Robert Bankard
http://www.bobneedsjob.com
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bobneedsjob@yahoo.com
SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS
Ten years of corporate Internet publishing. A decade’s experience in creating web content, planning new content sections, designing effective navigation, overseeing content flow, interfacing with end users, advertisers, upper management and line personnel. Created quantifiable results: solely responsible for $40K annual ad income, 15M annual page views, critical acclaim by the Newspaper Association of America, Yahoo Internet Life Magazine.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1999 - 2007 Calkins New Media, Tullytown PA
SPECIAL SECTIONS EDITOR
· With three other Calkins webmasters, created Phillyburbs.com
· Created and spearheaded Phillyburbs "Guide" marketing concept
· Created - design, content, navigation - all special vertical sections, designed to encourage niche advertising sales and provide readers with compelling ‘net-only‘ content
· Three years of weekly opinion columns
· Daily blogs
· Determined placement of regular news and sports stories based on relative significance
· Wrote and revised headlines and edited copy
· Handled basic problems in CMS - two software programs; Pantheon and Suresynch
· Handled SEO for vertical sections to maximize traffic
· Interfaced with sales and advertisers in creating custom copy
· Performed related editorial duties as required
1997 - 1999 Burlington County Times, Willingboro NJ
WEBMASTER
· Created Burlington County Times Newspaper Website
· Introduced interface of News, Sales and Internet to the staff of the newspaper
· Managed three employees in maintaining 7-day publishing schedule
· Joined in summit with Bucks County and Doylestown newspaper properties, as well as Calkins Corporate in planning a single umbrella site for all three properties, creating Phillyburbs.com
EDUCATION
Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ B.S., Marketing
Burlington County College, Tom's River, NJ A.S. Business Administration
SOFTWARE
Photoshop, Word, Dreamweaver, Acrobat, Indesign, Various Content Management Systems - Suresynch, Joomla, Wordpress and Pantheon, Webtrends analytics, Outlook, FTP Client, Javascripting through Dreamweaver, Flash training in progress.
