jason beecher

* Tools and reporting project planning, including requirements development, documentation, and managing timelines from initial request to launch. * Network Quality liaison between Network Quality Operations, Marketplace, Product Management, and Engineering teams. * Resolved tools and reporting bugs, technical issues, and access requests for Network Quality. * Tools and reporting Subject Matter Expert for NQ team. * Sysadmin for multiple network hosts and LAMP-stack applications including migrating hosts, installing/configuring/updating/patching software, and resolving bug tickets.

* Managed initial Partner Quality daily operations for Microsoft partnership. * Resolved tools and reporting bugs, technical issues, and access requests for Partner Quality. * Tools and reporting project planning, including requirements development, documentation, and managing timelines from initial request to launch. * Partner Quality liaison between Marketplace, Product Management, Engineering, and Reporting teams. * In addition to those accomplishments, I continued my Manager, Categorization role (see below).

* Managed team of Categorization Editors. * Developed keyword taxonomy of over 4 million keywords in 20,000+ categories. * Project-managed targeted, categorized-keyword exports for Sales, Marketplace, Advertiser Quality, Editorial, R&D, and Marketing teams. * Built multiple command-line tools to import/export data from keyword taxonomy database. * Developed Windows desktop GUI tools for Categorization Editors who were unfamiliar with command-line usage.

* Lead Editor for two teams of editors (15-20 editors per team). * Subject Matter Expert for editorial systems and processes. * Subject Matter Expert for multiple Editorial and Sales verticals. * Liaison between Editorial, Sales, Customer Services, and Product Management Teams for processes and tools.

* Developed advertising campaigns from initial RFP through keyword expansion, advertising copy buildouts, and change orders to campaigns. * Reviewed and edited sales development editors' advertising campaigns. * Prioritized and assigned advertising campaigns/sales development tasks to editors.

* Managed client integration with YP.com Search Marketing Advertiser API from initial inquiry to post-launch support. * Gathered client requirements, developed project plans, and coordinated bug fixes with engineering. * Managed Search Marketing Account/Campaign services for non-API clients. * Coordinated with SEM analysts and maintained keyword lists, developed Account/Campaign/Ad Group structures, optimized ads, resolved editorial issues, and delivered advertising projections. * Updated Perl code to extract keyword/category and search/impression/click data utilized by national sales team for business projections. * Extended data projections by location for business development prospects. * Optimized database queries, resolved API bugs, and wrote data verification scripts. * Wrote Linux shell scripts to mitigate virtual server limitations. * Tested tools and features for Product Management team including YP.com Search Marketing user interface updates, editorial tools, conversion tracking, phone number enhancements, admin tools, and reporting services.