| CURRICULUM VITAE |
| Name: | Dennis Alexander Goedegebuure |
| Address: | 848 Churchstreet |
| Zipcode: | 94114 |
| City: | San Francisco |
| Telephone: | +1 408 564 3649 |
| dennisg@gmail.com | |
| Skype | dennisgoedegebuure |
| Day of birth: | July 6, 1974 |
| Place of birth: | Naarden |
| Country: | The Netherlands |
| Nationality: | Dutch |
| March 2007 - now | In house SEO consultant for eBay Inc. Senior Int'l Marketing Manager at eBay Inc. (eBay.com San Jose, US), the worldwide online marketplace |
| Leading Center of Excellence for SEO for all International eBay countries. Managing a team of 3, working close together with the teams in US, UK, DE and FR to drive Global Search Optimization of the eBay platform. Responsible for International coordination within Internet Marketing for eBay Marketplaces, including Classifieds, SDC on SEO - In-Country Program Support - Project Planning and Coordination - Partner Development / Relationship Management - Infrastructure Planning and Development - Communication and Best Practice Sharing |
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| Feb 2006 - March 2007 | Int'l Marketing Manager at eBay Inc. (eBay.com San Jose, US), the worldwide online marketplace |
| Responsible for Best Practice Sharing within eBay in the field of Portals and Natural Search. - Communication and Best Practice Sharing - In-Country Program Support - Project Planning and Coordination - Partner Development / Relationship Management - Infrastructure Planning and Development |
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| Sept 2005 - Feb 2006 | Business Development manager at Marktplaats.nl ,biggest classifieds site in The Netherlands, and eBay.nl (Amsterdam), the worldwide online marketplace |
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this function I focused on new forms of revenue on the marktplaats platform. These include optimizing Google Adsense on Marktplaats, analyzing possibilities for Pay per Call placements and balancing traffic between the two trading platforms by sending traffic between the two in certain categories. Next to this, I've been responsible for Natural search optimization of both eBay and Marktplaats sites. Leading projects which will drive more free traffic to the site. |
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| Jan 2005 - Sept 2005 | Online marketing manager at eBay.nl and Marktplaats.nl |
| Main tasks were within this function were driving traffic to the two platforms through Natural search optimization and balancing traffic between eBay.nl and Marktplaats.nl |
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| April 2004 - Jan 2005 | Online marketing manager at eBay.nl |
| Within
this function main tasks were driving traffic to the platform by advertising through online partnerships with Portals & ISP's. Co-responsible for Budget allocation and target setting |
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| 2002 - 2004 | Online Optimiser at eBay.nl |
| Started at eBay.nl as an online optimiser, working at partnerships with affiliates, portals, search engines, shopping comparisson sites and adnetworks to drive as much traffic to eBay.nl converting into Confirmed Registered Users. Optimizing our partnerships was done through a combination of budget allocation and placement optimization. |
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| 2002 - 2002 | Consultant trainee at Andersen consulting |
| Started as a Cunsultant trainee focussed on new business opportunities within the team Government. After 2.5 months the Enron scandal made me look for a new job. |
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| 2000 - 2001 | Internship at Nedstat |
| Nedstat is the European leader in Website analytic software. Here I worked on a model to benchmark the success of websites on the principles of one-to-one marketing. This research was done in cooperation with Price Waterhouse Coopers. |
| 1995 - 2001 | Economy, University of Amsterdam(UVA), finished succesfully with a masters degree |
| Within this study I did a double major, Marketing, Finance, Strategic Management & Organisation | |
| 1993 - 1995 | Pre-University Education (VWO), Luzac College, Hilversum. |
| With the subjects: Dutch, English, French, German, Physics, Mathematics (A and B), Economics (I and II) | |
| 1988 - 1993 | Higher General Secondary Education (HAVO), Sint Vitus College, Bussum |
| With the subjects: Dutch, English, Physics, Mathematics (B), Chemistry, Economics I |
| 2006 | Blue Moon Award at eBay Inc. |
| This award is given for accomplishments on the job outside of your normal responsibilities | |
| 2005 | Editor of www.dutchcowboys.nl, the most populair tech blog in The Netherlands |
| Editor of this weblog gives me the opportunity to influence journalists on topics they write on. Dutchcowboys is one weblog which is in the link section of the Googleblog | |
| 2005 | Set up of third party tracking software for all Kijiji classifieds platforms (12 countries). |
| Still running all administrator responsibilities. As this was not in line with my normal job responsibilities, I took up this effort in my own time, working together with the Kijiji group to get them up and running for reporting on ROI. | |
| 2004 | Attending and winning the case at eBay Marketing college |
| 2004 | You are a Star Award at eBay.nl. |
| This award is given for accomplishments on the job outside of your normal responsibilities | |
| 2003-2004 | Guest speaker at The University of Rotterdam at classes of Prof E. van Heck. Classes on Electronic Markets |
| Dutch: | Fluent verbally and in writing (native speaker) |
| English: | Very good verbally and in writing (active). |
| Spanish: | Fluent verbally, no writing. |
| French: | Basics verbally and in writing. |
| German: | Basics verbally and in writing. |
| Advertising systems: | Experienced and profitable user of Google AdSense and Google AdWords. |
| Operating systems: | Windows 9* / XP |
| Software: | Macromedia Homesite, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Photoshop |
| Third party tracking software: | Set-up and maintenance of Mediaplex |
| Office software: | Microsoft Office 2007 Professional (Powerpoint, Word, Excel and Outlook) |
| Driving license | Dutch driving license B. |
| Kite surfing | Started in 2007 with Kite surfing |
| Internet | Fast moving technologies & Internet, including: - SEO - SMM - Blogging - Affiliate Marketing |
| Skydiving | Started in 2004 with Accalerating Free Fall course. Now I can jump all alone from 12.000 ft. |
| Sailing | Have been a Sail instructor in student years, teaching kids to sail |
| Reading business books | Most visible in my spendings at Amazon.com and eBay books categories |
| Trading at eBay | Feedback of 463 |
| Traveling | Asia and Latin America |
| Other | Music, new media and owning gadgets |
| Personal blog | The Next Corner (Dutch) |
| San Francisco Local tips | San Francisco Tips (Dutch) |
| Poetry website | Poetry Magazine |
| Coffee community site | Black Coffee |