BlackWaterOps

Chloe is the glue of BlackWaterOps, or the Grease?  She keeps us stuck together but also ensures we move smoothly.  Chloe is breather of fire, and knitter of things.  It would seem her life revolves around all things warm and wondrous.

Chloe manages the day to day operations of BlackWaterOps, and makes sure that the staff remembers to eat, shower, and get some sunshine from time to time.  She also organizes, arranges, schedules, and serves as Brandon’s personal Mary Poppins.

Brandon has been using SEO for fun and profit for nearly 10 years.  Brandon was an early adopter of blogging and social media.  He was one of the pioneers of Internet Video, and was part of several IPTV start-ups.  Through all of it he continued to make money online through monetizing his content and helping other with monetizing theirs.

In May of 2007 while working at Microsoft, Brandon tested his SEO metal for the first time against other SEO’s.  Jonah Stein created a race to be the Greatest Living American while visiting the Colbert Show.  Brandon quickly rose to the top and beat out 100’s of other SEO’s competing to make themselves, a client, or Steven Colbert the top hit for the term.

Brandon was a voting member on the SMPTE committee to ratify H.264 and VC-1. He was Microsoft’s first and only Windows Media Server MVP/User Evangelist. His background is varied by technology but has always been at the fore front of new media.

Brandon was also a Teacher at Stone Hebrew Academy, and a Director at Kimball Camp YMCA, these positions gave him strong background in education, and story telling.  This has made him a strong speaker, and an excellent presenter.

Charlize Kang brings her international marketing experience to BlackWaterOps. Charlize  is focused on helping clients understand and expand their business in Asia, and helping Asian business expand their business in to the West. She specializes in market research and competitor analysis, strategic entry planning, marketing plan development and implementation. 

She has worked with a number of international companies such as Heineken and most recently worked with Haworth and Meridiani to enter the Hawaii market.  In these roles she was in charge of event planning, target market identification, business development, sales forecasting and budgeting. While completing her MBA (concentrated in Marketing) at Hawaii Pacific University she developing market entry and business plans for clients that were presented to venture capital firms. 

Experience and strengths that Ms. Charlize offers her clients:

• Fluent in Mandarin and Taiwanese, with a working knowledge of Cantonese
• Market research, and business development for Asia market
• Customer profile research, identification and targeting
• Product, and service line analysis
• Competitor identification, analysis and positioning
• Working with clients to develop new products, and services, price distribution, sales force development, and communication strategies.
• Budget planning, plan implementation and evaluation
• Customer relationship management

Diz is the face of BlackWaterOps with a  soft voice, and bright smile she manages our relationship with the online world.  Diz is BlackWaterOps connection to the newest generation of Internet Users, she works to help us understand what the 20 something crowd’s are looking for, and helps us tune our messaging to reach this audience.  Diz also works with our partners and clients to understand what we can do for them.  Taking the complex and making it obtainable for the masses, she uses analogy, and her keen art of storytelling to make our messaging “work”.

BlackWaterOps is proud to have Jake Ludington as our EVP of Strategic Partner Relationships.  Jake brings his years of managing affiliates, affiliate aggregators, ad brokers, and PR Firms to BlackWaterOps.

Jake Ludington helps over 1,000,000 people answer their video and audio questions every month. From detailed tutorials on complicated video editing scenarios to finding useful tools for isolated problems, Jake provides ongoing research on the best methods for making Internet delivered video. A reasonably comprehensive list of Jake’s writing can be found by searching Google for Jake Ludington. Jake continues in the tradition of providing users with useful digital media focused content in his Digital Lifestyle publication, which is available for free subscription here.

Publisher and principle creative force behind Jake Ludington’s MediaBlab.
Reach over 1 million unique reader’s monthly through a combination of Web searches, email, and RSS.
Annual software sales in excess of $1 million
Industry expert on video compression, video editing, and consumer video cameras.
Consultant on live streaming and on demand audio and video delivery.