shirantha Mendis, Digital Marketing Executive

shirantha Mendis

Digital Marketing Executive

Gulf News

Location
United Arab Emirates - Dubai
Education
Diploma, Digital Marketing Professional Program
Experience
18 years, 1 Months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months

Digital Marketing Executive at Gulf News
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • May 2017 to January 2019

Online ad campaign management. Ad testing and implementation, campaign set up, and delivery monitoring & optimization.
Conducting keyword research to optimise existing content and discover new opportunities.
Managing weekly, monthly reporting and tracking online
campaigns and reporting metrics.
Measure performance of digital advertising campaigns using Web
analytical tools.
Understand insight in digital marketing trends and help to develop the strategies.
Launch Programmatic E-mail marketing Campaigns.
Graphic support to create newsletters, promotional emails and
static / animated and HTML banners.

Pre-Press Coordinator at Gulf News
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • March 2012 to April 2017

Supervising and exercising quality control on different print publications.
Chasing ad materials from agencies and in-house studio.
Set production deadlines for Editorial and Marketing team.
Coordinating with editors, designers and with different departments on production workflow and make sure deadlines are met.
Image retouching and photo manipulation.
Coordinating with clients on special operations, if required.
Preparing final production reports.

Graphic Designer at GulfNews
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • April 2006 to February 2012

Design pages and advertisements for various magazines and supplements.
Create web banners and mock up creatives for sales presentations.

Graphic Designer at Dubai Marketing & Print LLC
  • United Arab Emirates - Dubai
  • January 2003 to March 2006

Design magazines, brochures, flyers, promotional gifts, P.O.S. materials, posters, stickers, packaging materials, CD labels and covers.
Creation of DIE lines, foiling, embossing, dummies, etc for promotion and packaging materials.

Junior Graphic Designer at Prime Advertising (Pvt) Ltd
  • Sri Lanka - Colombo 4
  • January 2001 to December 2002

Education

Diploma, Digital Marketing Professional Program
  • at Manipal University
  • December 2018

Fundamentals of AdWords, Search Advertising, Display Advertising, Video Advertising, Advertising on mobile, Shopping Advertising with Google, Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Web Analytics, Google Analytics, Content and Inbound Marketing, Programmatic Email and Affiliate Marketing

Higher diploma, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
  • at Pearson Edexcel
  • March 2018

UK (Level 5) Object Oriented Programming, Web Application Development, Business Skills for E-Commerce etc..

Diploma, COMPUTER PROGRAMMING
  • at IDM Computer institute
  • March 1999

Programming Fundamentals & Techniques, Object Oriented Programming, Pascal, Visual Basic

Specialties & Skills

Digital Marketing
Digital Graphics
Web Design
Social Media Marketing
Adobe Illustrator
Bootstrap
WordPress
Google AdWords
MS Office
Double Click for Publisher (DFP)
JavaScript
Unbounce
Google Analytics
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP
Adobe InDesign