Marketing - Sales - Communications Director

Robert D. Hedges

411 Deer Creek Run, Deerfield Beach, FL 33442

Home: 954-427-1242 / Cell 561-703-8388

Professional Site: www.1stpositiononline.com/team/html

Personal Site:  www.bobhedges.com

 

 

 

OBJECTIVE

Locate a stable company situated in the SE Florida area seeking an experienced manager with a proven track record in sales, marketing, new product introduction, corporate communications and possessing well-developed communication skills.

 

TARGET JOB

Desired Job Type:

Employee

 

 

Desired Status:

Full-Time

 

 

Salary:

$Confidential

 

 

Site Location:

On-Site

 

 

Description of my perfect job:
Director of Marketing

Director of Communications
Director of Product Development
Sales Manager
Chief Operating Officer
Vice President of Marketing
Vice President of Sales

 

 

Career Level:

Executive (SVP, EVP, VP)

 

 

Date of Availability:

Less than 1 month

 

TARGET COMPANY

Company Size:

No Preference

 

 

Category:

NA

 

 

Description of my ideal company:
well-organized, well-managed company involved with an worthwhile product or service.

 

TARGET LOCATIONS

Relocate:

No

 

 

US-FL

US-FL-Ft. Lauderdale

US-FL-West Palm Beach

 

WORK STATUS

US

I am authorized to work in this country for any employer.

 

EXPERIENCE

6/2000 - Present

1st Position Online, Inc.

Boca Raton, FL

 

 

 Senior Web Positioning and Marketing Strategist

 

 

Company's primarily service is search engine optimization. Able to reposition clients website's into the top 20 search engine positions. Personally responsible: investor relations, new-product development, sales/marketing and P/L. Website is http://www.1stpositiononline.com./

 

 

7/1997 - 6/2000

Guardian Internet Services

Vero Beach, FL

 

 

Vice President of Marketing

 

 

Co-founded the first national Internet service provider (ISP) that automatically prevented the delivery of pornography to the end user. Responsible for creating the system from the ground up. Obtained contracts with major companies and schools. Company is now being packaged for an IPO by a New York City company.

 

 

12/1993 - 7/1997

World Trade Center

Fort Lauderdale, FL

 

 

Director of New Business

 

 

Primarily responsible for developing business opportunities in the new, and emerging "interactive" online marketing field. Developed online applications for touch-screen marketing situations. Responsible for preparing initial business plans, projecting revenue flows, designing and executing various marketing plans, etc.

 

 

10/1987 - 12/1993

Bob Hedges Financial Services, Inc.

Delray Beach, FL

 

 

Owner - Senior Principal

 

 

Founded/owned a NASD stock brokerage firm. Firm grew to over 30 employees which included 8 brokers and 10 tele-marketers. The firm was a full-services stock brokerage firm selling all forms of equity and debt securities. Sold the firm to outside interest.

 

 

7/1985 - 10/1987

Prudential Securities, Inc.

Delray Beach, FL

 

 

Vice President - Investments

 

 

Prudential hired me away from Merrill Lynch to run the sales operation at the Prudential office located in west Delray Beach, FL. At that time the Prudential office in Delray was in last position within the southeast region. Within 2 years I was able to bring the same office to the 5th position within the 47 offices in the same region. Individual sales production per broker increased 237% during that time. Left Prudential to open up my own brokerage firm.

 

 

5/1982 - 7/1985

Merrill Lynch

Delray Beach

 

 

Stock Broker

 

 

"Rookie of the Year" at end of 1st year. Personal sales production placed me in the top 10% of all Merrill brokers. Developed a solid relationship with all my clients. Became very good at telemarketing and sales follow-up. Was hired away by Prudential Securities to help run the west Delray office.

 

 

8/1978 - 5/1982

Major Advertising Agencies

New York City

 

 

Account Supervisor

 

 

Lived and worked in New York City. Worked for four of the largest advertising agencies in the world: Young and Rubicam, Doyle Dane Bernbach, BBDO and McCann Erickson. Promoted to the position as Account Supervisor managing the Coca-Cola account for McCann Erickson. Developed excellent communications/presentation/sales skills. Considered a solid team player with excellent creative ideas.

 

EDUCATION

9/2000

Coastal Carolina University

US-S. Carolina-Conway

 

 

Certification

 

 

Master's Certification - Web Position and Placement.
Able to create and implement strategy needed to position websites into the top 20 positions within major search engines.

 

 

6/1976

Kent State University

US-Ohio-Kent

 

 

Master's Degree

 

 

MBA-New Product Development
Concentrations in market segmentation and consumer demographics

 

 

6/1974

Kent State University

US-Ohio-Kent

 

 

Bachelor's Degree

 

 

Obtained BBA with a major in Marketing.
Very active in student government.
Worked full-time to pay for schooling.

 

SKILLS

Skill Name

Skill Level

Last Used

Experience

 

 

Excellent communications skills

Expert

Currently used

22 years

 

 

Sales

Expert

Currently used

22 years

 

 

Operations Management

Expert

Currently used

15 years

 

 

Search engine optimization

Expert

Currently used

1 years

 

 

Report Preparation

Expert

Currently used

20 years

 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Interested in furthering my knowledge and experiences with ecommerce services or products.