Resume

💼 Work Experience

Jan 21st 2015
SEO - Web Builder at PlanMC2, Paseo Colón, San José, Costa Rica.
Present

 

Oct 2015
Freelance Works
to Dec 2015
Design of logos, icons, images for popular WordPress plugins like Polylang and YASR, and the logo for an alternative Rock band from L.A. California called Vice Vega. Recreation of a logo, creation of a newsletter and flyer for AdCandy.

Apr 16th 2015
Web & Graphic Designer and Social Media Manager (SMM), at ASB506 Solutions, Escazú.
to Sep 23rd 2015
Responsibilities
  • Creation & maintenance of WP websites for affiliates (handicappers) who sell sports picks. I implemented a membership platform where the content is protected and exclusive for their clients.
  • Design of regular sports game images for a slider of a sportsbook website.
  • Branding for handicappers: logo, images for social media, business cards, and animated web banners
  • Management of social media accounts of an online sportsbook and a review website
  • Regular posting of content and images about sports, and important sports games
  • Design of regular HTML newsletters for clients & management of contact databases
  • SEO optimization for several websites and translation of documents as necessary

Oct 15th 2014
Web & Graphic Designer and Social Media Manager at BB Casino and Sportsbook, Escazú.
to Apr 15th 2015
Responsibilities
  • Creation & maintenance of WP websites for affiliates (handicappers) who sell sports picks. I implemented a membership platform where the content is protected and exclusive for their clients
  • Design of sports game images for a slider of a sportsbook website.
  • Branding for handicappers: logo, images for social media, business cards, and animated web banners
  • Management of social media accounts of an online sportsbook and other companies.
  • Regular posting of content and images about sports, and important sports games
  • Design of regular HTML newsletters for clients & management of contact databases
  • SEO optimization for several websites and translation of documents as necessary

Jun 6th 2013
SEO, Social Media Manager, Web & Graphic Designer and Translator at NI/BAI, Escazú.
to Apr 15th 2015
Note: BB Casino and Sportsbook, NI and BAI belong/ed to the same person, that is why the job termination date is the same.
Responsibilities
  • SEO optimization for a real estate website which I managed to get it from Google results page #10 to page #1 and position #3 with the keyword “casas en Escazu”
  • Web/content management and SEO optimization for two real estate websites, and BAI website
  • Design of brochures, PowerPoint presentations, business cards, print and online ads for magazines, newspapers and animated banners for websites, as well as menus for a restaurant
  • Management of social media accounts of NI, BAI, and a restaurant
  • Regular posting and ad/promotion campaigns
  • Translation of informative documents and newsletters
  • Creation, and scheduling of HTML newsletters for especial events, as well as management of big contact databases

May, 2012
SEO Link Builder at Host PPH, Escazú.
to Jun 2013
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for creating quality links through blogs, article & press release submission sites, directories and socialbookmarks.
  • To search for multiple blogs with a Google PageRank higher than 0
  • To understand and use Google search operators or commands to make specific word searches
  • To find relative blogs on a specific topic and test them any kind of blogs for possible link building
  • To make reliable comments related to the blog topics with the keywords and URLs provided by the SEO expert on charge
  • To find good article and press release sites to create accounts, author profiles in order to post articles with backlinks in the content
  • To review and correct the given articles to make sure that the grammar, mechanics, and coherence were appropriate
  • To use of directories and social bookmarks to submit the links provided by the SEO expert
  • To do daily Excel reports on the quantity of backlinks, comments/articles/directories with notes or comments about the problems encountered
  • To train the new work partners on the link building techniques, processes, and tricks

Oct 2011
Freelance Graphic Design Work at Datasteam Technologies Ltd, Greece.
and Mar 2013
Responsibilities
  • Creation of 14 customized alphabets; jewelry items, animated Christmas graphics and some other precious objects for the social game ArenaXtreme.
  • Creation of the same alphabets but with a bigger size, and other graphics with a transparency for the game called Friends for Sale Ng.

Aug 10th, 2010
SEO Link Builder at Softgrupo, Santa Ana.
to Jan 13th 2012
Responsibilities
  • Responsible for creating quality links through blogs, article & press release submission sites, directories and socialbookmarks.
  • To search for multiple blogs with a Google pagerank higher than 0
  • To understand and use Google search operators or commands to make specific word searches
  • To find relative blogs on a specific topic and test them any kind of blogs for possible link building
  • To make reliable comments related to the blog topics with the keywords and URLS provided by the SEO expert on charge
  • To find good article and press release sites to create accounts, author profiles in order to post articles with backlinks in the content
  • To review and correct the given articles to make sure that the grammar, mechanics and coherence were appropriate
  • To use of directories and social bookmarks to submit the links provided by the SEO expert
  • To do daily Excel reports on the quantity of backlinks, comments/articles/directories with notes or comments about the problems encountered
  • To train the new work partners on the link building techniques, processes and tricks

May, 2010
Freelance Translator at InLingua, San Pedro.
to Jul 2010
Translation of some Clorox company documents and several sections of a Sony Ericsson’s Operator Manual from English to Spanish.

Feb 2010
Freelance Translator at Temenos, The Banking Software Company, Sabana.
to Mar 2010
Two freelance translation works of a banking software from English to Spanish.

Jun, 2009
Freelance Translator at InLingua, San Pedro.
Translation and subtitling of a video from English to Spanish.

Software

Photoshop - 90%
Illustrator - 85%
Logoist - 50%
PhotoImpact - 90%
WordPress - 90%
HTML - 90%
CSS - 75%
Adobe Dreamweaver (CC) - 80%
Sublime Text - 60%
HootSuite - 80%
Buffer - 95%
Pagemodo - 90%
SEO Tools - 70%
Google Analytics - 65%
Web Developer Tools - 85%
Microsoft Office - 90%
Apple iWork Suite - 70%
MailChimp - 85%
Constant Contact - 85%
GetResponse - 65%
SendinBlue - 95%

🎓 Education Background

Aug 15th 2015
Front-End Developer Introduction at La 404 Digital Academy, Sabana.
Oct 24th 2015

2014
Training Sessions on the Latest SEO & Social Media trends at Marketing Nomads, Pavas.

Jul 2012
Graphic Design and Webmaster SEO at Centro Nacional de Capacitación, San José.
to Jan 2013

Mar 2005
B. A. in English, Emphasis in Translation at University of Costa Rica (UCR), Montes de Oca.
to Dec 2009

Mar 2003
Library Scienceat University of Costa Rica (UCR), Montes de Oca.
to Dec 2004

Jun 2002
Computers Repair Course at Instituto Jiménez, San José.
to Oct 2002

Feb, 1997
High School at Lic. Monseñor Rubén Odio Herrera, Desamparados.
to Dec 2001

Fields

  • Social Media
  • SEO
  • Graphic Design
  • Web Design
  • English
  • Translation
  • Computer Repair
Alexander López Pérez