Ashland, OR | Las Vegas, NV | Henderson, NV
Also known as: edshull
I was born in Chicago, but spent most of my childhood in Irvine, CA. My interest in technology and computers began at a very early age. Like many people my age, the first computer I used was an Apple II in school, and thats where the love affair began. It was when I finally got my first computer. It was a Commodore , which was hooked up to an old faux wood-grain television and saved data to a cassette tape. I began college at and studied business and finance, first at Irvine Valley College, and then Cal StateFullerton. I found a real interest in marketing and began to focus on that area until at I decided to join the Army to help pay for college. I worked initially in tactical telecommunications, and ended up as an analyst. After the Army I started working in the Bank Card Services division of Chase Bank. I sat on a TQM team in charge of implementing a new Customer Relationship Management system that would allow us to leverage technology to market to our customers in a whole new way. It was this experience that started my move towards interactive marketing. My renewed interest in technology lead me back to school for graduate work, this time studying Computer Science at Harvard University. In I took a position with an ecommerce start up and made the move to Silicon Valley. It was fast paced. My first employer was acquired by Walmart. My second employer was unable to secure a second round of funding, and my third was acquired by Kaplan. It was around this time I took a Senior Analyst position at Morgan Stanley. In I decided to start my own consulting firm that would utilize the marketing skills I had developed over the years. As it turned out, consulting was a real passion for me. Part technology, part business and part analystit blended many of the disciplines I enjoyed. A year later I acquired USWeb, and over the past decade have had the opportunity to do some very innovative work with the world's biggest brands. Specialties SEO, Search engine optimization, SEM, search engine marketing, web development, social media optimization, social media consulting, blog development, internet marketing, CRM, customer relationship management, ERP, enterprise resource planning, consultant, online marketing consultant
