Steven Higashi
Web Hosting - Cloud Computing Analyst
Motivated and ambitious with more than 6 years of international business experience and 15 years in the Web Hosting/Internet industry.Working from the bottom up has taught me valuable lessons of how a corporation is run from every vantage point which facilitates quick and accurate decision making no matter what environment..
During these years, I have also accumulated 4 years of restaurant/hospitality experience (2 years international experience). From this, I also provide software solutions for restaurants and hotels. ie. reservation, ordering, inventory solutions as well as full marketing and eco-friendly solutions for a more profitable, productive, efficient and value-add experience to both you and your clientele.
Marketing Strategies
- Marketing budgets (experience with $5 million dollar accounts)
- Campaign creation (Banners, Buttons, CPM, CPC)
- Build affiliate marketing infrastructure (CPA)
- Content and link Strategist (Search Engine Optimization)
Storage Strategies
- There is a solution to every problem, whether it be I/O or otherwise. My expertise is finding you a solution you can work with.
- I build proper solutions, not patchwork.
- All strategies have ROI in mind and focus is long term feasibility.
Co-location Strategies
- Specialist in sourcing your exact co-location and or similar service requirements. This does not reserve itself to your typical Half rack, rack/cabinet, caged solutions, but all available services.
- Past inquiries included successfully providing service in Brasil, Columbia, Turkey and Israel. Satellite request for dish implementation in Lagos, Nigeria. These are just some of the services I can provide.
Email Expertise
- Complete Exchange and or Exchange alternative(s). Multiple solutions offered.
- Opt-in Email hosting
- provide lists - US based leads
- Spam filtering solutions
Specialties:
Networking, functional/conversational German, negotiating (media buying), marketing, people person, domains and webhosting, PPC, CPA, CPC, CPM, full marketing management, affiliate programs, SaaS, Co-location, Bandwidth, Server Hardware (SUN, Dell, HP, SGI), Networking Hardware (Cisco, Extreme, Juniper), Dedicated Server Market, Hosting Control Panels (Hsphere, cPanel, Parallels etc), very resourceful.
104 contacts2008 - 2010Working with a number of clientele from the web hosting, eco-consulting and casual gaming industries.
Web hosting
cPanelhosting.com
- Lead the development of the new website
- Currently building the affiliate program and developing the marketing strategy for 2010
Ecommerce.com
- Assembling a new group of CPA campaigns to grow the company as opposed to conventional methods of ad networks and wasted advertising campaigns that don't work.
- Near future, will also put together CPC and CPM campaigns to promote new services offered by the company.
Core Engineering GmbH
- Created a successful group of affiliates and placed them on a revenue share model to increase user-base by over 10,000 registered users in the span of 4 months.
- Started the companies first "Social Network" presence on places like Facebook, Twitter, youtube etc
- Monitor Forums to keep up to date with news of new games and competitors along with consistent posts to maintain the integrity that Core Games are in the loop and people know who we are.
- Running Special projects in the effort to increase effectiveness and ignite a viral marketing approach.
Gforgaming.net
- Elected to the panel of judges for "Browser Game of theYear" award 2009 which is one of the largest German gaming portals.
Newest Client
http://www.co2neutralwebsite.com (Danish Government Sponsored Program)
steve@co2neutrawebsite.com
Contact me for more information on how to reduce your website carbon footprint.
Personal Projects
New projects on the go:
- Marketing solutions for numerous web hosting companies
- Advertising and campaign management for various web hosting oriented companies.
- shoppingcartforum.com
- jotnotes.com
Planning to start:
- ecogastronomie.com
- ecohotellerie.com/ecohoteliers.com
Most notable past employers/Clientele
Webhosting.com (Employer)
Webhosting.Net (Employer)
Ecommerce.com (Employer and Client)
Lockheed Martin (Client)
Kinko's (Client)
2010 - 2011- Understanding and identifying business issues and challenges of client's organization and industry by finding strengths and weaknesses and make suggestions for areas of improvement.
- Identifying areas where changes are needed in business models and then monitoring the impact of the change as per business profit of the firm.
- Extensive knowledge of emerging industry practices when solving business problems
- Develop relationships with client and foster client ties.
- Continually seeks opportunities to increase customer satisfaction and deepen client relationships. ie. Forging vertical market partnerships
- Acting as an interface between client, development teams and support teams