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Ilia Zolas

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Full Stack Developer | Digital Marketer

Full Stack Developer & Digital Marketing Professional with over 10 years experience in delivering profitable growth and creating beautiful applications based on clean and efficient code.

Le Wagon Full Stack Bootcamp - 400h
Udemy Full Stack & UI UX Courses - 100h
+1400 Github contributions

Skills

AWS

Adobe Illustrator

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Premiere Pro

Adwords

After Effects

Amazon Redshift

Amazon S3

Blender

CSS

Digital Marketing

Docker

Express.js

Facebook Ads Manager

Facebook Marketing

Figma

Github

GoDaddy

Google AdSense

Google Search Console

HTML

Heroku

InDesign

Instagram

Javascript

LinkedIn Advertising

Logic Pro

MongoDB

MySQL

Node.js

PHP

PostgreSQL

React.js

Ruby on Rails

Shopify

Three.js

Twitter Marketing

TypeScript

Unity

WordPress

YouTube

Open for

fulltime

Work Experience

The Digital Marketing Collaboration

2015-01 - 2020-01

Workplace
Founder
Location

London

Employement type

fulltime

Owned digital marketing and web activities of over 40 SME’s in South Africa, UK, Singapore and Bali, promoting rapid growth through social media and content marketing, paid advertising, email campaigns and web development. Founded The DMC and owned digital marketing and web activities of over 40 SME’s in South Africa, UK, Singapore and Bali, promoting rapid growth through social media and content marketing, paid advertising, email campaigns and web development. - Wordpress | Woocommerce, Yoast, Divi, Elementor, Child themes, Wordfence - Google | My Business, Google Ads (Search and Display Network, Retargeting), Google Analytics, GA4, - Google tools | Google Search Console, Google Tag Manager - Social Media Marketing | Hootsuite, Buffer, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram, Tik Tok, Pinterest - Email Marketing | iContact, Mailchimp, Aweber, Sendinblue - Domains and Hosting | Godaddy, 1on1, Hostgator, Afrihost - Content Creation | Video, Photo, Audio, Adobe Suite

180 Degrees Catering and Confectionery

2013-06 - 2014-12

Workplace
Digital Marketing Manager
Location

South Africa

Employement type

fulltime

Developed and coordinated organic social media strategies, PPC campaigns over Google Search and Social Networks for popular catering company. Created and maintained website and online store, holding over 100 products and a monthly 4000 visits. 180 Degrees Catering and Confectionery logo Web Master & Digital Marketing ManagerWeb Master & Digital Marketing Manager 180 Degrees Catering and Confectionery180 Degrees Catering and Confectionery Jun 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mosJun 2013 - Dec 2014 · 1 yr 7 mos South AfricaSouth Africa Created and managed the company Website. Responsible for online customer experience. Also managed site analytics, SEO, reporting & site security. Responsible for: - Social media marketing - Content creation - Product photography - Media buying - Email marketing campaigns - Regular use of Hootsuite - Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign, Word and Excel.

T.E. Trade Events

2012-10 - 2013-06

Workplace
Marketing Coordinator
Location

South Africa

Employement type

fulltime

Managed company website and on-site advertising. Created organic social media strategies for multiple subsidiary brands. Coordinated email campaigns to databases with over 500’000 contacts.

Guitar Excellence

2010-06 - 2011-09

Workplace
Brand Manager Intern
Location

South Africa

Employement type

internship

Introduced business management practices, developed online lesson material, attended company meetings. Spoke at music school COPA career day.

Le Wagon

2021-04 -

Workplace
Teaching Assistant
Location

Vaud

Employement type

freelancer

Teaching assistant at Le Wagon Bootcamp. Aided students in the development of their final Ruby on Rails applications. - Ruby on Rails - Javascript - Html - SASS - Scalingo - Heroku Also enlisted as teaching assistant for Prototyping, HTML, CSS, FIGMA at le Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne where final year students are taught how to create their own basic websites, application prototypes as well as an extended understanding of the web. - HTML - CSS - User Stories - Figma

Audacia

2022-01 - 2022-12

Workplace
Software Engineer
Location

Valais

Employement type

fulltime

Responsible for implementing product pipelines, updates, features, security and support measures to a portfolio of brands held by the Audacia Group. - Ruby on Rails, Heroku, AWS - React, Typescript, Firebase, Google Cloud, Node, Postgres - Headless CMS - Liquid/Shopify - Antd / Tailwind - Docker

LS Instruments

2021-05 - 2021-12

Workplace
Web & Digital Marketing Specialist
Location

Fribourg

Employement type

fulltime

Responsible for 360 degree digital marketing activities while maintaining and developing company sites, online shop, online products, content creation, online advertising, analytics, automation and best practices at nanotech company based in Fribourg, Switzerland. Additional responsibilities include event management for major trade fairs (artwork, communication, logistics) and inventory management of consumables related to the company online store. - UI/UX , Figma - Wordpress, Woocommerce, Wolf CMS - Google Analytics, GA4 - Google Ads, Search and Display Network, Retargeting - Google Tag Manager - Google Search Console - Hootsuite, Buffer - Social Media Marketing | Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram - Email Marketing | iContact - Domains and Hosting - Content Creation | Video, Photo, Audio, Adobe Suite - Blender 3D Modelling - Events, booth designs and logistics for major trade fairs.

Academic Experience

Ecole Hoteliere de Lausanne -

 

2008.09 - 2012.06

Bachelor of Science, BSc in BSC International Hospitality Management, Major Marketing