Rick Barron

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Podcast Producer and Story Teller @ California, United States
California, United States
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San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
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About Rick Barron

Identified by Linkedin as one of the top 5% most viewed LinkedIn profiles for 2018. SUMMARY:• Host of THATS LIFE I SWEAR podcast. Write scripts for all episodes, monitor content calendar to project manage schedules. Edit all audios via Audacity. Time management for episodes and publish on weekly basis. Provide various categories to cover wide breath of content for my genres: Society & Culture. Audience is global covering countries such Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, Australia, United States, and more.• Contributing writer for DIGITAL DOUGHNUT in the United Kingdom [https://goo.gl/EeY6mP], also published on Flipboard• Contributing writer via articles and postings covering various social media categories, podcasting, content strategy and more on Twitter and LinkedIn platforms • Organized, self-motivated, and energetic leader and problem solver with 15+ years of project management experience covering small/large scale projects on both a domestic and global level• Project managed 100+ social media event strategies for both domestic and global over 7 year period• Led blogging editorial calendar team sessions covering upcoming events, software launches, customer guest writers, and case studies• Authored over 100+ blog articles dealing with topics covering web design, usability studies, software launches, pre, and post-trade shows• Skilled in managing editorial calendar covering content for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn for one to two month rolling window• Created and published Product Enterprise newsletter on a bi-monthly basis, and grew from 400 subscribers to 31,000 within a 3 year periodSTRENGTHS• Project planning, risk analysis, evaluating the scope of work, and anticipation of potential problems• Consensus building among diverse groups of people• Collaborate effectively with tact and diplomacy• Strong tolerance for ambiguity, can quickly change direction without loss of focus• Drive cross-functional teams to achieve time, quality and cost schedules• Content writer across various platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram and Digital DoughnutIf you would like to discuss my experiences in more detail or request my resume for more detailed information, please feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn, or email me directly: ✉rick.barron@gmail.com

