Sam
| sam@samreadsresumes.com
SUMMARY
§ Stanford
University graduate, Google Marketing Manager, proficient Spanish speaker and
writer
§ Persuaded my
favorite toy company to create a position just for me by “cold emailing” my
resume and cover letter
§ Diverse
job experience with special expertise in writing and marketing
Graduated
with Honors, Bachelor of Arts in Urban Studies
– Community Organization, 2003
WORK EXPERIENCE
Founder / Owner, Sam Reads Resumes,
Washington, DC, 2/09 - present
Founded,
manage, and run Sam Reads Resumes professional resume review service.
Product Marketing Manager, Google Inc.,
Mountain View, CA, 5/04 - 6/08
Hired from hundreds of applicants. Fortune Magazine’s #1 place to
work 2007 and 2008.
§ Homepage Promotion Manager: managed promotions seen billions of times worldwide on the Google homepage
§ iGoogle Marketing Manager: wrote marketing plans and managed all promotion for
iGoogle singlehandedly, a job that was later
delegated to six marketers
§ AdWords
Small/Medium Business Marketing Manager: wrote an educational
guide mailed to AdWords advertisers
§ Marketing
Manager: Google News, Google Trends, and Froogle (now Google Product Search)
International Market Analyst / Internet
Marketing Manager, Aerobie Inc.,
Created
this opportunity by contacting the makers of my favorite toy, the Aerobie flying ring, and offering my services.
Promoted Aerobie sport toys internationally
via internet, e-mail, fax, phone, mail & media. Created
new corporate web site.
Sunday FLiCKS! Manager,
Stanford Student Enterprises,
Stanford, CA, 9/00 - 6/01
Managed
weekly movie theater business averaging ~450 audience members.
Hired 3 employees & co-supervised 20+ volunteers.
§ Spanish speaker
and writer, nearly fluent
§ Stock
trading (sometimes even profitably!)
§ Programming
experience: C, HTML, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
GLOBAL COMMUNITY SERVICE
§ Board of
Directors member (volunteer), Cap and Gown, Stanford women’s honor society,
Stanford, CA: chairman of Spring Leadership Luncheon of 80+ attendees. ’06-08
§ Author of
135-page honors thesis for Stanford University in Santiago, Chile: led dozens
of interviews in Spanish, evaluated local non-profits, and made strategy
recommendations. ‘02
§ Teacher,
web designer, and translator (volunteer), Colegio Inglés, Iquique, Chile: created position by contacting
Chilean schools found on the Internet. ’01
§ Translator
and manual laborer (volunteer), Don Torcuato school, Buenos Aires, Argentina: odd jobs. ‘98