Resume for Andreas Ramos: Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay-per-Click (PPC), and Analytics. 6 years experience.

Summary

  • I manage SEO (Search Engine Optimization), PPC (Pay-per-Click), and analytics strategies for clients. This includes Google Adwords, Microsoft adCenter, and Yahoo Panama.
  • I have agency certification (with agency support teams) at Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft.
  • I wrote Insider SEO & PPC, a book on SEO, PPC, and analytics. I regularly speak at conferences and events in Silicon Valley.
  • I co-manage CreativeConsultantsGroup.com and Position2.com, which manages SEO/PPC for clients.
  • I founded the Adwords-User-Group.com, a professional user group for Google Adwords.

Skills

  • Google Adwords, Google Analytics, Yahoo Panama, and various standard web tools, incl. HTML, CGI, CSS, SSI, XML

Professional Positions

  • Position2, Inc., Palo Alto. January 2006-Ongoing: Director of Web Strategies. Co-founder of a Silicon Valley venture-funded startup. I created the company's SEO, PPC, and analytics strategies. This was used to train the 55-person team in Bangalore, India. See Position2.com
  • Creative Consultants Group, LLC., Palo Alto. July 2002-Ongoing: SEO, PPC, and analytics for clients. More at CreativeConsultantsGroup.com
  • Invio Software, Palo Alto. September 2001-November 2002: Webmaster. Invio was a SAN (storage area network) company. I built the company's website using XML with Epic XML editor.
  • Dialpad.com, Santa Clara. March 2000-August 2001: Webmaster. I managed the web site as it grew to ten million users. Optimized for search engines. Created a "Top 20 FAQ Questions" page, which caused a 14% drop in tech support requests in a single day (we had 60 million visits per day). Added a JavaScript search engine to the FAQ. In one single day, this caused a 36% drop in email requests for tech support. At $5,500 per day in email requests, this alone saves $2,000 per day. I managed our first-tier tech support services and wrote 253 one-page FAQs, using weighted content so the internal search engine could find the best results. Within three months, we had twice as many users with a 40% decrease in first-tier and second-tier tech support.
  • From 1994-2000, I worked at a number of Silicon Valley startups, incl. Brio Technology, Oracle, Teknowledge, Storm Technologies, Cybereditions, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT), Encanto Networks, Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics (SGI), Voysys, San Andreas Systems (no, it wasn't my company), Chubb Insurance, and others.

Education, Memberships, and Credentials

  • Agency Certification status with Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft
  • ClickTracks Analytics Agency Certification
  • On the advisory board to six Silicon Valley startups, plus the Danish Consulate Office for Silicon Valley and California State University at Hayward
  • MA, University of Heidelberg, Germany
  • BA with Honors, University of Tennessee
  • And yes, I won the State Science Fair in high school.

Publications

Personal

  • My website is at andreas.com with 42,000 unique visitors every month. My monthly newsletter has 4,800 subscribers. My andreas blog has 1,400 subscribers.

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