Richard John Jenkins

Current

Senior Systems Engineer, Education at Adobe Systems
Search Engine Optimization & Marketing Expert (contractor) at lynda.com
Search Engine Optimization & Marketing Specialist at Web Search Engineer.com (Sole Proprietorship)

Professional Trainer at WebSearchEngineer.com (Sole Proprietorship)

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Past

Director of Search Engine Marketing & Optimization at Lotus Interworks
Search Engine Marketing & Optimization Manager at Bruce Clay Inc.
Sales Engineer / Technical Trainer at Macromedia

Education Business Development Manager at Corel Inc.
Co-Founder at Museum of Neon Art (MONA)

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Education

UCLA, LACC and The American Film Institute (AFI)

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Industry

Internet

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Richard John Jenkins’s Summary

Search Engine Marketing and Optimization specialist which includes setting up Pay Per Click (PPC) ad campaigns for clients using Yahoo Search Marketing (recently upgraded to "Panama"), MSN AdCenter, Google Adwords, AdSense, Analytics, and CheckOut.

Simply put, I help clients get their web sites and PPC ads ranking at the top of the list in an organic or paid placement search results and train them in all aspects of SEO and SEM.

My services are affordable, results driven with great attention to detail. Dozens of my clients have achieved page 1 ranking in the organic/natural listings across all the major search engines - no easy feat.

I specialize in the top three Pay Per Click systems: MSN AdCenter, Yahoo Search Marketing (Panama), and Google AdWords including, Google AdSense, Analytics, and CheckOut.

Your web site isn't showing up in search or has no traffic or sales? Stop by my site, www.WebSearchEngineer.com or give a call at (323) 428-1717 and learn why.

My background is in the Film, Multimedia, Web Publishing Tools, Technology Training, and Internet Marketing industries.

Technology training is another area I have extensive expertise in. I have been a trainer for over a decade focusing on web site creation tools, most notably Adobe/Macromedia Corporation’s award winning software tools: Captivate, Dreamweaver, Flash, Director, Fireworks, Acrobat Connect, and Contribute.

I have taught over 38,000 people how to use Macromedia's tools (now Adobe Systems) at over two hundred fifty schools, twenty five user groups, one hundred thirty seven companies, plus presenting at dozens and dozens of public seminars, workshops, webinars, webcast, and speaking at many top industry trade shows all over the U.S. and Canada.

Business Development comes quite naturally to me too and is also one of my major talents. I was one of Corel Corporation's top Business Development Managers where I resurrected their entire Education markets within one year.

Richard John Jenkins’s Specialties:

Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, Pay Per Click specialist & trainer concentrating on organic search engine optimization including setting up and managing Yahoo Search Marketing, MSN AdCenter and Google AdWords sponsored ad campaigns.

Training people on Adobe's Dreamweaver, Flash, Contribute, Captivate, and Acrobat Connect tools.

Networking people. See someone here in my network you'd like to contact? Let me know and I will make an introduction for you.

Richard John Jenkins’s Experience

Senior Systems Engineer, Education

Adobe Systems

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ADBE; Computer Software industry)

November 2007 — Present (1 year 9 months)

My focus is K12 Education for the entire western half of North America.
Search Engine Optimization & Marketing Expert (contractor)

lynda.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Online Media industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Recently completed principle recording of twelve hour online video series covering Pay Per Click Search Engine Marketing systems for top notch training company, Lynda.com (www.lynda.com). Videos cover new MSN AdCenter, recently upgraded Yahoo Search Marketing (Panama) platform, Google: AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, and CheckOut.

Authored top selling nine hour series of online Search Engine Optimization training videos and CD-ROMs; currently in the number 3 & 9 spots on Amazon.com for search terms, "search engine optimization" and “search engine marketing.”
Search Engine Optimization & Marketing Specialist
Web Search Engineer.com (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2003 — Present (6 years 7 months)

Web Search Engineer.com (www.websearchengineer.com ) offers affordable Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) services. Web Search Engineer.com uses Bruce Clay's SEOToolSet exclusively to help companies achieve ethical high rankings in search results.

Services:
Key Word / Key Word Phrase Research
Link Building
SEO / SEM Consulting
SEO / SEM Training
SEO /SEM Ranking Reports

Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Sponsored Ad Campaign Set Up and Management:
Yahoo Search Marketing
MSN AdCenter
Google: AdWords, AdSense, Analytics, and CheckOut
Professional Trainer
WebSearchEngineer.com (Sole Proprietorship)

(Sole Proprietorship; 1-10 employees; Professional Training & Coaching industry)

January 1986 — Present (23 years 7 months)

WebSearchEngineer.com (Richard Jenkins) offers clients customized training on Macromedia's award-wining software tools, and Search Engine Optimization / Search Engine Marketing.

