Saad Mukhtar | Business Development | Digital Media Marketing Strategist | Internet Project Manager | Philadelphia/New York City

Profile

Business Development | Digital Media Marketing Strategist | Internet Project Manager | Interactive Media
Internet | Greater Philadelphia Area, US

Summary

Saad is a digital media guru who has been interested in the internet since Yahoo and AltaVista ruled search. His experience and knowledge are rooted in business, design and digital media. Feel free to contact him through LinkedIn, Skype or Email for open opportunities, business ventures or general industry questions.
Specialties: Business Consulting, Business Development, Branding and Identity, Design Consulting, Digital Media Marketing, Digital Content Management, Digital Design Techniques, Social Media, New Media, Creative Media, Interactive Media, Blogging, Vlogging, Video Production, Film, Music Production, Product Development, Operations Management, Import Export, International Business, High Tech Startups, Entrepreneurial Ventures, and Travel

Experience

  • Sept 2010 - Present
    Project Manager | Creative New Digital Media / navator
    Navator is a website for an international community of creative individuals that includes dancers, artists, designers, and musicians to promote creative ideas and different cultures through new media. The Navator team is an international team of contributors dedicated to creating art and multimedia through social media, digital media, film production, music, design, blogging and publishing. Projects include travel to international festivals and events located in Japan, Brazil, UAE, Spain, Germany, Netherlands, France and throughout The United States.
  • May 2009 - Present
    Business Development Manager | Digital Media Marketing / Scribnia
    Business Development: •Managed new initiatives, specifically developing marketing campaigns, potential social media/blogging, and corresponding e-marketing vehicles to support marketing strategy. •Generating routine analytics reports, as well as custom reports via SalesForce to measure performance. Analyzing these reports and providing recommendations to Marketing team. Content Management: •Optimized content for user experience and utilized tools to manage and maintain the website. •Responsible for database expansion with help from team of content managers. Product Development: •Managed and designed blogger widgets and proposed an affiliate marketing business model. •Daily project tracking and correspondance with team of back-end programmers and graphic designers.
  • 2009 - Present
    Project Manager / Parkyo
    Award winning startup company based in Philadelphia.
  • Jul 2009 - Present
    Head of Data Management | Digital Content / SeatGeek
    SeatGeek was incubated during the end of summer at DreamIT Ventures in parallel with Scribnia. SeatGeek was a TechCrunch 50 Finalist only a month after the DreamIT incubator program! Since then, SeatGeek has been seen in Fast Company, CNET, Venture Beat, Mashable, Huffington Post and Los Angeles Times. SeatGeek forecasts the price of sports or concert tickets. So before buying tickets to an event, you can check SeatGeek for a price forecast.
  • May 2009 - Present
    Social Media and Marketing Assistant | Digital Media Marketing / Scribnia
    Saad was a part of the Scribnia founding team. During the summer of 2009, Scribnia was enrolled in DreamIT Ventures, Philadelphia. Scribnia was the only company acquired during the DreamIT incubator program. Scribnia (http://Scribnia.com) is a web 2.0 app that gives users recommendations about bloggers and columnists they might like. The recommendation algorithm uses "Context Ratings," metrics specific to each author's subject matter, to give more accurate suggestions.

Education

  • 2004 - 2008
    Drexel University
    BSBA in International Business, Legal Studies

Additional Information

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