Eric Starker is a social media/community manager with experience at Microsoft, where he managed social media for the MVP influencer program. He has also worked with various video game companies as a community manager and has completed a certificate in social media implementation from the University of Washington. Starker successfully established and grew the Queer Geek community across multiple social media platforms since its inception in 2011.

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Eric Starker
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2. Microsoft
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 Responsible for social media (Facebook,Twitter), MSDN blog posts
and community interaction for the MVP influencer program across
all Microsoft product groups.
 The MVP program at Microsoft, with approximately 4000 current
members, is a global program with a rich 20-year history,
encouraging community development, learning and networking.

3. Microsoft - Analytics
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Fiscal year at Microsoft goes from August 1 through July 31st.
My role lasted from May 10 – August 26 (taking over from a contractor on a required break) so parts of
Q4 FY13 and Q1FY14.
Numbers remained consistent with previous performance.

4. Microsoft – Work Samples
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5. Microsoft – Work Samples
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6. Promethium Marketing
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Track and analyze social media (Facebook,Twitter, forums) and serve as community manager for
video game company clients:
 Lightbox Interactive (Starhawk) – community manager, social media/forum posting, tracking and
reporting.
 NCSoft (Lineage 2) – one-month project - community manager, social media/forum posting,
tracking and reporting
 Sucker Punch(Infamous 2) – social media tracking and reporting
 Red 5 (Firefall) – social media tracking and reporting
 Ubisoft (Smurfs & Co) –Twitter promotion, competitive research report on Facebook games

7. Promethium – Analytics - Starhawk
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Campaign Start (July 2011) Campaign End (January 2012)

8. Promethium – Analytics – Lineage 2
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9. Promethium – Social Media
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10. Promethium – Report Sample
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11. University of Washington
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 Received a certificate in social media implementation from the
University ofWashington.
 As part of our coursework, we had two community management
projects (Pinterest and Google+, the latter including analytics), and
a final client project, creating a social media plan and content
calendar for Benaroya Hall’s non-Symphony programming.

12. UW – Analytics – Google+
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13. UW – Social Media Samples
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14. UW – Social Media Samples
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15. UW – Benaroya Hall Samples
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16. Queer Geek
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 Started a social media community from scratch, present on
Facebook (in a group and on a like page),Twitter and Meetup.
 The Queer Geek Facebook like page, which startedAugust 2011,
currently has 477 likes. It has a weekly total reach of 861.
 The Queer Geek Facebook group currently has 418 members.
 The Queer GeekTwitter page has 141 followers.
 The Queer Geek Meetup group has 574 members.

17. Queer Geek – Social Media Samples
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