Rick Barron's Current Company Details
That's Life, I Swear

That'S Life, I Swear

Podcast Producer and Story Teller
California, United States
Rick Barron Work Experience Details
  • That'S Life, I Swear
    Podcast Producer And Story Teller
    That'S Life, I Swear
    California, United States
  • That'S Life, I Swear
    Podcast Producer
    That'S Life, I Swear Jul 2021 - Present
    Host for podcast: That's Life, I Swear: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com/Key responsibilities • Project manage all aspects of production/conception/final production• Gather content from publications, libraries, interaction with people for possible storylines• Analyze episode performance data/measure viewer response or not. • Write draft scripts for all episode/interview productions to achieve equitable time duration• Weave in key moments with music/sound effects to enhance the listening experience• Ensure audio/storyline episodes are highly engaging, released on time, and at highest quality• Utilize storyteller skills to craft stories that are engaging/emotionally satisfying to the audience• Conduct data research that supports episodes to enhance the credence of the storyline • Conduct audio editing, removal of unnecessary noise, ensure timing of audio sequencing using software, Audacity• Maintain editorial 52 week calendar cadence • Schedule/pre-interview guests, plus Podcast Interview packet: prepared scripts/intros/questions/goal objectives• Research for interesting/relevant topics, such as trending news, keyword data and social listening covering various genres for podcast episodes• Track various Podcast communities to stay current with best practices and podcasting technologies to utilize with future publishing• Proficient in Audacity to conduct audio recording and best practices for audio editing• Proficient in Riverside software for interview podcasts• A.I. user of OpenAI/ChatGPT, Google/Gemini & Anthropic\Claude.ai• Promote/share episodes through Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X [Twitter]Podcast covers life’s happenings in this world that conjures up such words as complicated, intriguing, frightening, life-changing, inspiring, and more. Thoughts and perspectives cover politics, climate change, human behavior, people’s beliefs, overcoming obstacles and more. WEBSITE: https://www.thatslifeiswear.com/
  • Micro Focus
    Communities Manager
    Micro Focus Sep 2019 - May 2020
    Newbury, Berkshire, Gb
    Evangelist for Micro Focus for online communities for Application Development Management to help position customers for success with our products. Help manage and oversee multiple "neighborhoods" within online communities that are organized around groups of products and solutions. Facilitate with product teams, marketing teams, support representatives and other internal stakeholders to build meaningful content, action customer needs, and create customer engagement.Responsibilities - Domestic/Globally:• Manage and interacted daily with seven community discussion boards• Support our "Knowledge Partner Program" day to day by building relationships, tracking metrics, and connecting software experts with in-house teams• Managed growing user community via working with the Retention Marketing Manager to attract new users, author forum posts, and coordinate responses (and respond ) to customer questions• Developed and drove processes to manage the Knowledge Partner community program towards world-class social media practice, web structure, newsletters both internal and external, including planning, calendaring, creative development, publishing, moderation, reporting, and readouts.• Pulled Lithium monthly community metric reports, analyzed and make recommendations based on findings• Run editorial calendar for 14 internal and external newsletters promoting Knowledge Partner Communities• Develop a holistic global content strategy to manage social media efforts. Understand core audiences and how to leverage social media via social listening, thereby learn the why, where and how these conversations are happening, and what people think to influence and capture mindshare• Interact with legal to ensure Knowledge Partner Community program is in compliance with established guides and policies
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  • Automation Anywhere
    Sr. Manager - Social Media Producer [Short Term Contract]
    Automation Anywhere Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Primary Duties• Research industry-related topics• Prepare well-structured drafts using digital publishing platforms on social channels• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and cross-functional partners to create, support, and execute campaigns and initiatives across social channels, ensuring content adheres to a consistent voice and brand guidelines• Interview industry professionals and incorporate their views in social media posts• Edit and proofread written pieces before publication• Conduct keyword research and use SEO guidelines to optimize content• Promote content on social networks and monitor engagement (e.g. comments and shares)• Identify customers’ needs and recommend new topics• Managed 60-day rolling social editorial calendars and content development• Measure web traffic to content (e.g. conversion and bounce rates)• Social Tools: Wrike, Zoom, EveryoneSocial, Hootsuite, Sprinklr, SproutSocial, and WhatsApp
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  • Hewlett Packard Enterprise
    Sr. Social Media Manager
    Hewlett Packard Enterprise Nov 2015 - Nov 2017
    Houston, Texas, Us
    NOTE: HPE Software acquired by Micro Focus Sept./2017. Laid Nov./2017 as part of a restructuring. Project managed social media objectives within HPE Software’s mobile communications. Responsibilities revolved with engaging and building relationships with cross-functional teams and stakeholders (Product, Engineering, Marketing, etc.) to ensure content requirements are implemented and help facilitate the coordination, execution of corporate branding, event management, community management of highly visible brands, products, and servicesMain activities and responsibilities: • Facilitate definition of project scope, goals, key deliverable's, while elevating the brand voice over companies social media platforms• Authored/published monthly social media newsletter covering events, social media best practices, and more, reaching an audience of 300+. Used newsletter as leverage to hold social media brown bag sessions to educate the department on utilizing social to it's best potential.• Attended 25 small/large events and produced live social media content, including photography at events and on campus to capture daily life and or special milestone events.• Collaborated with others across the company to develop and execute creative content, engagement, and measurement efforts for HPE's social media platforms• Increased followers base on 2 HPE Twitter accounts by 21% during 2016 • Monitor editorial calendar covering blogs, webinars, @HPE_ALM and @HPE_LoadRunner Twitter handles• Author articles for HPE ALM blog site covering mobile, performance engineering, and key events• Orchestrate content strategy for quarterly HPE Applications Product Newsletter building 30000+ subscribers over a 3 year period and growing• Social Tools: Asana, EveryoneSocial, Hootsuite, Skype, Sprinklr, SproutSocial, and WhatsApp• Experience in digital marketing, social media, corporate branding, event management, community management of highly visible brands, products, and services.
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  • Hp
    Social Media Program Manager
    Hp Mar 2013 - Oct 2015
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    I ran the project management objectives within HP Software’s innovative mobile and social media channels. My role involves work across a combination of tactical and strategic projects being executed across marketing, RnD, User Experience, marketing, events; helping facilitate coordination, execution, and completion of specific projects to ensure consistency with the group’s strategy, commitments, and goals. Interacted with global team members [Israel, United Kingdom, and China] to project manage product software launches, marketing efforts about our products and services for customers. Main activities and responsibilities: • Drove the increase of traffic, engagement, and demand for the HP Software IT Experts Community through increasing internal adoption, deep analysis of key metrics and KPIs, and strategic editorial planning. • Managing ongoing project DevOps Share Day event. Coordinate scheduling of 10-12 presenters, schedule time/dates worldwide, for each month during 2014-2016, and publish results on Jive• Authored 60 articles/year for HPE ALM blog site covering mobile, performance engineering• Built reports and evangelizing success metrics with key stakeholders, along with 'what if' thinking• Responsible for social media channel strategy and day-to-day management, partnering with communications, demand generation, brand, sales, and recruiting teams to source, create and publish social content. Always optimizing efforts to maximize reach, engagement, and conversion on content.
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  • Symantec
    Sr. Digital Marketing/Social Media Project Manager
    Symantec May 2012 - Sep 2012
    San Jose, California, Us
