Charles Custer Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Analyzing data and creating content of all sorts!

Over the years I've done everything from long-form investigative journalism to running the social media accounts for an NPR show to producing videos and motion graphics for a major research lab.These days I don't freelance much, but I still do the occasional animated explainer video here and there to keep my skills sharp!

New York, Ny, Us

Researched, wrote, and published all seven of the top seven blog posts by traffic over the past year. Consistently produced technical content that performs well on search engines and gets views with clients as part of our B2B sales cycle.Wrote and produced both live-action and animated videos, including Cockroach Labs’s top two most-viewed videos on Youtube over the past year (and several others in the top ten).Wrote and edited sales-driving long-form content, including multiple O’Reilly reports as well as in-house projects including the 2022 Cloud Report and 2024 Multi-Cloud Report.Drove company SEO strategy, including conducting research and building custom reports with Python to analyze content performance and highlight opportunities.(Data as of mid-2023)

San Francisco, California, Us

Plan and execute on- and off-page SEO strategy to support company goals and KPIs. Analyze and report on results. Create a variety of content including technical blog posts, sales-focused email campaigns, B2B whitepapers, animated videos, live-action videos, social media posts, images, gifs, and more!

San Francisco, California, Us

Singapore, Sg

Current position: Completely self-produce explainer animation videos and interview videos. Manage documentary video team, including everything from budgeting to editing, motion graphics, story development, miscellaneous post-production work, etc. Previous position: Wrote, animated, and edited social media videos for Tech in Asia with contributions averaging OVER 2 MILLION VIEWS per quarter. Planned and executed new video content strategies. Before that: reported, wrote, edited, and posted more than 3,200 articles on Asia's tech scene, covering everything from games to social media to green tech.

Responsible for all English-language website content, online promotions, social networking integration and promotions, multimedia content including video, digital magazine versions, and multimedia Chinese learning content, managing the department staff, etc.Editor responsible for magazine content, web content and development, as well as planning and editing book publications for the Commericial Press.

Teach Chinese (and Comparative World Cultures), coach Soccer and Kayaking, supervise dormitory.

Advising Exploration Teachers on Curriculum and Teaching

Teach English to students at all levels and advise and observe new teachers.

Teach ESL.

Tutored fellow Brown students in subjects such as Chinese language.

Teach and advise teachers.