The Ohio State University
B.A. , Japanese , 1994 — 1999
- Activities and Societies:
- Japanese Ministry of Education Scholarship - spent a year living in Toyama prefecture and attended the university there.
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Toyama Daigaku
Japanese 1997 — 1998
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Ray Grieselhuber’s Interests:
travel, startups, investing, outdoors, music, politics
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