    The Fuse team works inside Symantec’s Consumer Business Unit [E-Store]. This team was solely focused on the online channel and rapidly bringing new Norton products and services to market, specifically in the mobile space. Fuse is inherently aggressively collaborative and frenetically evangelical in its communication across the organization. Fuse team responsibilities include: • Viral product feature and flow design • Mobile In-App Analytics, • Mobile App Markets Management • SEO, SEM, Social Media, Affiliates, Design, Website Development, Reporting and Analytics •Owned and managed all aspects of social media program — from strategy and planning to copywriting and graphics requests — for Symantec’s Consumer Business Unit •Partnered with the Creative team to create top-notch, social-first graphics and videos to build engagement and followership•Supervised all aspects of social media interaction between customers and the company to ensure a positive customer service experience•Maintained detailed social media calendars plus regular reporting and analysis•Acted as the social media strategist on cross-functional teams, creating and executing social strategies for campaigns, product launches, research reports and announcements•Ensured brand consistency in copy through tone, voice and terminology, and scale the brand through social•Drafted and managed monthly social calendars to be in sync with broader corporate and global marketing initiatives•Created actionable plans to grow followership and engagement across all social media sites•Developed creative strategies to build the Symantec’s Consumer Business Unit brand and draw prospective customers •Worked with the Internal Communications team to leverage the employee social sharing program to amplify news coverage, company announcements and more•Engaged with departments and individuals worldwide to ensure social needs were met 24x7x365
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  • Motorola Mobility (A Lenovo Company)
    Sr. Digital Marketing/Social Media Project Manager
    Motorola Mobility (A Lenovo Company) May 2010 - Nov 2011
    Chicago, Illinois, Us
    The Ecosystem and Market Development team within Motorola Mobility, is responsible for building and supporting a developer ecosystem to drive innovation on Motorola products and for ensuring a unified developer experience. At the center of this developer experience is MOTODEV the Motorola developer network which engages and empowers developers to create "must-have" experiences for Motorola customers globally. The MOTODEV brand offers a complete range of programs and services to influence and accelerate the delivery of compelling third-party applications. NOTE: Company was aquired by Google in August of 2011.• Created, designed and executed MOTODEV programs that effectively attract, and engage application developers at all experience levels, to deliver Android apps and services for Motorola smartphones and tablets.• Strategized and implement overall website structure, navigation and user interaction models that drove mobile developers toward application delivery. Manage/track all content updates to ensure that content is fresh and accurate across the site. • Track/measure all online developer programs and marketing campaigns from end-to-end. Ensure proper use of tracking codes, provide appropriate interim reporting via Google Analytics throughout campaigns and a final summary report to marketing teams, including recommendations for future optimizations and improvements. • Own day-to-day online content and communications planning including website launches and updates, email campaigns, events, and monthly newsletter via the editorial calendar. Provide stakeholders with regular updates on scheduled activities. Drive web project plans, task owners to ensure deliverables are met for either small/large scale.• Interfaced with Community Program Manager to co-manage social media projects [Facebook, Twitter, Linedin] to engage with customers marketing MOTODEV online content, events, webinars and communications.
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  • Cisco
    Web Strategist [Contracting]
    Cisco Aug 2008 - Oct 2009
    San Jose, Ca, Us
    Project manager dealing with day-to-day assignments leading web marketing strategy and development for Federal and Educational web sites. Drove Web 2.0 [Twitter, blogging, Facebook, web personalization, etc.] innovations through products/solutions/partners. Engaged with User Experience team as needed on design enhancements and navigation.• Created and project managed editorial calendar for updating and refreshing content to maximize such areas as SEO, inbound web traffic. • Established and deliver web metrics to clients covering various web pages, product launches, podcasts, and webinars, on a quarterly basis.• Project managed various web programs covering web redesigns, innovations and pilots. • Consulted with clients for Federal, State & Local, U.S. Education, and Federal mobile web sites to identify goals and provide recommendations to reach their objectives. Project managed numerous projects both a large/small scale.
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  • Sun Microsystems
    Sr. Web Technology Project Manager
    Sun Microsystems Jan 2008 - Aug 2008
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    As project manager, dealt with implementation and managing of technical operation projects for external sales groups and internal marketing. Manage specific projects and day-to-day assignments such as tracking deliverables and web analytics. Responsibilities included : • Web technology project management. • Driving action items on tasks to closure with timely, thorough, and practical solutions. • Operational support for stakeholders and internal web team. • Work with Global Resolution Center, IT, and internal web groups as needed to resolve issues. • Project managed high level specifications, translated into business requirements and working with technical teams to final delivery. • Drive and execute improved analysis and management of technical processes. • Deliver monthly metrics, utilizing web based [Omniture] analytics tools and report generation tools. • Create and managing service levels and SPA (Service Profile Agreements). • Manage department Wiki [Confluence].
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  • Logitech
    Internet Marketing Manager [Contracting]
    Logitech Jul 2006 - Jan 2007
    San Jose, California, Us
    As an integral part of the World Wide Internet Marketing Management Team, I was the project manager interfacing with the AMR Internet Marketing Group that developed Internet activities that supported and enhanced the AMR local sales and marketing efforts and opportunities. • Lead ongoing optimization and development of AMR's web sites and activities.• Champion Logitech's Online Brand identity within the Region.• Maintain the "strategic vision" of internet programs by defining and implementing the program's functional design.• Project managed six product teams to migrate over to new web templates resulting from working with outside vendor.• Provide direction on internet activities and product launches to AMR Internet Marketing team.• Worked on key web programs, develop and managed on-line programs and sites.• Facilitate continuing content development and ensure consistency of web site via CMS [content management system].
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  • Chandos Designs
    Consulting
    Chandos Designs Feb 2004 - Jun 2006
    Consult customers in determining needs for building of web sites.• Assess customer requirements for areas such as graphics, color, content placement and navigation.• Create wireframe prototypes and/or storyboards to track, analyze proposed web page concepts.• Assist on usability studies, gather customer feedback and provide results to clients.
  • Sun Microsystems
    Global Project Manager/Executive Web Producer - Web Marketing
    Sun Microsystems Nov 1999 - Sep 2003
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Led web strategies, launches, competitive analysis and delivery of marketing/software content across two key corporate web sites, Partner and Developers. Evangelized/led 11 web usability studies measuring pre/post data. Utilized storyboards, wireframes and paper mockups to validate/invalidate hypotheses. Provided consulting as a web strategist.• Created/led monthly web domestic/global meetings dealing with web efficiencies such as corporate trademark policies, legal, copyrights, and publishing. Other topics covered marketing site direction, messaging, promotions and customer needs derived from ‘web market awareness’ meetings.• Orchestrated kick off sessions and lead the project team in business requirement definition and project planning. • Proactively started web market awareness building dialogue sessions with marketing/software. Sessions covered conceptualizing web layouts, architecture, and to be 'unique' in thinking while implementing user oriented visual design solutions across marketing/software web sites.
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  • Sun Microsystems
    Sr. Project Manager - Multimedia & Documentation
    Sun Microsystems May 1996 - Nov 1999
    Palo Alto, Ca, Us
    Managed and directed startup of cd multimedia programs department. Media provided customers with visual and documentation to guide in the removal/replacement of FRU’s [Field Replaceable Units].• Project managed/scheduling of 7 multimedia programs with budget ranges of $60K-$90K.• Interfaced with multimedia vendors in setting up quotes, evaluation and selection for production runs. Weekly interaction with cross-functional teams involving engineering and documentation/graphics. • Managed assigned projects according to plan, defining and managing critical path milestones, owning issues lists, evaluating risks and developing contingency plans.
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Rick Barron Skills

