Chris Cooning:

Los Angeles, CA.

about

All-terrain, veteran problem solver: Designing and building content and marketing technology solutions based on insightful data to increase business ROI.


Solid track record of helping tailor growth, innovation, and scaling strategies for companies of all sizes, across a full spectrum of industries.


skills
PRODUCT LAUNCH
MARKETING
ANALYTICS
DESIGN
DEVELOPMENT


work

experience
nov 2017 — present
Product Marketing Manager McKenna Engineering — Los Angeles, CA

Building strategy, sales funnels, and cross channel campaigns to attract, acquire, retain, and build relationships with customers and manufacturers across a digital landscape.

May 2016 — present
Product Development & Marketing (Founder) Deepwater Design - Monterey, CA

Owns a web product and marketing consultancy created to help clients build web/mobile applications and digital marketing solutions using innovative practices in analysis and reporting, targeting and personalization, A/B testing and optimization, customer insight building, internal process building, and social strategy.

Nov 2012 — May 2016
Lead Developer / Product Manager OMG Media Group — Monterey, CA

Established an ecosystem of SaaS applications to support digital marketing campaigns and business operations within the agricultural, entertainment event, destination marketing, and healthcare industries.

Nov 2010 — Nov 2012
SysAdmin L3 Communications — Monterey, CA

Migrated 6000+ users from .gov to .edu environment while supporting IT operations at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center.

Nov 2009 — Nov 2010
Junior UI/UX Designer L3 Communications — Monterey, CA

Created interfaces and media assets for an online learning platform used by 3 letter agencies. Designed for localization to allow multiple RTL and LTR languages including keyboard input support.

May 2008 — Oct 2009
Business Development Intern Boeing — Huntington Beach, CA

Assisted with business development activities for the US Army's Future Combat Systems modernization program by giving product demonstrations and presentations to high-ranking US government and military officials.


education

My beginnings with technology began long before I cracked open a book on the subject. It started with a natural love for learning, a deep curiosity of how things work, and an IBM 286 computer that my father brought home in 1990.


With a few Post-it notes hand-scribbled with DOS commands by my father, I was hooked...


Soon after, the World Wide Web became publicly available and by 1994 I was participating on forum discussions covering topics related to graphic design and web development.


After learning everything I could about graphic design and web development on internet forums in the early days of the internet. I published my first website at age 12. At 16, I was commissioned to build a site for a business for the first time. The website sucked, but I was pumped.


I eventually did make it into a classroom to study the craft as a student at Cal State Monterey Bay, but focused my studies on business to be able to translate what I already knew about technology to the people and companies who it could help.


What matters to me most now is bridging the gap.


The rest is history…

2004-2009
California State University, Monterey Bay - Monterey, CA
B.S. Business Administration


contact

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Available for Freelance Projects.

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