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 - PresentProject Manager | Creative New Digital Media / navatorNavator 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 - PresentBusiness Development Manager | Digital Media Marketing / ScribniaBusiness 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 - PresentProject Manager / ParkyoAward winning startup company based in Philadelphia.
- Jul 2009 - PresentHead of Data Management | Digital Content / SeatGeekSeatGeek 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 - PresentSocial Media and Marketing Assistant | Digital Media Marketing / ScribniaSaad 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
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2004 - 2008Drexel UniversityBSBA in International Business, Legal Studies
Additional Information
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Updates
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10 months ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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Parkyo is launching soon and I'm one of the first in line! Join me. #launch http://t.co/agdGBmI via @getparkyo
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@myasmine what's the link that blog?
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@Eurail ok thanks, but i'm 85 years old, you think i'll pass for that special?
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@Eurail bring back the extra day deal ;)
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@eurail ~ i have some questions about the passes, is your support chat working?13 months ago from web | Reply, Retweet, Favorite
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hey how are you
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@gutter4bbit wait so you're saying that's your bgirl name?
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@gutter4bbit lol, yea boi
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hey you standing over there!
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@gutter4bbit yea think of the name already...
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surfing the web with #FireFox4. little header design changes...i like, lag issues, let's see...
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@gutter4bbit YEA, you should start to... it'll be a crew with me Omar and you. haha!
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i'm going to start bboying again. it's over.
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#bostonopen coming up! gettin' ready to sharpen the knives.