Agile Project Management Web Project Management Scrum Extreme Project Management Html Internet Marketing Strategy Website Redesign Online Content Creation Online Marketing Seo Social Media Social Media Marketing Android Usability Studies Release Management Project Management Online Advertising Web Marketing Powerpoint Web Design Cross Functional Team Leadership Program Management Web Analytics Project Planning User Experience Usability Testing Strategy Email Marketing Digital Marketing Analytics Competitive Analysis Start Ups Agile Methodologies Mobile Applications Web Development

Rick Barron Education Details

  • Stanford Continuing Studies
    Stanford Continuing Studies
    Art 21 From Idea To Launch: Create And Produce Your Own Podcast
  • Stanford Continuing Studies
    Stanford Continuing Studies
    Com 84 Communicate With Impact And Purpose
  • University Of California, Santa Cruz
    University Of California, Santa Cruz
    Project Management
  • San José State University
    San José State University
    Business/Marketing

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Rick Barron works for That's Life, I Swear

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Rick Barron's current role is Podcast Producer and Story Teller.

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Rick Barron's email address is rick.barron@hp.com

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Rick Barron attended Stanford Continuing Studies, Stanford Continuing Studies, University Of California, Santa Cruz, San José State University.

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Rick Barron has skills like Agile Project Management, Web Project Management, Scrum, Extreme Project Management, Html, Internet Marketing Strategy, Website Redesign, Online Content Creation, Online Marketing, Seo, Social Media, Social Media Marketing.

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