Jay Middleton Email & Phone Number

Founder of Jay Middleton Music LLC, a music company that creates and develops original music recordings and live performances with The Jay Middleton Band (JMB).

San Jose, Ca, Us

Tasked in 2006 with building Adobe a world-class global search marketing discipline from the ground up, centralizing operations to one WW agency partner in 2008 (through a global RFP) and then migrating everything 100% in-house in 2011.Built, trained, managed & mentored a 40 person in-house, global team to insource all aspects of Global Search Marketing (SEM, SEO, Site Search, Search Operations & Search Analytics):• Very close partnership with HR, Finance, Legal & Procurement. Project completed ahead of schedule & under-budget. In-house team increased ROI 215% by the end of year 1.• Migrated all data & analytics to the Adobe Media Optimizer platform including: APIs, data validation, QA, team platform trainings, custom dashboards, reporting & forecasting and set-up & refinement of the portfolios for automated bidding algorithms.• Co-Executive Sponsor (w/VP of Search Engineering) of Product Development project to build an internal Site Search Engine for Adobe.com including: gathering requirements & use cases, assigning engineering resources & tracking milestone progress through weekly scrum meetings.• Responsible for providing regular detailed input to the Product & Engineering teams including: product & platform feedback, product road map requests and team training & access to all beta releases.• Strong partnership with Sales including: developing case studies & thought leadership content for sales collateral and providing in-person support at many customer briefings/new business pitch meetings.• In 2008 drafted & drove a Global RFP to centralize agency support from 8 agencies down to one WW agency partner (AOR). 8-month process involving 29 top WW SEM agency RFP submissions. • Launched Adobe’s Global SEO discipline from the ground up, starting in 2007 with the first Global Site Audit in Adobe history & the formation of the Adobe SEO Council. • Responsible for developing the App Store Optimization (ASO) strategy & on-going optimization plan.

Responsible for all Search Marketing campaign management activities & client relations for advertising clients across multiple verticals.• Managed an end-to-end, full-service Client Services & Media team of 12.• Responsible for managing all daily search campaign deliverables and daily client interactions; also budget approvals & budget management, MSA/IO contract negotiations, weekly reporting/analysis and weekly client conference calls.• Blue Chip brand clients I have managed global SEM campaigns for include: Covad Communications, Sprint, Siebel Systems, Cisco, Honda, Polaroid, Business.com, TIAA-CREF, Fisher Investments, PlanetOut Inc., philosophy cosmetics, Dunkin’ Donuts, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Fox Films, Ironport, Steel Trace, Nautilus and Avalon Bay Properties. B2B Search Marketplace vertical expert.• Top Advertising Agencies I have managed search marketing efforts for (private label) include: Organic, Harte Hanks, Genex, Responsys, Starcom, Posner, CL&S, ID Media and BSSP (Butler, Shine, Stern and Partners).• Strong, close working relationships with all major search engine and media property vendors. Inclusion in cutting-edge beta projects including: Google Video, Google Print, Google pay-per-call, Google CPA Bidding, Google Branding & Awareness Study, IAB/Comscore Local Study, Yahoo pay-per-call, Yahoo Quick Links, Yahoo Panama Platform beta, MSN Ad Center beta and many more.• Strong relationships with Tier II search engine vendors including: Business.com, Ask.com, Miva, Kanoodle, Industry Brains, Lycos, Looksmart, and also with alternative Media outlets including Vibrant Media, Quigo, Ad Sonar, Ingenio and many more.• Worked with all major click tracking solutions (DART, Atlas and Mediaplex) and some custom tracking solutions.• Took my clients as first adopters onto Who’s Calling/Clickpath call tracking – spiked results +136% for Covad inbound calls.

Business Owner & Lead Singer of All Star Jukebox, a successful corporate party band playing hits from all eras at events & venues of all sizes across the US West Coast.• World-class musician line-up who have toured with Jefferson Starship, Tower of Power (2 founding members), Herbie Hancock, Sly & the Family Stone, The Funky Meters, KC & the Sunshine Band, Jean Luc Ponty & Tommy Castro.• Latoya London sang with the band for 3 years before she finished 4th on American Idol (3rd season w/Jennifer Hudson that Fantasia Barrino won). All Star Jukebox was interviewed & appeared on the show jamming with her at our studio.• Performed at many big corporate events for clients including: Microsoft (Build Conference closing night act), Google, Kaiser Permanente & Adobe (4 times).

Founder, Lead Singer, Songwriter & Business Manager of this successful 90’s original pop rock band.• The band’s song “She Said” off their second album "Mister Moon" hit #55 on the Top100 charts with a peak of 960 spins/week nationally. Album was produced by 5-time Grammy-winning Producer John Cuniberti (Joe Satriani).• Band also received local airplay on Live 105, KOME & KFOG (*featured on KFOG’s “Thursday Night Live” & also performed a 3-song live on-air set for “Acoustic Sunrise”). • Toured the US extensively & shared the stage with Train, Toots & the Maytalls, Booker T & the MGs, The Smithereens, Sublime, Blessid Union of Souls, Mother Hips & Greg Kihn.• Handled all contracts, finances, bookings, recordings, and US tour routing & logistics, including building a business plan and securing private investor funding for recordings, radio promotion & tour support.

Ba, Communications & Media (Film Minor)

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