Rob Hammond

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Professional Services Director EMEA at BrightEdge @ BrightEdge
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London, England, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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About Rob Hammond

Award-winning technologist with over 20 years experience in web tech, search & SEO, web analytics, BI and big data.As a key member of the Professional Services innovation team at BrightEdge I have worked on a wide range of projects at the leading edge of search. At BrightEdge I have also built prototypes for several features that have become integrated into the core software platform.Over 5 years at Trinity Mirror/Reach PLC, I led the SEO team, shortlisted for best in-house SEO team at the 2016 UK Search Awards. Our team worked across dozens of national and regional news websites and drove SEO best practices and technical SEO improvements. I worked closely with the product, engineering and editorial teams, and was involved in a wide range of projects, including the launch of AMP, a large-scale web analytics migration, and the Trust Project initiative.During this time I created a 3x award-winning editorial analytics platform 'HiveAlpha', that played a crucial role in democratising data across Trinity Mirror, allowing easy access to key BI metrics across publications. With dozens of publications, thousands of daily articles, and millions of pageviews, HiveAlpha led to productivity gains, greater focus on performance metrics, and was used every day by hundreds of internal users across editorial, SEO and product teams.

Rob Hammond's Current Company Details
BrightEdge

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Professional Services Director EMEA at BrightEdge
Rob Hammond Work Experience Details
  • Brightedge
    Professional Services Director Emea
    Brightedge Jan 2019 - Present
    Foster City, Ca, Us
    As Professional Services Director EMEA I have made an impact at BrightEdge across a wide range of projects.Working on a variety of problems including information and systems architecture, ETL pipelines for big data, data analysis and reporting, AI and automation.I have prototyped a large number of tools and projects, many used by our most important clients, and some of which have graduated into BrightEdge's core platform.Key technologies I work with include DBT, BigQuery, Kubernetes, Cloud Functions, Python, Redis, RabbitMQ, LangChain, PostGres, Node.js, Looker, Looker Studio, and many, many more.Named 'Professional Services Innovator of the Year' in 2019 and 2023.
  • Trinity Mirror Plc
    Head Of Seo
    Trinity Mirror Plc Feb 2014 - Jan 2019
    Leading SEO strategy at the UK's largest news publisher, across dozens of national and regional news websites, including Mirror.co.uk, Manchester Evening News and Liverpool Echo, with collectively over 70 million monthly unique search visitors. In 5 years at Trinity Mirror / Reach PLC, I helped to shape a strong SEO strategy and build a highly regarded SEO team. Beyond this I created an award-winning in-house editorial analytics platform HiveAlpha, and more:- Helped to drive strong growth in SEO each year, growing above target and outperforming all other referral sources- Defined editorial & technical SEO strategy and delivered it through training & best practices, event planning, workflow efficiencies, and project managing CMS improvements and website changes- Built up a strong SEO team; won an internal award for best team, and was shortlisted for "Best In-house Team" at the 2016 UK Search Awards- Took on 100 additional sites with Trinity Mirror's acquisition of Local World in December 2015, and managed dozens of website migrations and mergers- Contributor to the cross-publisher "Trust Project" forum, aiming to build trust between reputable publishers, search & social platforms and users- Active participant in several hack days run by the BBC, Facebook and ran an internal hack day on chat bots- Created an award-winning analytics and productivity platform HiveAlpha. Initially built to cover shortcomings in SEO reports, and progressed to be used as a critical tool by hundreds of journalists, editors, search, social, commercial & legal users across Trinity Mirror/Reach PLC- Leading the strategy and execution of a large scale migration of over 50 digital news websites from Adobe Analytics to Google Analytics 360- Worked closely with the Product and engineering teams, acting as Product Manager for Distributed Platforms (off-site platforms such as AMP, Apple News & Instant Articles)
  • Telegraph Media Group
    Head Of Seo
    Telegraph Media Group Mar 2013 - Feb 2014
    London, Gb
    Leading SEO strategy and implementation across Telegraph.co.uk spanning editorial, commercial and advertorial content.
  • Annalect Group
    Search Technology Director
    Annalect Group Jul 2012 - Mar 2013
    New York, Ny, Us
    Promoted to Annalect (a division of Omnicom) to lead & project manage the development of in-house search technology projects for agency-wide use in both natural and paid search campaigns. Helping to drive efficiency through automation and better use of technology.
  • Omd Group
    Seo Director
    Omd Group Jan 2011 - Jul 2012
    London, Gb
    Promoted to leading strategy & direction of the SEO offering across OMD Group agencies, improving our offering, and helping to grow new business through winning new clients such as Alamo & National car rental, along with working across key clients such as McDonalds, Eurotunnel, EasyJet and more
  • Manning Gottlieb Omd
    Seo Account Director
    Manning Gottlieb Omd Jan 2010 - Feb 2011
    Promoted to lead the SEO team at Manning Gottlieb OMD, working on new business pitches and RFPs, playing a key role in growing SEO business across OMD Group
  • Omd Group [Uk]
    Seo Strategist
    Omd Group [Uk] Jul 2008 - Jan 2010
    London, Gb
    Working in a small team on a newly formed SEO offering within OMD Group. This role involved conducting technical SEO Audits, Keyword Research and Competitive Analysis deliverables, along with new business support and internal advocacy of SEO as a new department within the agency.
  • Victor Connect
    Marketing Manager
    Victor Connect May 2007 - Jun 2008
    SEO work for a number of websites in the telecommunications niche, and providing SEO consultancy services for a number of small firms.Project management of outsourced development of several music websites, along with some hands on development using PHP, Perl & MySQL.
  • Music Sales Ltd
    Sheetmusicdirect.Com Marketing Manager
    Music Sales Ltd 2005 - 2007
    New York, Ny, Us
    Initiated and managed the online marketing for the site sheetmusicdirect.com, including SEO, PPC, affiliates and email marketing campaigns.
  • Department For Constitutional Affairs
    Web Officer
    Department For Constitutional Affairs Sep 2004 - Apr 2005
    Gb
    Temporary position, coding and converting Tribunals websites to comply with W3C AAA accessibility standards.

Rob Hammond Skills

Seo Web Analytics Analytics Sem Ppc Perl Usability Information Architecture Javascript Project Management Mysql Information Retrieval Php Online Marketing Accessibility Css Jquery Agile Project Management Conversion Optimization Wordpress Mongodb Elasticsearch Python Data Mining Html Linux Nginx Omniture Search Engine Optimization Search Engine Marketing Neuro Linguistic Programming Machine Learning Node.js Marketing Management Digital Strategy Digital Marketing Product Management

Rob Hammond Education Details

  • Academy Of Contemporary Music
    Academy Of Contemporary Music
    Music Business
  • Academy Of Contemporary Music
    Academy Of Contemporary Music
    Guitar
  • Ashcombe School
    Ashcombe School

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Rob Hammond's current role is Professional Services Director EMEA at BrightEdge.

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Rob Hammond attended Academy Of Contemporary Music, Academy Of Contemporary Music, Ashcombe School.

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