About Me
Welcome to www.gounder.co.in the homepage of Alexander Francis Gounder. Below are details about me, a resume of sorts.Summary
SEO / SEM, Internet Marketer with wide variety of work experience across industries and domains like Films, TV Production, Customer Service, Politics, Government, Press / Public Relations, Graphic & Web Design to finally Internet Marketing & SEO.
Personal details
DOB: 25th January 1984
Address: Orlem, Malad (W), Mumbai – 400 064.
Contact No.: +91 98330 70713
Email: alexander@ this site.
Web Presence: Linkedin Profile | Follow me on Twitter | Facebook Profile
Computer skills
- SEO / SEM
- Online Marketing and Advertising
- Photoshop, XHtml / Html / CSS
- Blog Design and Development using Blogger & Wordpress. Knowledge of various Internet technologies
- Fair Idea of Linux Hosting servers (using Cpanel) and MySql databases.
- Good Knowledge of using various Social Media
- Experienced in putting together medium sized business website from start to finish, i.e. Planning, creating content, design and implementation.
Work History
- Currently Working with Redon Solutions Pvt. Ltd., having website www.ecreeds.com. Joined as Trainee Web Designer and SEO executive in June 2007. In March 2008, the eCreeds’ SEO team head by me formed Redon Ads, to focus completely on SEO, SEM and Internet Marketing and exploit opportunities available in this market.
- Worked as CRA in 3 Global Services Pvt. Ltd., as a Part Timer from April 2006 to Dec 2007 and Full Timer from Jan 2008 to June 2008. 3 Global Services part of the Hutchison whampoa Group, provided customer support for 3 mobile customers in UK and Australia.
- Worked as Office Assistant for Ajantaa Arts, the Office of (late) Mr. Sunil Dutt, who was then Union Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports, my job involved taking care of the Hon’ble Minister regular correspondence; later also did the same work for his daughters Mrs. Priya Dutt Roncon, MP, and Mrs. Namrata Kumar Gaurav. From July 2004 to Feb 2006.
- Worked as a Production Assistant, with The Picture Workshop – A Film Company (Production House of Mrs. Priya Dutt Roncon) on the incomplete TV game Show for Sahara TV, “Chal Shuroo Ho Jaa” during June 2004.
- Worked with various Event Management Companies – Party Cruisers, Reay road and Party People, MIDC, Andheri, Handled Game stalls for children’s Parties and in corporate events.
- Worked at a Cyber cafe – Netcafe, Shop #1, Meenakshi Apartments, Orlem Malad (W), Mumbai – 400 064. From October 2000 – March 2002.
- Worked for Schindlers (Pinnacle Chambers, Chakala, Andheri.) at Glen Heights, Hiranandani gardens, Powai. From March 2000 – April 2000.
Interests & activities
Listening music, dancing, Internet surfing and exploring various open source software like wordpress, drupal, joomla, firefox among others.
The following websites are run by me and plan on starting a few more on various topics
www.orlem.in: This is Social networking portal for my neighborhood of Orlem in Malad, that I had started less than a year back, though it wasn’t successful and has less than 500 users the experience gained from the whole experience is priceless. Currently I am planning to re-organize this portal to a community centric portal with local news and business details.
www.cause.org.in: This is Social Bookmarking site for causes, this runs on script which is a clone of digg.com, called pligg CMS. This website will be launched and promoted by end of this month as the site is still being tested by me.
SEO Whiz: This website is a showcase of my SEO Skills through this SEO related Blog, it is also a way for me to attract freelance SEO Work.