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Shadi Rahman

Shadi Rahman

Digital Marketer
Copenhagen

Summary

I am a result-driven digital marketing professional with 20 years of total experience, including 16 years in marketing and advertising. Thus, I have a solid experience in demands of digital marketing and optimization across channels and platforms as well as tracking KPI’s. As a person, I would describe myself as tech savvy and very curious – especially in terms of new market and technological trends, but my curiosity and eagerness to learn are also reflected in my list of courses and certifications. I am certified in Adobe AEP, Salesforce, META, Google Ads, DV360, Snapchat, Google analytics, LinkedIn, among others, and I am always enthusiastic to pursue new knowledge!

Overview

18
18

Years of digital marketing experience

50
50

Certifications

Work History

Ad Tech Consultant

Wunderman Thompson MAP
06.2022 - Current

Ad Tech Consultant supporting LEGO and Coca-Cola accounts at Wunderman Thompson, a marketing consultant agency in Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • Consultancy on DMPs, CRMs and CDPs
  • Ad Tech Architecture - discovery and define solutions and recommendations
  • Data model and governance
  • Assessments of client tech stack including integrations
  • Developing and testing different hypothesis and solutions
  • Create solution design including use cases, functional requirements and processes
  • Improved short- and long-term digital marketing strategies.
  • Tracked and analyzed social media and online marketing initiatives.

Digital Marketing Manager

United Contractors - UCC
03.2016 - 05.2022
  • Manage Google Ads PPC campaigns, including assessing goals and KPIs
  • Analyze campaign performance using Google Analytics for campaign optimization
  • Deploying successful marketing campaigns via ideation, execution & optimization
  • Keyword, website and competitive analysis research.
  • Utilized Twitter, Google and META to promote products, services and content.
  • Tracked and analyzed social media and online marketing initiatives.
  • Measuring and reporting on the performance of all digital marketing campaigns
  • Identify trends and insights to optimize spend and performance
  • Established omnichannel objectives throughout branding and digital platforms

Marketing Communications Manager

Best Deal
01.2012 - 02.2016

Managed day to day marketing communications for Best Deal, a producer for household consumer products.

  • Develop, execute, measure and optimize integrated marketing communications
  • Partner with Product Marketing on the development and maintenance of marketing communications plans
  • Researched and reviewed processes to assess efficiency and effectiveness of marketing campaigns.
  • Created and managed traditional and digital marketing campaigns.
  • Defined data-driven approaches for measuring impact of marketing programs.
  • Provide ongoing support to the marketing team as projects or challenges occur

Product Manager

Mindware
08.2008 - 01.2012

Responsible for both product planning and product marketing for Symantec portfolio at Mindware LLC, an IT solutions distributor in Dubai, UAE.

  • Worked with sales teams and engineers to improve user experience and confirm builds meet user specifications.
  • Collaborated with marketing team and functional management to achieve business and marketing strategy objectives.
  • Conducted ongoing market research and competitive analysis to possess in-depth knowledge of markets, procedures and customers.
  • Cultivated business partnerships to build lasting relationships with internal and external parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities
  • Collected and analyzed market research data for use in forecasting.

Google AdWords Manager

Denver PPC
03.2005 - 08.2008

Managed a team of 6 PPC specialists for Denver PPC, a media agency in Colorado.

  • Train new PPC specialists
  • Create and Manage paid search campaigns
  • Conducting ongoing keyword maintenance
  • Optimized website exposure by analyzing search engine patterns to direct online placement of keywords or other content.
  • Managed tracking and reporting of search-related activities for analyses
  • Improved search-related activities through ongoing analysis and optimization.
  • Identified appropriate KPIs, reporting on key metrics from digital campaigns.
  • Prepared reports to update stakeholders about success of each strategy.
  • Combined secondary data sources with keyword research to more accurately profile and satisfy user intent.

Education

BSc - Business Administration and International Trade

Misr International University
01.2005

BSc - Marketing Courses, Business

Heilbronn University
01.2005

Skills

  • Campaign management
  • Media Buying
  • Social media management
  • Digital marketing
  • Pay-per-click advertising (PPC)
  • Keyword research
  • Google Ads
  • Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp (META)
  • Multi-channel marketing
  • Audience Segmentation
  • Audience governance models
  • Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
  • Google Analytics
  • Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)

Hobbies and interests

  • Travel. I love traveling and experiencing different cultures, I've been to 23 countries and lived in 3 continents.
  • Learning languages. I'm currently fluent in English, Arabic and Danish. I'm planning to learn Swedish next.
  • Audio and Visual entertainment. Movies and TV shows, mostly science fiction.
  • Surfing the internet. Can be online for hours at a time just reading articles.
  • Squash. The sport, not the vegetable.
  • Gaming, strategy and city building.

Certification

  • Google Search Ads 360 Certification
  • AEP Adobe Experience Platform: Sales Accreditation
  • Salesforce Certified Marketing Cloud
  • Google Analytics Certification
  • Snapchat Specialization: Measure and Optimize
  • Google Campaign manager 360 Certification
  • Snapchat Specialization: Plan and Buy
  • Snapchat Specialization: Strategize
  • Brand Safety on Snapchat
  • Google Display & Video 360 Certification
  • LinkedIn Marketing Solutions Fundamentals
  • LinkedIn Marketing Strategy
  • Privacy-Centric Ad Measurement
  • Public Profiles for Businesses
  • Salesforce Optimize Data and Digital Advertising
  • Salesforce: Manage Campaigns with Journey Builder
  • Snapchat Essentials
  • Google Ads Essential Training
  • Lead Generation: Multichannel PPC Strategy
  • Learning PPC with Google Ads
  • Google Advertising Fundamental
  • Google Search Advertising
  • Google Adwords Certification
  • CCNA Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • HSCSA Certified System Associate
  • Symantec Backup Exec for Windows Servers
  • Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery
  • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
  • Bright mail Gateway
  • Endpoint Security
  • Mail Security for SMTP
  • Symantec Critical Systems Protection
  • Symantec Endpoint Protection
  • SSP Information Foundation
  • Google Advertising Professionals Exam
  • VERITAS Cluster Server
  • VERITAS Storage Foundation
  • Network Access Control
  • Symantec Enterprise Vault
  • SSP SMB Specialization
  • Symantec Mail Security for Domino
  • SSE VERITAS Netbackup

Languages

  • English (Native or Bilingual)
  • Arabic (Native or Bilingual)
  • Danish (B1)

Timeline

Ad Tech Consultant

Wunderman Thompson MAP
06.2022 - Current

Digital Marketing Manager

United Contractors - UCC
03.2016 - 05.2022

Marketing Communications Manager

Best Deal
01.2012 - 02.2016

Product Manager

Mindware
08.2008 - 01.2012

Google AdWords Manager

Denver PPC
03.2005 - 08.2008

BSc - Business Administration and International Trade

Misr International University

BSc - Marketing Courses, Business

Heilbronn University
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