Mark Rippstein Email & Phone Number

Eagle, Co, Us

Eagle, Colorado, United States

Beaver Creek, Co

As one of the premier mountain experience brands, I worked part-time at Vail Resorts as a seasonal employee selling lift tickets at their Beaver Creek location. Key responsibilities:• Setup my sales environment (RPOS, GuestConnect, bank).• Discussed options with customers and sold the most appropriate product..• Worked as quickly as possible while accurately capturing data.• Closed my work environment (settle bank, restock, etc).

Casto Travel (San Jose, CA) - Travel company with a reputation for excellence that provided corporate, concierge, vacation, and group travel management services. Worked remotely as their primary marketing lead until their acquisition by Flight Centre in 2018.Highlights include:• Responsible for all marketing needs (particularly brand and local marketing).• Website ownership (including development of first-in-industry sales tools).• Social media leadership (including team management).• Cross-functional project leadership (including partner relations).• Member of their executive team.

Brandschenkestrasse 110, 8002 Zürich, Switzerland

Google Switzerland (Zurich, Switzerland) - European engineering headquarters of Google. Transferred to this location and became Google’s first international webmaster. Was promoted to Senior Webmaster in 2007 and was promoted to EMEA team manager in 2009.Highlights include:• Formed their first non-US based Webmaster team, which later turned into Google’s Brand Studio. Directly managed over 20 team members, including Program Managers, Web Architects, Designers, and Developers based in Dubai, London, New York and Zurich. Also assisted with the setup, hiring and oversight of their APAC teams (Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing). • My EMEA team was well managed and highly acclaimed, launching and maintaining several localized and global projects, including a complete revamp of our About Google corporate site (in over 30 languages) and the first Doodle 4 Google project (plus the subsequent automation processes).• Team ambassador to HQ and regional stakeholders. • Go-to lead for priority and unique requests as well as our design and code review processes (responsible for making sure that all incoming requests were assigned and efficiently handled while also meeting branding guidelines and making use of best practices for SEO and the user experience).• Developed and led our global on-call / emergency response initiative.

1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, Ca 94043, United States

Google Inc. (Mountain View, CA) - Multinational company specializing in organizing the world’s information. Started as a web specialist and was promoted to webmaster.Highlights include:• Launched brand microsites (Investor Relations; Google Checkout).• Managed priority web properties (Corporate; Google Video).• Led efforts to establish team’s first content management system.• Designed sales syndication and product mockups.

Zug, Switzerland

DSB Media (Zug, Switzerland) - International advertising agency (Holland, Germany, and Belgium) specializing in financial marketing.Key contributions as Web Specialist:• Designed, coded, managed, and analyzed several websites.• Researched and integrated ASP-based applications (forums, polls, surveys, newsletter management systems, calculators, guestbooks, etc).• Designed, managed and tracked email campaigns.Key contributions as IT Specialist:• Assisted in managing 16 PCs, 6 Macs, and 5 printers on a Novell network.• Helped employees to better understand and use various software programs.• Maintained network setup and procedures, including their first testing servers.

Santa Clara, California, United States

HelloBrain Corporation (Santa Clara, CA) - Online outsourcing marketplace for complex projects. The company further developed their core application into an enterprise level solution for large companies.Highlights include:• Webmaster for corporate website and intranet.• Designed presentation layer templates for web-based applications.• Web Producer for website enhancements, touch-ups and suggestions.• Performed marketing research.• Advised on best practices for user interface and HTML implementation.

Santa Clara, California, United States

HotBiz Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) - Online provider of integrated internet, intranet, and e-commerce applications for small businesses.Highlights include:• Managed client requirements and configured new accounts.• Created user-friendly technical documents for clients and internal use.• Designed layout and graphics for websites and collateral.• Performed marketing research (competitors, industry, web statistics).• Supervised international team of 4 designers (California and India).

Cupertino, California, United States

Scintag Inc. (Cupertino, CA) - Leading source for the design and manufacturing of x-ray diffraction instruments used primarily for research. Acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in 1999.Highlights include:• Assisted in merging the U.S. and Swiss MarComm departments.• Website Developer and Webmaster.• Designed and managed marketing collateral.• Managed multi-channel publishing material (web, print, CD).• Trained employees in computer and Internet literacy.• Coordinated trade show setups.

Cupertino, California, United States

Scintag Inc. (Cupertino, CA) - Leading source for the design and manufacturing of x-ray diffraction instruments used primarily for research. Worked part-time while attending university.Highlights include:• Created marketing collateral.• Produced and managed company website.• Provided IT / IS support.