Chambers Consulting Group
Redding, California Area
- Current
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- Principal at Chambers Consulting Group
- Regional Business Advisor at SCORE / SBA
- Past
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- Online Product Strategy Consultant at Enterprise Media Group
- Director, Product Development / Business Analyst at Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
- Director, Product Management and Internet Stategy at Ziff Davis Media
- Division Manager – Online Trafficking at Auctiva Inc.
- Founder, Owner at Connections Speed Dating
- Chief Operations Officer at All Tennis Incorporated
- Instructor – Interactive Web Development at Butte College
- Chief Technology Officer at PlayerLine Corp
- Sr. Web Developer / Programming Manager at Frontera Design
- Web Applications Engineer at Panasonic Corporation
- Web Applications Engineer at Intel Corporation
- Education
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- California State University-Chico
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Ron Chambers’s Summary
Small Business Startups
Internet Strategy
Online Product Development
Programming
Ron Chambers’s Specialties:
Small Business Startups
Internet Strategy
Online Product Development
Programming
Ron Chambers’s Experience
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Principal
Chambers Consulting Group
(Internet industry)
February 2009 — Present (10 months)
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Regional Business Advisor
SCORE / SBA
(Executive Office industry)
January 2008 — Present (1 year 11 months)
- Advise entrepreneurs and existing business owners on how to grow their business.
- Review and advise on Financial/Business/Marketing plans.
- Provide practical Internet and IT solutions -
Online Product Strategy Consultant
Enterprise Media Group
(Privately Held; Music industry)
July 2007 — April 2008 (10 months)
- Execute product migration strategy for corporate headquarters in NYC.
- Accountable for technology to support $16 Million per year in sales at 45% growth.
- Continual technology expenditures avoidance: 5% of revenue.
- Facilitate and direct communication between business units: Sales, Marketing, Finance, Ad Operations, Editorial, Audience Development and Events. -
Director, Product Development / Business Analyst
Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S.
(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Online Media industry)
May 2007 — June 2007 (2 months)
Strategic corporate planning and product development with cost avoidance. Developed Online Product Roadmap for properties:
- Car and Driver
- Road and Track
- Premiere
- Elle
- Woman’s Day -
Director, Product Management and Internet Stategy
Ziff Davis Media
(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Online Media industry)
September 2005 — May 2007 (1 year 9 months)
Ziff Davis Media is an integrated media company focused on technology news.
URLs: ZiffDavis.com, eWeek.com, CIOInsight.com, BaselineMag.com, PCMag.com,
- Lead all Internet technology decisions.
- Work with executive level VP’s to define and roadmap the online business.
- Increased total online ad sales 10% in first month in position. And an additional 40% in second month.
- Key member in new growth.
- Integral member of Audience Development, Sales and Marketing, and Editorial teams. -
Division Manager – Online Trafficking
Auctiva Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
July 2004 — July 2005 (1 year 1 month)
- Manager of Auctiva’s affiliate advertising division generating a 40% profit day after day.
- Oversaw development of tools to manage over 300,000 Pay-Per-Click keyword terms with Google AdWords. Using both Google’s API and screen-scraping.
- Oversaw development of Search-Engine-Optimized (SEO) sites with over 100,000 indexed pages in Google. -
Founder, Owner
Connections Speed Dating
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2004 — June 2005 (1 year 6 months)
- Built business from nothing to first sold out event in one month.
- Multiple business and personal appearances on local morning radio show, television news and newspaper.
- Created and published newspaper and radio commercials.
- Drafted and published press releases.
- Ran all aspects of business. -
Chief Operations Officer
All Tennis Incorporated
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Sports industry)
January 2003 — August 2004 (1 year 8 months)
Set up corporate entity, accounting structure, and business systems.
All Tennis Inc. is a seasonal business focused on providing quality tennis instruction in the Denver Colorado area. As the business manager I created the corporate entity, developed many in office and online processes to facilitate a 67% profit margin. URL: AllTennisInc.com
- Managed day-to-day activities including scheduling, payroll, accounting, etc.
- Developed web-based systems to process online orders and facilitate business processes using PHP, MySQL, CSS, JavaScript, Linux, HTML. -
Instructor – Interactive Web Development
Butte College
(Government Agency; Education Management industry)
January 2004 — May 2004 (5 months)
Instructed an Interactive Web Development class with a strong emphasis on ecommerce. Was able to bring students from little or no skills to proficiently launching their own domain with tie-in’s to PayPal’s payment system.
- Weekly lessons on how to use Dreamweaver to build HTML websites.
- Projects focused on purchasing a domain name, web hosting and administration using cPanel.
- Additional lessons on how to use CSS, how to integrate PayPal into a website, how to use Image Ready to convert Photoshop files to HTML, and others. -
Chief Technology Officer
PlayerLine Corp
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)
September 2002 — January 2004 (1 year 5 months)
- Accountable for all technical aspects of the business.
- Manager of 3 in house and 7 overseas developers in India, China, Russia, and Europe.
- Lead/Senior architect and developer of the core fantasy game engine.
- Managed Email and Search Engine Marketing campaigns.
- Developed apps to minimize business processes such as automated Affiliate programs, user management, credit card processing and withdrawal systems, referral programs, etc.
- Implemented and managed separate Linux development, testing, and production environments. -
Sr. Web Developer / Programming Manager
Frontera Design
(Internet industry)
September 1998 — April 2003 (4 years 8 months)
• Development of BizPrez.com, Prenhall.com/legal_studies/, MSPAlliance.com, eWitness.biz, Lexiverse.com, ProStreak.com, Lithomania.com, AztecHeart.com, Travidia.com
• Proposal writing and client acquisition and management.
• Additional projects for California State University at Chico, Butte Community College, Jones Naughton Entertainment Inc, and others. -
Web Applications Engineer
Panasonic Corporation
(Public Company; Internet industry)
March 2001 — April 2002 (1 year 2 months)
• Lead designer and developer of an online Dynamic DNS Registration application allowing customers to monitor their business, home, etc from anywhere on the Internet using IP based cameras.
• Provided support for multiple languages, dynamic database creation, and communication with remote client software. -
Web Applications Engineer
Intel Corporation
(Public Company; Internet industry)
January 1998 — August 1999 (1 year 8 months)
• Core member of both Intel's lead Intranet Site, “Circuit”, and Human Resources Intranet Site, “EASE”.
• Designed and developed multiple tools to streamline web searches and human resource processes.
• Responsible for the administration of mission-critical NT servers running IIS
• Met with global business partners and new acquisitions to incorporate their existing web content with Intel’s Intranet.
• Designed, implemented and maintained the Verity Search interface for Intel’s Intranet Lead Site.
• Implement a Tool Outage Manager that handled site wide database outages.
• Designed and developed key components for a web-based application that empowered managers to terminate employees through a series of intelligent steps.
Ron Chambers’s Education
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California State University-Chico
B.S. , Internet Engineering , 1995 — 2000
- Activities and Societies:
- ***Summa Cum Laude – Highest GPA: College of Engineering, Computer Science and Technology ***Associated Students Government – City Council Representative ***Director of Student Community Services ***1st Place – Chico State programming contest 1999
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