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

 

EDUCATION

Stanford University                                                                       

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., Palo Alto, CA, 7/03 - 4/04

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.

 

SKILLS

§ 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