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Michael Chen

Marketing Director
Experienced Marketing Director with a demonstrated history of working in the marketing and advertising industry. Skilled in Advertising, Content Strategy, Product Management, A/B Testing, and Adobe Suite. Strong marketing professional with a Master's Degree focused in Management Information Systems from New York University.
Illuminate Hub
Rutgers University
Taipei City, Taiwan

Professional Background

  • Current status
  • Profession
    Marketing Director
  • Fields
    Advertising
  • Work experience
    More than 15 years (10-15 years relevant)
  • Management
    I've had experience in managing 10-15 people
  • Skills
    CRM
    Information Architecture
    Customer Engagement
    Marketing Strategy
    Marketing & PR
    Project Management
    Adobe Creative Suite
    Social Media Marketing
    Email Marketing
    Advertising Campaigns
  • Languages
    English
    Native or Bilingual
    Chinese
    Native or Bilingual
  • Highest level of education
    Master

Job search preferences

  • Desired job type
    Full-time
    Remote Only
  • Desired positions
    Marketing Director
  • Desired work locations
  • Freelance
    Non-freelancer

Work Experience

Marketing Director

Jul 2017 - Present
- Lead the marketing team in creating 4 successfully funded crowdfunding campaigns, generating a combined pledge of over $450, 000. - Generated over $100, 000 in sales for a preorder campaign on client's own ecommerce website over a preordering period of 30 days. - Generated weekly report by analyzing data and key metrics across multiple analytics mediums to discuss with client's on additional marketing plans. - Strategize brand development of all client's on how to outreach, engage, and build brand awareness and brand equity for client's branding efforts. - Lead creative directions in generating all marketing collaterals for client's for product and brand promotions, including media kit design, visual storyboarding, website design, email drip campaign, and online ads. - Directed and cooperated with overseas media in generating media coverages for client's brands and products, list of medias includes : o Engadget, Gizmodo, Digital Trends, Yanko Design, Esquire, Trendhunter, Geeky Gadget, NewsAtlas, Yahoo o Researched and liaised with micro and macro influencers in help generating creative content as well as spreading the client's brands to their list of followers.

Product Manager

Jun 2015 - Jun 2017
2 yrs 1 mo
- Spearheaded the marketing efforts in generating ticket sales for the Startup Launchpad trade show and tech conference, which brings in 32 industry speakers and 150 startups in the Pearl River delta. - Lead the internal marketing team in creating 5 successfully funded crowdfunding campaigns, generating a combined pledge of over $300, 000. - Strategized the overall marketing direction for each of the crowdfunding client's by engaging in multiple brainstorming session with client's and marketing team to formulate a comprehensive marketing plan for each client. - Act as creative director in all marketing efforts for all crowdfunding campaigns, including video storyboarding, landing page design, email design, as well as all ads and marketing collaterals. - Assisted in creating brand awareness of each crowd funding client's utilizing social media channels to help build them a community of followers and fan base. - Designed and developed a B2C storefront Nathan Rd as a pre-order platform for all of the crowdfunding client's to generate online sales in the US. - Designed and developed a B2B website Global Sources Direct as a lead generation channel for all crowdfunding client's to reach out to retailers and distributors around the world.

Senior Web Designer/Event Photographer

Oct 2011 - Jun 2015
3 yrs 9 mos
- Responsible for the UI/UX design on the redevelopment efforts of ISystem 2.0 internal CRM system providing an intuitive and easy to use interface for accounts and front line sales force. - Engaged daily with the business subject matter experts and IT teams to gather both business and technical requirements needed to develop a standardized interface design. - Introduced and implement an A/B testing workflow for all company owned websites both in domestic China and rest of the world. - Analyze the impact on design color, copy, and content on a given element of a website and how it impacts conversion rate/customer engagement and provide suggestion based on finding. - Attended tradeshows in Hong Kong, Dubai, Miami, Sao Paulo and Mumbai to liaise and supervise local photographers while assisting in shooting. -Planned and managed a team of 8 photographers and 20 temp staff during China Sourcing Fair in Hong Kong to shoot over 3000 products onsite during the trade show period.

Website Designer/Developer/Photographer

May 2005 - Oct 2011
6 yrs 6 mos
- Website designs, concepts, architecture and implementation for the client, making sure all design requirements were met. - Developed mobile site to showcase portfolio and blog entries for smart phone users to attract new client. - Provide daily maintenance and bi-monthly slideshow update for the business site. - Skills used to complete the website include, HTML &CSS coding, image editing, ActionScript coding, flash animation, and PHP.

Contract Website Developer

Jan 2011 - Mar 2011
3 mos
- Responsible for design, information architecture, and redevelopment of Fordham's Master of Global Finance page.

Photographer/Microsite Designer and Developer

Jun 2009 - Oct 2010
1 yr 5 mos
- Responsible for concept and capturing stop motion photographs for Every Cookie Has a Story campaign. - Provide design concept and development in the Microsite for Every Cookie has a Story campaign.

Contract Flash Developer

Jan 2009 - Mar 2009
3 mos
. Responsible for development of Flash application for the company Game a Day sweepstakes . Development of a flash video player for playing video ads from sponsors.

Lead Flash Developer

Nov 2007 - Jan 2009
1 yr 3 mos
- Responsible for the development of websites for short-term corporate promotions which were geared towards the 19-49 demographic group in order to increase product recognition and brand awareness. - Develop a backend CMS for site owner to search hundreds of promoters available in the database - Responsible for the development of various animation effects used in the site, as well as user activities components - Skills used : Webservice integration, XML, ActionScript 2.0, ActionScript 3.0, Photoshop, Illustrator Client list includes : o Neutrogena Fresh Concert, RepEvent.com, American Rag Campus, Microsoft Biggest Loser, Bandai Tamagotchi Generations, Generation Huggies, Tim Tam Cookies, Repnation.com

Education

Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Bachelors of Arts in Economics
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Master of Science (MS)
Masters of Science in Management & Systems
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