Richard specializes in teaching the non-technical / new user to easily come up to speed in Macromedia's Dreamweaver, Captivate, Contribute, Breeze, CourseBuilder, Learning Site, Fireworks, FreeHand, Director, and Flash tools as well all aspects of SEO / SEM.
Director of Search Engine Marketing & Optimization

Lotus Interworks

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)

May 2005 — June 2006 (1 year 2 months)

Led the online marketing of Lotus Interworks, a global technology development and management company.

My focus at Lotus was directing the Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, SEM for several start-up companies Lotus manages.

Also directed and designed several internal staff web based software training simulations for a major web based business Lotus developed using Macromedia's Captivate and overseeing the web site development and design of several Lotus companies.

Lotus Interworks currently manages seven companies and has 300 employees located in Los Angeles, New Jersey, New Delhi, and Kuwait.

Lotus identifies technology-centric opportunities for building profitable, scalable, and sustainable businesses in a number of fertile fields: telecommunications, mobile entertainment, enterprise solutions, VoIP, collaboration solutions, and e-commerce.
Search Engine Marketing & Optimization Manager

Bruce Clay Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2005 — March 2005 (3 months)

Directed and managed a team of Search Engine Marketing / Search Engine Optimization expert analyst who oversaw all client accounts including PPC bid managment, ad ranking & positioning, link building, generating ROI, CPC reports and more at this top SEO firm.
Sales Engineer / Technical Trainer

Macromedia

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; marc; Computer Software industry)

October 1998 — January 2005 (6 years 4 months)

On staff with the company for over two years as their Sales Engineer/Technical Trainer. My focus was on Education and e-Learning, traveling throughout North America teaching people all about Deamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, Director and more in public seminars, at industry tradeshows and at education institutions and companies.

I also taught Macromedia "Director" at the American Film Institute (AFI) to several hundred Hollywood professionals for three years and founded the first Macromedia User Group in Los Angeles, CA.
Education Business Development Manager

Corel Inc.

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; cor; Computer Software industry)

February 2001 — October 2003 (2 years 9 months)

I wore many hats while at Corel! My main role was to create from the ground up the entire Corel Education team and to re-introduce all of Corel's software products (CorelDraw, Painter, WordPerfect, KnockOut and more) to all education markets throughout North America.

Also to create powerful partnerships (Biz Dev) with other tech companies such as: Intel, Dell, Apple, Macromedia, Adobe, Wacom and many others.

One of the most rewarding things I did at Corel was to empower Youth-At-Risk all over the world by donating millions of dollars worth of Corel software and training to several non-profits such as: The Intel Computer Club Houses, The Magic Johnson Foundation, "Arnold's" (I'll be back) After School All-Stars and others.

I also produced Corel's first ever CorelDraw and Painter training CDs with teriffic Lynda Weinman (lynda.com) which I am very proud of.
Co-Founder

Museum of Neon Art (MONA)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Museums and Institutions industry)

January 1983 — January 1993 (10 years 1 month)

World renowned neon artist (and very close friend) Lili Lakich, and I co-founded the Museum of Neon Art (MONA) in 1983.

MONA is located in downtown Los Angeles, CA and is still going strong. Many of the classic neon signs we saved can be seen all over the Universal City, City Walk outdoor mall.

Lili and I had a blast creating fantastic electric art openings at MONA for over a decade showcasing new artist, classic American neon signage, and teaching hundreds of people the art of neon design.

If you'd like to know more about Lili, MONA and me, check out Lili's glowing web sites here (www.lakich.com).

Richard John Jenkins’s Education

UCLA, LACC and The American Film Institute (AFI)

Film, New Media, Multimedia January 1987 — March 1991

I managed the AFI Digital Media Department for over a year. We provided bleeding edge classes, workshops and weekend intensives on Macromedia Director, Adobe's Photoshop, 3D Studio Max and many other exciting software tools.

Additional Information

Richard John Jenkins’s Websites:

My Website

Richard John Jenkins’s Interests:

Training, Film, Screenwriting, Art, Fine Art Painting, Neon, the Internet / Web, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, Search Engine Marketing, SEM, Yahoo Search Marketing, Google AdWords & AdSense sponsored ad creation, SEO managment and consulting, and all things Adobe/Macromedia!